StrangeSox

The one benefit is that thanks to the 2010 and 2014 elections, Maine is now the first state in the country to implement ranked-choice voting.

Multiple people from Kav's past coming out and calling bullshit on his "choir boy" defense

Avenatti has named his client and posted her affidavit. It's deeply troubling. Senate GOP has refused to respond.

They are not the same thing, though. There wouldn't be owners (capital class) at the top selling "their" goods and services under a fully socialist system. Under a social democratic system, capitalism is still the main engine of the economy. They're fundamentally different things. Democratic socialists are distinguished from other socialist philosophies in that they still believe in a democratic society based on electoral politics and the consent of the governed rather than an enlightened socialist despot model or some sort of dictatorship of the proletariat. I do think they get conflated a whole bunch these days, but they aren't the same.

LePage was the proto-trump who's only been able to win thanks to dumb third-party runs splitting the D vote

That could be it, because this calendar undercuts his own defense. He was so committed to academics and community and church, but those things never really appear on this detailed calendar. But the fact that he didn't write down a specific party* is also proof that he definitely didn't go to that party. Either he's lying about the first part (definitely is), or he didn't actually record everything in his calendar so it's not exculpatory at all. On the other hand, we know that he's also just a terrible liar. His sounding out of "Kasowitz," a prominent law firm that has represented the President and is also where one of his good friends works, was so transparently fake. He isn't being nominated because he's some legal prodigy. He's being nominated because he'll be the same as Alito--a very reliable vote for whatever GOP policy currently is. His career started as political hack work, and that's how it's going to end.

Why do you need same: climate area religion race in order to have universal health care, cheap/free college, etc.? Why does diversity along a variety of lines mean these programs are unworkable? If we can't have a more functional national government, is the US as currently structured "too big to govern" and possibly should be split up? Or are large public welfare programs for geographically and ethnically diverse nations only possible in more authoritarian systems like China? e: I'm not trying to be an ass here. I think they're seeing a rise of right-wing parties more opposed to social policies like that in Scandinavian and other Northern European countries as the number of non-white immigrants increases.

I think you're more describing social democracy than democratic socialism, at least what the political theories actually are. How they're getting used in popular politics varies, but social democrats want Capitalism Lite with lots of public social welfare grafted on. Democratic Socialism is more revolutionary and advocates for stronger socialism i.e. worked-controlled means of production. It's much more anti-capitalist than SocDems are. Sanders and the New Deal FDR-style politics can be described as flavors of SocDem, but they aren't democratic socialists. I would guess, but have nothing to really back this up, that a lot of the uptick in popularity of DSA is actually from people that are more SocDem than outright socialists.

The calendar shows a ton of partying and nothing about church, community service, etc. So that already undermines his lies in his Fox News interview.

The first words out of the guy's mouth after being nominated were obvious lies. He lied in his 2004 and 2006 hearings. He lied more in these recent hearings. We shouldn't be surprised that he continues to offer easily disproven lies as his excuses now.

Conyers was also forced out

Axios got played by a senior administrative official, which kicked this whole thing off. None of the reporters are willing to burn sources that burn them, so this sort of thing will keep happening.

This was a last minute excuse that doesn't really stand up. They said it was an NSC principals meeting, but...no Trump, no CIA director, no Pompeo, no Mattis, no Bolton. What NSC "principles" were actually there?

another week, another loss to the team with the most points in the league that week.

Fired vs. Resigned is an important distinction procedurally Hope whatever reporters got the "resigned" claim from a "senior administration official" burn their source for lying. Far too many reporters refuse to have any accountability for lying sources. If you give them anonymity and they lie, they should lose that protection.

uh ok so now there are as many as four separate accusers? Montgomery County investigators confirmed Monday they’re aware of a potential second sexual assault complaint in the county against former Georgetown Prep student and Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. While investigators weren’t specific and spoke on background, they said they are looking at allegations against Kavanaugh during his senior year in high school after an anonymous witness came forward this weekend. This would potentially bring the number to four women accusing Kavanaugh of wrongdoing and comes after Deborah Ramirez, a former Yale college student, stepped forward this weekend to accuse Kavanaugh of exposing himself to her in college, and after attorney Michael Avenatti tweeted out a message saying he represents a woman with “credible information regarding Judge Kavanaugh and Mark Judge."

Once again, some right-wing hack has smeared Kavanaugh's latest accuser and got the wrong person. Didn't stop much of the right-wing media from circulating the claims.

The technical term to describe Trubisky is "bad"

Reality is scripted