The dems haven’t been counter-messaging against the republicans bullshit. In 2022, the dem message was “fund the police”, and now they’re campaigning on shutting the border down and building a wall.

You can’t outflank the republicans from the right. People who like that shit are going to vote republican anyways. Dems can promise to transfer every school’s budget to the police, and republicans will still get those voters when they promise to double it.

Every time the dems talk about how tough they’ll be on crime, they’re admitting that the essential republican stance is better than their own.

Trump was worrying as he knows how to read a room and had some good lines in previous debates (who built the cages). Zero chance JD Vance manages to be normal for an entire hour. He’s probably got Laura Loomer prepping him.

West Wing has done irreparable brain damage to libs across the country. It’s why Obama’s advisors told him to give republicans half the discretionary budget when they had a supermajority and didn’t need a single republican vote, compromised/means tested every bill he promoted, and went with the bloodiest possible option in every foreign policy decision. In an episode of West Wing, all that compromise and appealing the the better nature of the opposition would reward you. In reality, it just demotivates your base and lets the opposition demand even more.

What did she do to the poor man?

I’m sure the next country the US wants to proxy into oblivion will learn from Ukraine, right?

That would be Taiwan, possibly alongside Korea and Japan, right?

Everyone in Europe killing each other every generation predates capitalism. Capitalism did increase the scale though; after the fall of the western roman empire, we didn’t see armies of that size until Napoleon managed to draft a million men in a country of 30 million.

He was targeted by the most powerful groups in society, immigrants.

One day, this country’s most marginalized group, police, will rise up, and get the boot of homeless people off their necks.

Why are all of NYC’s mayors such reactionary pieces of shit, 10 miles to the right of the populace?

Does whether or not Ukraine can win affect the calculus for the Biden admin in any way? Politicians on both sides have described the war as a way of killing Russians without spending a single drop of American blood, and every bomb sent justifies/enables more campaign donations.

The only thing that would be problematic for them would be a quick victory or loss.

I am blocked by WSJ for using an adblocker, do you have an archive link?

Yes, I’m criticizing the AP for not mentioning the man’s innocence or lack of evidence and non-recanted witness statements.

wtf is that headline?

My point is “is she going to take the necessary action to whip the vote”, Manchin isn’t the only dem senator who’d rather the democrats didn’t accomplish anything as it could hurt their donors.

Well is she gonna overturn President Joe Mansion’s veto?

Does she feel like appointing an AG who will go after him and his family’s various conflicts of interests?

Democrats are just as capable of whipping a vote as republicans when they feel like it.

the DNC is probably already vetting primary challengers to run against him in 2030.

Why would they? What has he done to anger them? If anything, having another Sinoma/Manchin waiting in the wings gives them more excuses why they can’t do the things their constituents want them to do.

The ideal position for the democrats is controlling all 3 branches, but being unable to actually do anything their constituents want, since the desires of their constituents are mutually exclusive with those of the donor class.

I think even Dr. Oz would have a shot there.

The rule against using firearms in the octagon.

China is so salty that karate can’t survive the age of the Internet they are blackballing it’s critics.

Karate is Japanese.

Did you mean Wushu?

It’s closer to Pro Wrestling than a form of self-defense, like they often have storylines and everything.

Whoever told you that Chinese people are mad over a performance art is literally just making shit up.

No, he had said a bunch of zionist shit before he was elected that people, myself included, assumed he was simply ignorant on and would move left when confronted with the truth.

Turns out it was just wishful thinking.

The stroke probably didn’t help, and personality might account for how Fetterman expresses his support for genocide by rubbing his former supporter’s faces in it, but there’s not a “don’t genocide Palestinians” part of the brain that got turned off.