You didn’t ask me, but I’ll give you a hint. None of the above are economic issues, and none address ceaselessly expanding corporate power and wealth inequality, which are the two largest issues, which if not addressed everything else becomes merely tinkering at the edges.

So you admit to them having had 50 years of control. How did the GOP manage that without the complicity, or at least passivity, that allowed this in spite of the Dems having held power intermittently during this period? Is it like some kind of force field that extends over the half century?

Because the other thing that many critics of the left here seem to share is not really standing FOR anything, as long as it comes from a self Democrat politician it automatically gets the Status Quo Lifetime Seal of Approval. Man, do you guys ever like to bitch about us, as if that’s all you’ve got.

I seem to have hit a nerve?
They might seem like random buzzwords to you, but I all have a meaning to me, and apparently to many others here, but I can’t take responsibility for you understanding them or not.
Do you have any red lines at all for candidates you support? Asking seriously. 1/

What’s a left wing libertarian look like when it’s not just an empty insult that sounds good at first but doesn’t really mean anything after a moment’s reflection?

You can probably glean more about where I lean ideologically by reading my past posts than torturing a burn from the quoted one.

Statement from Jasmine Crockett.

Shameless murderer lies shamelessly. To be continued.

Thanks for a lucid island in a sea of denial, this thread mostly just depresses me.

The endless tortuous and pretzel-like illogic of proponents of the ‘center’ are ceaselessly creative, no matter where the center goes, no matter how far from representative government it takes you.

Dog forbid anyone should insist on their representatives actually representing them. And this attitude that even wanting or asking, never mind insisting on this most basic precept, is why you are where you are now.

I don’t agree. Perfect is not what the left desires, most of us will settle for not being evil-adjacent, corporate or AIPAC captured, and members of the Loyal Opposition.

When a system has become so totally undemocratic and filters candidates it just seems like the most basic ask is too much.

Seems like the media should at least express some curiosity about this.

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They are all literally insane.

DOJ's recent 6th Circuit filing misspelled:

Voters as “Votors”
Emergency as "Emeregency"
United States as "United Staes"

And, it included a non-party in the caption.

These are the people who want access to your sensitive voting records and who my team fights in court every day.

This is the post I’ve been waiting for from a Democrat.

After trying out various bad faith debating techniques the majority of right wing ‘pundints’ (sic) and politicians seem to have settled on simply firehosing bullshit over the other person’s attempts to counter their barrage of lies. Filibustering is too kind a word for it.

How dare they get attacked.

I like the way most psychologists, cult experts, etc., stress it isn’t our job or duty to forgive them. That’s a decision for their friends and family. We can accept or reject their apologies, we can forgive them or not for the damage they caused, neither would change anything anyway.

That’s great. What gets me is the performative videos, then again I’ve always despised people filming and putting out videos of themselves crying and breaking down. Why can’t they wait until calm to record? Do they think we need proof of their suffering? It’s so self indulgent and self pitying.

I remember radio shows remaining popular in the UK much longer, you’d hear The Archers and such occasionally in certain circumstances where a radio was still handy or when older people still listened as a habit. As with newspapers, holding on a bit longer.

No one seems to talk about their acceleration, the difference is extreme. I thought modern diesels were a surprising difference but EVs are in a different world entirely.

BTW your dogs are beautiful, it’s nice to see.

Thanks. No issues, it was only a lightly sprained wrist that led me to trying one. I don’t ride the brake when the leash is shortened for a heel, I wrap the tape between the handle and my hand, it doesn’t click when taut and is more secure. It sounds complicated but takes no time to adjust the grip.

It’s fine, there’s a magic curtain between the War Room and the
Maralardo dining room.

Well, when no one stops the bombing of schools and hospitals in Ukraine and then no one stops the bombing of schools and hospitals in Palestine then they all know that no one will stop the bombing of schools and hospitals in Iran. Same shit, different day.

I was curious what kind of fresh shame Igor Fuckface would invent to claim himself for the occasion. I’m not disappointed.

Also pretty handy the Middle East just erupted and wasn’t bombed or anything in a war the United States started.

Quite a talent on Mace’s part to be able to concentrate into one sentence such stratospheric levels of racism, bigotry, hate, ignorance, stupidity, hypocrisy and cringe.

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