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[–] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 28 points 6 months ago (1 children)

For every voter who wants a habitable planet, a cheap electric car, or to catch covid less we lose, we're gonna pick up two moderate republicans!

[–] LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world 16 points 6 months ago (2 children)

A) Moderate

B) republican

Pick one

[–] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 19 points 6 months ago

That's the joke.

There's a total of about 10 never-trump-republicans, and all of them have jobs at NYT, CNN, or MSNBC telling their audience that all the bad things Biden does are electorally smart because there's a bunch of moderate republican swing voters who will choose diet-fascism over the real thing.

This is the same tack they took in 2016, from Chuck Schumer going "For every blue-collar Democrat we lose in western Pennsylvania, we will pick up two moderate Republicans in the suburbs in Philadelphia, and you can repeat that in Ohio and Illinois and Wisconsin" to every pundit saying "suberban women are going to decide this election" and using that to explain why generally unpopular policies are electorally smart.

[–] mydude@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

He's making fun of Chuck Schumer "quote"