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50%? With who?

 

Rasmussen. 50 percent on Rasmussen and it's a victory. Worst president ever.

 

The children of German refugees in Argentina

 

Christ.

 

Buy the fucking DIPS

 

The sad truth for Trumpists is that their guy is 15 points in the hole across the polling spectrum: 40-55.

 

Careful. Dick is going to send you an email that motherfucks your family while he says you're being cruel.

 

I'd argue that Bloomberg still has a lot of political capital. Mainly bc he was a billionaire who got into politics before Trump did. But yeah, everyone who comes after Trump is saddled with his stench.

 

Excellent critique of the Green New Deal:

Democrats Need an Ambitious Climate Plan. The Green New Deal Isn’t It.

The operating principle behind the Green New Deal is a no-enemies-to-the-left spirit of fostering unity among every faction of the progressive movement. Thus, at the same time, the plan avoids taking stances that are absolutely vital to reduce carbon emissions, it embraces policies that have nothing to do with climate change whatsoever. The Green New Deal includes the following non-climate provisions:

–A job with family-sustaining wages, family and medical leave, vacations, and retirement security

–High-quality education, including higher education and trade schools

–High-quality health care

–Safe, affordable, adequate housing

–An economic environment free of monopolies

–Economic security to all who are unable or unwilling to work

Sean McElwee, a socialist organizer with a penchant for colorfully threatening to destroy his enemies, designed the Green New Deal as a framework to encompass every maximal demand of the left. “The Green New Deal is what it means to be progressive. Clean air, clean water, decarbonizing, green jobs, a just transition, and environmental justice are what it means to a progressive,” he tells Vox. “By definition that means politicians who don’t support those goals aren’t progressive. We need to hold that line. Get on the GND train or choo-choo, motherfucker, we’re going to go right past you.”

Fun stuff. Everybody still aboard? Yes?

Here's a line from McElwee's Twitter:



AOC is a compelling communication vessel for some mean-ass, cutthroat people.

 

Glad to see "no match" letters finally being reported.

 

Do you honestly think the zero-sum right-wing extremists currently running the GOP are somehow less cutthroat? Somehow less doctrinaire?

 

Bezos seems to be doing OK today.