Not everyone is a murderer, obviously. Some people in the army just help enable murder by making sure the actual murderers have equipment, food, intel, a plan, medical care etc.

She went to a Michigan? That’s not mediocre. I thought you meant she went to Cooley or something. If Michigan is mediocre than what’s good? Only Harvard/Yale/Stanford?

Nobody actually thought Espy would win, did they? In a state where the voting is so racially polarized there was no way the candidate of the majority racial group would lose. Even if all the Black voters turned out the Democratic candidate still would need a certain percentage of white voters to vote Democratic.…

Considering he refused to accept money from Howard in exchange for signing an NDA (or so he claims...), it doesn’t seems like he is just out to make easy money with a made up story.

The “belief” that “corporations would invest that in jobs” was just a made up consequentialist justification for something republicans wanted to do regardless of the consequences.

They did in 2016. Clinton lost union households in Ohio by 9 points! It’s insane, but the combination of shameless lying and latent misogyny/racism helped a lot.

...he has removed every roadblock that might have preserved pieces of the GOP’s agenda through the next Democratic government.

Oh, so part of the answer is not an acceptable answer because...reasons? Makes sense.

“you want everything for free!” is an irrational, resentful gripe. There is nothing anyone could say to that person which would make them change their mind. Usually (and this is the case with so many issues for republicans) if they change their mind it’s because of personal experience. Like getting cancer and the…

Since the SCOTUS has no higher court to overrule its decisions, the “legal grounds” are “whatever the SCOTUS says”. That should have become pretty clear by now. And it will only get worse.

Elections aren’t a proper solution to this sort of problem because subsequent governments and elected officials are held to the agreements made by their predecessors. Walker is gone, but the new governor will almost certainly be unable to wind back the bulk of walker’s deal with Foxconn.

I know Missouri. I went to Clayton high in st. Louis. I remember when Mel died in that plane crash but still won the senate race and his wife took his seat. I remember how Jay Nixon could win statewide races and put a check on the growing gop insanity. Even the stories of guys like John Danforth from when the gop…

It makes no sense. They elect people who hate the minimum wage and actively work to make it as low as possible, but then vote to raise the minimum wage to undo what their elected officials just did.

They haven’t had an almost total collapse of state government finances due to the gop’s policy choices? Give them time. Though with the money from tourism and the housing scam the FL gop might be incapable of screwing things up KS style. But they’ll try.

They lost races the gop won by double digit margins in the past (you know, when “centrists” ran for the Dems) and instead lost by a percentage point or two. It’s an improvement by any measure.

This one has me so fucking angry sitting here in Atlanta this morning. I guess I let being in a blue bubble turn me blind, but I seriously can count on one hand the number of kemp signs I saw the entire race in intown Atlanta. Compared to when Deal ran his last campaign where his signs were all over the place in…

Brian Kemp in GA had one with his wife talking about his sick niece doing the exact same thing. It’s insane. These aren’t even little while lies or alternative interpretations. It’s just bald face lying. What’s strange is Kemp’s big campaign strategy is calling Abrams a radical for wanting Medicaid expansion. So even…

But if they like his policies, why does trump and his gop surrogates have to constantly lie about what those policies are and what they’ll do?

Because they remember when they were working in the mines and making more than 50k a year. Some of the more skilled positions you’d be making close to 100k with overtime. Where else could they make that kind of money in WV with a high school (if that) education?

I’m pretty good at estimating crowd size. And I’ll tell you they look a lot bigger than people would think. So we’ll find out.