“During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander. After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize…
FatCat742
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Weinstein could have his trial moved to Alpha Centauri and still have zero shot at an unbiased jury. Everyone in the universe knows he's a piece of shit.
James Carville. I would like to hear from James Carville less than I want to hear from Hillary. Unfortunately I have to hear from both apparently.
Say it with me again “there is no such thing as the popular vote for the Presidency”. You have to win each state on its own, and it doesn’t matter by how many millions you win one state if you lose others even by a single vote.
Can’t think of anybody I want to hear from less than Hillary Clinton right now.
Right after the meeting happened, back in 2018, both camps reported that "neither tried to discourage the other from running", so we do know that much about the meeting. I can't think of anything more discouraging than "you can't win".
There are lots and lots of things that were very, very common in the mid to late 20th century that are no longer acceptable.
If Bernie is actually able to activate and get those who would otherwise sit out to go to the polls then winning the nomination shouldn't be a challenge
Baby steps that our communities are receiving
Sanders (rightly) actually received a lot of the same constructive criticism about the makeup of his base in 2016. He’s made good adjustments since then.
No I would think she would respond by expanding her commitments to and relationships with marginalized people
It wasn’t a debacle, it was an extended lie, one perpetuated throughout her life on official documentation, without reaching out to indigenous communities decimated by Settler Colonialism (which is how the Warrens ended up in Oklahoma), that ought to at least give pause to someone vetting a political official.
You’re not completely wrong but at the same time it was Warren who decided to make this an issue and double down on it a month before the first primary. I have to think this was done out of political calculation because she’s falling behind in the polls, and I suspect it’s already backfiring on her. It’s a mess all…
What’s also clear is that Sanders has calculated (foolishly) that he has more to gain by implying that Warren is a liar than he does in finding the incredibly easy out that says he said it but did not mean it in the way it was perceived—and wishes he had been more conscious of how the sentiment would be perceived in…
I’m not going to tell you whether to believe that or not. Believe it. I’ve said several times before all of this that Warren’s biggest flaws as a candidate are (a) that she has questionable political instincts (partly demonstrated by her handling of the Native American story) and (b) that because of the Native…
For some reason she’s been caught in a few little fibs about her life story, which were totally unavoidable. It’s disappointing because her real story (white woman who had two parents who did not elope, was a republican and sent a kid to private school) are all teachable moments about the nature of white privilege,…
Have to say that my first reaction is “Oh crap. This is just going to hand us Biden as a candidate.” Which I don’t want, partly because I perceive Biden as serving my interests least. If, after all, your entire campaign pitch is “let’s return to the normal Obama years!”, I am forced to remember that the “normal” Obama…
I think the false claim of indigenous ancestry is far more insidious than you are painting it out to be by linking to only the criticism of her decision to take the DNA test. I like Liz, but she has a lot more to answer for there than falling for DJT’s trap.