It's not the left that's dragging down the Dem Party brand, it's rank corruption by corporate Dems like Gillibrand. We can have a big tent party and also be clear that corporate corruption is not accepted in the tent. In fact, that's vital if we want to win real majorities.
Billionaires are sowing their own doom with this kind of thing. In the midst of the upcoming tax and deficit crisis of the 2030s, how do you think normal people are going to answer the question "could Elon Musk afford to pay an extra $276 million in taxes per year?"
tbc this it literally Biden’s line. It’s the bog standard line
“I strongly support [clearly defined stance for Israel that serves as the open-ended pretext for genocide] while also [highly conditional gesture that vaguely implies sympathy for Palestinians but commits to nothing]
Thiel's well-considered intellectual position is that everything he opposes politically, or that negatively impacts his businesses and pursuit of profits, is the Antichrist.
A question: If your political organization elects a member in your ranks to an official role such as, for example, mayor, and then the official refuses to meet baseline demands given by his local and the national leadership of that organization, have you actually built any power?
@sethharpesq US intelligence has been pretty decent to my understanding, from overthrowing governments to surveilling its citizens. Do you see this as a military intelligence issue? FWIW, I’m pretty sure most military intelligence predicted the exact issues were having in Iran.
Imagine going back to the height of the 2020 protests and telling people that one (1) democratic admin from now self-serious left liberals will declare it political suicide to even talk about reducing the police budget
the standard protocol for an nyc mayor has been to appoint a new commissioner when they first take office, zohran literally broke with historical precedent to keep tisch and people are acting like we’re calling for an armed uprising á la 1789 paris on the lower east side
In March 2024, the ICRC President warned Biden that failing to “uphold minimum standards of humanity”in Gaza would be a “moral defeat” that “future generations are unlikely to forgive us for failing to avert.”
Biden didn't listen. And here we are.
This is the most damning & valid criticism of Mamdani so far.
There’s understandable fear that picking fights with NYPD will undermine his political agenda, but that political agenda will be undermined anyway if “counterterrorism units” are allowed to repress protests
A town in NJ (one of the epicenters of the opioid crisis) got $170,000 in opioid settlements they reported were used for “drug education.” They spent it on two new cruisers and 15 flock cameras https://t.co/uguQE5k9ec
Yeah, I don't see how any Democrat can simply choose to replicate Trump's "strategy" of "having voters project their own views onto him based on literally nothing in either his words or actions"