Mark Hall

It wasn't "cancel culture" when women and people of color got used up, silenced, and dismissed before their careers even began. It only became "cancel culture" when powerful abusers started having established careers momentarily inconvenienced by revelations of what they'd done.

Nice to see confirmation of my intuition. Jones has the Trump endorsement and Jackson has the money. Raff picks up those who have lost their faith in Trump because he stood up to him back in 2020. While Carr betrayed everyone by prosecuting neither Jones as a fake elector nor Raff for the loss.

Surely, you must be mistaken. I mean, it's right there in the name!

Truly horrific.

Everything old is new again.

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FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

why a US Senator thought manhnadling a dude in full USMC dress was a good look is beyond anyone with a brain

We had a couple very excited to go to war in Desert Shield/Desert Storm (which was weird in my REMF unit of computer nerds). That didn't last past the first Scud alert that sent us to MOPP-4.

And those that fail out of SEAL training become Shore Patrol on their way to civilian police jobs. Or so I was told by sailors when I was on joint assignments.

One last note after sleeping on it. It's very sad that the best person we can come up with is yet another (not quite as old but still) old white male billionaire businessman. We really need more progressives challenging and winning in state and local races to feed the pipeline.

Yeah, I'm afraid AOC's name recognition is a negative in swing states. I've heard a lot of good about Pritzker, though. I'd love to vote for him over Newsom in '28. Or, well, durn near anybody over Newsom except Emmanuel.

That bodes well for the effort...if enough of them can be motivated to show up. FSM knows it's hard. I'm the 2nd youngest regular volunteer in my county party, and I'm 60.

It would also help to have a real progressive to rally round, like the nutcases did for Trump. Any names leap to mind?

Yes. They do. Beating this is the price of entry. It sucks, but the world is what it is. If progressives would join the party at the lowest levels, work their way up the hierarchy, they could turn re-aim those machines. Trump did it. But numbers matter. Are there enough progressives to do it?

Instead they throw their votes out of the pram and blame the old guard Dems for being old guard Dems.

Bernie is as close as we've come, but he didn't have to ground level party support to keep the DNC from wrecking him, because most of the people angry at the DNC's picks refuse to engage with the party long enough to change it.

I'm well aware, but they DID happen. And a sufficiently popular candidate could beat a weak incumbent - Reagan almost beat Ford in '76. But the real problem is that there simply aren't any sufficiently popular progressives challenging. I'd love to vote for one.

And I didn't say she was a progressive. I said she was the most progressive to win a nomination - a very low bar.

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That is certainly interesting, but does not address the hypothetical where she abandoned Israel. As for the primary...here's the results from my state. Sorry you missed yours. Maybe you should mark your calendar for the next one. www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...

And if you think they absorbed that lesson enough to actually take it to heart, you had a MUCH better bunch of fellow students in history class than I did. We can see from the 2016/2024 election that all too many of them didn't retain anything from Civics lessons.

The school board picks the curriculum, and decides whether or not the military services get to recruit the soon-to-be-graduating seniors. Also whether or not the students are "encouraged" to recite the Pledge of Allegiance, among other patriotic propaganda.

So far, I see few signs of them trying, with a few exceptions like AOC and Mamdani. Instead, the progressives seem to only want to complain to the most conservative part of the party that they keep picking conservatives. Well what did you expect?

Especially because there would have been another excuse to not vote for the most progressive major-party nominee we've ever had. There always is.

3) Until progressives can take away enough power from the old guard Dems to nominate and support better candidates, there will be no change.

1) There WAS a primary. Biden won it, before he dropped out.

2) Harris could not have won if she had alienated the pro-Israel folks *at that time,* because that was before any but the terminally-online cared. The # of voters she would have lost was greater than those she would have gained.

I am told the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs was there...but I haven't seen any, either.

I'm not excusing it. As I said, it was foreseeable, which is why war should be reserved for much better causes. I'm just pointing out that the bloodthirsty murderer in your head is probably not the guy who actually pushed the button, who will likely add to the veteran suicide stats in due course.

Yes, for those not aware, a Dishonorable Discharge requires a court-martial. Conviction by court-martial is literally a Federal felony conviction, just as if you were charged and found guilty in a civilian Federal court.

Do most of the people who are at the age when they make the decision KNOW about that long history of injustice? It's certainly not what we teach them in school.

By the way, did you vote in your last school board election?

Do you really believe the person who fired the missile was told that the target was a school? It was a miss, or bad intel, or at worst somebody deciding that the school was cover for a real target. A clearly foreseeable result, but certainly not a directly intended and ordered one.

I see it in the complaints about the corporate Democrats, too. "Why are these people who are too conservative for me always coming up with candidates who are too conservative? Why don't they provide me the magical candidate I can't name but WOULD vote for?"

And if society were perfect, the 18-year-olds that are most of the people making that decision would have better options, and better information with which to make the choice. But instead we live here, where those barely-adult folks have been steeped in patriotism, and have no career paths.