Ernest 🇺🇸

Not voting for Kathy Castor would be nuts and I can't support that.

They are not at all beating the 'we don't want to win, we just want to complain' allegations

It is not possible to create a system of government that cannot be destroyed by those administering it. Any attempt to guardrail our way out of this will just make things more sclerotic. What we need are *consequences* for the people who are doing the destroying. The problem is people, not systems.

The logical explanation is that a lot of media owners and editors are worried they are in the Epstein files themselves.

the biggest presidential scandal in history but the political media largely acts as if it's not happening. hasan piker has received more mainstream political media coverage over the last 6 months than trump's connections with epstein has

“Others said there were ‘apparent attempts’ by Epstein & Ghislaine Maxwell to traffic them to the real estate magnate….. also accuses Todd Blanche of specifically instructing Maxwell not to discuss a survivor whose account implicated the president.” My God?!!?!?!?!?

NEWS --> Dems are planning novel ways to wield power of the purse against Trump's corrupt prosecutions of critics like Ilhan Omar if they win House. Reps Pramila Jayapal and Jamie Raskin tell me a range of aggressive tactics will be deployed. Details in my new piece: newrepublic.com/article/2171...

"At least five women accused Trump of rape or sexual assault in Epstein’s company, according to interviews conducted by the committee." www.msn.com/en-us/news/o...

BREAKING: President Obama has endorsed Angie Nixon for U.S. Senate in Florida. “Angie has spent her career standing up for working families. I believe Angie will be an outstanding U.S. Senator.”

GOOD

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

precinct level data from Brazil shows that there were no differential turnout changes in pro Lula or pro Bolsonaro areas what changed was that Lula improved his vote share where he had been weak in the first round this doesn't look like the turnout story people were touting last night

If you actually go to a women's sports game, you will notice that zero of these anti-trans people are actually there, supporting women's sports. It's very obvious.

This is why I keep saying how unfortunate it is that some of the loudest leftist voices online are Americans who have no idea how to win elections so they insist that elections don't matter and can't change anything Until the fascists get back in power and they start screaming "Dems, do something!"

checking in on the president of the united states

There is no special off switch for some percentage of humanity being shitty authoritarian assholes, you just have to keep making sure they're not in charge of things.

See? There is no secret “defeat fascism once and for all” belief system. You just do the work, every election. Far left, center left, it doesn’t matter. Learn the lesson: Stop pretending you’re special and just fucking vote for Democrats.

Brazilian media has now called Lula’s victory.

This just hit the @reuters.com wire: BRAZIL'S LULA REELECTED PRESIDENT IN RUNOFF VOTE, DATAFOLHA PROJECTS

One of the things you really see working in electoral politics is how narrow a part of overall politics it is. Elections matter a LOT in a republic. But most politics is still done outside campaigning.

nothing in the world feels better than just fucking crushing republicans. do everything you can to ensure that’s the outcome in 10 days

A cohort of far-right supporters of Vance, for example, are fond of using the acronym WAGTFKY, which stands for “we are going to f**king kill you” as a kind of in-group signaling of their own hatred and aggression.

Incredible gender difference in voting intention in Brazil.

Arguably anyone who accepts the pardon can’t plead the 5th in an investigation of the covered offenses. So you subpoena them, and if they don’t respond or lie, you prosecute for that. And if they do answer that becomes part of the case against everyone else.

the reason you issue preemptive mass pardons is to reassure junior staff who are shitting themselves that they’re safe and they don’t have to flip on you. going to be very important to push back on their validity, which is nil, preemptively also

You have to change the incentive structure. That means Republican crimes have to land you hard prison time, just like normal people crimes do.

This isn't conservative ideology, I'm just saying the stuff Ronald Reagan and Newt Gingrich constantly said!

I think they need to do first some lightning fast trials, with truly bad outcomes for republicans, to set a precedent, that even if they get back power, they will suffer the consequences.

"Collins has snowed a lot of people; if you read the typical fare from the political media, you’ll mostly see her characterized as a pro-choice Republican who, somehow or another, keeps casting pivotal votes that further the ends of the anti-abortion movement." #MEpolitics

Given the shift in media ownership over the Trump era, Democrats REALLY need to learn to ignore media handwringing now. Because I have no doubt their every move for accountability will be attacked from every possible angle.

I mean, I guess they know everything they've done has been illegal.

"Ro Kanna trades a lot of stocks, but maybe it's fine because it doesn't seem like he's trading on insider information" is a perfect Ro Kanna pendulum sort of sentence

On the one hand, it's frustrating to have conservative ideology like this inside the tent. On the other hand, that's what a popular front against fascism looks like.

Put that man in jail.

Trump has made more stock trades in his second term than all 535 members of Congress combined.

Remember when the President directing the DOJ to do literally anything would be a months long scandal that would almost certainly end in impeachment? I miss those days.

Put that man in jail.

typical republican behavior

DSA is so much like a county Democratic Executive Committee. I can't tolerate any of it.

I can see why Donald Trump would be invested in people not believing 12 year old rape victims

Me to anti-EC Republicans in 2030: "hmm, I dunno, convince me." Me inside:

Wow, so... they can pay it? And they'll go to real effort not to move? Sounds like wealth taxes are a go.

They routinely conflate scam PACs/groups and related bad acts with “paid their pollster for a poll.” They’re routinely arrogant and dismissive when you try to probe and highlight what they don’t know.

Call it the “Obama already killed bin Laden” act and say anyone who voted against it hates Da Troops.