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Who is Lakshya Jain and why does she/he get quoted so much on politics? He/she doesn’t know wtf she/he is talking about.
December 18, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Who is Lakshya Jain and why does she/he get quoted so much on politics? He/she doesn’t know wtf she/he is talking about.
They thought so, too
December 18, 2025 at 1:46 AM
They thought so, too
Did Trump Ok Johnson as Speaker because he had something on him? Wouldn’t surprise me.
December 18, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Did Trump Ok Johnson as Speaker because he had something on him? Wouldn’t surprise me.
That's an interesting, and deeply unusual, definition. I would call that "populist" not liberal. In my experience, liberals like to use power to do things, which means gaining and centralizing it.
December 17, 2025 at 10:51 PM
That's an interesting, and deeply unusual, definition. I would call that "populist" not liberal. In my experience, liberals like to use power to do things, which means gaining and centralizing it.
Good example here. I bet you don't mean liberal in a substantive sense, but in a rhetorical sense. Or maybe not. What do you mean exactly by that word?
December 17, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Good example here. I bet you don't mean liberal in a substantive sense, but in a rhetorical sense. Or maybe not. What do you mean exactly by that word?
If we all stop buying stuff that would cause prices to go down.
December 17, 2025 at 10:28 PM
If we all stop buying stuff that would cause prices to go down.
It's completely obvious to me that someone talked to Trump at MaL who had a deal go sour with the Venezuelan national oil company and is pissed, and that intersected with the Peace Prize winner this year. That's literally all that Trump is thinking.
December 17, 2025 at 9:42 PM
It's completely obvious to me that someone talked to Trump at MaL who had a deal go sour with the Venezuelan national oil company and is pissed, and that intersected with the Peace Prize winner this year. That's literally all that Trump is thinking.
I'm not a huge Obama fan but his economy was pretty dang good, and that benefited all people including Black.
December 17, 2025 at 9:08 PM
I'm not a huge Obama fan but his economy was pretty dang good, and that benefited all people including Black.
Oh goodness ... is Trump invading Venezuela precisely in order to get Machado to give him a Peace Prize?
December 17, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Oh goodness ... is Trump invading Venezuela precisely in order to get Machado to give him a Peace Prize?
Helluva header there, Quinnipiac.
December 17, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Helluva header there, Quinnipiac.
Generally verboten for professional prosecutors. Very unethical. You could certainly say the circumstances warranted it, but he might have felt differently and anyway that it would have been a one day story he would be sacrificing his ethics for.
December 17, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Generally verboten for professional prosecutors. Very unethical. You could certainly say the circumstances warranted it, but he might have felt differently and anyway that it would have been a one day story he would be sacrificing his ethics for.
Of course it is.
December 17, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Of course it is.
I do wonder: Did Trump just announce a new policy on Truth Social for shits and grins and DoD is now scrambling to implement something resembling it?
December 17, 2025 at 6:56 PM
I do wonder: Did Trump just announce a new policy on Truth Social for shits and grins and DoD is now scrambling to implement something resembling it?
Well, that or he was quietly fired and offered the option to leave on his own terms.
December 17, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Well, that or he was quietly fired and offered the option to leave on his own terms.
I think the reality is he has lost control of a portion of his caucus, and that as a result he's actually relieved that the discharge petition succeeded. It's the Senate's problem now. Thune is not pleased.
December 17, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I think the reality is he has lost control of a portion of his caucus, and that as a result he's actually relieved that the discharge petition succeeded. It's the Senate's problem now. Thune is not pleased.
You're being punished for refusing to release Tina Peters. Stay firm, governor.
December 17, 2025 at 6:18 PM
You're being punished for refusing to release Tina Peters. Stay firm, governor.
Wonder what the grift is he's looking at next?
December 17, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Wonder what the grift is he's looking at next?
We (not you and me, but writ large) get into so many fights on here because people have different definitions of "liberal," "moderate," and "leftist." So many of them boil down to rhetoric and style, not substance!
December 17, 2025 at 6:13 PM
We (not you and me, but writ large) get into so many fights on here because people have different definitions of "liberal," "moderate," and "leftist." So many of them boil down to rhetoric and style, not substance!
Bernie is a liberal. That's precisely whom I mean when I say the "working class" doesn't want liberals in power. They're fine with Joe Biden. Bernie's voters are mostly upper middle class white educated secular liberals (I'm from VT, I've known Bernie since he was mayor of Burlington).
December 17, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Bernie is a liberal. That's precisely whom I mean when I say the "working class" doesn't want liberals in power. They're fine with Joe Biden. Bernie's voters are mostly upper middle class white educated secular liberals (I'm from VT, I've known Bernie since he was mayor of Burlington).
THIS is exactly why Trump is so desperate that they not lose the House or the Senate next Fall. Hearings drive coverage drives politics.
December 17, 2025 at 6:04 PM
THIS is exactly why Trump is so desperate that they not lose the House or the Senate next Fall. Hearings drive coverage drives politics.
Good for me, if I'm honest.
December 17, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Good for me, if I'm honest.
Let's start with the assumption that the "working class" wants liberals in charge. They've voted neutrally or slightly Republican since the 80's. Modern liberalism is the ideology of wealthy professionals and the highly educated elite now. The LOWER the turnout, the better liberals do.
December 17, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Let's start with the assumption that the "working class" wants liberals in charge. They've voted neutrally or slightly Republican since the 80's. Modern liberalism is the ideology of wealthy professionals and the highly educated elite now. The LOWER the turnout, the better liberals do.
The only reason that shit works (and it does) is because people loathe intellectual lefties even more right now.
December 17, 2025 at 5:41 PM
The only reason that shit works (and it does) is because people loathe intellectual lefties even more right now.
Still his best issue. Don't attack on your opponent's strongest front.
December 17, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Still his best issue. Don't attack on your opponent's strongest front.
They've always tended toward the "manifest your own reality" style of rhetoric, shall we say. But they've now got absolutely nothing else, and are grasping it like a drowning man on a log.
December 17, 2025 at 5:37 PM
They've always tended toward the "manifest your own reality" style of rhetoric, shall we say. But they've now got absolutely nothing else, and are grasping it like a drowning man on a log.