As an outsider reading this it strikes me as really unfortunate. While resigning is a principled stance, I can’t help but wonder if the US will need people like James Miller in places of power should unlawful orders be given by the President to your military. The more people like Miller who step out of the command…

This whole country started with a riot. 

I don’t think she voted for Trump at all, and it dangerous to automatically equate racism with political affiliation. I also think that she honestly, truly believes she isn’t racist. She is of course - but I’m sure she’s the typical example of a white person who votes for the right people, “has black friends” yet…

If the Colonel rids us of this orange piece of shit, my next meal would be a bucket from them. And I don’t even like fried chicken that much.

There’s nothing illegal about hoping that the President’s own stupid actions kill him. I keep hoping that he’s one final bucket of KFC away from dropping dead during one of his press rants.

Can’t wait for cruise lines and airlines and energy companies to get big bailouts and tax breaks, but nothing to directly help actual people impacted, nor anything to address systemic issues exposed by the pandemic (paid sick leave, universal health care). Always money to protect the bottom line of companies, never…

i think part of the problem is the reporting and presentation as ‘how not to get it’ versus ‘how not to spread it’

I agree that Biden does tend to rush his off-the-cuff answers - a bunch of answers occur to him and he tries to whip through them all, because he’s not sure which one will work best. What more polished politicians do is immediately think of how to pivot to a pre-prepared answer, and just deliver that answer, even if…

You see, if a progressive loses, it is because not enough progressive voters show up at the polls. If a centrist loses, it is *also* because not enough progressive voters show up at the polls. Simple, really.

I moved to MN a few years ago, and it was really an adjustment. It’s both so much more and less progressive than anywhere else I’ve lived. People will like get “Eid Mubarak” yard signs for the benefit of neighbors that they’re afraid to talk to.

“arguing that ‘there’s no room for differing opinions if you’re in the Democratic Party.’”

Citation needed.

I mean, but he has been attacked. I know where he spent his honeymoon. I know the political leaders he said nice things about in the 70’s and 80’s. I know about a private conversation he had with Elizabeth Warren over a year ago. I know about how the NRA once viewed him as an ally, and that he voted for the 1994 crime…

Got it. So no actual facts, just projection and speculation. Well, here are some facts.

No offense taken. Bookmarking that site now.

First off, TIL what the “Overton window” is, so thanks for that. I’m surprised I haven’t heard the term before now.

Well, a lot of times it’s obscured by how living standards are framed. For instance, a lot of economic statistics like living standards or income are described in terms of “household income”. This is an understandable impulse; forming households, economically-speaking, is good precisely because it creates a lot of…

Turnout matters, but it matters more in the swing and Red states. It does Democrats no good in the general election if Democrat participation is up 50% in California. Now if Democrat participation is up 50% in Texas, then the state turns blue and that is huge. Everyone keeps talking about the young vote (18-35),…

Trump is loving the moderates splitting the votes to date with Bernie taking the lead. Bernie will never pull the Republican votes needed to win the General election. As a Democrat, I’m going to have a hard time voting for him (that’s not to read that I would EVER consider voting for Trump).
Dems need the moderate…

Yale study came out today that projects that M4A would save half a trillion dollars per year.