Mainstream media does so much normalizing of Trump. It’s just “reshaping diplomatic posture for (undefined by the newspaper) ‘America first’ priorities” rather than firing public servants to install regime loyalists to threaten non-white governments.
The United States does all of those things except have sacred cows.
This is why immigration judges aren’t real judges and should be abolished.
It’s weird that she thought going to a reporter to write a pity piece was her next step out of this rather than just doing nothing and fading back into obscurity. Who was still thinking of this lady?
https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1191/vote_119_1_00649.htm
Here’s the roll call. Mostly a bunch of moderates doing performances about how open minded they are.
Can’t wait to find out why the Supreme Court thinks congressional oversight is supposed to be at the pleasure of the executive.
Not countering your opponent’s gains is also part of running a bad campaign. The same people who ran his campaign were running Harris’s and making all those dumb mistakes you highlight. Only she didn’t have the “change” label and Trump’s failures at the front of people’s minds to edge her over the line. Biden was heading toward a loss in 2024.
Presidential elections keep going down to the wire and it’s not because Donald Trump is just that talented. These things shouldn’t be being won or lost on the margins. All of the last three candidates have been a lot closer to John Kerry than Barrack Obama.
It should have been a cakewalk because Trump was currently the guy screwing everything up and not improving people’s lives. Incumbency isn’t an advantage for President anymore and Trump (with help from COVID) was doing particularly badly. He had sub-40 approval polls and, before the general election campaign, polls were putting most of the main Democratic options up by 6-8. It wasn’t a cakewalk in the actual election because Biden didn’t run a good campaign.
Biden in 2024 was then the guy to blame for everything going wrong (inflation in this case), with sub-40 approval polls, and was on course to lose before being kicked off the ticket. And Harris made the baffling decision to frame herself as just being a younger Biden.
And notice how that was irrelevant to his election and then later opinion polls? Tankies are a tiny sliver of the progressive left. Like my entire real life social circle leans strongly progressive and not a single one even filters through the shadow of a tankie position. People who would literally like Communism to be on the political table still aren’t tankies.
That doesn’t mean progressives are irrelevant, just that ‘tankies’ are used as a Boogeyman by conservative online Democrats to simultaneously explain all their failures while also saying we should keep listening to them when they counsel doing exactly the same thing one more time.
You don’t win elections by appealing to your opponents. Triangulation is a tragic lie.
And Biden did poorly. It should have been a cakewalk and he barely won. “It got us Biden” isn’t an argument to the utility of timidity.
My opinion on someone and hopes for their future would change quite a lot while they’re in the process of murdering me.
This lady seems too smart to make these “unguarded” statements as an accident. Is this image rehabilitation before jumping ship or trying to enforce the end of the “revenge tour” by sabotaging the cases?
“I Support Palestine Action” is not intolerance. Simply saying that publicly is an arrestable offense in the UK. They dropped from ‘Open’ to ‘Less Restrictive’ in the Global Expression Report, an outlier among the traditional Western countries. They’re not as bad as ‘roving bands of secret police’, but painting this as just a quest against intolerance is nonsense apologia.
From the conservative Jerusalem Post no less. The article isn’t particularly focused on Nazi dad as a problem, but that they’d even headline it for what would otherwise be their chosen candidate is itself a choice.
Charges were dropped and then dismissed with prejudice against Brianna Taylor’s boyfriend for firing at police officers who broke down his door. His defense was that he didn’t know they were police though.
I hate when people intentionally make me look bad by sharing the pictures of me doing bad things.
And they could have just avoided all these losses by just not sending this particular guy to that particular country like the pre-existing order said. Or to admit the mistake and bring him back when it was found out. Their inability to just say “we made a mistake and are fixing it” made this a much bigger problem.
IMO it’s so much dumber. It’s neoliberals thinking they can use the fascists for just a little while to achieve their goals, then deal with them later. Like they’ve never picked up a history book.
They’re not doing just the facts. They’re telling us why they’re being recalled and doing it in a non-descriptive way that makes an unusual act sound usual. If it was just the facts they’d say “they’re being recalled” and end it there. Everything else about why is either the author injecting their interpretation or the administration’s press release.