Davy Crockett
@davidcrockett08.bsky.social
Venturing over here for a look. To quote myself, “I told the people of my district that I would serve them as faithfully as I had done; but if not, they might go to hell, and I would go to The Other Site.”
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Sincere question: what does victory look like?
Because maybe I'm missing something but I don't see any viable path to actually getting reconciliation subsidy shit reversed
The game was always raise salience, and an up/down vote w/dem language sounds like that to me
bsky.app/profile/jame...
Because maybe I'm missing something but I don't see any viable path to actually getting reconciliation subsidy shit reversed
The game was always raise salience, and an up/down vote w/dem language sounds like that to me
bsky.app/profile/jame...
i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.
If the Dems blink after all of this, for a deal that all but ensures no ACA subsidies in 2026 anyway, then what was the purpose of letting the shutdown go for 40 days in the first place?
November 10, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Sincere question: what does victory look like?
Because maybe I'm missing something but I don't see any viable path to actually getting reconciliation subsidy shit reversed
The game was always raise salience, and an up/down vote w/dem language sounds like that to me
bsky.app/profile/jame...
Because maybe I'm missing something but I don't see any viable path to actually getting reconciliation subsidy shit reversed
The game was always raise salience, and an up/down vote w/dem language sounds like that to me
bsky.app/profile/jame...
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Look, it is essential that other people materially suffer for my personal sense of validation, and before you say that seems bad, consider that I’m using a metaphor about stoves to make it sound fun instead!
November 9, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Look, it is essential that other people materially suffer for my personal sense of validation, and before you say that seems bad, consider that I’m using a metaphor about stoves to make it sound fun instead!
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Just try to understand that some people might have a different calculus when it comes to upending the lives of actual real people than you do while posting.
November 9, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Just try to understand that some people might have a different calculus when it comes to upending the lives of actual real people than you do while posting.
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Yeah this part is darkly funny. Before this started, *many* people here insisted that Dems getting an ACA credit extension would be a massive GOP win (because 'TOUCH THE STOVE'!). Now many of the exact same people are denouncing it as a massive failure if they don't get one!
The goalposts keep moving on this too. If the outlines of this alleged deal are correct and it goes through and the GOP either welches on the promised vote/votes against extending the ACA credits, that’s what Bluesky wanted pre-shutdown, but now it’s the Dems selling out.
November 9, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Yeah this part is darkly funny. Before this started, *many* people here insisted that Dems getting an ACA credit extension would be a massive GOP win (because 'TOUCH THE STOVE'!). Now many of the exact same people are denouncing it as a massive failure if they don't get one!
*stays funny right until the last season, which is dire but thankfully pretty short and they do absolutely stick the landing in the finale
November 7, 2025 at 6:25 PM
*stays funny right until the last season, which is dire but thankfully pretty short and they do absolutely stick the landing in the finale
The Search for Woke remains a difficult journey
November 6, 2025 at 12:08 AM
The Search for Woke remains a difficult journey
(It’s because when you’re very online you think the party’s base are loud ideologically driven people online and not, like, Fairfax County Soccer Moms and Seniors)
November 5, 2025 at 3:58 PM
(It’s because when you’re very online you think the party’s base are loud ideologically driven people online and not, like, Fairfax County Soccer Moms and Seniors)
I dunno, we can also take the lesson that a left winger who’s said some dodgy things about Israel can upset more establishment choices for the Mayoralty of the country’s largest city—someone should really warn Frank Dobson about that
November 5, 2025 at 1:45 PM
I dunno, we can also take the lesson that a left winger who’s said some dodgy things about Israel can upset more establishment choices for the Mayoralty of the country’s largest city—someone should really warn Frank Dobson about that
1) LMFAO at “I never said this would work,”
2) Over on the other site he several times said the Virginia GOP’s obsessive trans stuff was working, of course he doesn’t acknowledge he got that wrong either
2) Over on the other site he several times said the Virginia GOP’s obsessive trans stuff was working, of course he doesn’t acknowledge he got that wrong either
November 5, 2025 at 1:41 PM
1) LMFAO at “I never said this would work,”
2) Over on the other site he several times said the Virginia GOP’s obsessive trans stuff was working, of course he doesn’t acknowledge he got that wrong either
2) Over on the other site he several times said the Virginia GOP’s obsessive trans stuff was working, of course he doesn’t acknowledge he got that wrong either
(The point is more the joke that in typical Mets fashion, even though they won they would also lose because it was Mets fan vs. Mets fan)
November 5, 2025 at 1:10 PM
(The point is more the joke that in typical Mets fashion, even though they won they would also lose because it was Mets fan vs. Mets fan)
…you’d have gotten that either way though!
November 5, 2025 at 12:59 PM
…you’d have gotten that either way though!
To the point one of the things I remember him doing as Governor was saving the Syracuse minor league team by facilitating it becoming the Mets’ Triple A affiliate when the Nats moved on from them
November 5, 2025 at 12:48 PM
To the point one of the things I remember him doing as Governor was saving the Syracuse minor league team by facilitating it becoming the Mets’ Triple A affiliate when the Nats moved on from them
Er the guy who lost was also a Mets fan though; arguably a bigger one since he was a Queens kid whose dad was a baseball obsessive and a National League guy in an era when that mattered
November 5, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Er the guy who lost was also a Mets fan though; arguably a bigger one since he was a Queens kid whose dad was a baseball obsessive and a National League guy in an era when that mattered
Feel like it’s the last time we got Handsome Hero Alec Baldwin before he settled into a mix of character actor and 30 Rock guy
November 5, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Feel like it’s the last time we got Handsome Hero Alec Baldwin before he settled into a mix of character actor and 30 Rock guy