StrangeSox

McConnell is the worst of them, but it's not just him. They are having an increasingly hard time of building electoral majorities, so they're retreating to antidemocratic notions like voter suppression, gerrymandering, and of course stacking the courts as much as possible. The SC seat is far from the only judicial appointment that McConnell stole, and they spent years blocking nearly everyone until the Democrats finally got rid of the nominee fillibuster in 2013. McConnell is behaving like a ruthless politician grabbing power where ever he can. And so far, he's winning, and the legacy of this stolen seat can last a generation.

just to be clear, this isn't the Bundys or anyone else involved in the actual occupation. those people were already mostly acquitted in October 2016 these are the ranchers who got sent to prison for a) deliberately setting fires on public land to destroy evidence of illegal hunting, endangering hunters who were camped nearby, which they knew about because they flew their private plane over the area to survey it before their hunt b) setting fires on public land while a burn ban was in effect, endangering firefighters and hunters that were camped nearby and although they were never prosecuted for it, they had a history of child abuse. for example, when 16-year-old Dusty Hammond got a tattoo on his chest, they removed it...with sandpaper (it was reported to the police, but the Hammonds got the charges dropped by agreeing to enter into a diversion program instead) very fine people

It's actually really easy to believe after 2016 and 2017 in America Trump also appears to simply be defying the court order to reunify families. Hard to reunify families when you intentionally destroyed family records and don't actually have any way of reuniting them.

More Nazis running for office on the GOP ticket: This guy is running in a district with an open seat currently held by a retiring Republican. There's a better-than-IL3 chance we get (another) open Nazi in the GOP caucus.

this sounds pretty corrupt from all parties: Kennedy was deciding on, among other things, Trump's travel ban and other issues about his administration while at the same time he's negotiation his replacement with the very same President, and they just so happen to settle on a guy who doesn't think a President can be held criminally or even civilly accountable for his actions. Trump's given away his power in choosing judges to outside conservative interest groups and now even sitting justices themselves. Democrats really need to be ready to reform the structure of the Supreme Court and pack it with anti-reactionaries or we're doomed to a generation of Lochner 2.0. there's also this:

keeping America safe https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article214173489.html the pro-life party Pregnant Women Say They Miscarried In Immigration Detention And Didn't Get The Care They Needed Pregnant women in immigration detention under the Trump administration say they have been denied medical care, shackled around the stomach, and abused.

Musk is paying people to do those things. He's not actually engineering them himself or anything. He's more Edison than, well, Tesla.

Definitely at least give them a shot for the trade-in. They will generally pay you much more than a regular dealership will. They gave me about $5k more for my Tacoma last year than a couple of other dealerships offered. The dealerships tried playing their bs games about how my truck with a total of 35k miles was literally about to fall apart, really, they're doing me a favor by even offering to take it and they're going to have to rebuild the whole thing! Car dealerships are the absolute worst. The flip side with carmax is that you will pay a little more if you buy a car from them than you would elsewhere, but there really is (nearly) zero bs. It was also great to be able to look at a dozen different models and various trim levels in each model all on one lot and without a super annoying salesguy hovering over your shoulder.

I wouldn't put a lot of stock Marc Thessien's ideas

So that makes at least three open Nazis when you include the guy in IL-3, four if you include incumbent Steve King, running on the GOP ticket.

Trump is purging immigrants who signed up for a path to citizenship from the armed forces https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-army-discharge-immigrant-recruits-citizenship-trump-administration-a8434166.html

But he didn't moderate on things like his pro-choice stances. Same with Lamb. He isn't some sort of ur-progressive, but he didn't run the Republican Lite model chasing "Trump Democrats" or other nonsense.

I blame this thread

Reddy this is an example of why a lot of progressives and most/all leftists have zero faith in Dem party leadership. They have a record of failure and bad centrist policies and many have appeared to learn nothing from 2016. Chasing Trump voters in a state Clinton won big in and which had essentially no Republican party. Pure genius.

Love to pledge fealty to the wealthy Lord of my choice,a true democracy

In some ways yes, in others, no.

His book Dead Wake on the sinking of the Lusitania was a good read, too.

Yeah, the comparison is to 1933-39 Hitler and other fascist movements at the time, not post-Poland Hitler.

Democrats need to be ready to expand and reform scotus to do away with this lottery ticket style system or we're doomed to a lifetime of reactionary rulings anyway. Won't matter how big of a blue wave ever comes in if Roberts and the Federalist Society crew will just continue inventing legal principles and ignoring the Constitution.

This is explicitly been said multiple times in this thread. But you're still mad a Twitter rose won, and denigrated progressive candidates winning "only" in the coasts, and that DSA makes centrist in Iowa harder.

Harper's Ferry, VA is not the coast fyi. But how do good candidates winning in the coasts make it harder for centrist candidates to win in Iowa? How do DSA orgs make it harder?