wish we had a real opposition party with a unified message against this disgusting display of hatred and bigotry from the fucking president of the united states
Real words from Trump on Abdul El-Sayed:
"He was a member, probably still is, of the Muslim Brotherhood. We can't have him. We can't have him in the United States Senate."
"He's a jihadist. He's a vicious, violent jihadist, and he has no place in our government."
NEW: Vivek Ramaswamy says Amy Acton being a victim of childhood sexual abuse makes her βflawedβ while defending his ad featuring her estranged mother.
βIn politics sometimes it's a tough sport.β
when an interviewer is very explicitly telling you something is a moral issue, it's advised not to be a smug asshole when you dismiss the concerns of the most vulnerable
Me: "Even if it was unpopular, are you saying the Democratic Party should not speak out against the president sending migrants who have committed no crimes to be tortured in a foreign gulag?"
@mattyglesias: "Yeah."
Me: "Just stay silent?"
Yglesias: "I think that sometimes, if you want to help people... you gotta win first."
Me: "They might be dead in three years time, by the time you win."
Despite all the arguments on this hellsite over the exact number of his Piker tweets, this was the part of my interview with Matthew Yglesias that really stood out to me. I was actually stunned by this response. Shouldn't politics also stand for something more than triangulation, polling and 4-D chess strategizing?
Full interview: https://t.co/yPv9wXnujC
yup! whether Ilhan, AES, or Zohran, centrist Dems & the press play footsie with Islamophobia to beat down the left, even if it means electorally slamming their own dicks in a car door by validating the GOP's strategy to turbocharge identity-based grievances among the Dem base