Agreed, but the Congress people usually ride the coattails of the Presidential candidate.

I think charisma can have negative values. :-)

Lots of voters don't look that deeply, though, which is why people with a lot of charisma can gather momentum quickly. I wish we weren't so shallow.

I like him, but I don't think he has enough charisma to get very far.

I don't think he's seen as likely to run.

She was the single one that came to mind.

Are any of the current Democratic prospects for President in 2028 aggressive enough for this?

It Is Time for Ruthless Aggression The national battle over gerrymandering should be just the first step. Next up: expanding SCOTUS.

“Expanding the Supreme Court is no different that redistricting in California and Virginia. It is a proportionate response to Republican attempts to degrade liberal democracy and move America toward a post-liberal order.”

open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

Now I have to Google to find out if you're joking or not.

The silly argument they're using is fraud: by using paid informants inside those organizations, they're effectively paying people to promote those organizations' goal, working against their stated purpose.

I had the opportunity to confront Pete Hegseth's bigoted spiritual mentor, Pastor Doug Wilson, and call him out on his history of hate, his misreading of the Bible, his hijacking of Jesus, and his cosplay Crusading.

It was worth it.

Cf. the Bezos Post, "Republicans gerrymandering in Texas is fine, actually" b/w "Democrats gerrymandering in Virginia is a threat to democracy"

This is dumb:

“The SPLC was not dismantling these groups. It was instead manufacturing the extremism it purports to oppose by paying sources to stoke racial hatred,” Blanche said.

This seems like a silly charge:

“The SPLC was not dismantling these groups. It was instead manufacturing the extremism it purports to oppose by paying sources to stoke racial hatred,” Blanche said.

Right, a 12 member committee has to vote to lower interest rates.

It's not like disease has been historically damaging to military forces or anything.

It probably spreads very quickly with so many people living so closely together.

BlueSky already serves this purpose. I encounter a far broader, more interesting range of opinion than I would by reading a second article in a magazine.

In one of the Reddit forums, someone mentioned having a family assistant and everyone was WTF? That's one sign you have too much money when you can hire someone to manage your personal life.

For fun, I checked Merriam Webster to see if the word had made it into the dictionary yet and was surprised to find it existed pre-Trump. From Middle English, unless they're just covering for him.

I don't know how much that mattered since there were only a handful of profitable routes anyway.

Yeah, I was thinking that if you model the process on software engineering, you have testers that validate the result before rolling it out. Seems like a basic quality control step. You can't just urge people to be careful and expect good results.

It was only a success if you ignore the original development costs, which were never recovered. Remains to be seen if the economics have changed.

They will be sold when Trump releases his tax returns.

Not true at all. The Concorde made lot of money for British Airways for a long time, mainly because they bought the planes cheap from the government. They only became unprofitable after they got a lot older (and after the crash).

"biblical masculinity"

Like him? <shudder>

I'm sure it does, but the article is emphasizing the paid informants angle. Perhaps that's just incidental.

The article fails to explain why using paid informants warrants a criminal investigation.

Ugh, "who's"

I'm referring to progressive political figures. Progressive voters are massive jerks, at least online.