Oh come on...

How do you reconcile your takes that he should not be commended for taking liberal positions as a Democrat but then also arguing he is a conservative, and American conservativism falls squarely on the right wing of the Democratic Party?

The second take seems like nonsense.

The same administration that posts website landing pages and out of office messages specifically blaming Democrats for the shutdown considers an employee’s display of a desk flag a year ago, before Trump took office, to be objectionably political.

Especially when you consider the insane NFL tiebreaker procedures.

My daughter has been riding the subway since she was 5 and she loves it because she isn't a scared loser like McClains daughter

Can that gender split be accurate?

Democrats also did this. The judicial filibuster is long gone.

Ya as is always true! The filibuster is a norm that can be broken at any time. Again, in 2013 this happened exactly!

This is not exactly accurate. They do need Dem votes to avoid the shutdown. If Dems controlled everything, and GOP withheld Senate support (as has happened in 2013!), I'll bet we would object to a headline saying it was exclusively a Democratic shutdown.

Minkah was awful last year too. Don't know why it happened, maybe the injuries the year before, but he seems to have lost it.

*reviles* Trump that should say.

Agree. And part of it is that the coastal, pundit class is reviled by Trump and therefore think that his 45% ish popularity *must* be do to some colossal failure of the Democratic Party. They fail to see that for those 45%....the authoritarianism is liked or at least accepted.

Exactly. I'd love to see the auyhor's "evidence" that the 18% swing in Hispanic margins was people turned off by Liz Cheney. Just ridiculous.

The Right is nakedly trying to make it illegal to call them fascists which is about the most obviously fascist thing you could come up with.

We can and should be critical of reflexive centrists who think the answer to ever electoral loss is more centrism. But desperately seeking to argue (without evidence) that optimal electoral strategy should be basically this individual's policy (leftist) preferences... is no better & not productive.

How can we read the first half of this paragraph and think this is an excellent piece? The second half of the paragraph is correct, but the leftist ranting in the first half is evidence-free itself! Plus no nod to Biden's pro union policies? Abundance is the product of "Billionaires"? Come on.

/2 HEGSETH: NOBODY tells a warrior "hey ease up" or "haven't you had enough" or "must you vomit into my handbag"
GENERALS: [eerie silence, cough, creak of chair]
HEGSETH: and NOBODY tells a warrior how to keep his women in order or how to chase tail
GENERALS: ....
HEGSETH: NOT. EVEN. MOTHER.

Agree with all of that. Just wish for the country's sake, he had gotten his way and wiggled out of it.

Although tbf, he tried as hard as he could to get out of the deal and NOT buy Twitter due to him making a bad deal, and was eventually forced to buy in Court. It's such horrible irony that he ends up losing money on this thing he didn't end up wanting....but damaged the country in the process.

Not sure how you square your acknowledgement that Trump's infamous comment on shooting someone on Fifth Ave and not losing voters was "right" with you being "reasonably sure" Democrats will win the next presidential election...

Netanyahu: ‘These So-Called Genocide Experts Have Probably Never Committed A Genocide In Their Lives’

Today's decision being heavily criticized by Past Brendan Carr

Trump: Jimmy Kimmel is next

Trump admin: We will definitely exploit this murder to censor our critics

Carr: ABC must fire Jimmy Kimmel

ABC, minutes later: We have suspended Jimmy Kimmel

Anti-cancel culture crusader: I sure wish this clear business decision didn’t look so much like censorship!

"Difficult speakers... like someone who wants to abolish billionaires?"

"No, our donors wouldn't like that"

"Radical climate activists?"

"No, they aren't polished enough"

"Palestinians?"

"Good God no"

"What kind of difficult speakers?"

"Oh you know the ones"