I don’t know... I remember him getting really angry one day, ranting about how Clinton had had everything in life handed to her. I could have written him off as a professional troll, given the revelations about the election and his subsequent disappearance, but that day sticks out to me as having been real emotion on…

While I respect your expertise as an actual lawyer, as opposed to my own experience as a random internet commentator, I’ve just met too many people in my own life who get hung up on strange theories and irrelevant details to ever be comfortable with the idea that a decently sized group of people can consistently come…

Ah, I see, thank you for correcting me!

I didn’t say it was good policy, to be clear - merely that it wasn’t logically impossible as you originally stated.

My apologies for chopping up your comment a bit, but I think there’s a lot of content that needs to be handled separately.

Criminal courts in the US do not work that way.

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My apologies, but have you been listening to the news today? I think we’re having fundamentally different conversations here.

How is the platform watered down?

That’s not behind the current wave of “Pelosi needs to resign!” cries, though.

But, pelosi needs to be replaced by a woman, and preferably a POC, and someone not from San Francisco.

Chuck Todd had me grinding my teeth as well, aggressively pushing the “Democrats can win with Pelosi in office” message.

If they’d said, “We don’t think there’s enough evidence to purse hate crime charges”, I could understand and accept that, even if I’d scowl.

We got our hopes up, and now that we’re all feeling depressed and disappointed, we turn to each other to point fingers. We’ll come to our senses before long, but I expect this will be a frustrating week.

But honestly in this climate it seems like the only way to appeal to working class whites is to at least give up on immigration reform and at most openly throw Mexicans under the bus.

They want us to stop focusing on “identity politics” (i.e., the rights of non-straight-white-Christian-males) in favor of tacking hard left on economic issues, usually.

Which is the really absurd thing, to my eyes. The Speaker of the House doesn’t carry the party. They don’t campaign in tightly contested districts, they don’t give many speeches, and they’re not generally the face of the party. It’s not a job that deals much in PR; they’re closer to the chair of the Ways and Means…

I don’t know that I could continue to support the Democratic party if she were to step down from leadership in this political climate (not that I think there’s any chance of that). Back at the start of the term, when everyone was trying to find a new paradigm... Sure. I wouldn’t have liked it, but “We just need to try…

Did the Slot cover the Time’s latest reporting tying Trump to the Russian Mafia? I was a bit distracted by the Ossoff news, but that seemed pretty important.

You know, watching my own side turn on Pelosi again and suggest that she needs to resign really isn’t doing much to dissuade me of my “This is a global backlash against women in power” thoughts.