JFK files released…
Turns out, little monkey fella.
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Let it go. This is a completely made up problem and the Bernie people who continue to hold on to it despite it not meaning anything at all demonstrate that living in a fantasy world where their made up grievances are treated as real is not limited to MAGA
It is also worth pointing out that many of the same people arguing that Dems were crooked because of super delegates were among the people arguing that Dems fucked up by allowing Biden to initially opt to run again. Either you want a strong centralized party structure that can impose decisions on the rest of the party, like who they will nominate for president, or you dont.
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Ezra’s take is one focused on making lefty/democratic politics get better at achieving the outcomes it claims to care about. It can and should be viewed in isolation from any discussion about the flaws of the GOP.
His point is one he has been developing and speaking about for years, but is getting a lot of attention now because he finished his book on the issue last year and it just got released this week, and in lefty circles it is considered a bit of a manifesto on how Dems can reclaim the territory they claim to care about. Simply put he claims that despite good intentions a series of unintended consequences have resulted in Democratic approaches to (primarily local) government getting in the way of the progress these people claim to want. His argument is that we need to get back to a place where we are putting more focus on the outcomes the regulations were put in place to achieve rather than an attitude of venerating the regulations and process for how to follow them as ends in themselves.
I think his position is undoubtedly right, but I am skeptical. In a time of DOGE it runs the risk of being misconstrued as being allied to what they claim they are trying to do and it most certainly is not. While I’m sure it is part of the book, in the years i’ve heard him discuss this idea I’ve never seriously seen him address issues of what actual growth looks like in an environment not restrained by regulations based on protecting the public good (see the city of Houston growing itself into a city that can no longer handle above average seasonal rainfall without catastrophic flooding). But having worked all my career in a highly regulated industry I’m also just mostly skeptical of the ability of the average worked, or even someone as good as the 75th %ile worker, being able to operate on first principles of understanding the goal of the regulation rather than just operating on what the common literal understanding of what it requires.
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Like it or not, we have ended up in a place where the leaders and party insiders have limited power to dictate who runs for president and who the party nominates. Trump getting nominated in 2016 started questions being asked about whether the party leadership have given away too much power in this area but nothing came from it. The Biden calamity showed again how powerless the insiders are at stopping something happening they dont want to see and it wouldnt surprise me to see some movement in ways the party’s can recentralize a bit of control over these matters.
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They get what they voted for. I wonder if the dummies that voted Trump because they thought he would be better for the economy would abstain (you know they would never vote for a dem no matter what) if they could vote again right now.
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White women with a college degree have very different opinions compared to other white people.
https://x.com/ericldaugh/status/1902505080617853347?s=46&t=o3XUPKxiqJH7KZYdWMCtqg
DT “April 2nd is a liberating day for our country”.
Well thats a lot of us screwed then. If we ever felt the need to go there.
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I’ll certainly abstain from setting feet in this retarded country, at least until trumpism will be dead and buried. Not holding my breath.
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And yet people will continue to say with a straight face that they hate the censorious attitude of the Dems and support Trump because he will end cancel culture and protect free speech.
The same things though that allowed people to think that going into the election are the same reasons why they will learn no lessons from how it is now playing out.
- The thing thing happening right now isn’t happening. That’s just the corporate media lying.
- Yes its happening, but its not actually like that its because of [insert made up explanation]
- Yes, that is what is happening, but if you were an independent thinker you would realize this [fascism] is actually good
- Ok, it might not be good, but it’s the Dems’ fault. Why didnt they, the party we ensured have no power, stop them?
- You know they are both as bad as each other. That is why I will continue to vote Republican no matter how much I acknowledge the criticism of them is actually on the money.
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FREE SPEECH BABY!!!
U S A! U S A! U S AAAAAAA!!!
Yes it’s a bloody complete sentence.
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Funny you should say that…
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Record number of Americans applying for UK citizenship. Details to follow
Enough to make up for all those british citizens who applied for Irish passports after brexit?
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F£%^@/# immigrants
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