Ben

The Boomers have taken a wealthy and stable superpower inherited from the greatest generation, spent all of the benefits on themselves & will soon hand off an unstable nation that's in danger of collapse.

And they refuse to turn over power to the next generation despite 12 years of signs it's time

Quick find him a soul to feed on

Kinda seems like the plan is to keep up misdirection until any kind of positive "objective" happenstances, and then claim that was the objective all along.

Yeah - Biden and the Dem leadership set her back a ton (and all the other contenders) by pulling Biden out late rather than having a primary.

Did you know it was freedom loving Republican appointed justice largely responsible for the Roe v. Wade decision?

So the right created the "problem", the RR rebranded it as the greatest evil of our time, and now the right gets a pass with single issue voters to do any other evil they want.

Bonus question:

YHWH says not to legally punish the children for the sins of the parents.

If the unborn is a person, why does YHWH kill David's infant child to punish David for his adultery and murder with Bathsheba?

Did you know until the RR, abortion was not a hot button issue for protestants?

The RR's argument for pro life largely comes from the Old Testament. 2 questions.

What is YHWH's penalty for adultery?

Is there a wait period before execution of an adulteress to protect the life of any potential unborn?

Fun facts. Most illegal immigrants came legally and over-stayed. They passed background checks for their original entry. Illegal immigrants are ~50% less likely to commit violent crime than the citizen population.

Now let's talk about the savage rapist that's being protected in the White House...

Effectively, the Republucans saw a clogged toilet and decided that instead of fixing the clog, they should give laxatives to a ton of people and lock them in that bathroom.

Repubs have no trouble taking issue with the conditions of the immigration detention centers when Dems are in office. So they exponentially increase detentions. Cut processing resources & skip the process altogether as much as they can.

The peacemaker and the warrior. And both young, energetic, intelligent and seem to be people of integrity.

I really like Crockett and Talarico, so I hope the Democratic Party finds a place to plug her in ASAP.

If you want a hot take, they would be my top choice for the presidential ticket in 2028. Together, it's the right mix of sugar and spice. The right mix of steel and fire.

Of course, most folks around here already know that, but it's so culty. How is the most viewed news station not part of the mainstream media.

How are private universities that often have an equal and opposite bias (& get public $$ through public tuition assistance) not considered?

There are tons of Catholic, Evangelical, etc universities.

There is not a real problem of conservative views being under represented in higher education.

They did the same thing with news. Exclude the most viewed news channel (Fox), and claim that the "mainstream" media is against them.

Trump may have the pathology of one of those seriel killers that truly just wants to get caught and will continue to escalate until he is.

<sarc> Much thanks to the Repubs for shielding him from justice <sarc>

Betcha we follow the Venezuela roadmap and keep a regime in power that's just a bad for the Iranian people as the old one but is friendlier to our exploitation of their resources

Seems like avoiding congressional approval is largely the plan. And as long as Republicans in Congress continue to defend him, he can keep undermining congress until congress is largely symbolic like the British Kings and Queens.

Look how in the Bible, Joseph used an intense famine to transfer most of the property in Egypt to Pharoah's ownership.

It's already happening rapidly, and don't think the rich will suddenly develop a conscience when disaster strikes.

Any way you cut it. The USA is an empire on a trajectory toward collapse.

It's not left vs right. It's top verses bottom. The top doesn't care because they are insulated. They can ride out the storm. Maybe even benefit from it. Its always the bottom that gets hit hardest by catastrophe.

the question is: do we want to handle the debt and deficit in a managed way on our own terms OR do we wait for the bubble to pop and hope for the best?

One way is going to be very difficult, but the other is catastrophic.

Right will have to concede higher taxes & lower military spending.

Left may not be able to provide the highest level of safety nets.

Deficit spending is stimulous in the short term, though. Taxing appropriately and cutting spending will set back the economy, so...

Inflation is impacted by a ton of factors. However, 1 major factor is the financial health of the government backing the currency. Just like an over-leveraged banking, housing or tech bubble can pop, so can an over-leveraged government.

Trump figured out that the RR was fully groomed. He may not be the guy they prefered, but he set their end game in motion, and they are stuck with it and with him.

The religious right has been building up to this my entire adult life. Some of the trends go back to the Kennedy election (like unfounded claims of ejection fraud). The so-called religious right came into play shortly after Republican appointed Justices delivered the Roe v. Wade decision. & on...

Rewatching Newsroom. They had the danger from the radicalization of the right pegged by episode 3.

So many could see it coming, but here we are anyway...

I don't know if God is real, but the people who think he is should know that Jesus let his betrayer manage the money bag. The Bible even notes that Judas was stealing from it

Jesus didn't care about $$$. He cared about taking care of the poor, the widow, the orphan & the foreigner. JD is the fraud

States have the right to regulate our own elections & maintain sovereignty over how we select our own representatives, as long as we abide by the constitutional protections for women and non-whites.

Crazy that left is more libertarian than the right these days.

I like both candidates, and I hope we can find a way to give them both prominent roles in the Democratic party going forward.

Also, let's be optimistic. A Democratic Primary has raised the profile of both of these candidates. That's a good thing if strategic leadership knows what to do with it.

Liberal Christianity has a long tradition in this country. There's no particular reason to worry about a Talarico flip. We just don't talk about Liberal Christianity as much since the only people who find it offensive are conservative Christians.

I also get that step 1 is to get out of the crisis that the Trump administration has brought upon us.

But there's no great reason to leave this establishment in charge... (Of course, be discerning. There are some folks legitimately fighting for the ppl. AOC comes to mind. )