anti_dan
2mo ago
"Great" is simply too far. He's been horrible from a Reagan or even GWB policy perspective. You have the right to remain silent. Or simply say, "his mediocre administration is an improvement over Trump's, because , which even if he did, it wouldn't be either accurate description of a Trump policy, nor an accurate description Reagan/Bush policy.
anti_dan
2mo ago
I said it yesterday in the video we released from The Lincoln Project: Joe Biden is a good man, a good American, and a great president.
Rick Wilson July 22, 2024
anti_dan
2mo ago
Sure, that's what allying with people you disagree with means. It doesn't mean he has all of a sudden become a Democrat, after 40 some years. I think it's kind of odd that people talk about Trump Derangement Syndrome, but don't seem to want to see that it affected some Republicans too.
If he supports Democrats to win elections and has switched to Democrat positions, how is he not a Democrat?
anti_dan
2mo ago
The union worker is interested in his wages, which are dependent on the health of the company, the quality of his coworkers, and the strength of the union's bargaining position. The union boss's wages are often on a different payscale that rewards expanding his unionbase. He eventually no longer has much interest in any individual company his union operates in, and often was drawn from the ideological subclass interested in union advocacy from the start.
anti_dan
2mo ago
Obama was still pro-Afghanistan when he gave the convention speech and during both 2008 and 2012 campaigns. Their opposition to war has always been more who/whom than the romantics seem to think. Clinton was happily intervening in Bosnia and Rwanda.
anti_dan
2mo ago
Is that why he's favorably citing David Corn?
https://x.com/DavidCornDC/status/1836776564916174907
He's switched many positions and is not coming back (he can't his site is funded to be this way)
anti_dan
2mo ago
Unions, get captured just like any other org. The people interested in work will work. The people interested in advocacy and slacking off will get involved in the union.
anti_dan
2mo ago
Id like to hunt a goose. I'd get 10 years if I did.
Your post is just pure soft bigotry of low expectations.
anti_dan
2mo ago
Of course.
The cats thing is just a good way to highlight the real issues of incompatibility. We also have the murder and the rape, and notably the high rates of DUI among the Biden wave of migrants.
Almost no one wants to talk about cats, but apparently large media aside from Twitter doesn't want to talk about rape and murder, so we get stuck talking about cats.
anti_dan
2mo ago
That isnt really the problem with the theory. It is the decades before that appear both unchanged and suspiciously not looked at.
anti_dan
2mo ago
I significantly disagree with your evaluation of (2). High profile targets always get filtered through leadership. Combs is black. He is popular in blue areas. We are not talking about Tim McGraw (spelling?). Statistically speaking he probably is into white girls. Black guy traffics a bunch of white girls in freaky drug filled dens of malevolence is a bad story for Dems 10/10 times. And the FBI and DOJ are captured. This only came out because something happened that made it unable to be buried. Maybe another situation like Rudy getting the laptop in 2020, but on steroids.
anti_dan
2mo ago
Just pointing out Rick Wilson is an anti-Trump Republican though, he is certainly not a Democrat
This sort of framing, while beneficial to the Rick Wilsons of the world, is likely untrue.
anti_dan
2mo ago
Whatever happened, this is a shocking result. Who could have imagined 20 years ago that the Teamsters would be a Republican stronghold and that Dick Cheney would somehow still be alive and also a Democrat? Wild times.
This is less surprising than you think. 20 years ago is 2004. Dick Cheney's daughter was already a lesbian (and gay politics was clearly rising) and Democrats were solidifying as the anti-Iraq party (notably Afghanistan was not demonized, not the insertion of ourselves into the Houthi conflict), had repudiated the Clinton welfare reforms, and had Obama as the star speaker at their convention. We were on a trajectory to one party clearly being against your average white guy, and the other winning most white guys. If anything, unions have been slow to embrace the fact that Democrats largely have assembled a coalition that rejects being a normal working person.
And then, of course, there is the gay stuff.
anti_dan
2mo ago
Iraq and Afghanistan had terrible effects on the home front in America primarily because American troops themselves were fighting those wars, at great expense to the United States.
This is even an exaggeration. Those wars had negative effects at home partially because American troops were fighting those wars but primarily because of policy decisions that really werent related to war per se. Instead it was the choices about occupation and the goals of that being discordant with the prosecution of the war.
If we wanted to occupy Iran and Afghanistan and reform the countries, we needed to engage in total war that put the fear of god into the natives, then appointed a local governor of our own to govern with an iron first for some decades.
If we wanted a surgical strike to remove a few bad guys, we could conduct the war as we did, then put in a couple of military bases to conduct strategic raids when we wanted to and mostly never have our boys leave those until we get tired of the minor expense and go home.
anti_dan
2mo ago
Israel should negotiate a settlement, but also their conduct in waging war should be held to US standards to receive US support.
How? With who? Why would they think the other side would abide by said agreement? Why would YOU?
anti_dan
2mo ago
How did 20 years of bombing Afghanistan go?
The bombing went fine. It was the pretending that building schools for girls in a muslim nation was a good idea that went poorly.
I have no qualms with Palestinians trying to reconquer everything from the river to the sea. I have a problem with them expecting any sympathy from me when they do it. No other historical border in world history is talked about in the way the "1967" borders are. That sort of thing is tiresome. If they want that land they can get good and win. Or else they can accept a peaceful 3 state solution with something similar to current borders.
This using your own women and children as human shields because you know antisemites and progressives will cry foul is totally lame.
anti_dan
2mo ago
Because they are either a terrorist group that strikes outside their nation's borders, a sovereign protecting a terrorist group, a citizen who supports that sovereign, or one of the few unfortunate citizens that do not. In the last case, what they should be doing is forming a terrorist group to strike at their evil sovereign. Very few such people it seems.
anti_dan
2mo ago
meat wave assaults
Where did this bizarre term come from and why are people using it?
anti_dan
2mo ago
In my current role I dont know which way causality works. I am less productive on remote days, but we also get less work incoming on remote days. This also means my long term projects and backlogs get done more often on remote days, but I dont have an exceeding amount of those, and often they are in backlog because I sent something out for review, or requested something that hasn't been sent to me.
anti_dan
2mo ago
seeing voting as a general public duty of all citizens also helps sidestep some of the cynical and destructive framing that the ideal voting system is one that permits votes from those sympathetic to you and prevents votes from those who are not
I find this framing neither cynical nor destructive. I think it is a useful meditation on the question of the purpose of governance.
besides simple access, voting day holidays also help enshrine the importance of the vote and strengthen the sense of community beyond politics. Also on a more pragmatic level it solves the polling location issue because you can use public schools
The first half of this gives me the yuckies. The 2nd half doesnt make sense because I've never encountered a polling location issue, whatever this supposedly is. And I've voted in a public school on more than one occasion.
anti_dan
2mo ago
But Everyone doesn't get holidays off. Bank tellers and government employees get holidays off. Heck even our most important government employees: soldiers, police, firefighters, air traffic controllers, dont get them off. Nurses and doctors dont get holidays off, train conductors and truck drivers dont, service workers generally do not. People in high end professions might, but its generally irrelevant as they could just take a day anytime so long as they plan.
TLP is now about opposing all Republicans.
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