I’m sympathetic to the perception at the time that Obama would put his administration under serious risk by bucking the Third Way cart. Now most of us have seen the flat out failure of center-right neoliberal Democratic party. There were signs of it in 2008-9 too, but the evidence wasn’t nearly as conclusive. Keeping…

I’ve seen a lot of this on social media lately, attacking people who mostly like Sanders and think he’s an important policy voice. There’s a lot of conspiratorial thinking, a lot of bad-faith attacks on Warren (quite a few of which have been deeply sexist), and extreme vitriol from people who clearly have nothing to…

That’s THE stimulus bill under discussion. I’m not being disengenious. The GOP did not control congress when that was passed. The discussion here is about THAT stimulus bill, and whether it fell short of the goal.

ARRA was passed in 2009. There’s no way for you to salvage the factual error you just made. Just admit it and move on. 

The 2009 Congress was not GOP controlled. 

It’s normal human psychology. Some people, a very small amount, can pull back enough to mostly dispassionately assess their own behavior. But that’s a rare skill. For most of us, most of the time, you just haveto recognize when you’re too close to the issue.

This is problematic logic. If anything, the Obama administration alums have too much of a personal conflict to dispassionately analyze their record. They were too close to it, emotionally involved and attached. I know this is just another one of the vapid anti-Splinter comments that are inundating the site lately, but…

You know, I’ve seen a lot of former Obama alums admit that this is probably the greatest failure of his administration. Whether there was a more progressive alternative that was realistic is debatable, but the way the worst actors in the economy were largely spared from serious consequences and able to continue their…

There’s an abundance of literature available on China’s economy and how the government makes it look much stronger than it is. I’d suggest instead of parroting such oversimplistic tripe you educate yourself.

There’s a steep dive in his approval numbers regardless. Raw approval numbers can be more complicated than partisan ID too, outside of election season people can get higher approval numbers than their vote totals because a lot of people are tuned out and hearing limited news.

Our unfriendly neighborhood troll “You. Yes, You” posted that Trudeau’s approval has been “below Trump’s” for “years”.

He dismissed this. A simple statement of fact. What an insufferable little troll. 

Yeah, I’m looking at the polling data, and that’s not true. His numbers have taken a dive recently, but it’s only within 2019 that he’s been below Trump. 

No, I’m fairly certain you’re a troll given the sum total of your behavior. As for why I replied, well, I loathe seeing people get misinformed because they accidentally stumble across a worthless charlatan like you and mistake your ego for expertise.

Really incredibly stupid. I’ve got to wonder how much this damages enthusiasm for him, which seems to have already been diminishing before this. I mean this was 2001. He should have known better. He could have just worn the costume. Everyone would have understood it. I dressed up as one of the Medjay from the Mummy…

“Do you really think Iran would never have gotten the bomb if we stuck with the agreement?”

None of the evidence points to that you fucking charlatan. This concern trolling bullshit in addition to you parroting far-right talking points about Iran verbatim tells me a lot about you.

FYI, while I’m loathe to give this troll more attention after his “actually Trump is right about Iran and deserves credit he wants peace” drivel, this stuff about population is equally stupid pseudo-intellectual tripe. We should treat people right, but this justification is some comically ignorant person’s idea of…

The entire system is designed to be cruel and reward the most abusive illiberal actors. ICE has no business detaining asylum seekers let alone for this long and with such abusive conditions. I doubt this is in line with US law on the issue, but ICE and DHS have been frequently flouting the law from top to bottom…

Enthusiasm is a lot better than “electability” because there’s an actual correlation between that metric and results, if not an iron-clad one. High enthusiasm tends to drive higher turnout and higher turnout tends to bring victory.