No question Biden should have dropped earlier.
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No question Biden should have dropped earlier.
Its not 'whites' - Its everyone, women presidential candidates do worse (including amongst women)and the primary explanation is that they are women. Also Harris did a lot to court leftist, in 2020 and therefore was stuck tacking back to have any shot in 2024.
30% of democratic party and ppl to left of democratic party is a population of probably 50m ppl. Easy to fill an arena, arguably impossible to win a national election
These posts r an insult to our intelligence. Mamdani was a vocal member of DSA,who for a very long time have espoused far left prescriptions for this city & country. You are free to whole hardly support those policies, but pretending that ppl who don't & are worried are just racist ignores reality
A liar cannot confirm anything
God how unlucky can one woman be
well that was the way it was designed and was mostly true until the fascist came in. Education, transportation, sanitation, housing , crime, parks and more are all the purview of Mayor. Grisham is a beast!
Yeah but if you are here, the Mayor is probably the most important elected official in our lives (and McMahon should have made that tag)
Why aren't democrats messaging NOW!? We will not fund anti vax We will it fund military in our cities (picking up trash) We will not fund giving social security info to private co We will not fund autocracy. It's not that hard.
Told you, you should delete it 🤣
The vigorous defense of the original post seems to refute your claim of sarcasm. But I don't disagree with your overall view
Might be a good tactic.. Send drones to dry forested areas (which won't be defended) and start fires that will sap Russian resources to deal with them
For pointing out that Roth isn't a foreign sounding name?
Generally true (and maybe an opportunity for opposition to flood the legal zone) but this one is hardly routine. Both the immediate balance of Fed and the long term foundation of the institution is at stake.
You: (under article with DOJ official named Roth) why do all these DOJ officials have foreign names Me: Roth is foreign? You:Not really but other guys do Me:Delete post You: blah blah blah blah Pathetic.
OK so delete the post, it's not a good one
Roth is a foreign sounding name to you?
Shreveport LA (Speaker Johnson's district) Homicides 2024 53 2023 75 2022 90 Population 180,000
His own city of Shreveport was bragging about only having 50 homicides last yr... There are only 172k residents.
All true but Ashli Babbit is still dead, So we have that going for us, which is nice.
It wouldn't matter. They warned everyone People (gop) didn't listen
This is terrifying.
Thsts actually better than I thought. I figured they'd try to represent
Do you grade along those lines?
What's it like to have no idea how the world works? Are you happy?
I'd ordinarily agree and still do understand, but the documents presented make out a prima facia case of misstatements. It would be nice for the public to know that this will not end in some situation where she is arguing selective prosecution rather than innocence
Maybe or maybe stamping out a festering slander would be better. Idk I just said it would b nice.
While I understand the strategy, it would be nice if she had a response to the underlying allegations
1000%
Thats fair but then add to the war GFC and missing 911 warnings and then Katrina... Idk to me that beats Trump 1, which anyway is really a race for 2nd place anyway
It's working
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Or put together a weak case, impeachment is a 100% political process. Hitting the weakest cabinet secretary is pretty small stakes.
Sure whatever semantics but Hoover wasn't incompetent or lazy, he just was wrong man for the time. GWB was lazy, incompetent and not bright. He is worse than hoover imo (and objectively on his life work)
Thats a debate and Jan6 certainly factors but a war based on BS, that's really f'cking bad.
Yes and he likely wouldn't be impeached but it didn't stop Republicans from doing similar in minority. Rfkjr has weak support, he should be challenged
Hoover was bad but most of what caused the depression was in place b4 he assumed office. GWB missed 911 warnings, entered a war & failed to kill Bin Laden then entered another war based on a lie & then lost it, failed to address the flooding of a major US city and caused a financial collapse
Is no one in the House of Representatives aware that you can file articles of impeachment against a cabinet secretary
Ban public sector unions
What I find so frustrating about these dumb takes is 1. Farming might be some of the hardest labor on earth 2. Most of the people on welfare are incapable (for a multitude of reasons) of working any steady job...forced or not.
In fairness GWB was until the last 8mo the worst president in at least a century. So I'm not sure why you are lumping him in here. FYI I'm not a leftist I think GHWB maybe the greatest one term president in history.
youtu.be/Q65KZIqay4E?...
Yeah and since the interviewer and OP didn't claim he was lying but rather that the scenario he presented doesn't change the moral calculation I reaponded. If the interviewer or OP, said, that is ridiculous, such scenarios never happen, then I wouldn't have posted bc I have no clue what Lew hears
The interviewer and the OP and thread is pretty clear in implying that the facts as Lew described don't matter (not that they were false). You are entitled to believe Lew is lying and if that was post I wouldn't have said a word.
That is what I and thread was discussing. If you or others believe that the entire scenario Lew describes never happens, then that is a fine and fair opinion. But I was not discussing that. I was addressing the concept that Hamas bringing kids to fight doesn't change the moral component
The interviewer and OP suggest that the fact as described by Lew are irrelevant and that culpability is same even under scenario described.. Most on this thread seem to agree. I don't, the scenario that Lew describes accribes SIGNIFICANTLY less culpability and would NOT be a war crime for Israel
The ambassador said that the initial reports are not accurate or misleading He gives examples inc where reports state Israel killed children with the implication that it was intentional but that it later seems like hamas are bringing kids into their military locations and are then killed.
Real Americans didn't care before and don't care now.
Yeah some people are in favor of the National Guard cleaning parks... Like me for example.
Except that isn't what the ambassador was talking about, nor this thread nor I.
Sure
Because the question I was referring is about intent.
Voters don't have social media?
keep talking efficiently, everyone has tuned you out, and while you were blabbering they started following a fascist.
I don't need to explain it. We all know, they know. Why on earth do you think it's effective to start explaining shit like life is a masters course in gender studies. WAKE UP WE ARE IN A FASCIST COUNTRY.
I'd say, wtf is wrong with you. You picking on a trans person like your in high school, stop being a douche and act like an adult.
Normal people have no idea wtf you are talking about. No one talks like this
the english language is so incredibly versatile and descriptive that people are fighting this notion so vehemently, demonstrates how deep pervasive and maybe intractable the problem is.
So obviously children being killed is an abomination, but yeah militants using their kids as human shields does change the evaluation on a military that is at war with said militants and ends up killing children inadvertently. War is bad.
Yeah that's the spirit, screw due process who needs that shyt
Mamdani won because the democratic primary was in the summer during off year and is purposely designed so only the most committed show up.
Yeah they were socialists =National Socialists
National Socialism
This seems like effective rhetoric. Dems should all follow it (you know Like how Republicans exercise message consistency and discipline)
Unfortunately nothing will change until there is a massive natural disaster, economic collapse and rampant disease.
This type of socialism isnt new, it is called National Socialism
Yes but it's so much easier to win arguments with hyperbole and strawman.
Can DC send National Guard to Mississippi schools because something must be done to combat the failing Mississippi educational system?
I don't blame Clinton's like that, Trump is Trump. But Bill Clinton helped normalize blatent lying and sleazy (public) behavior in WH, and if he had simply honorably resigned it would have changed both expected standards AND the actual events that led us here.
And btw I said the same in 1998, so this isn't Monday morning quarterbacking on my part
In terms of truly "gone", I am significantly more excited for DJT but as someone who thinks that Bill should have resigned in 98 (and that doing so would have radically made the world better), yes I agree.
But Maxwell said she never saw Bill do anything inappropriate, so he is exonerated like Trump
We were all here for Covid, you can pretend what happened didn't and keep undermining the CORRECT macro messages but Im not going through the pointless exercise of searching for inaccurate past messaging (so you can pick it apart each one) as again, we all know how the SM game is played.
Congrats on the false equivalency
Thanks for the citation that demonstrates what I said. (95% effective in TRIAL at preventing SYMPTOMATIC disease that was not replicated in real world). It's the insistence of the former when we the latter became clear that was the unforced error I am highlighting and that u are STILL doing.
Agree but effective learning also requires putting thought into what you "put out there", so please stop with the dumb hypotheticals
These politicians HAVE to explain to the public the difference between census based redistricting and mid cycle redistricting. Because this clip makes clear out "Journalists" won't.
Right except the type of herd immunity you speak was not applicable to covid vaccine as it seemed to convey very little immunity from getting or spreading the infection, it was tho extremely effective in mitigating impact of disease. But experts spent far too long arguing former (as you are still)
Can't speak to Oregon but huge numbers of states, cities and localities did have them, including in workplace. And btw I was in favor and still am bc dying ppl are expensive but mandates based on obviously false notion of immunity undermine public trust.
Correct a lot people believed that bc of simplistic understanding of casual stats and fake science reports. But other people are/were more likely to contemplate it bc "experts" have lost credibility both bc of propoganda and unforced errors
I'm not excusing right wing propoganda or blaming science in general but the avg person is pretty suseptible to simplistic messaging. So slogans like "follow the science" work... Until the reality that "science" (appropriately) changes & then huge swaths of population think all "science" is BS
It was pretty clear, it just wasn't acknowledged by officials. For ex vaccine mandates make alot of sense if it stops spread, but a LOT less so if it just lowers recepients risk. Yet we had vaccine passports for over a yr
Left or right (or whatever) you lose credibility when you insist on things that are obviously not true, even if it's for the 'greater good'
Meh, it was pretty universal that Covid vaccine would provide immunity and stop the spread. No beef with the initial prediction being wrong but we went over a yr with govt officials & others parroting something that was obviously wrong. Not blaming them for vaccine skepticism overall but
This is overstated. Vaccine scepticism was enhanced by over promise of the Covid vaccine (immunity) and insistence of overstated benefits long after it was obviously untrue.
Even if they were, it seems to have contributed to a massive increase in funding for the police (at least the Federal versions)
Is his self-awareness as epic as your level of out-of-touchness?
Its amazing to hear the people arguing with Tom on this...he is RIGHT! It doesnt matter if its analytically dumb, or you dont agree or like other language better. Many many many people are put off by these expressions, if you want to gain voters, use others, it isnt hard
You have put complimenting Trump in its proper context
Of course you fire...twice.
Terrible idea. Nothing good will come from government ownership of equity.
Insecure? Ive been a lawyer for decades, its nothing to be secure or insecure about, but misdirection rhetoric is obvious, to wit, I never said that US has the "same weaknesses" or that "Nazis" were going to manifest. I said that MAGA is a fascist movement, which is different
And on the substance of what I said - that MAGAs attack on former adherents may result in internecine warfare is not even a call back to germany, but rather a feature of huge number of political takeovers .
I get it you are a lawyer you can make analogies or distinctions to suit your argument all day long; but its historically true that the last major fascist takeover over a democratic country was in Germany & what is being implemented is fascism, even if called by different name
"they" are the former Trumpers who have fallen out of favor Last time = original "Night of the Long Knives"
Yes but its also a test to see if 'they' will fight back. Ideally the "Night of the Long Knives" will result in internecine warfare - tho the last time it did not.
Unfortunately I very much believe this has happened (there are MAGAs everywhere)
Kinda brave tbh, bc you know they will target you next.
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No but Im not criticizing her