Sigh..I’ll never be liked on this site but here goes:

That depends. It’s extremely important that Democrats stop taking Black people for granted and deliver. However, if they put in a Black corporatist who won’t check government or corporate power against people, it won’t mean much.

THANK YOU! I’d been waiting for someone the push back on this. I was enraged the other night when I saw this story taking up airtime during the winter olympics broadcast. Fuck you, NBC. You protected Matt Lauer for decades and now all of a sudden you give a shit about a tennis player in China? Fuck off with that…

come on, this (and the olympics coverage) is being manipulated by those manufacturing consent for war with china.

she did what she needed to do for her rich donors. Keep the money flowing to them and shut out the poors.

“Powell in the end was a watered down Henry Kissinger.”

Spreading lies that will kill people?

I remember watching his briefing to the UN very clearly. I had just seen a “Frontline” episode where they analyzed Iraqi intelligence around centrifuges and yellowcake uranium. They had a ton of scientists who basically concluded that the aluminum tubes that they received could never be used to enrich uranium, and the…

Oh he was a slimy piece of shit. The way he dangled half apologies and partial truths after the Bush administration worked wonders. You see people here on these comments “well, he sort of acknowledged that his choices directly killed hundreds of thousands and destabilized the globe so that makes him COMPLEX!”

Mistakes?

I draw a direct line from Bush, to Obama&Democrats protecting Bush to Donald Trump to Trumps utter immunity from the law to Bidens refusal to prosecute. 

My guess?

Weird, I would have wanted to see both groups hang for their crimes.

Spotless lol.

I get where you are coming from, but the dude investigated the Mai Lai Massacre back in the 70s when he was far, far away from Secretary of State, and he decided the soldiers didn’t do anything wrong...20 years later, he reached a different conclusion.

“Hey Cheney, wait a goddamned minute!. We can’t do that seriously fucked up shit you want to do, but we can certainly do some other really fucked up shit to other brown people.”

Powell investigated the My Lai massacre, in which hundreds of people—mostly women and children—were killed by a group of U.S. soldiers. At the time, Powell concluded that the soldiers had done nothing wrong, but in his 1995 memoir, he had a different take.

Didn’t know that about his involvement in Mai Lai. Between that and his involvement in Iraq, I think we can safely say he had a serious case of careerist moral cowardice whenever it mattered most.

He’s not escaping that final war crimes court. bye bitch. 

but his involvement in the Iraq War—more specifically, a 2003 U.N. speech he delivered that used flawed intelligence to make the case for war—tarnished his credibility in many people’s eyes.