No, a broad center is not what wins elections! How many god damn times do you have to *lose* before you realize that?
Maybe it’s what worked for Bill Clinton 34 years ago, but when going against the idiots in charge now you can’t compromise, or you just get a fascism-lite candidate
That's exactly what these centrist morons are saying! That's exactly what Booker is doing! I posted that clip yesterday and half the replies were from Blue MAGA dipshits going "He's right, you know!" and posting bullshit about how they don't need the votes of people who missed 2024.
No, sorry, you corp Dems no longer get to call the shots. Just go away. This whole idea that Dems win by proving how "bipartisan" they are has always been horseshit and we aren't going to keep repeating that mistake. No deals with the fascist GOP. Dems need to force through what they want.
It's really disturbing that that biggest problem a lot of you seem to have with what Trump does is that it isn't you doing it instead.
So, IIUC, your idea is that if we enact legislation that the bigots like, then they won't have any more scapegoats and will give up on the idea of pushing racial hatred in public discourse?
That immigration bill sucked super monkey balls and the Dems were dumb for trying it. Asking for it to be reintroduced when ICE is terrorizing cities is also bullshit.
Burn it to the fucking ground and salt the earth. Bury Vance, Noem, Homan, Miller er al in unmarked graves after their long prison sentences. This is the moderate position.
You lost most of us w “Restructure” CBP & ICE bc they are both beyond redemption. ICE needs to be ABOLISHED. CBP needs to be dismantled and a new much smaller agency created w direct oversight.
"First order of business when we win is to concede EVERYTHING"
FUCK NO. Destroy the entire republican party, expose them all as the child rapists/pedophile protectors they are and finally oust them from American politics so we can actually move forward as a country.
Bullshit. The first order of business should be to obstruct any policy Trump tries to introduce. Concomitantly, Dems should be all accountability all the time. Hearings, prosecutions, contempt citations, Senate and House investigations. Reintroducing Biden's POS bill is insane.
"Look, we gotta elect Democrats to implement some Republican policy," basically.
Laughing at the idea that the "first order of business if Dems win House/Senate" should be to re-introduce the right-wing immigration bill Biden/Harris tried to run on in 2024 to take the immigration issue off the table by making a ton of concessions to the anti-immigration right.
Like... no. Their job, if they win in November, is to spend the next two years making Donald Trump's life a living hell and prevent him from making things worse for the rest of the time he's in office. They are there to gum up the works.
I think I saw Fox News just this week trying to credit a dc violent crime decrease to Trump’s militarized crackdown and literally nobody (save for some morons) is buying that obvious bullshit
RFK Jr. keeps claiming that he can't hear the questions from Democratic House Reps in the panel on the HHS budget.
Democratic Rep. Nanette Barragán isn't having any of it.
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In my view, John Roberts's most impressive PR accomplishment is persuading an entire generation of Supreme Court commentators that he is anything other than a Republican politician who uses legalese to implement policies that Republican voters want
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Part of the purpose here is to sell to their base here the idea that "the left is always breaking the law." That serves two goals: it furthers the irrational hatred of "the left" and it builds up tolerance for their own lawbreaking, since "everybody does it."
Watching the US turn into a neo-fascist state is exceedingly draining. Literally a slow motion car crash. Trump is running the Silvio Berlusconi playbook from 2000's Italy where his mates buy up all the media & piss in the well 24/7 This is what happens when you don't study history or world affairs.
the unwritten law that America is only for white male Protestants
More accurate headline: The Justice Department Protects Extremist Groups by Going After the Agencies That Investigate Them
In this case, the SPLC is doing what the DoJ should be doing.
As you point out, it's unclear what law the SPLC is possibly violating. This appears to be just more security theater, designed to intimidate.
Ah, so the SPLC violated the How Dare You Be Mean To Nazis Law
You know who else famously used paid informants to infiltrate extremist groups?
The Justice Department.
"Senator, have any of us ever truly won an election? What is an election anyway, in the context of human experience, in the sense of there being both winners and losers? As Derrida told us in his seminal wo
The top-two primary needs to be abolished. Every election cycle it leads to races where one party risks getting shut out of a general election it would likely win.
It forces parties to pick favorites in primaries just to avoid shutouts. It fails to do what its proponents intended—often the opposite
WELL NOW, would you look at that?
A massive, 26-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 2.4 MILLION people in Sweden found NO EVIDENCE to support a causal link between acetaminophen (the API in Tylenol) use during pregnancy and increased risk of autism, ADHD, OR intellectual disability in children.
Because anyone willing to step into a job - ANY JOB - in this administration is by definition not qualified and not ethical enough to do that job.
