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As Jon Stewart put it on an episode of The Daily Show following the election, "The Republicans are playing chess and the Democrats are playing checkers"
I'd say the Democrats are trying to play Chess while the Republicans are playing Dodgeball.
I'd say at this point that the Democrats are bringing a chessboard to a gunfight. They decided that knives were too uncouth.
"Well, you see, according to parliamentary procedure bearing weapons is HIGHLY frowned upon, as it turns out. Quite beastly, indeed."
"What about the assault rifles they all came equipped with?"
"Oh, yes," attempts to look around room through glasses with 12 foot thick lenses; fails, but pretends to know what's going on anyway, "Well, we'll certainly be doing something about THAT! You mark my words."
"Fucking finally! Are we gonna charge them with sedition? Treason? Ooohhh, terrorism? There's so many choices I-"
"My aides have already begun drafting a semi-official non-binding statement condemning the disgraceful rapscallions and urging them to seek greater bipartisan cooperation and unity."
"Rapsc- ? Unity? Da fuq? CALL THE COPS, MAGOO, WHILE WE STILL HAVE-"
"I assure you, it's quite strongly worded. Oh, he'll definitely be feeling the sting of our retribution soon.... ish. Tomorrow maybe."
It's more like the Democrats are playing Checkers, and the Republicans brought the glock and aren't playing games.
Oh, no, they're definitely playing games... Weird, oppressive, shitty ones, but definitely games. I mean, jeez, they just kinda collectively jumped the shark as an entity AWHILE back, I think we can all agree on that... (Not that the Dems are much better, obviously, but at least in general they aren't 'fuck feeding kids at school for free, they can work nights,' comic book villain evil)