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Back when Never Trumpers like Bill Kristol were busy getting up to a million people killed in the wrong country? Yeah I think that had repercussions. George W was the template and proof of concept for Donnie Trump.

TARA JAYE FRANK, on the Department of Labor’s rebranding of America’s workforce:

.. a “total erasure of Black and brown people, and the removal of women as equal contributors to the economy.”

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I've heard the argument that you can't win an election by opposing a president with a net negative 18 approval—and net negative 39 with independents—and should instead assume the political landscape is the same as before he was in office and had much better numbers.

My counterpoint: maybe you can.

Hey Scott: wouldn't it suck if you miss out on a cure or a treatment and die unnecessarily because your hero is a fucking idiot?

Rich people cashed six-figure PPP checks. Never paid them back. Then shamed people using SNAP. Funny how “living off the system” only counts when you’re poor.

#snap #foodstamps #snapbenefits #governmentshutdown #ppp

Opinion | Are We Losing Our Democracy? Donald Trump has wielded power as no previous president has.

Here's a Must Read from the NYT describing 12 reasons why we need to ask if the U.S. is losing its democracy. Yes, NYT. The answer is yes -- and you're not helping with all the double standards, bothsides bullshit, sanewashing, etc.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

How do you get a majority of an entire congressional district to support a known nutcase?

Virtues don't matter any more.

Palmer says, "The American right is no longer conservative...They do not seek caution in implementing changes. There’s no preference for incremental reform. They no longer seek to conserve...old institutions that have proven their worth. There’s no reverence for America’s constitutional history."

2/ Example: Team A's good offense that can put together long scoring drives reduces the opponent Team B's offense's time on the field & thus helps Team A's defensive effort too. They are complementary efforts.

1/ The point isn't that you have both an offense and a defense and should be good at them. The point is they interact -- when you get better at one that can help you do better at the other too.

All this guy does is fly around with his girlfriend on private jets, cover up the Epstein files, and take credit for the investigative work of field agents. And he even regularly fucks that up.

ANES Data Release! electionstudies.org/data-center/...

The 3-wave ANES panel is now available. It merges data from 3 election studies (2016-2020-2024), the first time the ANES has collected interviews of the same respondents across 3 presidential elections.

The Establishment Dems have been so weak for so long many have normalized that weakness & no longer have any instinct for a strong response. This is quite obvious from the outside. They have no idea how to consistently go on offense. Its like watching a shy teenage boy trying to hit on a girl.

“Move to the center” isn’t right, especially not when it means adopting lite versions of the other party’s odious positions.

What a party that lost an election needs is to *capture* the center.

Maybe moving towards the ruling party does that. But sometimes, standing more firmly against them does.

I have said for many, many years that the Republican Party itself serves as the greatest counterexample to all the pathetically weak arguments of the extremely clueless and unselfaware Dem Establishment.

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It provides the country with diversity and provides the Republicans with equity and inclusion. What do they call that? There's a phrase for that. It's right on the tip of my tongue...

The answer: Douthat is a dishonest partisan propagandist. End of story.

Douthat writes that 2024, when Harris lost by 1.5% of the popular vote, was "an ideological referendum and progressivism lost." I wonder why he didn't view the 2020 election, when Trump lost by 4.5% of the popular vote, as a far more significant loss for conservatism.
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Your first mistake was reading Douthat's bullshit

The Nobel Peace Prize campaign gathers steam.

Identity >>>> Deliverism. It’s gotten so bad that people don’t even care. Everything is performance. Why else would conservatives completely abandon policy initiatives (other than burn it down) unless there were no gains to having policy?

Turns out the sweetheart deal that Trump's former Labor Secretary Alex Acosta gave Epstein back in 2008 was even worse than we thought. Epstein's emails show Acosta tanked an investigation that had Epstein dead to rights on money laundering, and other financial crimes.

YouTube video by BBC News Sudanese survivors of el-Fasher siege tell the BBC about RSF brutality | BBC News

A horrific mass murder is unfolding in Sudan, where no one can see it. The RSF are murdering civilians in El Fasher, having finally defeated the Sudanese army forces holding out in the city. The BBC has managed to speak to some who escaped

www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7fC...

Here's a good recent example of what I mean, where a Democrat pushes back instead of accepting a Trump-friendly distortion as the premise.

Thanks @hankhoffmanct.bsky.social for alerting me to it, @corybooker.com for sharing/praising it, and especially @neguse.house.gov for doing it.

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Trump wants to be a wartime president and Pete Hegseth wants to pose as a warrior for the cameras.

That is quite the impressive lineup of signatories. People would listen if they had any sense.

And in other news

The clown show continues