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The first is that I do not think Trump's legal problems will end up being significant. I might be surprised but right now the charges against Trump remind me of the charges against Hillary Clinton. There is a lot of public conviction that Trump is engaged in criminal activity, driven mostly by poli...

AOC, Omar, and Tlaib are in Dem +20 or higher districts. They’re certainly the future of safe Democratic seats, but I’d have to see some kind of proof that they have had any meaningful positive impact in less solid seats. So far, all I see are consistent claims (provided without evidence) that they...

It's pretty amazing that most of the seats the Dems lost were those held by moderate/centrists candidates and a variety of progressive ballot measures passed even in deep red states like Mississippi and Florida, and yet the DNC still blames the "far left" for everything. The cognitive diss...

I'd guess that mostly just gave some Republican voters cover to split their tickets. Given the strong headwinds against them, the GOP did really well this election cycle ... they've put themselves into a position of dominance at the state level, just in time for redistricting. They cut the Democrat...

No one in the military would answer his call. Partly because of military discipline and largely because they don't want to disappoint their fellow soldiers. Militia types within the army would actually support the new government because they would love an opportunity to shoot at someone, even if it...

The other sad thing is the continued self-sabotage of the left (to whatever extent the US can be said to even have a "left"). I have seen plenty of far left people proudly talking about how they didn't vote for Biden for a variety of stupid reasons. Granted these people don't make up a si...

The other sad thing is the continued self-sabotage of the left (to whatever extent the US can be said to even have a "left"). I have seen plenty of far left people proudly talking about how they didn't vote for Biden for a variety of stupid reasons. Granted these people don't make up a sig...

I'm going to dissent on this one. There is sufficient independent testimony and accounts emerging for me to accept the claims of a cultural genocide (which, technically, isn't genocide but merely a crime against humanity because of how its being carried out) of the Uighurs of Xinjiang as being fact...

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Buddy, trace the sources where they get this information from. Go on, do some work for once. Most of them comes one way from another from the US either from their department or NGOs funded by the US state department. Your own link you stupid shit for brains talks about the "U.S.-based Uyghur H...

Pretty much the same thing happened at Duke University a couple of years ago. A faculty member got in trouble because she was telling Chinese graduate students that they weren't allowed to speak to each other in Chinese.

Stupid? Wrong? Hmm. Unassailable actions? Really? No. I'm simply a realist, King Canute. So you're not going to bother actually responding to anything, but label yourself as a "realist" (despite the fact that your entire stance in this thread is literally predicated on ignoring reality, a...

You know that Trump just reactivated V Corps HQ in Poland, and will be moving troops from Germany into Poland -- basically several hundred miles closer to Russian border? That's some genius level quid pro pro by Putin. :angelic: Yes, those 200 troops are going to make up for the withdrawal of 12,00...

Cue the snowflake nazis crying about how this is a greater oppression than jackbooted thugs roughing up peaceful protesters, etc. etc.

I explained why the Feds were probably using the tactics that they were. That's it. Anything else is you stated is likely due to preconceived notions. No, you explicitly started with the assumption that the Feds were acting legally and appropriately and the protesters were in the wrong, and then tr...

I find it an interesting exercise though to imagine how this would be reported and discussed if it was happening in a state with a Republican governor instead of in California. So how do you imagine it would be reported and discussed differently? Or is this just a "oh no the media is so mean t...

Hmm. I guess we'll hopefully see. I do know more than a fair number of lawyers - including those in black dresses. They were sympathetic with the protesters; that is,until the assault on the courthouse. The officers almost certainly had warrants. Did you even read my post? Or are you just flailing ...

3. "Wait! People were picked up blocks away from the courthouse! How is that legal?" Well, I can only guess, <snip> Snipped everything else in your post, because honestly it's all irrelevant. This statement here is the core of the problem with your argument. "You can only guess"...

I fear that the same will also be the biggest failure of Biden's presidency, if he should go on to win the election (as I very much hope he does, obviously). It doesn't seem to have occurred to ANY of the mainstream Democratic leadership just how profound the shift in American politics has been, and...

I get it, it just always blows my mind how quickly the right-wing has dropped every pretense of having a coherent ideology (other than white supremacy, anyway).

Look at the margins of victory in the presidential election for the last 20 years. Bush II won by 200,000 and then 100,000 votes. Obama won by 300,000, then 200,000 votes. Trump won by 450,000 votes. In a bellwether or swing state, that is a crushing victory. If Biden can't convince 225,001 of thos...

They should quit, then. So should the poor widdle cops, then, if the paperwork they have to deal with is SUCH a drudgery. :roll: Do you even TRY to make your beliefs internally consistent? Or is that just too much effort for you at this point? You...actually haven't bothered to refute any of my exp...

That was a bit of a tangent anyway. The point being, if it comes down to Ohio of Biden, he's already lost, as the state has been trending more pro-GOP for the last two decades than it did before. Where are you getting that from? Ohio went to Obama. Twice. I don't see how that means it has been tren...

Lol spoken like someone who's never been a public servant. Life sucks, fuck overtime, go home on time You do realize many public servants (other than cops, obviously) are essentially forced to work overtime without pay, right? Because they are chronically understaffed but qualifications for overtim...

Really, the only thing I want in a VP right now is someone who knows how to run a country in a competent way. You SAY that, and yet your ENTIRE post (and the post before) is talking ONLY about the gender and race of the prospective candidates, NOT about what their respective records have to say abo...