dazzledbylight
Blue Crack Supplier
Are we there yet?
His resignation?
Thx for the laughs!
(catching up)
Are we there yet?
His resignation?
Uuuuh, i guess not.times infinity. Go crack open a history book and shut the hell up already.
Also, "no president since Abraham Lincoln". So do the other presidents who've been assassinated since then not count as examples of presidents who've been "treated worse"?
Yup, definitely concerned about that. Thinks jill s voters. (not the total reason she lost, other reasons too)There's debating policy and then there's ignoring the greater evil.
I have zero interest in seeing Bernie Sanders elected president. Zero.
Well, almost zero. If it's Sanders or Trump, you better believe I'm voting for Bernie.
What worries those who are more towards the middle is that this won't be reciprocated by those on the left if the ultimate candidate ends up being someone who's closer to the middle.
It's not an irrational fear, either, based on 2016.
This. Yeah, i think a bunch of independents have been moving away from him.I didn't say Clinton lost because of Sanders voters staying home. Or Johnson voters. Or Stein voters. Or those who voted for Trump because whatever, they're all the same.
But when you add all that up, and consider the crazy small margin of victory he had?
Yea, it fucking mattered.
The difference? Maybe not; but it wasn't inconsequential.
I don't believe this race will be as close because Independent voters have been able to see Trump for who he really is. But this is no time for fucking around.
This.This is why we have primaries. To figure this stuff out.
But if anyone thinks we have the luxury of flattering ourselves with some kind of vanity vote that is for anyone other than the Democratic nominee in order to underscore our own virtue, then go fuck yourself.
Ohhhh, yippie !1111111Oh good, this idiot is back.
https://twitter.com/JacobAWohl/stat...gainst-Kamala-Harris-Chris-Cuomo-Runs-With-It
This.
Ohhhh, yippie !1111111
Don't think i' ve heard of him, or very vaguely.
These actions are troubling to me. have to look into that.- fought to criminalize sex work even more than it already is
- deliberately makes no distinction between voluntary sex work and human trafficking, driving willing and voluntary sex workers into more dangerous aspects of the trade
- opposed legislation that would have required the DA's office to investigate all police shootings
- fought to keep people in jail even when there was strong evidence that they were innocent or wrongfully convicted
- refused to investigate blatant instances of racism and prejudice in the san francisco PD
- fought against reforms to solitary confinement policies in california prisons
- refused to allow a trans inmate to get gender reassignment surgery while in prison because reasons
- spent 20 grand advertising in black and latino neighbourhoods asking adults to snitch on truant school kids and threatened to throw truant children's parents in jail for their children's actions
she's been mildly better as a senator than as an attorney but holy shit her record in law enforcement is atrocious and yes i would absolutely assume (as would most people) that is the record of a republican if i didn't know better. she's basically a cop who now claims to have changed her ways.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jan/19/kamala-harris-2020-election-top-cop-prosecutor
If a progressive prosecutor does not exist, what would consider a moderate prosecutor?She was not a progressive prosecutor (I don’t know that such a thing exists to be honest). In terms of prosecutors she was about middle of the road. If that alone is disqualifying to some people, fine. But criminal justice is just one issue of many. If we’re disqualifying Dems on single issues then how many are out already? Biden and Bernie for sure.
The Medicare for all would be great theme.
But what happens if a dem gets in and doesn’t get it passed? Much like Obamacare losing the public option
Will the left still support this candidate in the next cycle ? Will midterms swing to the gop again, or the MAGA party is what it should be called now
I’m fine with whatever (legal) it takes to get a dem back into the WH, but we have to still keep up the fight for congress and state races
Not sure i fully agree. Ive heard a fair amount of people calking, texting etc into Public Radio about how in 2018 they weren't into, or had given up on politics but Trump's awfulness got them to vote!The results of the 2018 election were due to the Democrats winning areas like Orange County, whichbis now almost entirely blue (if not totally). The base absolutely needs to turn out, but you win when you win the suburbs.
You will not move non-voters to vote by running a mythical candidate who will turn them out suddenly. That candidate has never materialized. The non-voters didn’t turn out for Bradley in 2000. They didn’t for Bernie. And they won’t suddenly awaken from their slumber in 2020.
My hope is, as we saw in 2018, this is the issue that gets D’s to the polls. The right has abortion, and to a lesser extent guns. The left needs something, and access to health care may be it.
The right is obsessed with AOC. Obsessed.
They fear her deadly political talents. And they should.
Let’s let her develop.
re: AOC.
Calling her the left's version of Trump is over the top.
She does need to prove that she's more than an agitator. Can she legislate? Is she going to be able to bring people together?
She doesn't have to assimilate or change her ideals - but alienating those who she'll need job her side to actually get something done isn't exactly winning strategy.
re: Dave's last point.
This is the only time you'll ever see me agreeing to even consider a candidate who would even mention something like, oh, a 75% tax rate. So have at it
No doubt, about Vladdy ; but right-wing Republicans and Conservatives have wanted to slash big government, the social safety net since FDR, LBJ ec.Who wants a government shutdown of the US? Putin
that's the beginning and the end.
So ... we aren’t suffering, but we are looking at a second paycheck held hostage by the President. I also worry about the psychological toll this is starting to take on federal workers. They really are stuck, and there really is no end in sight. Two weeks ago no one thought this would go on for two more weeks, yet here we are. It’s the uncharted territory that’s so scary — the current resident of the Oval Office is crazy enough to hold out indefinitely, and as nerve wracking as this is, were Pelosi to cave all that would do would be to embolden him to do this every time he wants a new toy that won’t ever get passed through Congress. Holding steady now should hopefully prevent this in the future.
Roger Stone was arrested this morning. This seems potentially big.
Well, even so...Question of the day - does Trump reopen the government to change the news coverage?
yeah, that was... weird. ( i guess that he ' s well off enough that 30 pieces of silver won't do itOn a serious note. Not sure why no one covering Stone's little display outside the courthouse isn't really digging into the statement of:
I won't testify against the president because i would have to bare false witness (aka - lie)
ummmm... what??
This has been a fantastic Friday!
Woke up and the first thing I saw was Roger Stone was arrested (AND there was video)! My boss buys me a delicious iced mocha. Then Trump is humiliated by Nancy "Nancy" Pelosi! And later today we get birthday cake! It's just too much.
Oh, that women/tape stuff was...... fecking eeewwww, creepy!The obsession of women tied up with tape is really weird.
Also he’s going to do this all over again in three weeks
remember when people thought Nancy Pelosi shouldn't be speaker?
Can you imagine if they went with some freshman Congressperson??
Kamala Harris was born in California. There’s no question about her citizenship.
Today just keeps getting funnier and funnier.
The NIXON FOUNDATION just repudiated Roger Stone. I mean, how bad do you have to be for the Nixon Foundation to think you'd tarnish Nixon's image?
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if the website was actually working this morning i could show you the exact payments made by steven mnuchin's wife to harris's 2010 re-election campaign only two years before she just so happened to decline to prosecute him for being the CEO of a predatory bank that foreclosed illegally on thousands of mortgages in 2008-09.
but i guess a candidate for president being a nakedly corrupt cop is just a big ol around here if she has a D next to her name, and i should just stop criticizing any of the candidates because bernie bros ruined everything last time, or something.
But sure, I implied that Harris should not be criticized and should be nominated without a vote because of you commie rebel rousers.
https://twitter.com/notcapnamerica/status/1088984973108039681?s=21
What we could have had. Not all of it was “Bernie bro”, but the media fixated on her every little move.
i wasn't referring to you with that bit, but the other poster who came in after you with the post about "what we could have had...although not all of it was bernie bros".
although admittedly that wasn't made particularly clear.
As I said, it's a self-fulfilling prophecy. Sanders didn't run in the general. I outlined earlier a long lost of issues the Democratic primary system has, so crying fowl that someone who could not win the Democratic primary against the entrenched candidate who the DNC was literally reliant on for funding because of the financial deal Wasserman-Schultz negotiated does not move me as far as an argument that Sanders would have gotten smoked. Had he run in the general, who knows what would have happened? He is the most popular politician in the United States according to the polls.You will not move non-voters to vote by running a mythical candidate who will turn them out suddenly. That candidate has never materialized. The non-voters didn’t turn out for Bradley in 2000. They didn’t for Bernie. And they won’t suddenly awaken from their slumber in 2020.
What Sanders supporters never bring up is the oodles of opposition research he would have faced, including the accusations of being a communist.
Yes, I know. Socialism isn't communism. I know that. I'm not who you have to convince. You have to convince an electorate who voted for a broke con man because he was portrayed as being a successful business titan on TV that socialism isn't communism.
So there's this thing. He did have a vote. And he got creamed. By the person who lost the election. It wasn't close.Oodles of research from an anti-fact opposition? I still think you sincerely disregard the amount of anti-fact voters who would have happily voted for a “socialist” anti establishment white old man who speaks in vague terms and has little clue how he’s going to actually accomplish any of the things he’s promising and probably hasn’t thought that far ahead but he doesn’t apologize for anything!
So there's this thing. He did have a vote. And he got creamed. By the person who lost the election. It wasn't close.
So there's this thing. He did have a vote. And he got creamed. By the person who lost the election. It wasn't close.