I think it’s pretty evil to campaign strongly on enshrining women’s reproductive rights into law and then abandon them the moment you step into office.
One week he was leading a stadium full of people in “Yes we can!” chants saying Roe will be the law of the land, and the next week he was saying ‘not a priority’.
Lesser evil, definitely, but still quite evil.
Anyone suggesting that the US is too sexist to elect a woman president has to explain the election of Claudia Sheinbaum.
By every metric I can find, Mexico is more misogynistic than the US. You can look at crime statistics on domestic violence, rape, murder; or opinion surveys showing men’s negative attitude toward women – all the stats coming out of Mexico are worse.
Yet somehow, Mexico overwhelmingly elected a woman (a Jewish woman in an 85% Christian population, too).
My hypothesis is that policy matters much more than the gender of a candidate. Kamala had absolutely pathetic policy proposals, supporting the status quo of corporate economic domination and a foreign policy soaked in innocent blood. but maybe I’m biased.
Would the GOP be extremely progressive in Iran?
I would suspect if the GOP was in Iran they would want to dismantle much of the State Welfare Organization which provides universal health insurance, including mental health and addiction treatment.
And even if we focus on Iran’s horrific, regressive LGBT policies, are you so confident that the majority of the GOP disagrees? The current Overton window does not allow Republicans to openly propose making gay marriage or being trans illegal, but it’s safe to say that’s what many of them want. It’s practically written in Project 2025.
And on foreign policy, the GOP would never stand for Iran’s cautious de-escalatory approach. When Israel attacks, the GOP would be braying for bloody revenge.
I don’t claim to be an Iran expert, but I feel like the GOP would be center right.
“invited” is questionable, I know my governor was pressured and put under duress in order to accept Trump’s national guard deployment during George Floyd.
But what about a clearer example: President Eisenhower deployed National Guard troops to Arkansas to enforce the desegregation of schools. The national guard was explicitly not invited by the Governor of Arkansas. Was this a civil war?
The front lines of the Ukraine war are well defined. You can see them on a map.
So it was a civil war when National Guard troops were deployed in an attempt to quell the George Floyd uprising?
In the 60s we had everything you just said: extreme state sanctioned violence, mass shootings, national guard being sent in, judges houses being burned, many political assassinations…
And they all happened in much larger numbers. There were so many bombings and bomb threats, and tons of plane hijackings, and the overall crime rate was so much higher, and there was so much racial violence, and and…
So do you think the US went through a civil war in the 60s?
I agree that things are looking bad, and getting worse, and this may end up in some sort of a civil war. But it seems you and I have a much different definition of “civil war”.
Well I agree that is a bad move; it’s authoritarian, violent, expensive, unnecessary, and most likely unconstitutional.
But does sending National Guard troops to another state constitute a civil war?
You’re right, saying things like “front lines” is an oversimplification. I have listened to a lot of Robert Evans, and I agree that if a civil war happens it will Balkanize America.
With that being said, you agree none of this is happening yet? Surely we are backsliding into fascism and violence, but you would agree we are not in a civil war, because we do not yet have multiple different factions, upstart states, militias and insurgencies?
So what are the 21st century metrics for a war?
If this is a civil war, then what are the two sides? Where are the front lines?
Terrorist scum.
I’m looking forward to the Hopecore video featuring Idan Alexander’s grave and his weeping mother.
Michelle Obama only polls well because of name recognition, she’s essentially a non-political figure.
What’s her position on the genocide in Gaza? What’s her take on universal healthcare? What’s her plan for Ukraine? Would she fight for gun control? Etc etc…
Right now, people can imprint their personal beliefs onto Michelle. If she would run, she would have to clarify all of her political positions, and then her poll numbers would naturally drop.
Ezra Klein, a man who’s entire career is based upon normalizing the decline of liberalism, a champion of normalizing the genocide in Gaza, is now going to lecture us all about normalizing fascism.
Because Israel is doing a genocide, and they are doing everything they can to obfuscate that fact, including accusing some low level EU bureaucrat of terrorism.
As 40,000 genocidal invaders prepare for their latest round of slaughter and destruction, I have only one wish for them.
Death, death to the IDF.
If there were any justice in this world Matt Miller would be tried for aiding and abetting a genocide, convicted by a jury of his peers, and hung from the neck until dead.
Lol well I guess it’s easy to get confused. I was submitting job applications to write computer applications.
I was submitting app apps.
Well there’s a good chance I’ll die in a Trump concentration camp, so might as well make the best of it.
Shoot to kill any intruders that invade your home without a warrant.
If ICE Gestapo thugs invade your home without a warrant, be a hero. Exercise your second amendment right.