The Future Is In The Best Of Hands
By Mitch Berg
Unsurprising on one level, and still a little shocking:
One thing that should help 2024: there’s not going to be another Dobbs decision.
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November 13th, 2022 at 12:57 pm
So, the only candidate still left from the MAGA Team of “Stop the Steal” candidates for SOS or governor who hasn’t been defeated (yet) is Kari Lake. I’m actually surprised at how few Republicans other than Lake or Trump have spread election conspiracy theories in recent days. Republicans are mostly just taking the L.
In a democracy, if you want to marginalize the opposition, the solution is simple — win more votes.
November 13th, 2022 at 3:20 pm
If i cast my ballot for X but the machine awarded my vote for Y
nothing my candidate can do about that
If i cast one ballot for X but an opposition party intern harvested 100 for Y
nothing my candidate can do about that
If i repudiate the leading light of my party for a more appealing candidate
but the contest is stolen through systemic electoral fraud
then i might as well have stuck to my guns
the only way to know we have a fair election is paper ballots and purple fingers
which is why liberals hate hate hate the idea of a fair election
because then they could not cheat
and they would not win
November 13th, 2022 at 4:20 pm
Voting is like watering thistle and hoping grapes will grow.
November 13th, 2022 at 4:56 pm
big, they can do something on points 1 and 2, but their (and your) voice will be drowned out by the swamp and truth will never see the light of day buried by MSM and never acted upon by corrupt law enforcement.
November 14th, 2022 at 6:10 am
I’ve been reviewing the platforms of the various successful candidates for state and local politicians in my great state.
Parents can look forward to having more control over how their kids are educated. Homeschoolers especially are in for a most welcome bounty of support. Parents also needn’t worry about having their voices silenced during public school board meetings. Public meetings have a format they must adhere to, which allows for unrestricted freedom of speech.
There will be no public funding of ridiculous EV charging stations. In fact, if you charge an EV every night, you’ll pay a surcharge for the excessive load you’re putting on the grid. We’ll continue to have the cheapest fuel in the country.
We won’t have to worry about mentally ill men or women having access to our children in any manner. Our girls won’t have to play sports, dress or use lavatories with boys.
There won’t be any pedophiles reading pornographic children’s books in our schools. Neither will there be any sociopolitical propaganda in our classrooms; no sexual/gender/race flags, posters, books, pictures promoting a political ideology.
If you’re a doctor who expects to pad your income performing lucrative mutilations on children, brace yourself for a huge jump in your malpractice insurance bill. It’s going to be especially easy for kids and their families to sue the shit out of you, in this state.
Our right to self defense is universally acknowledged and championed by state and local authorities.
If you were planning on tearing down any of our historical monuments, sorry. It is, and will continue to be a class A felony to damage or remove any statue monument or plaque of historical significance.
There will be no racial or gender preferences given in college admissions or public employment. Yes, it’s OK to be White, here.
BMW has announced a $1.5 billion new facility, and Volvo just opened their new plant.
This is what life looks like in a rock solid right wing state, Patriots.
November 14th, 2022 at 6:36 am
I’m also especially happy for my friends in Tennessee, where degenerate leftists were crushed.
Our cousins in North Carolina did pretty well, but they’ve got to excise that leftist boil of a Governor. I also read that Charlotte has become a leader in the kinds of diseases that are spread by unwholesome, unsanitary sexual practices… tells us who has been moving there from the North.
Hoping the Senate runoff in Ga. tears the heart out of them there, too.
November 14th, 2022 at 10:39 am
How Republicans are slamming Biden on Afghanistan
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/08/16/republicans-criticize-biden/
Republicans will now turn even more of their vitriol on Joe Biden … critiquing the chaos of his pullout from Afghanistan …”
The Republicans need to be tied to a post and given the whipping of their lives. There should be a full discussion of Trump’s decision to begin a unilateral pullout of Afghanistan. Who participated in this decision? What instructions were given to the Pentagon and the army to prepare for unilateral withdrawal? What was the role of the State Department under Mike Pompeo? What were the intelligence assessments? And just what went on at Doha? Let’s get the full story.
After the Afghanistan withdrawal is ventilated, then there should be a full discussion of the sell-out of the Syrian Kurds by Trump. Who participated in this decision? What was the quid pro quo with Erdogan? This hugely benefited Putin’s position in Syria — why? What was the payoff? To whom? Once again, let’s get the full story.
And let’s review Mike Pompeo’s stewardship of the State Department vis a vis Ukraine. And appointed Republican leadership — if you can call it that — at the Pentagon and Homeland Security departments.
Can the Republican party ever again be trusted to staff the senior levels of the State Department, the Pentagon, Homeland Security when such knaves and know-nothings are put in charge?
Under Trump and this generation of Republican “leadership,” what the US has experienced is decline by mediocrity.
November 14th, 2022 at 10:40 am
Akismet is working against free speech. Maybe the Chinese wrote the software…
November 14th, 2022 at 10:45 am
Biden and the Democrats in Congress should craft an overall legislative program to extend and deepen — to fill in the gaps — in the American social democracy. Such measures would boost the competitiveness of the American workforce, increase family economic security, and widen the opportunities to improve their employment situations and income across the broad middle.
The Republicans are mostly going to conduct a bunch of circuses that they’ll call Congressional hearings. The Democrats should put forward an overall domestic program that will move American society forward and then run on this program — and run hard — in 2024. Let the people make a constructive choice, or not.
The American people can either join with Republicans and throw rocks at the Mexicans, or they can go forward and compete in a global economy rich with opportunity.
November 14th, 2022 at 11:49 am
“The Republicans need to be tied to a post and given the whipping of their lives”
free speech must be PUNISHED
November 14th, 2022 at 1:40 pm
Um, Emery, regarding the Trump administration and Ukraine, it was during the Trump administration that lethal aid and NATO training started to be provided to Ukraine. It was under the Biden administration that Russian troops massed on the border and then invaded, as the Russians believed (thankfully wrongly) that Biden would refuse to arm Ukraine as he had in 2014.
In the same way, the plans for removing U.S. weapons from Afghanistan (or not) were finalized under the Biden administration. There are some very real things for which Trump is to be blamed, but let’s keep some basic facts straight.
November 14th, 2022 at 3:49 pm
Say 🐀?
I’m not a Republican, but I’m available. Tell me where to meet so you can tie me to the whipping post…teach me my place.
😁
November 15th, 2022 at 7:08 am
@BB: The Trump administration in February 2020 negotiated a withdrawal agreement with the Taliban that excluded the Afghan government (devastating the morale of the Afghan army), freed 5,000 imprisoned Taliban soldiers and set a date certain of May 1, 2021, for the final withdrawal. And then after the election — accelerated the reduction of US troop levels from about 13,000 to 2,500, even though the Taliban continued to attack Afghan government forces and welcomed al-Qaeda terrorists into the Taliban leadership.
Despite these acts of sabotage Biden actually delayed the withdrawal.
Trump’s betrayal of the Kurds of course was even more egregious.
November 15th, 2022 at 7:15 am
Emery, that’s some nice blamestorming, but it wasn’t Trump who ignored the fact that we were leaving eighty billion bucks of material there, and it wasn’t Trump who ignored the fact that evidence on the ground suggested the Afghan government couldn’t fight the Taliban. It was Biden. Deal with it.