He has taken on the role as the Wise Man of the Establishment and takes it seriously and thinks strategically. His personal opinions on candidates should not matter, and he is is wise enough to know this
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It’s a shame he cannot be elected again. He is after all the brightest light bulb in the party and by far, the most rethorically able.
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For all the work that Obama and Hillary did to mend the rift between them and within the party that came from the 08 primary campaign (it was nastier than people remember now), it still feels like so much of our Democratic party dynamics is explained by that ongoing struggle for if the party will be a Clintonian one or an Obama one. It was notable that information of a private call Obama sent to Mamdani offering his praise and support was reported on a day after Hillary ridiculously obfuscated on what should have been simple question on whether she’d vote for him.
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I dont get it
I’m guessing it’s about US military personnel stationed in Germany having to go to food banks to feed themselves during this shutdown?
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Oh. OH
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Sorry, I don’t understand, what do you mean?
I am not so sure about that. A lot of young soldiers might rely on mess meals primarily, and won’t have a lot of financial resources to draw on.
If it was not a concern, I don’t think US Army channels would be putting this information out there. Whether or not this equates to the sort of need that the Tafel exists to serve is a different question. My understanding is that the organization is already somewhat overwhelmed.
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Maybe you are right, I was googling, and found that they don’t get free food in the mess. I thought they did, to be honest.
I retract my criticism. I should have thoroughly googled before commenting.
I mean, I was foolish here, as I extrapolated from what I thought was common and sensible.
Good night for the Dems last night. Mamdani victory in such a way that he mobilized millions of New Yorkers in what could be a powerful force of rebuke to Trump. Trump is going after blue cities and states, and appallingly he has already started that, but New Yorkers seem ready to stand strong. They want something different, and Mamdani has tapped into that with the cost of living stuff. It will be fascinating to see how far his star rises, and what happens in likely future tussles with Trump.
In addition there were the two female governors in Virginia, Spanberger; and New Jersey, Sherrill. Good for them, they both did really well.
Arguably the biggest news was Proposition 50 passing in California. This is a Redistricting effort in response to dirty tricks by Republicans in others states, notably Texas, to take gerrymandering to even more ridiculous levels. Proposition 50 will likely give the Democrats 5 extra congressional seats in California in 2026.
Gavin Newsom seems like the Democrat who is coming to the fore to me, in terms of a Presidential run. He speaks well, has a grasp of policy, has a lot of experience running a massive state, he is not afraid to get into the mud and fight Trump there as needed, and - in a TV/photogenic sort of era, even though it’s shallow and shouldn’t matter, he is tall, slim, fit, and handsome, still relatively young for a top politician, and will provide a stark contrast to Trump on all those optics.
The impacts on food banks have already been seen in the US, not least because some military families are eligible for and use the SNAP program that did not make the November 1 payment and is apparently going to be about 50% of the planned disbursement when it is done late. It was pointed out to me as well that the people capable of doing something out of the ordinary with these sort of payments have generally been gutted by the DOGE cuts, so the ‘pay half as soon as we can’ may end up a bit of a disaster.
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MORE than a good night for democracy in the USA.
Along with what you mentioned, Virginia came up HUGE, also electing as Lt. Governor, the first Muslim woman to hold a statewide office in the USA,as well as the democrat for AG. Virginia also flipped a dozen state seats blue, including 7 seats that had been republican for over 40 years.
Georgia elected two democrats as state officers, flipping those seats, and Mississippi, of all places, flipped two state seats to democrats, breaking the supermajority the gop has held in that state for some years.
Last night was truly a massive blue wave here, and a GIANT FUCK YOU to the fat orange kiddie diddler.
Now, we need to continue this momentum into next year’s election cycle, where Congress stands in the balance.
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Yeah, that should be the story more than the New York mayoral election.
I just know I’ll eat my words but are we seeing peak Trump - or even past it?
The issue is always that just when you think you’ve reached the bottom of the hole, you find that you can always keep digging…
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When I read this mindless drivel from Harris, I despair. Cheney was nothing but a heartless despot. He was the brain of Bush junior’s team, basically a band of psychopaths and criminals who turned the world to the worse. They, and the 2008 crisis they provoked, allowed the emergence of the MAGA movement in the first place.
I hope that there is a special, painful place in hell for Cheney. May he rot there for a long time.
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If people want to lecture us simpletons on realpolitik, and the need for serious men to make hard decisions that we’re not capable of making, ok. I mean fuck you, but ok it’s a perspective of what it takes to be responsible for a major country. But the thing with that perspective is you have to actually know WTF you are doing. You cannot couple it with incompetence. And that, as much as the lack of humanity, was the over-riding characteristic of the Iraq campaign.
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Rooting for an American city to fail? Why do Conservatives hate real Americans?
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Golden is the sort of Dem democratic voters hate because he’s basically a Republican, but one of those Bush era republicans who is at least with your party on most things, and that is infinitely better than what will almost certainly replace him now
Reading his statement it appears concerns over him or his family being the target of political violence are the driving force behind this.
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The reflex is to not read too much into the Spanberger result because as many of said 4 years ago when Youngkin won, the VA governor race is very often a reflexive swing away from whomever just won the presidency. Yes it was a big win, but she was up against a catastrophically bad opponent. Yet in the AG race, it was the Dem who was the bad candidate. He suffered his own Planter situation resulting in lots of calls for him to step down. And he still won. I think if you look beyond those top line races that is where the bulk of the encouragement should come from
I think this is one of those cases where a lot of post-election narratives about how the results show there is blood in the water for Dems to take advantage of and they will be directionally right even if the examples people are using to support them, and even the lessons they are taking (see, we need to run an ex CIA uber moderate to win) are wrong.
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Blame the conservatives on the supreme court. From an August institution 50 years ago it has been a laughing stock judicially for more than a decade.
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