Africa moment.

Yeah that’s the thing about capitalists: They come as a package with fascists.

I really hope that Democrats are starting to realize that corporate captured performance artists like Gavin Newsom are why we have been lurching rightward into fascism for 40+ years.

So there are two possible interpretations for why the Democrats are so stubbornly useless:

1. It’s a big club and you ain’t in it.

2. You can’t get a man to understand something when his salary depends on not understanding it.

Either way there’s no “realizing” anything.

Eh, early in his term he did a bunch of good stuff, it’s just rightly overshadowed by the bad stuff.

Based on policy? Yes. Based on beliefs and values? No. For historical reasons European countries have a stronger welfare state, but that’s mostly inertia. Compared to America Europe is still in its Southern Strategy phase, and given the rapid success of the far right I’d say the nationalism is actually worse, in part due to America having never been an ethnostate. Stuff that either doesn’t find purchase or remains restricted to the right in America sees a lot more popular acceptance in, say, France and Germany. This is the case for anti-immigration sentiment, for example, and don’t get me started on French laicite. The American right being more mature and having had more time to organize* shouldn’t be confused for Americans being more rightwing in their values.

*The modern European far right has only really had ammunition since the 2015 immigration crisis, while in America it dates back to the Civil Rights Act in 1964.

Idk American geopolitical rivals are probably laughing their asses off looking at him.

Yeah but neither do you (at least the power bit), which means he succeeded at his job.

And BTW I totes am a Russian propaganda bot here to destroy the currently thriving American democracy.

Me in a recent reply to one of these.

but you have to respect them for that reason alone, above all else.

No, baby killers should burn in hell.

How will they be after it is all said and done?

Nothing will happen to them, except maybe purging the most obnoxious Trump loyalists. People “volunteer” for the military for the money, so they’ll just keep doing that.

If you’re going to put words in my mouth, please order some chips and salsa.

My point is: Anyone who’s going to enter the “Obama is a war criminal” fight on the side of Obama can fuck off. Besides being morally reprehensible, those people are a liability anyway. These are your Schumers and Hillaries, and their inclusion does nothing but hold back progress.

If you want Republicans to win: insult the DNC

Sure, fuck the DNC and this is why.

DNC have had 48 or often less seats for over 10 years.

And is that because they’re terrible at winning or because they don’t want to win? Take your pick. Either way they need to go.

The last time the DNC had a real majority, not even a supermajority, was the most productive congress in decades.

And they used that opportunity to pass checks notes Romneycare. So productive.

Dems have spent decades taxing corporations and limiting their ability to influence politics and they get no credit for that endless uphill battle.

If they’ve spent decades fighting that “battle” and this is the result, maybe they’re not actually fighting at all.

Anyone defending Obama’s own warcriming can fuck off to the other side of the sun, so sure.

Same reason Obama and Biden weren’t. American law doesn’t punish people that powerful.

I’ve been saying that the whole investigation thing is a nothing burger because to credibly go after Trump Democrats would also have to go after Obama.

I don’t expect Jefferies to, because he isn’t a Democrat, he’s a a Republican with a D next to his name.

By that standard I suspect you’ll run out of real Democrats pretty fast. The Democratic Party leadership is made up mostly of Jeffries and Schumers.

Fucking called it. Even if they had some amount of spine, seriously pursuing this would require them to be willing to throw Obama under the bus and that’s just not happening.

Then make them.

That’s gang and terrorist shit and we’re supposed to be better than our enemies about this stuff or what’s the point.

Uh… on this particular war crime I have about twenty years of US history for you and you are not going to like it. To respond to your rhetorical question, the point is cheap and profitable oil contracts to increase shareholder value.

It sounds nice, but I think this is a wash.