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May 31, 2024, 04:09:57 PM
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 on: Today at 04:09:52 PM 
Started by Skill and Chance - Last post by Yoda
I love how this idiotic proposition fundamentally implies that there are scores of red state prosecutors out there who have had damning criminal evidence on the Clintons and Obama for years now and have just been doing nothing with it for.....reasons?

because using lawfare to go after political opponents over nonsense has long been frowned upon and considered banana republic. we've passed the rubicon on that. A right-wing prosecutor in AR can now indict the clinton's over Whitewater. damn the statute of limitations, New York clearly doesn't care about that. And this ain't the 90s or early 2000s anymore, so I don't think a jury from rural Arkansas is gonna have much mercy on the Clinton's

Well, at least you're smart enough to realize/admit that whatever charges some red state prosecutor would hypothetically file against the Clintons, Obama or Biden would be nonsense.

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 on: Today at 04:09:25 PM 
Started by JMT - Last post by President Punxsutawney Phil
As long as he's going to keep voting for Biden's nominees for the rest of the year I guess it doesn't matter much.

Manchin already stated earlier this spring that he won't confirm any more Biden judges unless they get Republican votes.  The possibility of any senate Republicans voting for further Biden judicial nominees probably went to zero yesterday.  Every confirmation from here on out could be a 50/50 affair with Harris tiebreaking.

Assuming Sinema doesn't devote her final months with some more grandstanding. I can't tell you how glad I am that we will get rid of them in congress soon.

The alternative to the Dem base putting up with senators like Manchin and Sinema is likely a quasi-permanent Republican supermajority.

Imagine actually believing this Roll Eyes
What do you think Democratic Senate majorities in the bulk of the 20th century were built on?

I think that the realignments since then have rendered this question completely irrelevant.
The fundamentals of coalition building have remained exactly the same.

This is simply not true
The smaller your tent is the harder it is to win large majorities.
I don't know why that's apparently so hard to understand.

The Democratic Party is a large tent.  It’s simply that corporatist de facto Republicans like Manchin and Sinema aren’t welcome in that tent.


Leaving aside that, I'm not denying that voter blocs have moved over time and shifted. But the basics of how demographics act in concert or in opposition with/to each other within the political system and have expectations from it remains as it has. Likewise, corralling the votes remains as it has. Maintaining a majority coalition with trifecta control requires taking such coalition management in control as well.
If people like you managed to shut out the likes of Manchin and Sinema of course we'd have a harder time taking a majority and would have an even harder time winning large majorities.That in turn would hurt our ability to wield power altogether.
"It's good to have zero senators from deep red states" is quite a take, one that if our party's leaders shared that, we'd be a party of losers. That we held at least one senate seat in a state as deep red as West Virginia continuously for over a century was good, not bad.
I want to win. I want to have trifectas. I want to win majorities on all levels. Whatever is good practice to that end, I'll happily accept. Manchin still caucuses with Democrats. His state has shifted massively anti-Dem over the past 20 years. I'm happy he still caucuses with Democrats, who are we to claim we know how the winds are blowing better than he does?

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 on: Today at 04:08:57 PM 
Started by I spent the winter writing songs about getting better - Last post by GeorgiaModerate
So Trump is only facing 82 felony counts now?

88 I think. It was 91 before the judge struck 3 in this case.

Do we say it's 54 now? lol

34 down, 54 to go.

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 on: Today at 04:08:21 PM 
Started by Mr. Smith - Last post by YE
Durkin and McIntyre.

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 on: Today at 04:06:49 PM 
Started by Aurelius2 - Last post by kaoras
I think it was because he ordered to stop ALL government spending on infrastructure, plain and simple.

Overall, it has been very sad to see all the Argentinians coming to Chile to buy 1,5 dollar tuna cans because they can no longer afford to do so in their country. Last year it was common for Chileans to go to Argentina to buy subsidized stuff in the supermarkets because it was artificially cheap, however, Chilean supermarket prices are not cheap, they are around the same or more expensive than Spain for example!

Argentinians used to come here to buy electronics, not basic foodstuff.

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 on: Today at 04:05:57 PM 
Started by President Punxsutawney Phil - Last post by certified hummus supporter 🇵🇸🤝🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦
Absolutely not

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 on: Today at 04:03:10 PM 
Started by Mike88 - Last post by Logical
Phuthaditjhaba – (and all of old QwaQwa homeland) the city, largely coterminous with the former homeland is emblematic of the homeland “resettlement” areas/dumping grounds that were created by the Aparthrid government. That is black baSotho people were deported en masse from their previous homes sharecropping or working on what own farmed to what is now a grotesque urban sprawl in an otherwise remote area. A city built from the ground with zero jobs, resources or infrastructure. The former QwaQwa homelans is only 600 sq km but its population increased from 150k to 550k in a span of just 10 years. All of which makes it a particularly poignant example of the crimes of apartheid and resultant social problems, a population of people utterly marginalized by having been removed from all economic opportunities as well as all of their previously existing social and support structures to waste away in poverty and unemployment, and also a reminder of why the Land question is so relevant to the country today. Phuthaditjhaba is usually an ANC heartland but local issues (including the Magashule) led to a local party scoring huge in 2021 municipals, it will be interesting to see if the ANC manages to recover this lost support.
Looks like the DA have made some real inroads here in this poor, black area.

With 100% VDs reporting, Maluti-a-Phofung Municipality (Phuthaditjhaba)
ANC 52.4% (-14.1)
DA 18.6% (+8.5)
EFF 12.5% (-1.4)
MK 5.0% (new)


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 on: Today at 04:02:35 PM 
Started by Mr. Smith - Last post by YE
Javits and Gillibrand.

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 on: Today at 03:59:20 PM 
Started by WV222 - Last post by ProudModerate2
The vast majority of voters dont care about this either, just like they didnt care about Clinton committing perjury.

Heck its why the average voter really didnt care about Iran-Contra either

Clinton wasn't convicted for a felony.
Thanks for playing.

Clinton gave up his law license:

https://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/19/politics/clinton-reaches-deal-to-avoid-indictment-and-to-give-up-law-license.html
Yes, he did. Should he not have? I’m confused, are you for or against presidents suffering consequences for their actions?

OSR is the typical anti-anti-Trump Republican. He wants Trump gone but doesn't have the stomach to do what it takes.
And when somebody does, like Bragg, Merchan, and the jurors did in this case, instead of supporting them he prefers to throw rocks from the safety of his balcony terrified that he might find himself ostracized from his party if he doesn't fall in line with the cult.


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 on: Today at 03:59:04 PM 
Started by lfromnj - Last post by Ferguson97
Cause that would have created a false equivalency between the Nazis and the Allies

No, it doesn’t.

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