They should offer to rename themselves the Washington Epstein Files

Poverty, lack of opportunity, lack of education, lack of intellectual curiosity, lack of introspection, lack of a sense of adventure, corrupt leaders they reelect on ideological grounds instead of outcomes, but with progressive enclaves like any state

Source: spent a lot of time in and around Oklahoma

I do think you can’t get a complete picture of America without understanding places like Oklahoma, but America is a big place and contains a lot of different cultures.

This was an excellent article, thanks for sharing! I just subscribed to his newsletter.

Foxx didn’t get Sanders’ endorsement, but her progressive opponent did, and she won. The lesson here, at least for the three candidates that won, is that his endorsement carries weight.

She’s older now, but for context, here’s what she looked like at the time she was dating Epstein. Trump assaulted her in Trump Tower in the '90s in plain view of everyone.

Huh, I guess Trump isn’t a child rapist and Epstein’s wealthy collaborators don’t really matter anymore. Well, glad that’s done! All’s well that ends well.

The letter bearing Trump’s name, which was reviewed by the Journal, is bawdy—like others in the album. It contains several lines of typewritten text framed by the outline of a naked woman, which appears to be hand-drawn with a heavy marker. A pair of small arcs denotes the woman’s breasts, and the future president’s signature is a squiggly “Donald” below her waist, mimicking pubic hair.

Inside the outline of the naked woman was a typewritten note styled as an imaginary conversation between Trump and Epstein, written in the third person.

“Voice Over: There must be more to life than having everything,” the note began. Donald: Yes, there is, but I won’t tell you what it is. Jeffrey: Nor will I, since I also know what it is. Donald: We have certain things in common, Jeffrey. Jeffrey: Yes, we do, come to think of it. Donald: Enigmas never age, have you noticed that? Jeffrey: As a matter of fact, it was clear to me the last time I saw you. Trump: A pal is a wonderful thing. Happy Birthday — and may every day be another wonderful secret.

The wonderful secret is raping and abusing girls. Enigmas never age because they’re always 13.

This just shows everyone that the husks who run the Democratic Party have zero ideas of their own. I don’t want to vote for Blue Trump. I want to vote for someone who isn’t a complete coward, who stands for something and will get things done. Start with an agenda of anti-corruption, worker rights, and climate action and go from there.

“Choosing not to work is just that, a choice,” Rep. Rudy Yakym, R-Ind., said in a statement on the legislation he’s sponsoring.

“While far-left states like Oregon and Washington are busy handing out unemployment checks like participation trophies to anyone who walks off the job, the SHIELD Act puts an end to that nonsense. These radical policies disrupt the labor market, let workers walk off the job without consequences, and leave small businesses high and dry. If you choose to strike, you don’t get to collect a check from hardworking Americans, plain and simple,” he added.

I’m ready to secede. The workers in the four states this waste of oxygen is targeting can take our collective $90 billion surplus we generously donate to poor red states and go build a modern society with robust public transit with that money instead

How many chip collectors exist on the entire planet, I wonder?

Clickbait headline worse than “claps back” or “slams.” He didn’t “spiral.” In the video he basically calmly repeats an abbreviated version of his last post on the subject.

I mean they can try to bring it before the Supreme Court, but the court probably won’t hear the case since they already ruled on the question: corporations have free speech protections, money is speech, and free speech is unlimited. Unlimited corruption for the wealthy and powerful.

I hear you. I think the difference is that France has way more worker protections, strong and influential unions, a solid social safety net, and frankly a less ruthless government, so there’s less fear of financial ruin for work stoppages.

Meanwhile, corporations in America keep the working poor as close to bonded slavery as they can get away with without pushing them over the edge to violence, though even that equilibrium is starting to shift based on worker attitudes I hear. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the federal government as well as state governments regularly sided with corporations over workers and murdered hundreds of them, and workers mostly lost or had their lives destroyed. The frequency of conflict finally resulted in union protections… like 50 years later. Now most of those protections have been unraveled, and many low-income workers are a few months of missed rent payments away from homelessness. If they lose their job, there will be a dozen people waiting to take that job right after. So asking for a general strike is asking people to face certain financial ruin for themselves and their families.

That said, to be honest, it’s a wonder to me that there hasn’t been more violence between workers and corporations. As they keep taking things away from the working poor, though, I think it’s coming. The problem is that propaganda is so strong that the violence may be misdirected. Either way, worker retaliation leading to a wider conflict is one of the only avenues I can see for systemic change.

That or secession.

Look, I think we’re basically on the same side of this. My point is that England is not the US, a cousin in Texas does not give you a complete picture, heck even Americans who grew up on the East Coast don’t understand the Midwest and vice versa. I’ve spent a month in a country in north Africa, a month in one in east Africa, I’ve made friends in those places and had long conversations with them about their countries, and I wouldn’t dream of assuming I understand those countries because I don’t. Since you have family in the US you of all people should be rooting for us to get our house in order. Posting defeatist or judgmental comments about the people who are against this, about people who are against fascism, against Israeli influence in our politics, may make you feel better in the short term, but it might be the comment that someone who was on the fence about taking action sees and pushes them into thinking “Why bother?”

Anyway, I’ve said my piece, I’ll stop there.

Liberals say this all the time. We can’t say or do X because it will just embolden MAGA! That’s how you end up with feckless nothings like Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries. Fascists need to be challenged at every opportunity.

He looks great for his age. 43 is quite old in Shar-Pei years

You judge a diverse country the size of all of Europe while evidently knowing very little about it. And the fact that you blame another country for your own country’s problems means you are pretending to be other than you are. We know our problems come from within.

Oh? How’s Lebanon doing right now? Rule of law? Corruption? Press freedoms? Economy and unemployment? It must be all good there given how frequently you post about America.

Besides the fact that this guy is a fascist, I’m tired of judicial nominees refusing to answer any questions whatsoever by saying how inappropriate it would be to answer. It’s gotten to the point where every nominee responds to every question like this:

Multiple Democratic senators pressed Bove in their questionnaire to clarify if Bove believes the Constitution permits Mr. Trump to run for a third term, despite the restrictions of the 22nd Amendment, which states that “No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice.”

“As a nominee to the Third Circuit, it would not be appropriate for me to address how this Amendment would apply in an abstract hypothetical scenario,” Bove responded on multiple occasions. “To the extent this question seeks to elicit an answer that could be taken as opining on the broader political or policy debate regarding term limits, or on statements by any political figure, my response, consistent with the positions of prior judicial nominees, is that it would be improper to offer any such comment as a judicial nominee.”

Of course, apparently it doesn’t actually matter if they lie directly, since multiple Supreme Court nominees have without consequence.

He’s already made statements well before this that he basically hates his job. This allows him to go out self-righteously