Yes.

What about the rest of the Democrats? Cool with it?

Are you seriously trying to I pull a “it’s the Jews’ fault” right now?

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The problem with you yanks is that you’re too far up your own asses. How predictable is it that the whole discussion under this post is about your last election. Nobody cares any more. Your country is lead by a fascist doing fascist things to you and abroad. And all you do is bicker about what happened half a year ago. Your country is wading in the waters of Rubicon, what are you going to do NOW about it?

If the media had a spine they should retaliate by not giving him any airtime. They should finish each segment with something like “we were not able to bring you news from the CPC campaign as they have excluded our correspondents”.

Go tell it to your dumb ass president.

May the bullies live to very very old age, haunted and ashamed by their crime, and always remembering with profound anguish this smiling face and these sparkling eyes that they extinguished.

He could have he disagrees and that would be it. He’s demanding an apology.

But then again, it’s Trump.

Abolish all software patents. OK, I’ll compromise to a 3 year patent duration. No? So abolition it is.

Should Maga be more racist or more classist? That’s the question.

I have no idea what that means.

As an outsider looking in, I am wondering whether this might mean that the Republican party has a vision for a weaker federal government, such that the states would have more, well, rights. I.e., if the federal government gets very scaled down, is that at the same time emptying up the regulatory space for individual states to go in all sorts of different directions, or does it come with some kind of libertarian straightjacket?

The majority of the US population lives in wealthy blue states. If the regressive rural states can’t stomach the kind of extensive welfare state that makes sense in more urbanized places, fine. Like a “two speed Europe”, they can choose to stay behind, so long as California, Massachusetts, NY etc get the freedom to experiment with social democratic policies.

Edit: this kind of more decoupled federalism also exists eg in Canada. Quebec gets to pretend it’s France while Alberta gets to pretend it’s Texas.

I see your point.

Sure. But saying “that’s how things go” ignores the context of the overall atmosphere of fear and intimidation against anti-genocide activists.

In any case, the Streisand Effect is in effect. I would never have heard of this campaign if it hadn’t been for Indigo litigating against it. So there.

The very very low bar that everyone should have for the Democrats right now is to expect them to be furiously working to win the House and the Senate in the next midterm election. Like balls to the wall, all out. Anything less is completely acquiescing to trumpism.

You want more? They should be strategizing how to flip state legislatures. They should be working on lower levers of government from the bottom up, to fight gerrymandering and electoral shenanigans.

And these are just the normie political stuff. I’m not even going to get into the grassroots organizing, movement building, leadership development, labour organizing etc.

Franklin did tell you, from the very start: “a republic if you can keep it”. Do you want to keep it?

My two Canadian cents, take it or leave it.

Spot on.

This is Canada’s largest weakness: we put the bar at American stupidity, and anything marginally better gives us insufferable smugness.

Maybe at some point the Americans will get scared that the Chinese are actually making strides ahead of them in electrification and decarbonization to actually get unstuck from their idiotic culture war over fossil fuels.