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I gather the matter will soon be clarified in a report from the renowned journalist Borat Sagdiyev.
Not to belabor the point but: I am not the weird one for being this mad at the Democratic Party and its leaders. Look at polls of your average rank and file Dem voters and how they feel about the party now. It is YOU who are out of touch if you’re asking why people are being mean to Dem politicians
I really wonder how the gap between the anger and frustration of registered Democrat voters and the insouciance of Chuck and Hakeem is sustainable. I suppose they assume we have nowhere else to go and are a sort of hostage electorate. But I don't see how this level of tension can be sustained.
You have sold your journalistic birthright for a mess of pottage.
I'm inclined to think they will just stick with "RFK is right" rather like the Communists stuck with "Stalin is right" after the Soviet Pact with Hitler. Don't underestimate how ok they are with burning the house down, whether from ideology or self-interest.
I’ve heard from a couple of messaging strategists now that people shouldn’t post so much about COVID19 vaccines because it’s “divisive”. I am here to say that I do not give a damn what is popular. I will never ignore scientific evidence for the sake of expediency, and neither should anyone else.
there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
I'm genuinely puzzled by how the Congressional Dems feel they can ignore the total lack of confidence in Chuck and Hakeem that exists among a huge swathe of ordinary Dem voters.
I'm genuinely puzzled as to why the Dem leadership feels that they can afford to ignore how ordinary Dem voters feel about Chuck and Hakeem.
Calling all the terrible, life-threatening things that are being done 'a distraction' is the dumbest shit that I have ever seen in politics. And your jokes are not funny.
The second sentence contradicts the first sentence. It can't be both a mistake and a conscious decision. But I'm charitably assuming that this was written by a undergraduate intern.
They have actually got worse at this, and a think it is actually part of their 'play dead' strategy. Minor symptom: it used to be fairly easy to get to speak to a staffer in Schumer's offices, but over the last few weeks I have been unable to get a live person there, despite repeated attempts.
Mamdani is all the things that JD is not: charismatic, charming, self-confident and intellectually brilliant. So no wonder JD serves up this low grade xenophobia.
The good thing is that JD has zero charisma and is not liked even by most Republicans. He is also not nearly as smart as he thinks he is. I predict that once he is President, the GOP big shots will all fight with each other and JD won't be able to control the situation.
But the Chinese are threatening us with well constructed, safe EVs costing a fraction of the price of a Tesla. Fortunately, our tariffs will put a stop to that.
The Dems needed a Lech Walesa and a Nelson Mandela to lead us and instead we got Laurel and Hardy.
'Top Deputy' is an odd way of saying "man who does not have a degree in Science or Medicine".
You have give her credit that she has so far made 'ineffectual hand-wringing' into a winning election formula. Are people who can't make up their minds a big demographic in Maine?
Thank you Bernie. You do so much, while too many Dem Senators are not showing up when it counts.
This may help explain why nobody in his offices is ever available to answer the phone.
Who could have predicted that Chinese companies producing excellent EVs for a fraction of the price of a Tesla would lead to this result?
Exactly.
Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve on the Minnesota shooting: "The sad thing is we can't sit here and tell them that help is on the way. Because we're not going to do a damn thing about it."
Praying is good, but it's not your main job. What are you going to do about this politically? We don't need two 'thoughts and prayers' parties.
Pritzker: This is not about fighting crime. This is about the President and his complicit lackey, Stephen Miller, searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections.
Is there a major political party in the entire world that is this bad at politics?
It's pretty much the same political logic as the Centrist Dems. "We're also against crime, woke-ism and too much immigration" etc.
The words that Dems use which alienate me are 'bipartisanship', 'working across the aisle' and 'my Republican friends'.
Breakfast Club host Charlamagne says of Hakeem Jeffries: "I call him AIPAC Shakur." "I just don't think he stands for anything."
Appealing to Republicans to do the right thing has worked really well so far, so let's do more of it.
I am begging my fellow Dems to emerge from the reflexive “it’s a trap” position on these issues and realize that some things are very simple: the public doesn’t like the federal government turning the military against its own citizens.The public doesn’t like the armed occupation of a city.Period.
At this stage of the game, bipartisanship is not commonsense but idiocy.
People literally did talk about Hitler like this. Goebbels: "You can't help liking him as a person .... He has a tremendous mind. The born motivator! With him we can conquer the world".
I really like Warren. But destabilizing the world economy is not a diversion. Calling everything a diversion is lazy thinking and an excuse for inaction.
WW1 was a global disaster extending through East Africa, the Middle East and Eastern Europe. It caused massive famines and epidemics and included major genocides. Conflicts it started went on in some countries until around 1923. Minimizing it is not a serious idea.
The war also caused mass civilian casualties through famine, disease, bombardment and in some cases, actual genocide. These fatalities were especially severe in East Africa, the Ottoman Empire and Eastern Europe. This is massively documented by historians whom this dude has apparently not read.
Wall Street has found its voice and the voice says "Greed is Good". So, no, they're not going to help.
But don't lose your focus on the big issues, like the threat of Mamdani offering free bus rides.
After causing the massive inflation of the Zimbabwean Dollar, Robert Mugabe declared a 'War on Zeroes'. Maybe that could be the theme of the 2026 SOTU.
I am sounding the alarm on the real crisis we face today. Donald Trump’s overreach is what our founders warned against – it is unprecedented, unwarranted, and un-American. There’s no emergency here that calls for military intervention.
Sadly, it's not just that they don't know how to do this, it's that they don't want to do it.
Illinois Gov. Pritzker vows to pursue Trump officials who participate in an illegal National Guard deployment to Chicago: "If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."
Their logic is "if it's a distraction, I don't have to do anything about it", and they like that because not doing anything unusual is their comfort zone.
How is it possible to graduate from an Ivy League university and not know the basics of modern history?
One way that LL is wrong on WWII is that the overturning of the Chamberlain government by a combination of Churchill's wing of the Conservatives plus the Labour Party in fact was crucial to British success in fighting the war. Replacing bad leadership is actually a good thing.
Was this written by a college student intern, or was there really a discussion amongst your staff which decided that the best thing is to recycle the other side's slogans?
The function of the word 'distraction' in their use of language is to deny realities and thus to create excuses for inaction. Their logic is that the threat is not real, and that therefore they don't have to do anything about it.
You are being too kind to him. It's a deliberate strategy of creating excuses for inaction.
Ignorance of History is one of the tenets of T-ism.
It's a reflection on the state of US media that we have to rely on the British press to do the work.
Chuck and Hakeem do, apparently.
Yes, the NYT is just the NYP with an upper class accent.
Shall we be dragged by him to the bottom of the sea? Shall we be towed by him to the infernal world?
Dumb American exceptionalism is indestructible.
The great thing about JD is that nobody likes him, not even Republicans. If he becomes President or Nominee, he won't be able to keep the wheels on the clown car for five minutes.
The Dems needed a Lech Walesa and a Nelson Mandela to lead us, and instead we've got Laurel and Hardy.
Le mot juste!
MSNBC is in the process of going over to bland centrism. They got rid of Hasan, Reid & Phang and marginalized Mohyeldin, while retaining the unspeakable Morning Joe. If it were not that Maddow and Hayes are so popular with the viewers, I suspect they would have been pushed out too.
Sarah, a victim/survivor of Epstein/Maxwell, & co-conspirators tells all. Listen. Feel. Believe. Demand #Justice4Survivors. #WhereIsTheList
We need a Lech Walesa and a Nelson Mandela to lead us and instead we have Felix and Oscar.
My uncle, Lt. John Oates, South African Air Force, has his grave at the Moro River Canadian War Cemetery, Ortona. Thanks for looking after him, Canadians.
Ausweis bitte!
It's important to understand that there is a whole cottage industry of 'Neo-Confederate' slavery apologist writing that is feeding in to this. It is the American equivalent of Holocaust Denialism, but it is quite influential in the far right.
You're a good man and I'd love to see you Primary Jeffries.
Maybe you should tell Chuck and Hakeem about this new approach, because they don't seem to have heard about it yet.
None of your offices answer their phones, which I suspect is because you don't like what you are hearing from regular Dem voters. You would rather listen to 'Democratic Consultants' and the NYT and WaPo. And then you wonder why small donors have stopped giving money to the DNC.
It's like Chuck and Hakeem are frozen. They keep getting offered political gifts, and they just fail to seize the opportunity every time.
"How bad slavery was" is worse. Much worse. Much worse than you think, much worse than you're taught, much worse than museums depict. Worse.
Amazing how the Congressional Dems complaining to Axios about how unreasonable their voters are has not brought in the money.
I actually don't think it's the same. British liberal journalists suffered from a misguided sense of fairness in dealing with Brexit. By contrast, a lot of formerly liberal American journalists are looking for plausible rationales for going over to the right.
Not enough Dem professional politicians read history, and of those who do, not enough read the history of other countries. If they had an historical imagination, they would be better at figuring out what is happening.
The occupation of our capital city is not “a distraction.” It’s part of the dictator’s playbook. The attempt to rig the rules of the next election is not “a distraction.” It’s a direct threat to the will of the voters. Fighting for our democracy is not a distraction.
Please stop using the word 'distraction'. It is preventing clear thought.
I miss Joy's hour on MSNBC so much. The dog's breakfast called The Weeknight is unwatchable.
Two of them were the Windmill War and the Shower Pressure War.
They are waiting for the return of the days of good old Tip O'Neill and Bipartisanship. They think this will happen through an inevitable swing of the electoral pendulum. It's a very comforting view, because it does not require them to do anything differently from before.
This is the right comparison.
My hope is that today, Europe will stand up to Russian and American fascism.
To be fair, their strategy is to fire or demote their best people, so I guess they don't really like the brand they have.
We systematically debunk RFKs claims on mRNA vaccine technology. His announcement cancelling vital funds was littered with inaccuracies. We believe the truth will prevail, and that’s why we are correcting the record. @nbcnews.com
Naming your network after a deadly disease is definitely marketing genius.
Great Branding. The Weeknight and Morning Joe do make me feel sick, so I can see the logic. AFib News or TB Live might be possible alternatives.
The way this post is phrased, 'Russian-speaking' implies pro-Russian. But there are plenty of Russian-speaking Ukrainians who are deeply patriotic toward Ukraine.
I want to congratulate leading Democrats’ for their insistence on saying the takeover of DC is a “stunt” or a “distraction.” It’s a rare trifecta of intellectual failure, political stupidity, and moral obtuseness.
Union Station was racially segregated in the 1940s. Which I suppose appeals to their idea of 'purity'.
And of course in the 1940s Union Station had racially segregated restrooms, waiting areas and dining facilities. Which is probably a plus for these guys.
I'm impressed by the Dem leadership's determination not to make any public statements or take any political initiatives during weekends. It's not as if anything important is happening in America or the world.
On the one hand, the plane is still flying in a straight line. On the other hand, the pilot skipped most of the classes in flight school.
No, they do not. They are waiting on the return of the days of good old Tip O'Neill and bipartisanshit, which they think will happen through a swing of the electoral pendulum requiring no unusual action on their part.
I'm genuinely puzzled by the vehemence with which some Dems defend this feeble duo against the slightest criticism.
At some point people will realize that the NYT is just the New York Post with an upper class accent.
The Jeffries/Schumer version of the Democratic Party is going to go the way of the Whigs quite soon, so people start making choices about what its replacement will look like.
"I heard this interesting story about these two guys. The one was called Molotov and the other was called Ribbentrop ...".
Pity so many of us will die in the next Pandemic because there will be nobody left who can make vaccines.
Meanwhile, protests in Anchorage
I honestly thought this must be satire when I first saw it, but Centrist Democrats are consistently self-sabotaging, so no reason to stop now.