“Hard” questions in that they counter his most obvious lies, anyway. Let’s see how many news orgs write honestly about his stupid, racist ranting.
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At least the comedians will have lots of fodder.
I love that he always looks like he’s going to crack up before he drops a joke.
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Ugh. His calm and measured approach may have succeeded in backing her into the Incompetent Corner, but the overall effect is that of a reasoned hashing out of in-the-weeds differences between two rational adults.
I hope other Dems do a better job of exposing her as a dangerous, self-serving Russian asset.
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As my dad told it, in the 1950s the US was “…the United States of General Eisenhower, General Dynamics, General Electric, General Mills, General Motors…”
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Yeah, I agree. I’ll post more videos as they pop up…
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Ironic then that he’s probably more famous for warning about the “military industrial complex,” isn’t it.
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Like he even wrote it. He seemed to think being POTUS was about sitting at a desk and giving orders to everyone, like he did in WWII.
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Stuff I did not even think about. They are (IMHO) intentionally not letting folks know what criteria they would use to determine “DEI” “woke” “gender ideology” and as a consequence, a number of programs are just shutting down to avoid the risk of spending money they won’t get. This is going to hurt us a lot.
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Folks i know who work in academic, mostly bio-medical, labs tell me that at least three post-docs they know of are opting to head to private industry rather than continue their academic (grant-based) research as a direct result of trump’s re-election. This is mere hear-say that this is the result of anticipated loss of NIH grants, but i believe it. We’re going to lose a decade’s worth of solid scientific research in the states as a result of the orange excrescence. @#$!
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I feel like the Dems saw that Reagan could actively undermine working class interests and still get them to vote for him, and realized that the only way they were going to get elected was by also kowtowing to corporate interests (especially since Reagan saw the end of the unions that drove so much of Dem politics). So the two parties are essentially serving the same masters, making it that much more difficult for Dems to honestly provide a real alternative message*. (Traditionally what distinguished the two parties was Republicans supporting Christian fundamentalists and Democrats supporting [some] civil rights, but we saw Trump threaten civil rights and still get so many in the endangered demographics to vote for him that it lost the Dems the election, so Dems seem to feel like they can give up on that too, now…)
*Republicans feel free to just lie about what they’re doing in order to pretend to be populists, on the other hand.
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“This is Trump’s first major loss. When we fight, we win,” AOC wrote on X.
“We may not have majorities in the House and the Senate, but we DO have the power to loudly educate and mobilize against the mass looting the Trump admin is attempting against our veterans, healthcare, education, and more,” she added.
This is the simple truth of the matter. Republicans are not unstoppable. Donald Trump is a deeply incompetent president who has no understanding of the federal government he’s been entrusted with leading.
His mistakes and poor decisions will multiply by the day and by the time the mid-term elections roll around American voters will be clambering for a reprieve from MAGA governance.
Democrats must seize every opportunity we have to oppose this corrupt, cruel, and stupid regime.
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Prescient indeed. Thing is, most of the shitty outcomes are pretty easily predicted, but the worst of them will be emergent phenomena arising from the shit flooding the zone, and no one will expect them. Black swans ahead, man.
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