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14. "Local restaurants"?! Oh, boy, I can't wait for another CNN feature...
Sun Mar 2, 2025, 02:31 PM
Mar 2025

...on the "economically anxious" MAGA chuds that spend their idle days at "Fred's Typical Ohio Diner" waiting for the way-too-credulous reporters to show up.

MAGA chuds apparently believe that the President has a big red button on his desk that says "Make Economy Gooder" that he refuses to push. And of course, Trump will definitely be the President who will push that button--which in his case will be right next to the "Bring Diet Coke" button, I suppose...

...if the economy is so rotten and everyone is broke, how is it that so many MAGA chuds are able to sit idle at "Fred's Typical Ohio Diner" all day waiting for Steve Doocy to show up and interview them about the crappy economy?...I guess you could call this the Schrödinger MAGA economy, where chuds can complain about how they apparently want a USSR-style market...yet the economy is firing on enough cylinders that the chuds can still find enough coins under the mattress to make it to the diner for a few bon mots with Steve Doocy...

https://democraticunderground.com/100219814545#post18
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219539729

And here's the original "Fred's Typical Ohio Diner" (see panel #5).

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Predictable... regnaD kciN Mar 2025 #1
Moderate Dems? How about right leaning Dems. nt Phoenix61 Mar 2025 #2
Because we need to get "small money" out of politics...! regnaD kciN Mar 2025 #6
Bullshit alarimer Mar 2025 #3
I'm not a Dem strategist, I'm just a historian who studies the historical relationship between the grassroots far right demmiblue Mar 2025 #4
And they lived happily ever after dalton99a Mar 2025 #5
'dominance of small donors' Voltaire2 Mar 2025 #7
Anyway to get them to answer some questions? Solly Mack Mar 2025 #8
Neolibs do love to triangulate. GPV Mar 2025 #9
Important factoid: What's not mentioned in this excerpt is that this was sponsored by Third Way, a think tank that is... demmiblue Mar 2025 #10
What's this 'far left' bullshit? spanone Mar 2025 #11
Third Way is so damaging to Democratic Party messaging and branding. Nanjeanne Mar 2025 #12
AFAIC, moderates belong in the Ninth Circle of Hell. ananda Mar 2025 #13
"Local restaurants"?! Oh, boy, I can't wait for another CNN feature... keep_left Mar 2025 #14
+1 dalton99a Mar 2025 #16
This is third way bs trying to ruin us bronxiteforever Mar 2025 #15
Trying a re-hash of the Third Way/DLC/Problem Solvers type of corpo-friendly centrism is a disastrous way to go now. Celerity Mar 2025 #17
Democrats already did the first one. Renew Deal Mar 2025 #18
Interesting BannonsLiver Mar 2025 #19
OFFS. They just don't get it. yardwork Mar 2025 #20
Post removed Post removed Mar 2025 #21
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