StrangeSox

We've had a literal civil war that left hundreds of thousands dead. Bland centrism that doesn't appeal to many people won't actually stop the bleeding, either. But either way, you kinda missed the opportunity to explain why Clinton's campaign wasn't the epitome of the thinking you're advocating, or why the 1000+ seats lost by Democrats after 2008 wasn't representative of it, either. It's not like the Democrats were out there forcefully advocating for things like M4A and free college and $15 and getting beat over and over, it was the opposite! Tepid technocratic incrementalism was the flavor of Obama's administration, running away from defending the ACA was common in Congressional races, and they lost state houses across the country. None of this happened because there was a socialist or left-wing insurgency that pushed radical candidates that couldn't win general elections.

Clinton was very much a "continue on with incremental improvements to the status quo" campaign though. We'll always be at the "stop-the-bleeding" phase with that framing.

It's great when you remember that Meghan McCain owes everything she has entirely to the birth lottery and that her father voted for her to inherit millions of dollars tax free, yet she'll still whine about "handouts". this was even better though: I love that they're giving AOC and her platform so much free airtime.

He's run for President a few times and never did well at all, so he doesn't have a great track record there. Economically, his policies have long been to the right of Clinton. He is a war hawk as well. And I wouldn't be shocked if he's got a few of his own #MeToo skeletons in the closet as he also has a history of being borderline creepy. He's good as a Dem hypeman and I'll always appreciate his dunking all over Paul Ryan in the 2012 VP debates, but I don't want someone with his ideology setting the tone for the party.

The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. His heart sank as he thought of the enormous power arrayed against him, the ease with which any Party intellectual would overthrow him in debate, the subtle arguments which he would not be able to understand, much less answer. And yet he was in the right! They were wrong and he was right. The mistake Orwell made was in thinking that the Ministry of Truth even needed to go back and edit old press releases and announcements when we've now seen they could have just shouted FAKE NEWS and a good chunk of the country would have went along with it.

This is a good look into the technical aspects of the latest indictments against Russia and the evidence for hacking:

more notes from summer camp

administration is still standing behind the "fine people on both sides" in Charlottesville last year, where one side was carrying tiki torches while chanting "Jews will not replace us" and the other was saying that is bad.

nah, the entire GOP is complicit

They had reported on his past comments on slavery prior to the 2016 election, but he still won http://www.startribune.com/lewis-book-offers-provocative-analysis-on-slavery-and-civil-rights/369306761/

The next turn is going to be "actually it's good that Russia directly interfered in our elections and will continue to do so" so long as they keep helping the GOP.

Yeah Also

good timing for Trump Foundation fraud to be brought back up!

On the same day that Trump is again rejecting the intelligence community's assessment that Russia is, in fact, still targeting our elections and electoral systems, Republicans voted to defund grants to states for election cybersecurity and we get this story: It's almost as if the GOP doesn't actually care about Russian meddling because it benefits them

He also substantially reversed his position/stance on China a day or two after they granted his company a $500M loan. But hey, CLINTON FOUNDATION! It's all just lame whataboutism anyway. When the lawsuit was filed against the Trump Foundation with copious amounts of documentation, he more or less dismissed it and mocked the idea that the sitting President and his children being sued for charitable fraud and being referred to the FEC and IRS for potential criminal charges was a big story.

Trump started the process to dissolve the foundation. That is a fact. Why he did so is a different question. You are taking the self-serving word of a man who lies repeatedly about even the most trivial and easily disprovable things as "the fact of the matter" on that. That is an hilarious level of gullibility.