I don’t really see who the hell else they should blame? Jeff who always eats the last cookie? Steve who never makes a new pot of coffee after taking the last of it?
Everyone knows you can’t blame Republicans when they all vote against something, but you can blame Democrats when one of them votes against something /s
“I do, however, believe that [Benjamin] Netanyahu’s extreme rightwing government [in Israel] has engaged in discriminatory and outright racist policies and that there are extreme racists driving that policy within the leadership of the current government.”
She knows the power of headlines, she was probably being threatened by republicans, corps or maybe even judges, using this method she can shut them up while still pushing the same agenda.
These decisions are so single-generation now. Give it two generations and things will likely go one of two ways, with no gray area for either side. I guess some billionaires think they’ll beat the clock.
Some attorneys and Democratic lawmakers say the new law targeted progressive district attorneys who have expressed reluctance to pursue the death penalty. Attorneys for inmates fear the state could use the law to argue against considering DNA evidence and intellectual disabilities.
I thought most of his protection detail were true believer conservatives? I think they’d either applaud and go with him, or he’d give them the slip. Via the application of brown envelopes full of cash.
The case is rock solid. But in 12 people there’s probably a nut case cultist. That said, there’s no way the feds let him get to Russia. Trump will count on a pardon. And he’ll probably get it, if he doesn’t die first.
NY? The NY the violations in this that indictment has no recommendations for jail time.
The only indictment with jail time in the sentencing guidelines are the federal indictments. Sentencing guidelines call for a 10-20 years on those charges.
People you are replying to in this thread are about the indictments in general. They discussing whether the charged stick, etc. Then you brought up state charges. The only state charges that exist are in NY, that’s why I mentioned them in response. There’s no charges in GA, and there might never be.
Also, a sitting president is 100% insulated from state authorities while in office. So unless the trial takes less than a years time, which it won’t, and never does, it won’t matter if he wins. At least not until Jan 22 of 2029. By then the damage will be done.
Man, I’ve been expecting him to do that since before Biden’s inauguration day.
Frankly, I’m amazed that so little has happened since Jan 6. By this amount of time after the Beer Hall Putsch, Hitler had already been arrested, tried, convicted, wrote his manifesto, and released.
Given what he knows, who he could hurt, and how bad he is at keeping his mouth shut, I would havw thought somebody would have slipped him some polonium tea by now.
Exactly! That would’ve been the smart thing to do both in terms of protecting himself from prosecution and from playing up the persecuted martyr angle to push the “Biden is illegitimate” narrative and gain even more support from his base, I think.
I still can’t decide if the fact that he failed to do that is because he was making a mistake, or because his apparent confidence that he wouldn’t actually be held accountable was a more correct assessment of America than mine. The longer all this drags on without an arrest, the more worried I am that it’s the latter!
Only a crap president loses their re-election. Nixon won his re-election in a landslide. Even W won his re-election. Trump, well, he grabs failure by the pussy.
Lol. You are welcome to agree with what Trump did. But even if you think ignoring the election and trying to instill himself as dictator is “doing everything right”, it’s still wildly illegal.
He might not look like much, but the man delivers even in the face of Republican obstruction.
"Biden has assembled the most impressive legislative record of any president since Lyndon Johnson. Drawing on his decades of experience, Biden deftly navigated a 50-50 Senate to pass a historic bipartisan infrastructure bill, generational investments in clean energy and semiconductor manufacturing, the first gun safety law in almost 30 years, a bill codifying same-sex marriage, a bill aiding veterans who suffered health effects from burn pits and an electoral reform to prevent a repeat of Trump’s attempt to use Congress to undermine the election. And that’s all without mentioning the nomination and confirmation of Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman to ever sit on the Supreme Court."
Half of those bills are blatantly bad for everyone. It is not a good thing that Biden is able to work with republicans to screw everyone not in the upper class.
The inflation reduction bill slashed permitting allowing fuel tycoons further kill it planet it. The infrastructure bill is a band aid that ignores the climate crisis The chips act was almost nothing more but a give away to tech billionaires. To claim any of this as a win for anyone but the propertied upper class is a joke.
Are you denying that those bills did that. Hell its not like you linked to primary sources you linked to Forbes and blatantly biased sources but I bet I linked biases sources you would call me out. Either read the bills or I can link you to principled anti-imperialist climate oriented sources that while flawed are willing to call out the establishment if you’ll accept them.
I could keep going. I hesitated to post these links because I just got down voted to hell and someone got upvoted on another site when they said I shouldn’t post links and instead should show the arguments merits without any of them so I’m a little confused what people actually want.
Ok, so I've had some time to read through this stuff and the most salient point is right there in the first paragraph of your first source:
"This kind of bipartisanship is heartening--and will lead to important investments in roads, bridges, rail, broadband internet and the electric grid. Yet the bill also thoroughly exposes the glaring problem with the Republican Party's opposition to additional taxes on corporations and the wealthy."
The problem is REPUBLICAN obstruction. Why is Republican obstruction a never-ending, seemingly insurmountable problem? Because REPUBLICANS have rigged voting in so many states that they're able to maintain 50% of the seats of power when their constituents are a minority of the American population.
How do we fix this? VOTE DEMOCRAT. Dems NEED a solid majority in both the House AND the Senate to push through anti-gerrymandering legislation, the new voting rights act, DC statehood, getting qualified federal judges on the bench, and I pray to God expanding SCOTUS and appointing a whole bunch more Ketanji Brown Jacksons.
And I already hear you saying "what did they do with their last majority in 2008?" Easy: They passed the Affordable Care Act, which was the single best healthcare reform legislation in my entire lifetime. Until the REPUBLICANS gutted the individual mandate and the REPUBLICANS refused to accept money for Medicaid expansion in red states.
I'm a nurse. I want single-payer Medicare for All. I think it's economically and morally best for the country. But I also know that we couldn't go from what we had prior to the ACA straight into M4A overnight. It would have been whiplash that left nearly 400,000 Americans unemployed (the estimated number of people working in our current private health insurance administration industry.)
We needed a stepping stone to M4A and the ACA was a really excellent first step.
Okay you want healthcare what are your plans for stopping the Saudi bombing of Yemen, the Israeli genocide of Palestinians, the violence of the border, the current police state and so many other things democrats support as well as republicans never mind capitalism and its major harm to everyone in general.
Why are advocating for the democratic party just for this single issue. If so great maybe you will get a slightly better healthcare plan while poor children in the third world are killed by the people you help keep in power while you feel good about yourself.
Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. "We get perfection or we want nothing" is a deeply cynical and unrealistic approach to real world governance. You can't change the world overnight. No progress has ever been without flaws. It's still progress.
Except its mixed with new bad. Don’t let the oh this may be and that’s a big maybe slightly less bad and I should fight for it be answer instead of actually reconstructing society as is so clearly needed. There is no good in the democratic party I’m not arguing for perfection but for actually fighting to improve.
It’s a pipe dream that you believe the democratic party which enforces white patriarchal capitalist interests as a core part of their platform could ever radically transform society and stop the unimaginable harm they are doing.
Always post links. No one should expect you as an individual to recreate the efforts of people who get paid to aggregate this information. It is, however, reasonable to expect you as an individual to be aware of what's in your links and be able to defend why you find that information convincing.
(Not gonna lie, that's a lot of info you've posted. You're gonna have to give me a while to go through it, which won't be tonight because...work tomorrow. I love common dreams as a source, personally. And I often find jacobin unconvincing, though we coincide on some issues like the evils of mass incarceration.)
Overall I don’t see his rule as positive. Like Trump he kept the same harm Trump done, which consisted in dividing the US (playing right into the Russians traps in that regard).
Also, nominating a black woman to sit at the Supreme Court shouldn’t be anything to be proud off. First, is she even good enough for the position, or did they hire her because she’s black? Even if she is, it’s nothing to be proud off in my books.
Please enlighten us to how a Biden, who doesn’t have a majority in the senate could have ruled better without “dividing” the country when his opponents entire purpose is to divide the country and oppose the dems on almost anything by principle.
Conservatives care a lot. She is wildly popular with them. It is always wise to hear what the other side is saying so you know how to counter their arguments.
Cool we know, it has been exposed... nothing will happen. These people are above the law, they act like it and there is no recourse when the regime will not prosecute criminals within their rank.
Starting to look like USSR... looks like corruption is not limited to degenerate communism after all. So much for free market will save us all.
PS. I am wondering what made @TooTallSol down vote this post tho...
The absolute bullshit thing about this take is that all the other major democracies in the world have at least 3 major parties. In the US, we have two: a center-right and far-right. Those of us left of center have no party that actually advocates for real leftist policies. I’d welcome a true leftist major party and a true centrist party to add to the mix.
Sign me up for that. I’m pretty much a centrist that strictly votes Democrat these days because I have no better options.
I’d love if both parties split. Far left, center left, center right, and far right. I still think more Americans lie somewhere in the middle than social media and the news try to make us think.
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