Probably tastes worse than Kix.
Social media tested, libs approved
Rick Wilson took to calling them “clickservatives” for a while there.
Because, nazis, fascist, and racist are easier to re-cycle.
Rethuglicans is my go to.
I usually go with Repuglicans
I absolutely love this ad.
Does gerrymandering or constitutional geographical advantage create (((safe spaces)) for GOP?
Democrat Elizabeth Esty will not run for re-election for her House seat in November, after it was revealed she essentially covered up and did nothing about a person on her staff who was accused of sexual harassment.
Her Connecticut district is only a slight blue lean. The issue made her super-vulnerable. Her stepping down now is probably for the best for a number of reasons, including her handling of the situations, obviously.
Dems score a win and the GOP takes one on the chin, despite a bunch of Koch money:
The GOP still holds a majority on Wisconsin’s Supreme Court, but as explained in the link this election is good test of voter motivation.
First supreme court victory for the Dems in Wisconsin since 1995. If the GOP leadership isn’t shitting themselves by now, they’re deeply delusional.
Democrats didn’t even run a candidate in 2017. That’s crazy.
In other news, an article where UHC, sensible gun control and criminal justice reform is characterized as “radical.” ((Even the oft-labelled (even on this forum) “far left radical” Elizabeth Warren isn’t radical or far left.))
Crazy country we live in.
In a world where John Kasich is a “moderate,” things like not murdering the poor for lulz are radical leftism.
Eisenhower, Nixon, and Ford were practically socialists by modern GOP standards - and Reagan and Bush Sr. are probably RINOs.
The notion that Dems have moved radically to the left in the last 20 years or so is largely myth. Harry Truman proposed universal health care. A bunch of places (like NYC and California) used to have free college back before the 60s. Gay rights got added to Dem platforms in the 70s and 80s. Gun control has been around forever (and once upon a time wasn’t a strictly partisan issue.)
What’s really happened is the the Republican party has moved dramatically to the right; it has embraced was used to be fringe ideas wholesale. The political scientists Mann and Ornstein have mapped this out in detail during the Obama years.
The problem is both the GOP and the media just love the “both sides” narrative that says everything has to be equally the Dem’s and the GOP’s fault. Have the GOP become a radical extremist group of wackos? Well then, clearly the Dems must have become extremists as well; never mind that it isn’t factually true. The media loves both-siderism because it sounds “objective” and “even handed.” The GOP loves it because it allows them to get away with becoming more and more extreme.
But the lie that “both sides are the same” is destroying the country. In 2014 Ornstein wrote this:
Does it matter whether the polarization, and the deep dysfunction that follows from it, is equal or not, including to the average voter? The answer is a resounding yes. If bad behavior—using the nation’s full faith and credit as a hostage to political demands, shutting down the government, attempting to undermine policies that have been lawfully enacted, blocking nominees not on the basis of their qualifications but to nullify the policies they would pursue, using filibusters as weapons of mass obstruction—is to be discouraged or abandoned, those who engage in it have to be held accountable. Saying both sides are equally responsible, insisting on equivalence as the mantra of mainstream journalism, leaves the average voter at sea, unable to identify and vote against those perpetrating the problem. The public is left with a deeper disdain for all politics and all politicians, and voters become more receptive to demagogues and those whose main qualification for office is that they have never served, won’t compromise, and see everything in stark black-and-white terms.
He was prophetically and tragically right.
They were a tough boss duo in Dark Souls; took many attempts.
You gotta go after the smaller political scientist first, then the other one becomes Ultra Political Scientist. Watch out for the electric butt slam.
Hello.
As WKHE points out, “Why the hell are we talking about Beto O’Rourke and not Phil Bredesen?”
Because people really hate Ted Cruz.
According to something I read recently (don’t recall where), he’s probably the only politician in TN that can pull this off. Wildly popular former governor who I believe won every county when he ran last.