The 2016 and 2024 Democratic campaigns were so inept you almost wonder if people were bribed to take a dive. And yet the Democratic establishment still insists that they know best.
“The last people who have any right to lecture us about electability are the establishment who lost to Donald Trump twice,” says Ro Khanna. “I don’t want to hear it. If you had anything to do with those campaigns, please sit down or exit stage left.”
and then assail James Talarico’s manhood. Go figure.
As if taking orders from Alan Dershowitz wasn’t bad enough, Yale now wants to irrevocably sully its reputation by settling with the Trump administration over its entirely-frivolous accusations of bias in admissions policy.
The New York Times has the story.
It has taken Trump to truly demonstrate to America how pathetically incapable of leadership are so many of its putative leaders. Yale has been playing footsie with the Trump administration and mud wrestler McMahon for months, seemingly oblivious to the proven pattern by which propitiation to Trump only invites more abuse. Now Yale’s president and trustees must resign.
On Fox Propaganda, Watters launches a new attack on the city’s needy.
Accompanying that is their existentially brutal attack on the lives and livelihoods of working Americans.
The Republicans’ agenda is now so sick that any policy that benefits working Americans is tarred as “Communism.” Progressive Democrats need to make that clear to the American electorate and explain the way that Repulicans throw around these labels in a nonsensical manner.
Well, Peter Thiel may have gone on the lam to Argentina, but as a whole the oligarchs see their future on colonized planets such as Mars. What’s clear, too, is that they no longer see themselves as part of any national or even human community.
“Let’s let them go!” Laura Jacobs said to me not long ago.
“Yes in My Back Yard” means different things in different locales. Too often it is simply another Trojan horse wearing the silks of “affordable housing.” In Manhattan, we’ve seen the obliteration of zoning regulation and height restrictions lead to the destruction of rent-regulated low-rise housing to make way for mammoth luxury towers.
Village Preservation has a new video series “Cracks in the YIMBY Consensus.” The first segment concerns Why We Can’t Upzone Our Way Out of the Affordability Crisis.
The Republicans’ Hitlerian anti-immigrant hate agenda is a sign of how little the party understands America and how much contempt for it they have.
That is how the Democrats need to message about immigration. No playing defense. No touting how mean they, too, can be to immigrants.
In Feud, Sarandon fuses her own inflections and intonations with a chaser of Davis’s and creates a fresh characterization that steers clear of caricature.
Hopefully, Tallulah will one day reap the same reward.
Sham charts and placards that are Trumpworld’s puerile idea of stage and stagecraft. But the president’s neurological impairment means that he can’t manipulate these props with ease and so he winds up implicating his own unfitness.
