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A leftist is someone who blames the Democratic Party (and the country overall) for their own project's electoral/policy shortcomings and have become fully invested in punishing both, without any care as to who that affects or what collateral damage that inflicts.
My current feeling:
A liberal is someone whose goal is to make progressive policies happen using the tools at hand.
A leftist is someone who wants to be heard loudly complaining that those policies don’t already exist, and then make them impossible by actively sabotaging the non-fascist party.
A liberal is someone whose goal is to make progressive policies happen using the tools at hand.
A leftist is someone who wants to be heard loudly complaining that those policies don’t already exist, and then make them impossible by actively sabotaging the non-fascist party.
January 5, 2025 at 7:06 PM
A leftist is someone who blames the Democratic Party (and the country overall) for their own project's electoral/policy shortcomings and have become fully invested in punishing both, without any care as to who that affects or what collateral damage that inflicts.
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Sorry, but at no point in time was SCOTUS going to allow Trump to be prosecuted before the 2024 election.
I'm not saying the DOJ did everything perfectly or even *well*, but if someone thought maximalist moves could have resulted in a Disqualified Trump In Prison over Jan 6 in, say, 2021, well...
I'm not saying the DOJ did everything perfectly or even *well*, but if someone thought maximalist moves could have resulted in a Disqualified Trump In Prison over Jan 6 in, say, 2021, well...
As was obvious and I lost my mind about throughout 2021 but its all moot now isn't it
January 5, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Sorry, but at no point in time was SCOTUS going to allow Trump to be prosecuted before the 2024 election.
I'm not saying the DOJ did everything perfectly or even *well*, but if someone thought maximalist moves could have resulted in a Disqualified Trump In Prison over Jan 6 in, say, 2021, well...
I'm not saying the DOJ did everything perfectly or even *well*, but if someone thought maximalist moves could have resulted in a Disqualified Trump In Prison over Jan 6 in, say, 2021, well...
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This is where I'm at. With as many i's dotted and t's crossed as we got, and they still were able to play the obstruction game to a T, how much do we think they'd have been able to pull with a much looser case? Why can't we hold the SCOTUS and corrupt judges like Cannon as the actual villains here?
January 5, 2025 at 7:09 PM
This is where I'm at. With as many i's dotted and t's crossed as we got, and they still were able to play the obstruction game to a T, how much do we think they'd have been able to pull with a much looser case? Why can't we hold the SCOTUS and corrupt judges like Cannon as the actual villains here?
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Multi-millionaire George Stephanopoulos would suffer no economic hardship if he resigned. Yet he said nothing when ABC caved to Trump. The courage of Ann Telnaes, with far less money but way more integrity, is the rarest of things in Beltway Media.
Washington Post cartoonist Ann Telnaes resigned after an editor rejected her sketch satirizing tech chiefs, including the Post's owner and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.
A Pulitzer winner quits 'Washington Post' after a cartoon on Bezos is killed
Washington Post cartoonist Ann Telnaes resigned after an editor rejected her sketch satirizing tech chiefs, including the Post's owner and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.
www.npr.org
January 5, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Multi-millionaire George Stephanopoulos would suffer no economic hardship if he resigned. Yet he said nothing when ABC caved to Trump. The courage of Ann Telnaes, with far less money but way more integrity, is the rarest of things in Beltway Media.
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On MTP, @schiff.senate.gov spurns the idea of a pardon from Biden to shield him from MAGA vengeance. He says even if Trump abuses the pardon power, Dems shouldn't join in the precedent of "an outgoing president giving a broad group of pardons to members of his party." www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-pre...
Schiff says the federal justice system ‘let down the country’ with slow Trump trials: Full interview
Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) joins Meet the Press to discuss President-elect Trump’s plan to pardon people involved in January 6th, Trump’s upcoming court sentencing, and Schiff’s view of Trump’s pick ...
www.nbcnews.com
January 5, 2025 at 7:01 PM
On MTP, @schiff.senate.gov spurns the idea of a pardon from Biden to shield him from MAGA vengeance. He says even if Trump abuses the pardon power, Dems shouldn't join in the precedent of "an outgoing president giving a broad group of pardons to members of his party." www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-pre...
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Seriously. I sue drug companies, you don't have to tell me they suck, nor explain to me the risks of pharmaceuticals.
But vaccines are different, they're like stealing fire from the Gods and burning plagues with it. Their benefit/risk ratio is downright magical.
But vaccines are different, they're like stealing fire from the Gods and burning plagues with it. Their benefit/risk ratio is downright magical.
January 5, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Seriously. I sue drug companies, you don't have to tell me they suck, nor explain to me the risks of pharmaceuticals.
But vaccines are different, they're like stealing fire from the Gods and burning plagues with it. Their benefit/risk ratio is downright magical.
But vaccines are different, they're like stealing fire from the Gods and burning plagues with it. Their benefit/risk ratio is downright magical.
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Correct. I have updated my beliefs about the political landscape with the understanding that the majority of those who label themselves as "leftist" are not actually so, and those of us who wish to actually *solve* problems are few and far between.
It certainly explains a lot about US elections.
It certainly explains a lot about US elections.
January 5, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Correct. I have updated my beliefs about the political landscape with the understanding that the majority of those who label themselves as "leftist" are not actually so, and those of us who wish to actually *solve* problems are few and far between.
It certainly explains a lot about US elections.
It certainly explains a lot about US elections.
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The election of Donald Trump to the presidency of the United States not once but twice will remain an eternal mystery, like how a bumblebee can fly or the professional career of Carrot Top www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/01/mayb...
Maybe people think the economy is bad because journalists are economically illiterate - Lawyers, Guns & Money
This NYT piece is dedicated to gently pointing out in the most subtle and polite possible terms that everything Donald Trump is saying about the state of the nation is a pack of lies, but even in the ...
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com
January 5, 2025 at 7:28 PM
The election of Donald Trump to the presidency of the United States not once but twice will remain an eternal mystery, like how a bumblebee can fly or the professional career of Carrot Top www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/01/mayb...
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Step 1: Say something easily debunked in the most unpleasant way possible
Step 2: Express disgust & offense at the people who dare disagree with you disrespectfully
Step 3: Profit
Step 2: Express disgust & offense at the people who dare disagree with you disrespectfully
Step 3: Profit
January 5, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Step 1: Say something easily debunked in the most unpleasant way possible
Step 2: Express disgust & offense at the people who dare disagree with you disrespectfully
Step 3: Profit
Step 2: Express disgust & offense at the people who dare disagree with you disrespectfully
Step 3: Profit
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Another way it’s profoundly stupid: if vaccination rates decline it will disproportionately affect people w chronic illnesses, many of who are on immune suppressants.
January 5, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Another way it’s profoundly stupid: if vaccination rates decline it will disproportionately affect people w chronic illnesses, many of who are on immune suppressants.
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join us tomorrow for another round of Hell’s Madlibs
Amazon says Prime Video has exclusively licensed a Melania Trump documentary, directed by Brett Ratner in his first film after facing #MeToo allegations in 2017 (Tatiana Siegel/Variety)
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Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink
January 5, 2025 at 4:52 PM
join us tomorrow for another round of Hell’s Madlibs
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Too many tastemakers fear angry emails from right-wingers more than they regret those deaths
It is truly wild that it is estimated that more than 20 million people died of Covid and the prevailing vibe is that the world overreacted. That is an astonishing toll! More people died of Covid in the US than in the Civil War. www.pbs.org/newshour/hea...
5 years after it appeared, things we know and still don't know about COVID
Five years after the virus that causes COVID emerged in China it still holds some mysteries.
www.pbs.org
January 5, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Too many tastemakers fear angry emails from right-wingers more than they regret those deaths
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one of the most depressing realizations in politics is the day you understand that a lot of people would legitimately prefer to spend more money to make sure nobody “undeserving” gets a benefit than to make it accessible to everyone
Universal programs + progressive taxation is so much more efficient and equitable than means testing. www.vox.com/policy/39322...
What if everyone qualified for welfare benefits?
Universal programs are much easier to administer than means-tested ones.
www.vox.com
January 5, 2025 at 8:25 PM
one of the most depressing realizations in politics is the day you understand that a lot of people would legitimately prefer to spend more money to make sure nobody “undeserving” gets a benefit than to make it accessible to everyone
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Sometime this year the GOP will pass 1 (one) reconciliation bill with a tax cut, some immigration enforcement funding, and some crime provisions and declare that Donald Trump has brought down crime and illegal immigration and restored the economy to greatness.
January 5, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Sometime this year the GOP will pass 1 (one) reconciliation bill with a tax cut, some immigration enforcement funding, and some crime provisions and declare that Donald Trump has brought down crime and illegal immigration and restored the economy to greatness.
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RFK Jr. on Chemtrails: ‘I Am Persuaded’
www.thebulwark.com/p/rfk-jr-on-...
www.thebulwark.com/p/rfk-jr-on-...
RFK Jr. on Chemtrails: ‘I Am Persuaded’
The confirmation fights just keep getting weirder and more serious.
www.thebulwark.com
November 21, 2024 at 2:58 PM
RFK Jr. on Chemtrails: ‘I Am Persuaded’
www.thebulwark.com/p/rfk-jr-on-...
www.thebulwark.com/p/rfk-jr-on-...
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People, we have a massive problem:
Another American born U.S. citizen aka white male was arrested after police found homemade explosives in his vehicle.
On Wednesday. In Virginia, 80 miles outside of Washington D.C.
☹️😫🥺🤯
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
Another American born U.S. citizen aka white male was arrested after police found homemade explosives in his vehicle.
On Wednesday. In Virginia, 80 miles outside of Washington D.C.
☹️😫🥺🤯
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
Virginia man arrested with homemade explosives in car on New Year's Day, police say
A 19-year-old suspect was arrested after fleeing police, who later found explosives in the car he was driving.
www.usatoday.com
January 5, 2025 at 8:32 PM
People, we have a massive problem:
Another American born U.S. citizen aka white male was arrested after police found homemade explosives in his vehicle.
On Wednesday. In Virginia, 80 miles outside of Washington D.C.
☹️😫🥺🤯
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
Another American born U.S. citizen aka white male was arrested after police found homemade explosives in his vehicle.
On Wednesday. In Virginia, 80 miles outside of Washington D.C.
☹️😫🥺🤯
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
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Bro you are interviewing a president of a country at war, are you sure this is the right time
January 5, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Bro you are interviewing a president of a country at war, are you sure this is the right time
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It’s disarming how unnaturally calm everything feels given we’re about to hand the keys over to the criminal and insane.
January 5, 2025 at 8:32 PM
It’s disarming how unnaturally calm everything feels given we’re about to hand the keys over to the criminal and insane.
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Yes if Democrats (esp a president) are going to go out of their way to specifically cater to one or more interest groups, it is incumbent upon those groups to forcefully advocate for the president/party who catered to them
We had a president who delivered more for the left than anybody since the 60s and we saw huge drop off/disinterest. It’s now fair to lash out at those
orgs and groups that claimed to speak for these voters and probe why they didn’t and couldn’t rally them?
orgs and groups that claimed to speak for these voters and probe why they didn’t and couldn’t rally them?
January 5, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Yes if Democrats (esp a president) are going to go out of their way to specifically cater to one or more interest groups, it is incumbent upon those groups to forcefully advocate for the president/party who catered to them
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Props to Krugman for calling out Jonathan Weisman, who is and has long been, a bum.
Democrats say this, Republicans say that. But don't readers deserve to hear some facts? paulkrugman.substack.com/p/bothsidesi...
Bothsidesing, With a Republican Slant: Here We Go Again
Election results don’t change the facts
paulkrugman.substack.com
January 5, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Props to Krugman for calling out Jonathan Weisman, who is and has long been, a bum.
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An unspoken but clear subtext of the in-house dislike of Biden, especially among leftists and the young people they appeal to, was resentment that Biden beat Trump in 2020 and Bernie didn't.
I think pretty definitionally upper class zoomers being assholes about and to Biden was a big part of his low standing.
this was, no joke, an enormous and essential component of anti-Biden sentiment
January 5, 2025 at 8:53 PM
An unspoken but clear subtext of the in-house dislike of Biden, especially among leftists and the young people they appeal to, was resentment that Biden beat Trump in 2020 and Bernie didn't.
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The American media, political, and intellectual establishment quite literally does believe that Trump winning the 2024 election legitimatizes anything he did before that, because to believe otherwise would threaten the sanctity of the American tradition.
Margaret Brennan appears to suggest that Jan 6 insurrectionists should get pardoned by Trump because they're "white collar workers, small business owners" who "didn't necessarily have a criminal record."
January 5, 2025 at 8:50 PM
The American media, political, and intellectual establishment quite literally does believe that Trump winning the 2024 election legitimatizes anything he did before that, because to believe otherwise would threaten the sanctity of the American tradition.
Honestly Revenant is a really good Halloween drama. Wish I found out about it early but it's pretty good
January 5, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Honestly Revenant is a really good Halloween drama. Wish I found out about it early but it's pretty good
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Republicans, well Trump are about to drag us into a legal battle about Impoundment that will end in our victory and Trump wasting a lot of his capital on this.
tinyurl.com/42zjnsh3
tinyurl.com/42zjnsh3
The biggest fight of our Democracy is here and why is it Impoundment
What is Impoundment and why is it imporant
tinyurl.com
December 16, 2024 at 5:25 PM
Republicans, well Trump are about to drag us into a legal battle about Impoundment that will end in our victory and Trump wasting a lot of his capital on this.
tinyurl.com/42zjnsh3
tinyurl.com/42zjnsh3