Oh, well.
mangoselassie
mangoselassie
More likely his approval rating is tanking because people fully understand the implications of the phrase “Bully Pulpit” despite it not appearing in any ‘official’ role of the President and see the President absolutely refusing to use it in any capacity.
No, I’m sorry, none of that passes the smell test. Your theory is that instead of it just being a guy getting hot in the moment and popping off, he staged an embarrassing moment with a comedian that would likely reflect poorly on both them and the Academy, faked a tearful apology during his big acceptance speech that… Read more
The death count being subsequently shown to be inflated really is less important than the fact that Albright, believing the toll to be the correct one, was still prepared to support it as a price worth paying to continue a failing sanctions regime.
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Another great one: “We think the price is worth it.” in regards to 500,000 Iraqi Children starving to death.
Wow, a group of politicians with a powerful interest in spreading propaganda are claiming without evidence that their enemy is doing a Bad Thing that we should hate them for, and oh by the way could you send your sons or your guns? This is at about the level of “The Huns are raping babies!” New century, same worthless… Read more
If you’re a political activist and have been watching what the Democratic Party leadership has done to newly elected officials over the past 6 years, you’d think twice about running too.
Nancy Pelosi has waaaaaaay more to do with wearing down progressive women in Congress than any grumpy people on the Internet.
Yugoslavia? Northern Ireland? Heir to the throne really should be aware of Northern Ireland right? His grand uncle was killed as part of it in 1979. They had more military casualties there than they did in either Iraq or Afghanistan, and for obvious reasons more civilian deaths too.
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Jesus. I hope you, “CanAnyoneReadThis?” and all the people who starred your comments take some time to reflect on why you felt the need to post this, and on just how many miles over your head the fundamental point of this article appears to have sailed. holy shit. wow.
Sigh..I’ll never be liked on this site but here goes: Read more
“One man’s ego”? Oversimplistic fuckery. Read more
Yup! I’ve already seen hot takes online about “Hey maybe the way to get our big-ticket legislation passed is by letting the GOP have some big-ticket item in return”, which: Read more
And also, plenty of liberals and progressives who will insist that trans rights should be sacrificed for supposed electoral gain.
There’s a sizeable number of people who would rather that kids be dead than they be trans. That is how deep the hatred of trans folks is in our society. Don’t let people distract you with sports or locker rooms or whatever, that’s the appetizer and this sort of thing is the first course. If we don’t put a stop to this… Read more
It’s not even just this. Study after study, experiment after experiment, shows that if you just give people direct cash payments, they do better (e.g.: https://socialinnovation.usc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Cash-Payments-Lit-Review_final.pdf). Whether it’s unhoused people, or struggling people, or whatever,… Read more
If they kick the can down the road it makes good speech fodder for the next election.
Yes, yes, it’s always the left’s fault and never moderate/centrist Democrats for going right to court the Republican base even though that literally never works. 🙄 You are why this country is going downward.
So he doesn’t head the party and can’t snatch a couple of motherfucker’s committee chair seats? Read more