Don’t blame people trying to live under a shitty and unfair system for doing what it takes to make it a little easier to navigate that shitty and unfair system. I don’t know that this woman confronting people who call her “difficult” and “impossible” for being busy is going to change that perception and move the ball…
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Look, you’re free to try to have any conversation you want, but none of this half-baked shit has anything to do with what is a very simple point: If the economy is in bad shape with an incumbent Republican President, that is bad news for Republicans, and McConnell likely knows that. Enjoy continuing to discuss…
The economy had basically recovered from the post-9/11 recession by the time W was up for re-election. In any event, I’m not sure what the argument that Democrats are not in lockstep has to do with my point. Nor am I sure what the fact that Democrats were unable to cement their 2008 gains into indefinite single party…
When you refer to the economy going to shit under W., are you referring to the 2008 crisis and recession? Because that resulted in a Democratic victory so profound that people were actually writing (premature as it turned out) obituaries for the Republican Party.
In some sense, it seems a shame that Cain, a genuinely accomplished and successful man, spent the latter part of his life as something of a joke, who ran a novelty, flash-in-the-pan presidential campaign. But on the other hand, he spent the latter part of his life actively working to make life harder for people with…
Okay, but states are already passing shields locally
lol, right, if there’s one thing we’ve learned the last 12 years it’s that dumb white racists know how to just take the L with grace and dignity. nope, they didn’t freak out for 8 fucking years about obama taking their guns. nope, they didn’t form an entire movement in response to a black man becoming president.
The point is it’s not an ideological battle. If a liability shield passes, there will be concrete consequences. People will die. It is that simple. We aren’t talking about Democrats refusing to compromise on something with abstract consequences. We are talking about Democrats refusing to engage in compromise over…
To be fair, I don’t think it was white people who liked Bernie Sanders who gave the election to Trump, but White people who liked Trump who gave the election to Trump.
I mean, that she built her career on the rails of the deeply racist, hugely problematic criminal justice system, and that she lacks the progressive bona fides of some other potential candidates, like Warren, are legitimate, substantive reasons to not want her to be the pick. That she is ambitious (something which…
If they pass a liability shield, people will die. Democrats can take part in that, or they can call McConnell’s bluff and dare him to let his president and his vulnerable members take further blame for the shit economy and mismanagement of the virus.
McConnell doesn’t want to lose power. Letting the economy fall apart would likely lead to him losing power.
I mean, the Trump administration has blamed the Obama administration for a shortage of tests for a disease that didn’t exist until nearly 3 years after Obama left office, so I have no doubt that Republicans will try hard to pin the blame on Democrats if no relief package is passed by Friday.
Democrats should not budge on any aspect of the relief package, but the key issue is whether it will include provisions allowing businesses and other entities to escape responsibility if their negligence gets people infected or killed, which McConnell is adamant be included in any package. Dems should not fall for…
Probably most small business owners have a fairly high net worth—without it, it would be nearly impossible to live given that owning a business doesn’t exactly provide a regular source of income (or any really). You could maybe reasonably expect someone worth over a million dollars to keep staff on payroll during a…
I guess we were reading different articles, because nowhere in this article is the only alternative to the “conversation” being criticized “force.” I mean, in the article I read, the author gives a specific example of the sort of alternative to the insufficient “conversations” being criticized, and that was a boycott.…
We’re not stuck. We could just leave.
Killing Saddam Hussein is not the only result of the Iraq War. Calling that war, which has resulted in around 200,000 civilian casualties, “disastrous” is an understatement.
Are you talking about my reply to JustAnotherBurner? Because their comment started with “Yeah, this is a terrible take,” so I’m not sure (1) I was the one who started being a dick and (2) that they “nearly-but-don’t-quite agree with” me.