If I was their law professors I would definitely pretend to have never met them. At this point is it really worth the embarrassment and damage to your professional reputation to show your face in a courtroom with arguments THIS flimsy and meritless. They need to start handing out some fines and contempt orders for…

The one in Detroit was good too. They tried to cite a poll watcher who said that someone told her that late ballots were being back dated so they could be counted. Which is ya know, obviously and clearly gossip. And when the judge pointed out that this was clearly just hearsay, the lawyer kept trying to argue that it…

Yup! Unfortunately PA isn’t one of them but I doubt Governor Wolf is going to just let that nonsense happen.

I mean it wasn’t really premature. Most stations waited until it was pretty safe to do so before calling it for Biden (except, ironically, Fox News who called AZ supperrr early). But what the Dem’s should be doing is very very firmly pushing back against this insane narrative. A tactic that I really hope will replace…

Yeah it’s kind of US exceptionalism at work. “He can’t steal the election” Weellll it’s unlikely but fascists generally don’t respectfully and legitimately assume power. So I think it would be helpful to discard the “That would never happen HERE in AMERICA” glasses because if it’s one thing we all should have learned…

Lolllll Love this journey for them! They’re just yelling and whining about some shit to show their base that they are “fighting” because admitting that you lost a race that you did in fact, lose is “weakness.” If they want to tire themselves out punching the air, so be it! 

Well that’s a longer conversation (Angela Davis does a good job of explaining it in “Are Prison’s Obsolete?” which I linked a pdf of below) essentially police/prisons are something we take for granted, similar to the institution of slavery which people also couldn’t imagine a world without.

Thank you! Can people PLEASE stop talking over the organizers that coined this phrase??? Nobody created it to help Nancy Pelosi win elections so no you don’t get a vote on what it should be called. Especially when your suggestion is THE LITERAL OPPOSITE OF WHAT THE MOVEMENT IS.

Maybe it wouldn’t be so easy for the GOP to make up a platform for the Dems if they idk actually had a strong messaging themselves???? If your opponents are the ones deciding your stance for you and people are believing them PERHAPS there’s an issue with your messaging. The GOP is really good at having the Dems…

Well all the discourse and debate around Defund The Police is stupid because it’s not a democrat initiative. It wasn’t created by democrats or for democrats & it wasn’t designed to benefit them at all. It’s a movement started by criminal justice organizers. It wasn’t made for old white politicians to white wash into…

Exactly! The dems don’t say shit but “We need to stand together” and then blame someone else when they lose. Like okay we need to unite or whatever but what about the skyrocketing price of rent and medical bills and food desserts and over-policing in Black and Brown communities and....??? Its the left’s fault that…

Exactly! They hate the left as much as the right does. They don’t even hate the right they just lightly pretend to when it’s politically beneficial. They loveee the status quo they’re just mad people are starting to demand more from the government besides empty symbolism. So it’s easier for them to just blame…

Exactly! What the Dems somehow are failing to realize is that a lot of these “deep red” states are not actually that red. A lot of them are purple and full of disenfranchised POC or unmotivated liberal voters. The work that organizers did to combat voter suppression in those states is what got Biden in the white…

Well to be fair California has an intentionally confusing way of framing measures and opponents of progressive measures often spend a lot more money on ads than proponents do. I’m very annoyed that rent control failed again but there’s been a very successful concerted effort to convince the wealthy California…

Bingo! The answer isn’t “Let’s lean into the right-wing propaganda and socialism fear mongering” and the reason they think that’s the best course of action is a big part of why they keep losing. The dems are really preoccupied with trying to win over a base that HATES THEM and will associate them with communism and…

I mean he’s already not leaving peacefully lmao at this point they’ll have to drag him out by his hair plugs. Which is fine and actually I would very much like to see it. I also don’t want to see a bunch of revisionist “He was my political opponent but he was a swell guy!” bullshit when he kicks the bucket either.…

The woman was the husband’s friend first but she still forged a friendship with the LW at some point which apparently spanned years. So I get it. It does seem like the LW is directing an unequal amount of vitriol at her though, due to the apparent belief that the husband feels bad and so that makes up for it, which…

See *I* would definitely agree but a friend of mine had that happen and counted it as “emotional cheating” since there was no actual sex involved. But I think she just didn’t want to admit that he had really cheated. I’d argue that most “emotional cheating” is that. Us just trying to soften it by categorizing it as…

I think it should only be “squarely” on the husband if you don’t know the woman. If someone you consider a friend has an affair with your partner, you have every right to be pissed at her. That is also a betrayal. I have no expectation of a random woman to have loyalty to me in any way but I sure as fuck expect my…

It seems, from the letter, that they may not have actually had penetrative sex but what they did do was “very unsubtly inappropriate and disrespectful.” My mind went to sexting or something similar. Who knows if that’s the case. But either way, even if they never got around to actually rubbing genitals together…