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at least 30 separate briefings, I think?

His byname should absolutely be translated as "Rocky"

We seem to have already let the antisemites in through the gate so we may as well try the economic pressure on Israel part.

The President of Cuba, apparently.

Also, like, look, it's too late for anybody caring about taking out the leader of Cuba. How many people can even name this dude?

I assume he'll murder 94 year old Raul Castro and call it a day.

He thinks that murdering Khamenei and kidnapping Maduro is regime change.

I think we wore out kakistocracy as a term during Trump I, but it turns out we didn't even know what a kakistocracy was. Literally the worst people in the world are running our country.

I believe the pro-Platner position is "he's not a Nazi, he's just an ignorant moron"

They were so convinced they'd be primarying hundreds of incumbents, and of course that hasn't happened at all and isn't going to happen.

Not very secret Nazis.

A head of state is not a regime.

He hasn't changed any regimes.

I do not think it would be good for the Democratic Party to turn it over to morons who may or may not be secret Nazis.

As far as hair metal goes, the music rocks but the aesthetic confuses him.

This is why 80s Hal Jordan starts to feel like time has passed him by. He's going gray, he doesn't understand the music anymore, starts to think about what's really important.

Hal is a "Styx was awesome until they did that fucking Kilroy album, what the fuck was that?" guy, right?

Billy Joel is Jewish!

Hal's tastes are sufficiently un-Joelish that he's vaguely aware Billy Joel isn't cool, but he's too much of a sentimental sap to actually dislike Billy Joel, so it's like a guilty pleasure for him.

Hal can never hear "She's Always a Woman" or "Just the Way You Are" without staring off into the middle distance as he remembers Terri Vaccarro.

"Well, the non-Nazi couldn't have done worse than that" would be my go to.

The last sentence of that first post applies much more clearly to "why you should oppose Platner" than to anything related to Schumer.

The Third Reich?

It's already sort of a rump of the original Home Office, which was responsible at one point for basically all domestic policy. Other things gradually got split off, leaving only policing and immigration.

What is even happening

I think "Kamala's for they/them; President Trump is for you" was a fairly effective slogan not so much because people hate trans people and buy into the Republican agenda on them but because they thought Democrats are obsessed with culture war stuff rather than issues they cared about.

It can't work optimally, but I don't think you've demonstrated that it's not still better than the alternative.

"I promise to enforce the laws" should be good politics -- sounds reasonable and strong to people who don't care much about the issue, but people who *do* can understand that she has their back. It's a real problem to not be able to do that.

I don't have a solution but "pander more explicitly to your own base voters during the general election so that bad faith interlocutors don't twist your words to try to depress base turnout" isn't a great equilibrium.

Ideally you dog whistle to your own supporters while saying things that sound reasonable to swing voters. Demanding that candidates do the opposite because their own supporters are being riled up by the intermediaries they trust for no reason but clout is bad.