I’m 40, and this is objectively true. Saved us from Trump (likely twice now with this decision), got us through covid, created a roaring economy, and enacted a bunch of progressive legislation/executive orders that had a real impact. He’s gonna go down as a top 15-20 president.
What a moment: The French left finished a close second to the French far right. To block the right in the runoff, Macron's centrists would have to drop out and support the left.
An existential question for the center: Will they side with the left or usher in fascism?
Obama's nothingness gave us Trump.
Macron's nothingness will give us Le Pen.
Starmer's nothingness will give us Farage.
Lily-livered Centrism is the gateway drug to Fascism.
The damage “reporter talks to the dumbest swing voter alive” stories have done to our general perception of politics is probably astronomical. We assume every battleground voter has a sub-ape IQ and will hand america to a monster because the other guy had a cold.
@BrianByrdman I am a cynical man but even I could not predict Vote Blue No Matter Who would devolve into elder abuse of a senile man bankrolling a genocide.
Pick one:
Biden actively financing a genocide.
Biden is senile.
Compare & contrast! Attacking "civilian infrastructure, especially electricity, are war crimes. Cutting off men, women, children of water, electricity and heating with winter coming - these are acts of pure terror". UNLESS the attacker is Israel. Then it's NOT terror!?@?!!!
Roger Ebert used to host screenings of Citizen Kane where he and the audience would frequently pause the film to analyze and appreciate the artistry in each frame. I feel like this video deserves similar treatment.
A new study came out: An unprecedented mortality crisis struck Eastern Europe during the 1990s, causing around 7 million excess deaths...the first quantitative analysis of the association between deindustrialization and mortality in Eastern Europe.