It’s fair for Adams to express his opinion about the case, although Simon’s family is on the record disagreeing.

And so what we can learn from this is, if you’ve been let out of an unjust sentence early, it’s best not to take risks like checking on friends who’ve been unjustly imprisoned. Republicans are taking notes here, too.

That the statement alone didn’t bring immediate censure upon her says a lot about that area.

She gave $2,000 with a promise of receiving $50,000 funds.

I agree, even though I am somewhat sympathetic to the view that kicking Manchin out only gives Republicans more power. At this point he’s hurting the party more than he’s helping. Kicking him out and galvanizing the caucus (and support in other regions) is worth more than that one West Virginia senate seat.

If they want to blame Manchin and not have it just be seen as further failings of the Democratic Party, then they need to expel Manchin (and Sinema too), so that it isn’t an internal failure but an external bad actor. That is the basic political optics of it. As long as Manchin is on the inside pissing out, then…

QOTD.

I cannot fucking believe that there is such resistance to the idea of “try something else.”

Also, it’s not like there’s nothing they can do about Manchin. There are carrots and sticks, and they don’t appear to have tried using either. From the outside looking in, it looks like they just preemptively gave him everything he wanted to pass BIF without getting any concessions back from him at all on BBB. They…

I wish Democrats would fight the Republicans with half the fervor they save for people who criticize them not fighting the Republicans. Jesus, fucking, Christ.

Well, according to one fucking idiot upthread, apparently even those who voted for Biden and didn’t think Bernie could win (i.e., me) don’t have a right to bitch.

Tell me how the answer is to stop electing Democrats when 100% of the GOP is opposed? Tell me how flipping GOP seats to Democrat is NOT the answer.

We can blame Biden for promising to nominate an anti-abortion judge to appease McConnell though. And oh look, that spot conveniently opened up, so everyone who thought Biden was playing 11th dimensional chess just got taught.

So, instead of reflecting on that criticism, and vowing to do better and be better, and taking concrete steps to shore up the base and try to drive voter turnout for the upcoming midterms, these dumb fucks are actually blaming their own base for wanting them to do things?

Put the racist, murderous crone in state prison until she goes in the ground. She’s earned it, deserves it and advanced age should not deter any law enforcement from putting cuffs around her wrists and taking her to jail. Let her have her day in court and let her serve her time.

Man that’s crazy how the warrant just got straight-up lost for 70 years, that’s crazy, it’s like... wait hold on I’m getting an update... ah, yes, that warrant was never intended to be found.

I am a descendent of Ocoee Massacre victims. My father sought reparation for about a decade during the twilight of his life. He died before Florida decided to award us “something”, which ended up being nothing for a while as they took back the money and now it’s some kind of scholarship.

All that money he made wasted on all that stupid he did.

Let this only be the beginning of full reparations for those who had land and/or labor stolen from them.