They already did that to Peter Strzok who had an incredibly impressive resume bringing down literal Russian spies. The guy led the team that brought down the Russian spies The Americans was based on, and they completely torched him.

The result of Watergate was one term of squeaky clean Democratic control followed by 12 years of Reagan and Bush, so yeah I can see it.

Yeah and the Democratic establishment was strongly against Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, so they really are terrible at picking nominees.

Go watch the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode “Past Tense” because it is scary how predictive it is becoming.

This is why I want to scream at every person on TV saying that Kavanaugh cost the Democrats the senate in 2018. What cost the Democrats in 2018 were Democratic incumbents in North Dakota, Missouri and Indiana at a time when a culture war has been ignited by the right in the country. ANYONE with a “D” by their name…

I’m sure you are right that it can always be worse, but I just can’t see anything right now that would top deporting children who are here for life saving treatment and in some cases will literally die on the flight back to their country.

Honestly, this is why I stopped hanging out in the Discord of my super progressive friends. It’s just negativity over and over and over. It’s just non stop how this movie or show or game or anything was bad and it gets very tiring after a while.

Is there anything more Republican than using 9/11 to cut health care for the poor?

The reverse is also true of socialism.  People hate the idea in the abstract but love social security, medicare, public education etc.

This is why I will argue with anyone that George W Bush was a much worse President than Trump. Trump is louder and makes you want to scream all the time, but rarely accomplishes anything. Bush’s team was actually competent and was able to achieve the terrible things his administration set out to do.

They have a large readership of fiscal conservatives that flirt with tea party and racist ideals.  They don’t want to call themselves tea party Republicans, but they don’t want to see their parties right flank attacked too hard either.

There are really only two options: Remain in the EU or hard Brexit. Any deal they are going to get is going to be almost as bad as a hard Brexit because the EU has to stand firm on the issue of countries leaving.  The problem is the third of the country that believes in basically a “unicorn Brexit” where they get…

A wipeout, followed by structural change is the only way to really do it. Use that hypothetical new Senate majority to drop the filibuster and make DC, and Puerto Rico states. Create a third state by combining American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands and the Virgin Islands. 6 new senators, around 10…

If The Young Turks is now corporate and evil to these people, I don’t even know what world I am living in any more.

Reagan kicked the Democrat’s ass so thoroughly in the early to mid 80's that the party adopted a belief system in which they decided the way to win was to be Reagan-lite. This even had a name: Blue Dog Democrats. They abandoned many of the tenets of FDR and JFK and embraced a brand of Reaganism to win in the short…

There’s a part of me that is honestly wondering if the right wing is trying to fuck up this planet to kill billions of people as some kind of population control.  It sounds insane, but so does everything they say about climate change.

What scares me the most about Biden is we are still 14 months away from the election. He will be 14 months older than his is right now by the time we vote. With how old he already looks, that is terrifying to me.

Ironically, I think it’s Hollywood that has made cops invincible in this country. There have been decades of pro-police TV shows and movies that has made entire generations of Americans basically worship police. I remember looking at a TV Nielsen ratings chart a few years ago and something like 15 of the top 20…

It’s because the media is owned by the same mega corporations as the rest of the world. They want someone who will never touch their money. If Sanders or even Warren ends up being the nominee, you will see the coverage on MSNBC and CNN switch to how Trump really isn’t that bad and for the good of the economy (really…

We record for future generations who we want to be in this country going forward, not what we are because we are a nation of dreamers, or at least we used to be. We wrote all men are created equal in the Declaration of Independence even though we weren’t even close to living up to it. Did we just turn around and say…