James A. Robichaux

Georgia is one of the main states to watch for Republicans to redo their WI/NC playbook of using the lame duck session to entrench power after losing elections. New reporting on what they might do if they lose: www.ajc.com/politics/202...

Both the U.S. & U.K. create their own currency, own their own central bank & do not have any foreign denominated debts. So, which is more likely to happen?? A private sector debt crises or a government sector debt crises? youtu.be/szmZZwwtAm8?...

Wow! Both major US political parties are hostile to Arabs in Michigan! 😐

Yes

it feels truly insane that it’s not

“Trump? I thought you said pump. Yes, I’m very pumped about this election.”

Smart move by Mike Rogers' staff to set up his earpiece so it mutes any reference to Trump.

Ramaswamy may have pulled his horrible ad featuring Amy Acton's mother, but it doesn’t erase that he publicly punished Acton for the horrible cards she was dealt, which is parents who provided an unsafe, unstable home. His moral compass does not exist and he’s unfit to lead Ohio.

If the entire Democratic party needs to be unified, why are Democratic leadership abandoning our trans friends and family? Why does demanding that we not abandon anyone equate to "sowing division," while the abandonment itself does not equate to sowing division? You reveal yourself.

“Positional accommodation“ makes you look weakAF. Not a plan to win.

They claim to want to beat Republicans. But they clearly suck at it. Did it work for Dems when they were * Tough on crime? * Opposed gay marriage? * "Ended welfare as we know it"? * Cut taxes ("tax relief")?

I’d rather them standup for their principles and lose the election than cave to the stupidly of their fascist beliefs.

You run an ad like this and you get an ad in response saying "Democrats want to kidnap and trans your children into gay muslims." You cannot give them an inch on this framing. You have to respond with a throat punch.

Complicit. To the point that we can assume they were complicit before; that this has always been about class, and that they knew exactly what they were doing the whole time.

"Abandonment is Unity," the doublespeak of centrist extremists. Working with Nazis to exclude people Nazis want to exclude is how you get Nazis. Solidarity is how you beat them. We must work to replace leadership of the Democrat's Abandonment Coalition. We must foster and grow a Solidarity Party.

You can't beat fascism by agreeing with fascism. You can't beat fascists by accepting a fascist frame. Corporatist Democratic Party leadership needs to be defeated and jettisoned. We have to fight them, not because we don't want to fight Republicans, but because they refuse to.

Trump’s response to the Ramaswamy ad is worth dwelling on to remind us how his administration has actually treated survivors of abuse. Beyond Acton, beyond Epstein's victims, there are thousands of other kids and domestic violence victims whose lives have been made materially worse by Trump policy

This is what they wanted

The Ramaswamy campaign not only tried to capitalize on a child rape victim, they did it by using an old homeless woman who—while vile—is in no mental shape to adequately understand the stakes. And did they pay her? Either answer is bad.

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I do not think it is hyperbolic to put the Trump presidency in these terms. In fact, to be accurate I think you have to describe it as Andy does here.

Andy's right. "Look forward, not back" is how we got here. Ford pardoned Nixon. Obama passed on prosecuting torture. Jan. 6th accountability went nowhere. Each time, the lesson learned wasn't restraint, it was impunity. Muddling through this isn't the safe option. It's an invitation to the next one.

Donald Trump has spent the entirety of 2026 doing everything possible to subvert the elections. He has conducted a war with neither approval nor transparency. He has continued illegal tariffs. He has killed 300 fishermen. He has threatened Canada, Greenland, Ukraine and Cuba. Still 2 months to go.

History doesn't reset the day after Trump. It's not automatic back to normal, yay democracy won. We will still have a republic that is gravely wounded and bleeding out. Defeating the current assailant doesn't mean you've stopped the bleeding. The wounds are still there and still potentially fatal.

Maybe that's him and/or his immediate political successors. Maybe it's some new thing following in his footsteps and expanding on his precedents for what you can get away with. But it's a binary choice. Either you shut this kind of thing down hard and decisively or sooner or later it will work.

What happens to these criminals will determine whether, at some point in the near future, some not-huge number of years down the line, this country is a liberal democracy or else has a consolidated authoritarian regime and/or collapses into civil conflict. That's not hyperbole, it's what's at stake.

Muddling through is not good enough. It's kicking the can down the road for the next would-be autocrat to try again and try harder. It can be repudiated as a fundamental discontinuity in legitimacy and its perpetrators punished accordingly or else the democratic death spiral doesn't stop with him.

We'll see how far the attempt goes, even if it will clearly fail. But a constitutional system that sees such an attempt by its chief executive and then leaves him in office has already been shattered. Merely trying is betrayal enough and places him outside of constitutional or democratic legitimacy.

That it'll fail because they lack sufficient consolidation and centralized control does not make it trivial that the president of the United States is trying to steal elections and produce an illegitimate sham Congress. It is open rebellion against the Constitution and morally tantamount to treason.

Not to minimize the rest of your list but people forget how terrible it was. You'd go to the "non-smoking" section and your food would taste like an ashtray

I wonder if zoomers understand that a smoking section was not like...in a different building from the nonsmoking. Or even a different *room* - there might not even be a wall between them! You just hoped the smoke wouldn't drift too far over.

I don't miss roll up windows or cassette tapes even a little bit.

MAGA Republicans now have a pattern of misogyny, dismissal of pedophilia, and cruelty.

A decade in, we should have no doubt he thinks it makes you a big man, to abuse smaller women and even girls.

Centrists: "Trans politics are a distraction from the Trump tarrifs and kitchen table issues" Also Centrists: <spends $2,000,000 on ads saying they want to ban trans women from Women's sports>

It is shameful that these people clap. It is shameful that not a single Republican member of Congress speaks out to say how shameful this is. It is shameful that this is where America is. The hubris and arrogance and self-dealing that made this Trump and his kind possible…it is endlessly shameful.

Getting sick of this degenerate political movement ngl

Y'all do why I think that posts like these are, at best, useless, right?

Thank you. You are the only other person here who gets the point. There is this alarming liberal habit of taking conservative assertions literally, fact checking them, and then leaving unchallenged and even unaddressed the actual point of the assertion. bsky.app/profile/jame...