Obama saved the auto industry, Paris Accord, the civil rights division in the DOJ investigated police departments, cut taxes for the bottom income bracket and raised it for the top, Dodd-Frank, CFPB, cracked down on for-profit colleges, reformed student loans dramatically, passed into law the largest green energy…

Like I really, really don’t want to admit this......

Like you, I suspect it’s going to be someone beige as hell at the end tho when the top candidates finish tearing each other apart. Maybe Hickenlooper or Bullock; someone who isn’t even really in the conversation now. And I say this as someone who likes Warren, Harris, and Gillibrand and would be fine with Brown or…

Briahna’s examination was deeply flawed, as was Branko. Briahna’s also tweeted and deleted a lot of deeply bad shit on immigration, about how she thinks the Dem Party can’t get too white (yes, really), has done some Assad apologism, and is a hard core Bernie partisan. I usually root for Black women journalists, but I…

I’m looking for the link right now, but I wish Kamala would clear up the prison labor issue. I swear I read in the L.A. Times about four or five years ago that she claimed her underlings did it without her permission, she condemned their actions, etc. But the national press is spinning it like she personally argued it…

Rainey, I’m not denying Kamala has some really bad parts on her record. But I’m 99% sure that she claimed her underlings did it without her permission and condemned their actions and this was all covered in the L.A. Times about four or five years ago. I’ll look for the link, but so much has been written (and much of…

Also, I suspect the OP is either 20 or delusional, because the Democratic party has been further right of Obama for decades before he was in office. Hell, he was a move “left” in 2008 and 2012. Just because the party has shifted further left now doesn’t mean that Obama was to the right of the previous norm of 40 years.…

She’s desperate and imo one of those mothers who can’t ever believe that their “baby” does anything wrong to the point that they make up twisted, nonsensical “excuses.” TLDR: she’s irrational

Didn’t he “escort” her throughout various countries to perform when she was only 12-15?  I always remembered being seriously disturbed by how their story was romanticized. 

Yeah, mom can’t accept that her son is a murdering abusive asshole.

Yes, I agree that a lot of French people are definitely immune (or semi-immune) to the historical roles they’ve often played in colonization and so on. I was just advocating that the law generally is a good thing, even if in this particular case it was not.

I get kind of annoyed because some journalists (Stein, Bruenig, etc.) are verryyy clearly so on the side of a particular candidate (or simply decide that “both sides” means to make false equivalencies as in Maggie Haberman and half of the NYT)—to the point that the do misleading pieces on other candidates. Let’s just…

I don’t think he should have been charged on basis of it being art, but the hate speech laws in France do way more good than harm at protecting POC, Jewish folks, and immigrants and there are less than a handful of examples of people being charged for their speech against or about white people. I think that is what…

France has serious issues with racism, police violence, and xenophobia (although is still light years ahead of the US and the UK, which is incredibly depressing), but Marine Le Pen has been charged with hate speech (more than once, I believe) as has her even more hideous father. I believe she was also charged with…

I would have been less annoyed at Chelsea if she had used a word like “yelled” or “holler” instead of “screech”—the word choice in particular is unflattering and implies hysteria. Still, considering she’s covering Kamala she should have done her research and known about AKAs.

It’s kind of weird, because Kamala does have some bad shit (like most politicians)—but the Mnunchin thing is wildly overblown if folks read up on it outside of wikipedia or The Nation or rose twitter (it was civil enforcement action, not exactly what people blow it up as, and there’s a lot more to the story besides…

Also, Harris definitely has some shit on her record (like all politicians)—but some, not all, of the accusations people throw at her are way less terrible when you know the full context, and it drives me nuts that people keep leaving out the important information required to get a full understanding.

Also, if we’re going to seriously address pervasive problematic behavior in campaigns and sexual harassment....

I mostly like AOC (I like and agree with most of her policies, especially a 70% marginal tax rate)...but some of the few things she did that I didn’t like...I really didn’t like and left me side-eyeing her. I suspect that is how some Dems find her.

I’ve been saying this as of late because one of the journalists RT’d by a lot of other prominent journalists, Sirota, was busted for concocting some racist ass website back in the 90s or early 00s and fired when he was working as a political consultant. The receipts were floating around, and some blue check marks were…