05/11/2024 11:58:41 AM PDT
· 66 of 76 x
to DoodleBob
You can read anything through race and sexual orientation, but back then, everybody knew somebody like this guy, trying to be cool and show off his disco moves, and everybody hated him.
05/10/2024 4:18:39 PM PDT
· 95 of 111 x
to ChicagoConservative27
These things get picked up and spread but they never print the question that was asked. Maybe he was asked, “Do you hate Hakim Jeffries?” or “Do you think the House Democrats are all traitors?”
05/10/2024 10:03:45 AM PDT
· 15 of 54 x
to SeekAndFind
In a way it’s strange that Jonah follows Tim Miller. Tim is much more anti-Trump than Jonah. In a way it’s not so strange, because they’re both kind of @holes.
05/10/2024 9:27:03 AM PDT
· 42 of 58 x
to WarANDPiece
Sure, the Jewish vote isn’t going to flip, but Reagan got 39% in 1980. If the Middle East is a big issue, Biden will lose a lot of Jewish votes. Then they’ll come back to the Democrats in 2028.
05/09/2024 10:45:10 AM PDT
· 18 of 22 x
to Thapsus_epiphany
When he was born California was a big Republican state. Even Jerry Brown’s father was a Republican back then. So a lot of people in California were Republicans without being conservatives.
05/09/2024 9:07:51 AM PDT
· 42 of 44 x
to DiogenesLamp; BroJoeK
When the government spends the tax money mostly on them, though they only produced 28% of it, you are putting money in their pockets.
That is not true, as we have already discussed for years.
There is a reason they coined the term "Robber Barons" for the gilded era. That is how they behaved, and they had undue influence on government, same then as today.
The Gilded Age came after the Civil War. Before that, if you're talking about New York City, you're talking about Edith Wharton's little old New York. There were rich families there then but nothing like what there was later. Some wealthy planters, recognized that they had common interests with New York merchants and bankers, and that they weren't all that different. Some New Yorkers felt that way about their Southern clients. The two groups even intermarried. But when slavery became a big issue, grievance mongers took over and Southern elites became convinced that the Northerners were cheating them.
After losing to Pombo, who had spent most of his tenure in Washington attempting to undo the Endangered Species Act
Pombo was a property rights guy. It's understandable that environmentalists would hate him and there were a lot of things wrong with him, but that's definitely false and a cheap shot.
05/08/2024 3:03:22 PM PDT
· 56 of 203 x
to Leaning Right
What’s going to come out of this is hardball indeed. The “motion to remove” is going to go away eventually, and it won’t come back, so the party leaders in Congress are going to be more powerful and enforce discipline more harshly.