58% of Americans believe MAGA is a threat to Democracy after Joe Biden's speech.
Democrats, Republicans, independents and the majority of women are outraged over Dobbs.
But cash bail is going to do in front-runner Mandela Barnes in Wisconsin.
Charlie, I will bet you that Democrats end up with +5 in the Senate and pick up at least 10 seats in the House. If they don't, I will gift 10 Bulwark subs. If they do, I get to write a guest piece for the Bulwark. ;)
Hey, maybe the most famous Wisconsinite in the "grow the pro-democracy coalition" should invite Mandela Barnes onto his podcast to hash some of this stuff out.
Let me get the straight, one guy committing a horrible crime is the reason high bail needs to exist for all, yet thousands of gun deaths per year are not a reason for strict gun control? Wisconsin is one screwy and insane state.
"Exit take: Trump’s facts were, of course, wrong back then, as they are now. But the details don’t matter. It’s worth remembering that DJT will never, ever, under any circumstances acknowledge the legitimacy of any electoral defeat."
This is 100% accurate. Which is why I've been banging on the idea that the GOP will not hold competitive primaries for the presidential nomination in 2024 if Trump declares his candidacy. He's poisoned general election politics with election denialism, and it's guaranteed to infect the GOP primaries if he loses any of those, as well. So if Trump declares his candidacy, by going along with this madness, the GOP has left itself little choice other than to just hand him the nomination.
"Exit take: Trump’s facts were, of course, wrong back then, as they are now. But the details don’t matter. It’s worth remembering that DJT will never, ever, under any circumstances acknowledge the legitimacy of any electoral defeat."
Second exit take: Proving this fact to Trump's supporters will cost him exactly zero votes. They vote for him not in spite of him being as asshole, but because of it.
"For example, the law prohibits training or teaching that individuals “must feel guilt, anguish, or other forms of psychological distress because of actions . . . committed in the past by other members of the same race, color, sex, or national origin.”"
Anybody who doesn't feel guilt, anguish, or other forms of psychological distress because of actions of the human species is a monster.
I've had mandatory DEI training several times. Not once was there any hint that I should feel guilty for being a White male who experienced White Privilege. (And I really did -- I am old enough to have gone to segregated all White schools in the Jim Crow era. I also am the direct descendent of slaveowners.)
Fifty-eight percent of respondents in the two-day poll - including one in four Republicans - said Trump's "Make America Great Again" movement is threatening America's democratic foundations.
I think that is just about exactly the constituency President Biden was speaking about and to last week. It's the constituency that can defeat the Thousand Year MAGA the GOP has become.
Maybe I missed it, but why would elimination of cash bail be tied to the Waukesha Christmas parade murderer? That is a failure of the current bail system. Obviously the murderer was judged to not be a risk by the authorities in question (proven by the low bail amount). That is the failure point. Make the correct decision there, and the issue of cashless bail doesn't come into play.
The idea, as I understand it, is to not require cash for those the State deems to be no danger. It is a very, very small sliver of criminals we're talking about who will get misjudged by the court (low bail) and be kept in jail by that low bail. That's the only group that could be pointed to as the danger of cash bail elimination. The upside is all the people who (while accused of a crime) manage to keep their lives intact during the process of going through the legal system. Jobs kept, kids kept out of foster care, etc.
How about more of a discussion of the concept on its merits rather than just the horse-race notion of how some voters won't understand the basic concept.
New polls that show a majority of Americans believe MAGA Republicans pose a threat to democracy, and those that show the number one issue now for voters in the midterms is protecting democracy, are all encouraging.
But it doesn't address the fact that mainstream Republicans have let the MAGAts take over their party through their silent acquiescence. Unless and until voters are willing to hold THEM accountable for putting our nation in this danger, then we are still headed toward a very dark future. When they won't denounce the white supremacists, the armed militias intent on overthrowing the government, the quack-a-doodle conspiracy theories that many of their own espouse, the dangerous audacity of their party's leader stealing and storing classified documents with significant national security implications in an unsecured golf club known to be targeted by our enemies - when they go along with all of it to get along - we cannot ensure the security of our democracy while they still hold office.
There is no difference between this new Republican Party and the MAGA movement. They are the same animal that talks out of both sides of its mouth. Neither faction can be trusted with doing the right thing because both sides are only interested in power, not the country. This is the reality of win by any means necessary, cheat, steal or deny the results of an election all for the sake of power. The Republican Party no longer wishes to serve as representatives, they want the citizens to serve them. That is what has become of the Party I once could vote for. It is sickening. Justice Luttig was correct when he said Trump was a clear and present danger to democracy but he should have included the new Republican Party in his comments too.
Ted Cruz beat Donald Trump in the 2016 Iowa caucuses. You'll be shocked - shocked - to read the following from a Reuters story on 2/3/16: "Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Wednesday accused rival Ted Cruz of stealing a victory in the Iowa caucuses and called for another vote or nullification of Cruz’s win."
You cannot make this stuff up. If it was in a screenplay the studio execs would reject it for being too idiotic and unbelievable.
OK, I get it, the GOP will distort anyone's positions and make them a monster. That's long been their playbook, which you once embraced. But if you've turned over a new leaf, why are you falling into these same habits? What's worse: supporting cash bail or trying to overturn the US Constitution "for a few seconds"? Why do you consistently criticize the Dem's choice for WI Senate, yet don't offer the proper content that Johnson is by far the person with the most baggage? Now, if your argument is--similar to JVL's--that for reasons that we all have to struggle to figure out, the sins of the Dems are always perceived to be worse than the far greater sins of the Crazy Right in election narratives, that would be more edifying.
DEIA training...look, I get it, the older generations loathe it. But they're also the ones designing the shittastic trainings of it. For Millenials (especially the younger ones) and GenZ though, DEIA is our baseline. It's a hard thing and it does require a lot of honest conversations....but it also requires accepting some people are not going to change, let alone quickly. But trying to impose government into private sector uses of it....yeah, fuck that
About cash bail, isn't the question really about bail and not about cash? Criminals who pose a danger to others should not be let out regardless of their ability to pay. People who do not pose a danger to others should not be held just because of their inability to pay.
58% of Americans believe MAGA is a threat to Democracy after Joe Biden's speech.
Democrats, Republicans, independents and the majority of women are outraged over Dobbs.
But cash bail is going to do in front-runner Mandela Barnes in Wisconsin.
Charlie, I will bet you that Democrats end up with +5 in the Senate and pick up at least 10 seats in the House. If they don't, I will gift 10 Bulwark subs. If they do, I get to write a guest piece for the Bulwark. ;)
Hey, maybe the most famous Wisconsinite in the "grow the pro-democracy coalition" should invite Mandela Barnes onto his podcast to hash some of this stuff out.
Let me get the straight, one guy committing a horrible crime is the reason high bail needs to exist for all, yet thousands of gun deaths per year are not a reason for strict gun control? Wisconsin is one screwy and insane state.
"Exit take: Trump’s facts were, of course, wrong back then, as they are now. But the details don’t matter. It’s worth remembering that DJT will never, ever, under any circumstances acknowledge the legitimacy of any electoral defeat."
This is 100% accurate. Which is why I've been banging on the idea that the GOP will not hold competitive primaries for the presidential nomination in 2024 if Trump declares his candidacy. He's poisoned general election politics with election denialism, and it's guaranteed to infect the GOP primaries if he loses any of those, as well. So if Trump declares his candidacy, by going along with this madness, the GOP has left itself little choice other than to just hand him the nomination.
"Exit take: Trump’s facts were, of course, wrong back then, as they are now. But the details don’t matter. It’s worth remembering that DJT will never, ever, under any circumstances acknowledge the legitimacy of any electoral defeat."
Second exit take: Proving this fact to Trump's supporters will cost him exactly zero votes. They vote for him not in spite of him being as asshole, but because of it.
"For example, the law prohibits training or teaching that individuals “must feel guilt, anguish, or other forms of psychological distress because of actions . . . committed in the past by other members of the same race, color, sex, or national origin.”"
Anybody who doesn't feel guilt, anguish, or other forms of psychological distress because of actions of the human species is a monster.
Many of us agree with Trump.
The Electoral College was and is a disaster. As the election of 2016 proved.
I've had mandatory DEI training several times. Not once was there any hint that I should feel guilty for being a White male who experienced White Privilege. (And I really did -- I am old enough to have gone to segregated all White schools in the Jim Crow era. I also am the direct descendent of slaveowners.)
Fifty-eight percent of respondents in the two-day poll - including one in four Republicans - said Trump's "Make America Great Again" movement is threatening America's democratic foundations.
I think that is just about exactly the constituency President Biden was speaking about and to last week. It's the constituency that can defeat the Thousand Year MAGA the GOP has become.
Maybe I missed it, but why would elimination of cash bail be tied to the Waukesha Christmas parade murderer? That is a failure of the current bail system. Obviously the murderer was judged to not be a risk by the authorities in question (proven by the low bail amount). That is the failure point. Make the correct decision there, and the issue of cashless bail doesn't come into play.
The idea, as I understand it, is to not require cash for those the State deems to be no danger. It is a very, very small sliver of criminals we're talking about who will get misjudged by the court (low bail) and be kept in jail by that low bail. That's the only group that could be pointed to as the danger of cash bail elimination. The upside is all the people who (while accused of a crime) manage to keep their lives intact during the process of going through the legal system. Jobs kept, kids kept out of foster care, etc.
How about more of a discussion of the concept on its merits rather than just the horse-race notion of how some voters won't understand the basic concept.
New polls that show a majority of Americans believe MAGA Republicans pose a threat to democracy, and those that show the number one issue now for voters in the midterms is protecting democracy, are all encouraging.
But it doesn't address the fact that mainstream Republicans have let the MAGAts take over their party through their silent acquiescence. Unless and until voters are willing to hold THEM accountable for putting our nation in this danger, then we are still headed toward a very dark future. When they won't denounce the white supremacists, the armed militias intent on overthrowing the government, the quack-a-doodle conspiracy theories that many of their own espouse, the dangerous audacity of their party's leader stealing and storing classified documents with significant national security implications in an unsecured golf club known to be targeted by our enemies - when they go along with all of it to get along - we cannot ensure the security of our democracy while they still hold office.
There is no difference between this new Republican Party and the MAGA movement. They are the same animal that talks out of both sides of its mouth. Neither faction can be trusted with doing the right thing because both sides are only interested in power, not the country. This is the reality of win by any means necessary, cheat, steal or deny the results of an election all for the sake of power. The Republican Party no longer wishes to serve as representatives, they want the citizens to serve them. That is what has become of the Party I once could vote for. It is sickening. Justice Luttig was correct when he said Trump was a clear and present danger to democracy but he should have included the new Republican Party in his comments too.
Ted Cruz beat Donald Trump in the 2016 Iowa caucuses. You'll be shocked - shocked - to read the following from a Reuters story on 2/3/16: "Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Wednesday accused rival Ted Cruz of stealing a victory in the Iowa caucuses and called for another vote or nullification of Cruz’s win."
You cannot make this stuff up. If it was in a screenplay the studio execs would reject it for being too idiotic and unbelievable.
OK, I get it, the GOP will distort anyone's positions and make them a monster. That's long been their playbook, which you once embraced. But if you've turned over a new leaf, why are you falling into these same habits? What's worse: supporting cash bail or trying to overturn the US Constitution "for a few seconds"? Why do you consistently criticize the Dem's choice for WI Senate, yet don't offer the proper content that Johnson is by far the person with the most baggage? Now, if your argument is--similar to JVL's--that for reasons that we all have to struggle to figure out, the sins of the Dems are always perceived to be worse than the far greater sins of the Crazy Right in election narratives, that would be more edifying.
DEIA training...look, I get it, the older generations loathe it. But they're also the ones designing the shittastic trainings of it. For Millenials (especially the younger ones) and GenZ though, DEIA is our baseline. It's a hard thing and it does require a lot of honest conversations....but it also requires accepting some people are not going to change, let alone quickly. But trying to impose government into private sector uses of it....yeah, fuck that
About cash bail, isn't the question really about bail and not about cash? Criminals who pose a danger to others should not be let out regardless of their ability to pay. People who do not pose a danger to others should not be held just because of their inability to pay.