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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Bernie Sanders could've brought so much enthusiasm to the Democratic Party if he had given up on them after losing once like a bitch. Seriously, he writes about how Dems need to shift leftward, yet he refuses to run as a Democrat anymore despite knowing the kind of influence he has and how could (and would) bring the party where he wants it to go.
Like, is that the kind of President people want? Something who tries one go at something and just says "fuck it" if it doesn't work out?
i'm tired, my friendYou can't compare Trump to anything without it being an Insult to Rocks
Oh my god. 😀 [1]
This one —featuring Obama 007 — is better than a James Bond movie!
It would be even more fun if Kellyanne could work in her spying microwave oven!
Tomorrow I have to go back to the real world ....
The interview is worth a watch, if only to see the lengths Fox News has to go to try to make anything out of "spy-gate"
edited 8th Jun '18 8:25:54 PM by megaeliz
I Imagine Obama as more of an Ace Attorney that points his finger at Trump and makes him breakdown.
...While also wearing a nice suit.
Watch Symphogear
x4: I want to live in that movie's world.
x3: Or that. Basically, any world where the villains can actually lose at the hands of just one heroic and dedicated individual instead of this one where societal apathy (particularly voter apathy) lets bastard-coated bastards get away with murder.
edited 8th Jun '18 8:40:15 PM by TrashJack
"Cynic, n. — A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be." - The Devil's DictionaryThat's what I'm saying. If he really wanted a leftward shift in the party, he'd endorse Dem candidates he liked or encourage people with progressive ideals to run Democrat. But because he didn't win the primaries, he took his toys and went home.
He's a petty dickhole.
i'm tired, my friendRenato Mariotti thread about the Manafort Superseding indictments (https://twitter.com/renato_mariotti/status/1005161959761772544?s=21)
1/ Today the grand jury returned a superseding indictment charging Paul Manafort with additional crimes. Manafort was already charged in two separate indictments (one in D.C., one in Virginia) with multiple crimes.
2/ This "superseding" indictment replaces the D.C. indictment and adds new charges against Manafort. Specifically it adds charges that Manafort and Kilimnik conspired to obstruct justice by working together to tamper with witnesses. Here is the indictment
3/ These are the same facts that Mueller already brought to the court's attention when he moved to revoke Manafort's bond. Now Mueller obtained an indictment adding those charges as separate crime. A reason he may have done that is to allow him to prove the obstruction at trial.
4/ If Mueller didn't add the obstruction as a separate charge, he still could have tried to use Manafort's efforts to tamper with witnesses as evidence of his state of mind, but Manafort's attorneys would have tried to exclude that evidence.
5/ Now that evidence comes in at trial because the jury has to determine whether Manafort is guilty of conspiring to obstruct justice. That evidence would likely be extremely damaging to Manafort at trial—if he was innocent, why would he try to engage in witness tampering?
6/ The judge can still revoke Manafort's bond if Mueller pushes forward with his motion. As I explained here with fellow @just_security editor @alexgwhiting
, I expect Manafort's bond to be revoked
7/ One interesting point about the new indictment is that it does not set forth any allegations about what Manafort and Kilimnik did. Typically, when prosecutors charge a conspiracy, they set forth in detail in the indictment what it is.
8/ But Manafort's indictment was already very complicated—Mueller charged two other conspiracy counts in the same indictment. The conspiracy to obstruct justice is fairly narrow as a factual matter compared to the wide-ranging activity already charged.
9/ So adding additional factual detail about the witness tampering might have made it harder for the jury to make sense of the complicated indictment.
10/ From Manafort's perspective, this puts him in an even worse position, but his position was already extremely difficult. He faces many serious charges, and if he does not believe he will receive a pardon, he should plead guilty and cooperate with Mueller.
11/ The indictment is more significant from a broader perspective. It is Mueller's first indictment charging an American and a Russian for working together to commit a crime. He charged the former chair of Trump's campaign and a suspected Russian intel operative with conspiracy.
12/ "Collusion" is not a legal term. Conspiracy is. But if Trump's campaign chair conspiring with a suspected Russian operative isn't "collusion," what is? This should force the Trump team and the media to change their narrative regarding "collusion." /end
edited 8th Jun '18 9:58:31 PM by megaeliz
Sanders' influence is negligible. Right now, he's empowering a lot of nuisance candidates to take potshots at establishment Democrats and that's about it.
Frankly, he's a textbook case of You Could Have Used Your Powers for Good!. The guy's original intent to get into the race to push some new ideas was a good one. His near-victory gave Clinton a nudge to move left and openly embrace more progressive positions. But after that rush, he embraced a myth of "I've been robbed of the election" and clung to his outsider cred to the detriment of the party, instead of bringing his ideas and organization in to strengthen the party while leading it toward progressive causes.

On Trump being re-elected, yes the possibility is greater than zero and it can't be dismissed.
And honestly you can't dismiss the rest of the republican voter base simply drinking Kool Aid and voting Trump again because he is our guy and specially with the shift towards white nationalist identity politics allowing Trump to rally a depressingly large amount of voters.
Besides, the Democrats will have to pick someone charismatic enough and without a reputation that has been tarnished and demonized by the Republican Propaganda Machine for almost 30 years and most importantly, hope that by 2020 the Democrat Party kicks out voter apathy and if the 2018 blue tide solidifies in the Congress, also fight the district Gerrymandering and voter suppression.
Never taking things for granted is the safest bet for the Dems.
Also, on the Silicon Valley libertarians.
You can thank the Republican Luddites and anti-intellectualism driving them off, into either supporting the Democrats, which they might see as less hostile towards their goals and developments, or being lukewarm towards the Democrats because they at least don't support policies that are inherently against the Silicon Valley interests like protectionism and global warming denial. Which are things that do harm the Sil Val directly due to the alternative energy sources being heavily invested on Sil Val technologies.
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