We all know jd is awful, ok
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We all know jd is awful, ok
When IT happens, all you ‘oh but it sucks that Vance is president now’ people, y’all will have to shut up for a few days. Just let the good vibes play out, ok?
Lmao
Don’t stop there, still germs on u man
Ah, yes. I remember when Michelle Obama ravaged the NIH and CDC, killed off vital vaccine research and denied inoculations to millions for reasons of pure BS. I remember this because I have Pundit Memory™️, an exciting new product that makes you able to both-sides and whatabout anything!
Here is property crime last year. At a 64 year low.
Crime is literally lower than it has been in the entire life of every single non-senior-citizen American. If you are under age 65 you have never lived at a time with lower property crime rates, lower violent crime rates or lower homicide rates. Never.
Donald Trump has been sent to a farm upstate where he gets to run around with all the other fascist pederasts
Remember when people used the term "false equivalency"?
play it safe and make it 40
Many people are going to look silly when Biden lives to be 90 and Trump dies in 3 weeks.
sorry man. been there it's so crushing but you did the right thing, being there for your buddy til the end.
Some examples of the latter: Both Nixon and Ford endorsed the Equal Rights Amendment. Nixon created the EPA/OSHA and proposed the Endangered Species Act and (repeatedly) healthcare reform. Ford was pro-choice and supported federal funding for special education and to resettle Vietnamese refugees.
The moment the Cubs won the World Series, it was predestined that Trump would win the presidency.
I'm old enough to remember when there were actual liberal Republicans. George Romney and Bill Milliken in Michigan. Nelson Rockefeller. Bill Weld. Even Nixon and Ford pursued policies as President that we'd clearly label as liberal/progressive nowadays!
Capitalism has been infinitely better for workers than communism.
The people who de-invented the weekend [via @chrisfreiman.bsky.social]
My immediate response: “Oh, give me a fucking break!!” This is a headline torn straight from The Onion. www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
It’s not selfish at all to feel that way.
yeah “giving a shit about real problems that are actually occurring” being made into a political liability is just an extraordinarily grim development. you’re incentivized to avoid trying to actually address real things because there’s no upside at all politically.
Who the hell was the OP on this one?
This means that they’ll be buried together.
Fifty-one of the 85 Federalist papers were written by a guy born in Nevis.
He was instrumental in civil rights reforms in Michigan and fought vehemently against the goldwater takeover of his party. But no, he doesn’t meet the standards of the high priests of anti racism, circa 2025
That’s a ridiculous comparison
Well he did a hell of a lot more than me or you
Setting up a gigantic quantum reverse causation apparatus for eleventy trillion dollars so I can read the articles five seconds before they post and have the very best slurs, insults, and death threats chosen in advance.
Sure
Dems also played congressional hardball re: bork; although legislative chicanery became much more the GOP’s speciality (excessive filibusters, for example). And I agree that that gen basically died out and that as an institution the GOP caved Great book on that:
Oh i dig him
I agree
In that case there’s nothing i can say. Read up on george romney and tell me what u think.
DUH
Check out kabaservice’s book.
And yet he was Sorry, people are complicated www.michigan.gov/mdcr/news/re...
My article? A little. There would be better resources for that, incl david’s book
We can’t have a discussion if u are going to straw man me, so bye
U didn’t read the article Romney et al played to rhe underbelly, which was never the entire gop base Trump IS the underbelly
Contingency also exists.
bsky.app/profile/john... Thx for helping me find people to unfollow, Tom. People who believe the law should be applied to people they dislike but not to those they like.
And trumpism was never inevitable
Good article! Political parties should beware getting in bed with fascists for the sake of political expediency. The fascists will eventually destroy them from the inside out.
And romney never did, so there u go. His Dad was a huge civil rights champion, and instilled that in him.
Michelle Obama: kids should have healthier school lunches RFK Jr: maybe if we let the plague run wild we can build a master race Media: wow these are the same thing
That’s patently unfair, and i think u are projecting into his mind Let’s leave this here. We aren’t going to change each other’s minds.
Should every catholic have left the church bc of the child abuse scandal? Sorry, this isn’t a standard most people apply even to themselves. It makes him quite normal.
Well that’s reasonable and i appreciate u reading
❤️sorry for my snark
That’s a pretty unrealistic standard for people, esp in matters of religion, and if everyone follows that path the hardliners get to determine everything. I’m not leaving the dem party over gaza. Maybe i should. It’s a moral stain. But i’m not.
Someone please kill me right now.
I mean sure hut he had nothing to do w this policy and did not internalize it
Did he really have any power in that? Lots of people tolerate institutional racism to a degree. And this book deals well with romney’s views on race and longstanding dissatisfaction w the church’s stance.
I don’t care for his policy positions, but I have no illusions that he’s a reasonable human being. I just disagree with him. That’s true of both the men Obama beat. He didn’t turn into a psycho monster after that defeat either.
Owned
This would be a really good answer. Norms matter, as did the GOP’s traditional status as a party of the educated middle class. But the internet, social media, and other forces made this kind of gatekeeping/policing harder.
More reading comprehension struggles
This is literally what u are describing Of course romney played to the base, like every politician. He was not of the base, however, and he had boundaries. He was also pretty moderate on policy: he was the gov of MA after all and passed romneycare
Outstanding one tho
Just saying that’s literally the thesis of the article and my main disagreement w David’s narrative
Which is acknowledged in the article
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Correct
More ppl should read this
HW doing the Willie Horton and Trump’s unending and open appeals to racism are orders of magnitude in difference
Depends on when u are talking about
Nixon himself was pretty centrist, and many of Reagan and W’s domestic policies were not radically right wing
Another person who didn’t read the article, where I quite clearly recognize that GOP moderates tried to harness and control the crazy and ultimately failed.
Puzzled abt "born-again Christian" thing. Romney is lifelong Mormon. Also, he was only Republican Senator to vote to convict Trump in 1st impeachment trial. First Senator to vote agnst president of own party in US history. He's conservative, business friendly Repub. You bet. but man has a spine.
Very fair points
Bingo
Those who do not acknowledge - beyond the power of his words (especially during the 1st impeachment) - that Romney was the first Senator in U.S. history to convict a Pres. of his own party is falling short. And enough of "he was going to retire". He made himself a pariah and literally a marked man.
Acknowledged in the article
❤️
I love when people don’t read the articles I post and then are like ‘did u think of this though!!!’
I’m amazed at how fast people read the articles i post.
Romney, Mccain, HW: these were not racists. A party can be more than one thing.
Wow u read my article fast
I wrote that in the article.
Well that was a decent chunk of time, and way back it was the party of pro black radicalism and reform Things change.
Confess and u you shall be purified!
And do I love Mccain and romney? Not especially! Didn’t vote for either of em, but i respected them, and they played within the boundaries of normal democratic politics and, well, reality. I will say i respect the hell out of mitt for his impeachment votes.
Anti-trump team ain’t gonna happen and doesn’t have to happen.
It’s not realistic or necessary to try to get every single anti-Trump republican to take the somewhat dramatic Stuart stevens line that ‘it was all a lie.’ And saying to principled anti-trump former republicans like @radiofreetom.bsky.social that they must de facto become liberals to be in the/
The GOP was not always crazy. People act like the party of Romney, HW Bush, Lugar, McCain, and so on never existed or were no better than the extremists. It’s bad history and bad politics. Here’s my response to it: www.theunpopulist.net/p/responsibl...
followed the mob consensus
too late just bought an Ego
area man incapable of separating the Roma vs the Romanians
He is also racist, but he is ALSO very stupid.
The thing about Curtis Yarvin is that he is stupid. Very, very stupid. Here he is mixing up "Roma" and "Romanians." He is very stupid.
We do not fully grasp how damaging the SCOTUS’ presidential immunity decision was. What we know is it was a disaster and the huge damage it has caused is being compounded daily. That is because the result is a collaboration between corrupt justices, a supine Congress and a demented President.
Who was it lol
Anyone who praises Trump’s character has none
I didn’t really need more evidence that RFK Jr is nuts and delusional.
really cannot overstate how much this man looks like shit manifesting…
Ouch sheesh
Brilliant
China didn’t take it. America gave it away.
God has no one heard of deterrence
