Trump thanks you. Palestinians, Ukrainians, and Iranians—not so much.

He is the Platonic Ideal of a persuasive progressive.

Well...yes. Oz likely would have voted yes on SAVE. So how would it be better to allow Republicans to get into power?

Let me guess...it's people who rhyme with "news".

That's a good way of putting it. In a way it's refreshing that conservatives are being more open about their vision of their ideal social hierarchies.

BUT, it's also a good pitch for Dems to start speaking to working class voters again. Not sure where, but just read a great piece on how union members should actually run for office, not just support the career Dem pols.

This is just a pitch for GOP government contracts. The idea that smart, educated, creative people will just scratch their heads as AI takes their jobs is delusional. Every time tech disrupts, these are the people who recalibrate. This plan contains the seed of its own failure.

Not only is the acting stellar, but the writing is as well. It's wonderful to see the social work and mental health elements written so accurately.

But to be clear, asking Americans to make the sacrifice of wearing masks in public during a deadly pandemic is blatant and outrageous tyranny.

From a Gestalt perspective, they only see figures and never the ground. In other words, they focus on one thing at a time completely divorced from context. It's one reason why they are incapable of predicting how people will respond to their actions and demands.

Took 'em long enough.

Sure, but not many who will also want to work in prisons. Like I said before, they struggle to hire rank and file therapists. If there was already a lack of therapists who will work with that population, it will be far harder to find the subset of those people who will act unethically.

They can set policy but by law they cannot implement it.

Fortunately there are a whole slew of laws that prevent non-qualified people from doing medical work. This is smoke.

But it will make it virtually impossible to implement. This is just cruelty porn for the red meat crowd.

They will have a very hard time finding any therapists who would participate. It is already hard enough to find enough to work with a prison population—of that inadequate group, how will they find those also willing to engage in unethical and medically disproven "treatments"? Good luck.

Any US president should say this. To jump to the conclusion that she would also have indiscriminately bombed Iran is just a way of making non-voters feel better about the deaths they are partly culpable for by letting Trump win.

Worse than that, we also have contempt for all the voters who put in the cowardly Congressional Republicans who protect and support Trump's lawlessness and corruption.

I'm glad they're doing this. It's so sharply at odds with how people are feeling about America that it will add to the "Biden Effect" just in time for the midterms. It's hilarious that they are trying this at a time when their favorability polls are cratering.

I hadn't noticed any rightward move on her part. Her policies were solidly liberal, and no less so than Biden's. But perhaps you can give an example of a conservative policy she proposed?

Having a plan and having the ability and competence to pull it off are two different things. Why would anyone think at this point that Trump has even a small chance of making this happen?

Purity has merely made the left irrelevant. Not voting and thus letting monsters get into power doesn't "teach the Dems a lesson" other than "ignore the left". There is no perfect candidate that will magically fix all our problems. The purity left needs to grow up and get back in the fight.

Nonsense. Letting monsters win is never the answer.

I'm not sure what this means. What "we" do is decide who represents us in government and press the people we elect to do what we want. In this case, we want them to fight or otherwise face primary challengers, and that is what we can do ourselves.

Trump's intent is serious. His capability to pull it off is not. If anything, the more these details come out, the harder it will be to accomplish. Bonus: it will only make him less popular, hurting his party's chances even more.

In "normal" times, reasonable compromise is the best default. We are far past normal times. We are working against a political party and cabal of billionaires who are actively destroying our country. We are desperate for leaders who will fight for us.

Schumer and Jeffries haven't, but I don't think Dems are waiting on them anymore.

It's happening more. I watched the People's SOTU, and there wasn't a lot of moderate talk there, even by sitting senators.

I'm thinking about the Kansas move to revoke the drivers licenses of trans folks. It's a perfect example of authoritarian overreach. Electorally it's a gift to the Dems since it's so egregiously unconstitutional. I can't imagine a single Dem who wouldn't condemn it, even Fetterman.

No argument there. It just wasn't in Obama's character to think in terms of big structural change. He was an institutionalist to the core. But we're far past that now, and the left needs to get on board with helping the candidates talking the talk. There are more than a few now.