Bernie did exactly what the party would want a caucusing-independent to do. Run in the Democratic primary and win it so he wouldn’t split the vote. Not doing that would have been actively antagonistic to the party. The (I) is mostly just aesthetics.
It’s not even just preventing the teenagers from deciding on their own, even with fully supportive parents this prevents coverage. Government knows best from the party of “small government”, and supported by the majority of the party nominally defending the victims. While that party still controls the senate!
Massachusetts and Oregon are the only states that can just be happy with good senate representation. I suppose Wisconsinites probably didn’t expect their Republican senator to do anything good too, but that’s a larger problem.
I’m in Hawaii, usually Hirono is pretty reliable and Schatz is the “usually good but sometimes bad” camp. And Case is just reliably as bad as he can be without being fully mask off. I really wish someone would challenge him that isn’t a “who the hell is that”, but to be honest we don’t have any good state-level politicians that would fit the bill.
The roll call for the vote (linked in the summary) is embarrassing for the senate Democrats. This is well beyond a few moderates dismissing the anti-trans measures as being unimportant and carried through to the core of the party and even some progressive senators. And it needed 60 votes to pass so it wasn’t a foregone conclusion. The amendment to remove the provision didn’t even receive a vote.
The Democrats who voted against:
Obama won by 10 million votes in 2008, and he wasn’t up against an incumbent with a (until Biden) historically low approval rating and in the middle of a crisis he was failing. Before the Democratic primary even started 56% of voters said they were definitely going to vote against Trump. Biden’s 6 million votes were by running up numbers in safe states, not a convincing electoral victory. The actual difference between winning and losing was 44k votes. Less than what would have flipped 2016 (80k), so unless you’re going to call Trump vs. Clinton a solid victory, Biden’s was a squeaker in an election that shouldn’t have been close.
Biden didn’t win in 2020 because he was a great politician, he was just the default. Nothing about either that primary or that election suggests a talented politician who just needed to refine his message and keep trying. Most of the early primary was the moderate lane desperately searching for someone other than Biden, and then in the general he barely beat Trump in an election that should have been a cake walk.
Her pattern this campaign was the same as her pattern in the primary, start out as a mainstream progressive talking about changing the system and fighting Republicans, then after getting phone calls from donors and listening to establishment advisors abandon it all for overly restrictive benefit programs and empty words. Almost every time she said something good she’d walk it back over the next week.
This doesn’t mean she should try again but finally buck her advisors and be her true self. Her deference to the sensibilities of rich donors is part of who she is.
A lot of very incontrovertible terrorism was in the form of a single very public murder. The difference was that it was against vulnerable groups and the murderers were rarely charged.
By the time we have a large enough sample set to definitively prove the killings aren’t random, a lot of progress will have been made.
Bots will sometimes recycle old comments, so even if they’re normal sounding they might not be authentic. And with LLMs now you might not be able to tell the difference. Could be Reddit being bullshit or could be them correctly identifying inauthentic behavior with some behind the scenes searching and metrics.
What the fuck? This is a special dipshit cherry to put on top of just automatically choosing the oldest option. Even if the leadership still hate AOC, choose someone who’s definitely going to be at the top of their game, not award important positions to so he can be proud while taking time off for his pressing health needs.
And supply-side-God willing, we can get back to there.
New York Times, once again perfectly happy to promote murderers when they’re embraced by established power centers.
I thought they didn’t want to provide a megaphone to murderers.
From everyone else’s point of view it’s also his new subjects lining up. There’s no reason to excuse these companies regardless of what percent of the bottom line a million dollars is.
We want it so much they were moved to first! It was so clearly a corrupt move and a punishment to two states that said he sucked. Not that Iowa and New Hampshire deserved their prominence, but the whole fiasco had a very clear narrative.
And you can guarantee it’s not the same half. Each result probably has about 40% of “opposing party loyalists” checking in.
This is going to influence literally zero future votes. It’s a flash in the pan news story for news junkies and not remotely as bad as past pardons, which themselves have also had zero impact on future voting. The broader impression of corruption is because of a systematic and continual deference to the issues of business and rich donors, not that a president’s immediate family can get out of jail free.
She got 84 votes. That’s not a “forever doomed” insurgent. Primary (or let time handle) a few more of the old guard trying to shut her out and she could just win.