And Wired clicks the Overton window further right. It’s not that you can’t get more extreme, it’s that it’s a distinction without much of a difference and they’re reassigning far right to something outside of the party with concentration camps, campaigns of dehumanization against racial and sexual groups, ideological purges of the military, international fascist alignment, and a guy who literally did a Nazi salute on stage.

That’s far right extremism, whether or not there are a few nutcases beyond it. Pretending this is somehow the version of conservativism being threatened by the far right is just normalizing it.

He flipped the district from a Republican, so I imagine “I’m a Democrat who isn’t afraid to stand up to the establishment” is probably fantastic for him.

The one time establishment Democrats manage to bring the knives out is to discipline progressives. They’re bullies, not fighters.

One of the best arguments against Schumer is not his centrism but that he’s just bad at the job. His bumbling smarmy media responses, his bad senate picks, and his last minute defection on the Republican spending bill are all just bad things for a leader to do. Slotkin may be a centrist, but she’s also a newer senator and can recognize incompetence rather than accepting that you just need to defer to seniority.

From the article:

Sen.-elect Abdul El-Sayed (D-Mich.) said again earlier this week he would back Van Hollen over Schumer. Sen.-elect Annie Andrews (D-S.C.) said Friday that she wants “generational change” in Senate leadership, after pledging during the campaign not to support Schumer. Sens.-elect Adam Hamilton (D-Kan.) and Troy Jackson (D-Maine) have said the same.

“We spent a year and a half talking about costs, corruption and chaos. That was all Leader Schumer’s decision-making and effort to keep our caucus united,” Gillibrand said, also mentioning Schumer’s fundraising and recruiting activities.

“No one has put into the time and effort that anyone has put in the cycle that he did,” Gillibrand said.

Joe Biden is sharper and more energetic than anyone in this cabinet meetings!

The junior senator for AIPAC making an impassioned but nonsensical argument for the senior senator for AIPAC.

Very appropriate for a comment talking about other people being lazy to comment without reading the article.

He can’t even just look happy when going to a Halloween party with his kids? Feels like “this is the nanny’s job, but I have to pretend to parent them for a night”. The older daughter also looks dead inside, probably because she realizes her dad doesn’t actually want to spend time with her.

And for fuck’s sake, as part of that own the anti-data center issue. It’s appalling to have that giant activating winner of an issue just hanging out there and no one in politics claiming it.

Do you want to afford your energy and not have your home that you can’t afford to leave become a living hell? Well let’s stop these assholes who have been shoveling money at Trump’s vanity projects from having free reign to do literally anything they want without accountability.

Hell, in that time they should have had a suite of options prepared for every electoral outcome. Constantly reacting from a blank page is part of their failure.

Bits like that crap deal could all be packed into a bill. A big beautiful bill, one that should already be written and ready to go. But is it?

When could they find the time over the last two years of doing nothing? Also, who would write it? They’re law makers. Law writing is something done by corporations.

Centrists don’t want culture war issues, don’t want oversight, don’t want foreign policy. They just want kitchen table issues. Except they also don’t want government spending or wealth redistribution.

According to them, everything in the country was perfect two years ago, they just want that back. Plus all the culture war, foreign policy, and corruption normalization that Trump’s done. That stuff is good too, of at least not bad enough to do something rude like fight against it.

When in their lives have centrists ever been known for fighting. Sorry, it occurs to me this will need a specifier, fighting the right.

If anyone wants a source other than X.

https://www.ynetnews.com/article/rk00bbejrfe

It’s really insensitive of them to spit on Kirk’s grave by opposing his life’s work in support of gun violence. It’s the very last cause he supported and that deserves some respect.

They’re reasonably large. Enough to cross over with other really big left leaning podcasts. Also I’m kind of surprised anyone who would fret about a conservative backlash would advertise on it. I feel like they’ve called conservatives just straight out evil before. They’re not like, leftist, but they’re not sanitized centrism. What did Chewy think they were getting themselves into?

Trump somehow manages to have like 10 different obscenities and acts of corruption running simultaneously, but 54 senators can figure out how to pursue two goals at once amongst them.

That’s kind of the answer for everyone. We’ve just been bouncing back and forth between the two parties because neither has reversed the decline in people’s economic outlook. The system, left in place, makes life worse for almost everyone and our choices have been between “lies and then nothing happens” and “lies and accelerates the decline”. Since they both let (or encourage) the decline, whoever can more credibly lie, usually whoever isn’t in power, gets the vote.

If they’re expecting 60k mail in ballots and for those to favor Peltola, the end result probably won’t even need second choices. The current near-tie is on around 210k votes, so 60k more is a huge chunk. Peltola only needs like a 32k/28k split to get an outright majority.

Seems like very reasonable things to do when you’re defending yourself from an attack from a foreign nation. Is this reporting supposed to make us feel more justified in attacking them?