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It seems I live in a town where there is no place open to eat on Christmas. Whoopee!

On the morning news today (MSNBC) they were saying that the way Rump's going right now we should expect him to fire Mueller before New Years. Just what we need. Meanwhile the stock market took the biggest one month loss since The Great Depression.

I'm wondering if we'll even have a country to vote on the next election. Or if voting will even be allowed. The new military situation is nearly inconceivable. Maddis, who is not one of my favorite people but at least maintained a modicum of integrity, has resigned. This is REALLY BAD. It's handing ...

What I mean by "new Democrats" are disgusted former Republicans running for office as Democrats. Well, I doubt they're fooling anybody. Actually, I think most of those ex-Republicans are identifying as "independents" now. Historically there were two distinct wings of the Democra...

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Well, the flames appear to be out for now but there are still pretty extensive beds of hot embers just below the surface.

Sadly, you can say the same of most people regardless of orientation. That’s just not true. Which explains all the talk of ‘dissension on the left’ Not really. The problem is that the American "left" has no core platform - they're all a bunch of loose planks floating down the river and ha...

The new crop of Democratic Congress people are amongst the most “left” leaning we’ve seen in 60 years. I have some hope. If I’m the other hand, the party leadership swerves right to pander to imaginary ‘swing’ Trump voters, they’re doomed to fail. If there is ever a time to pull hard to the left th...

The new crop of Democratic Congress people are amongst the most “left” leaning we’ve seen in 60 years. I have some hope. If I’m the other hand, the party leadership swerves right to pander to imaginary ‘swing’ Trump voters, they’re doomed to fail. If there is ever a time to pull hard to the left th...

One consequence will be the new Democrats shifting the party farther to the right. Really? I don't see that at all. How much farther to the right can they go that Feinstein with her unwavering support for Big Business, Wall Street, , and the Real Estate brokers and developers? When you look at the ...

weedywet wrote: ↑December 8th, 2018, 3:14 am It’s in the nature of, and psychological make up of, “conservatives” to just fall into line and go along.

Sadly, you can say the same of most people regardless of orientation.

Again, you're making the erroneous assumption that you're dealing with a monolithic bloc. It's really easy to make a minority look like a majority on TV. Rump does it at every rally. You are making the erroneous assumption that I'm making an erroneous assumption. The Republican party is shrinking, ...

What needs to be let go of is just being lazy and handing campaign messaging and communication over to the personalities we like. Both Sanders and Clinton came across as the upper middle class guilt tripping the rest of the middle class about various characterizations of "helping the poor.&quo...

Right wing Democrats don’t fall into line the way all republiklans do. So an imaginary ‘super majority’ that includes right wing democrats doesn’t in any way guarantee that they VOTE “like Democrats”. But wouldn't you rather have that than actual Republicans? You can't always get what you want But ...

The reason why that doesn't seem to matter that much to me is that if nobody on the left says anything to inflame the right, the right will just make up lies to that effect and feed them into their well-oiled, high-dollar propaganda machine, which is what they've been doing. The reason why that doe...

But you should then be sympathetic to my argument that the Democrats MUST stop yapping about gun control in what other people view as wildly radical ways if we are to take back control of the government That's a generalization. CMIIW but most Democrats want the type of minimal gun control that over...

You're just venting, and not very coherently at times. THAT'S not a winning strategy. It's also a major problem with the current Democratic party, unfortunately. You don't change people's minds by ranting at them. I'm not running for office and there are maybe a half dozen people following this thr...

Democrats just won 40 House seats. And one might add that Clinton got 3 million more votes than Trump (and that’s even WITH all the voter disenfranchisement and intimidation they could muster). They have a “winning strategy” in terms of policy. (Including reasonable fun control and universal health...

He's a good example of a way to write a strong criticism of the opposition without coming off like an immature, overly emotional schoolkid: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/12/3/1816726/-Charles-Blow-I-don-t-believe-we-are-reaching-the-end-of-a-nightmare-but-rather-we-are-entering-one?detail=em...

Speaking of juvenile, what's juvenile is thinking you’re going to have some sort of sensible ‘self defense’ shoot out at the ok corral with those armed nazis etc. So you'd meekly board the cattle car to the gas chamber? If you're going to die, at least make it count for something. https://en.wikipe...

I never said anything remotely like that. There's a difference between calling something by its rightful name and behaving like a 3rd grader to anyone who just might have a more responsible viewpoint that your own. One which might actually work When did that happen on this thread? Put up, or shut u...

Millennials aren't living with their parents because of the minimum wage, nor because of immigration, legal or not. It's happening because of the concentration of capital. The post-war period was an economic anomaly that everyone presumed would go on forever. Capital doesn't flow that way. They're ...

Apparently over an increase in the cost of Diesel fuel.

In between the death of HW Bush and the ongoing soap opera around Rump and gang it doesn't seem like anybody on this side of the Atlantic has really noticed.

What is this world coming to?

For years we’ve been saying that Republiklans in Congress aren’t “doing their jobs” of oversight and consent. And that’s true. But that’s why it’s at LEAST equally important to expect Democrats to do that JOB, when they have the House now, whether people think it’s politically expedient or not. Of ...

Winning over "their" supporters will require a great deal of education over a period of years if not decades. They need to be taught why there is nothing to fear but being sold fear by a despot, aka "fear itself." Most of these people's grandparents supported Roosevelt except fo...

I keep reading some version of : “don’t call the Nazis ‘nazis’ or ‘racists’ or ‘antisemites’ or ‘criminals’ because then you’ll never “win over” their supporters. It should go without saying that that’s idiotic. But it somehow doesn’t. I never said anything remotely like that. There's a difference ...

In case my ranting makes me look like some hyperventilating, hyperbolic, paranoid nut, this is the current reality in the USA: You really should try to control that. Former New York congressman Michael Grimm is a felon who has admitted to hiring undocumented workers, hiding $900,000 from tax author...

Nixon, Reagan and now cryBaby drrumpfh commited treason in order to get elected. You need to consider why would somebody risk that? The ONLY reasonable answer is corruption ! And the "unreasonable" answer is megalomania. In Rump's case I also suspect that the man is a bona fide traitor. H...

The big questions: 1) Will the country and the planet survive 2 more years of this shit, and... 2) When Dems take over the WH and Senate in 2020, will this mess be something that can be fixed? The usual deal is Яape-ubliKKKriminal$ do everything they can to rape the country and the world and Democr...