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US US Politics General - Discussion of President Biden and other politicians
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Progressives jostle for nat sec jobs under Harris
Progressive national security professionals already are angling for positions in a possible Kamala Harris administration, hoping to steer the White House in a different direction on Israel and other issues after being largely shut out under President Joe Biden.
Some progressive activists plan to draft lists of people Harris could hire at places such as the National Security Council and the Defense Department. Others are polishing their résumés, sketching out policy briefs and mapping their connections to Harris world.
The progressives’ ultimate goal is to influence American foreign policy and national security from the inside. This proved hard to do under Biden, a Democratic moderate who came to the White House with a massive stable of longstanding aides — many of whom could trace their careers back to the Clinton administration. It didn’t help that progressives have relatively few people in their ranks with significant government experience in foreign policy roles.
Their plans, however, are a sign that Harris will face pressure on both policy and personnel from her left flank if she wins.
Progressives jostle for nat sec jobs under Harris
Progressive national security professionals already are angling for positions in a possible Kamala Harris administration, hoping to steer the White House in a different direction on Israel and other issues after being largely shut out under President Joe Biden.
Some progressive activists plan to draft lists of people Harris could hire at places such as the National Security Council and the Defense Department. Others are polishing their résumés, sketching out policy briefs and mapping their connections to Harris world.
The progressives’ ultimate goal is to influence American foreign policy and national security from the inside. This proved hard to do under Biden, a Democratic moderate who came to the White House with a massive stable of longstanding aides — many of whom could trace their careers back to the Clinton administration. It didn’t help that progressives have relatively few people in their ranks with significant government experience in foreign policy roles.
Their plans, however, are a sign that Harris will face pressure on both policy and personnel from her left flank if she wins.
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Anyone who saw the WikiLeaks emails knows CNN was one of many journalistic outlets coordinating with Hillary Clinton's campaign to get her elected. They don't get to complain about softballing anyone.
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Late, but what alternative do you suggest? And remember it can't be a "news organization" because those become infiltrated and taken over by marxists. It has to be open, it has to allow people to post information anonymously, it has to be easily accessible to every day Americans.
Polarization of Americans is a product of that money being spent. Every news organization, every journalist, every influencer, expects a paycheck for fighting the good fight. Every article, every smear ad, every oversampled poll costs something. The DNC only carries legitimate voters because of its vast propaganda machine. The money stops flowing and that machine grinds to a halt.
It was a cope out to make the Revolution possible by those non-slave owning founding fathers. And to take a step further, I dare say it was a stupid belief, given too many people's livelihoods were tied up in that "industry." I don't understand how you can call the expansion of slavery running amok when institution of it was a well oiled machine prior to the revolution and after. Perhaps this really just boils down to what was and what was ideal.
If you could provided a good source on this, that would be helpful.
I think there really is three justifications for leaving one polity and joining an other/creating your own. 1) A legal ability to leave, 2) a right to live free of tyranny, and 3) simply winning militarily. I can't say to the rights of individual counties to leave a state, and the question of states leaving is rather moot at this point. I think one can't say however that the Union had a right to bring the south back into the fold, while at the same time saying the Confederates had no right to do the same to their own rebellious types.
Nobody does till their people or cause is labeled as terrorism. The fools of January sixth being the latest batch to get that treatment.
Black voting would have had an effect of changing the character of the south, as it did. Actions taken to overcome black voting were always going to occur, and I personally refuse to denigrate men who sought to keep their country theirs. I admit I am biased given what has become of efforts at enfranchisement, integration and civil rights. Any disenfranchisement of southern whites was/is unacceptable, and arguable made things worse. The mass Americanization of a population like blacks was a detriment to America. Even today, birth right citizenship is the vehicle by which the unelectable subvert the republic by adding more voters.
What should be the response? That slavery as an institution was going to come back in some fashion given its departure or post war politics? That the system was only made possible by northern republicans who wrote the 13th amendment so as to allow that labor? Old habits die hard, and definitely when those habits are enabled by the same government that official sought to stamp out such treatment officially.
Leo got his day in court.
I can agree extrajudicial killings is wrong, but I can also note that the presence of law does not mean justices will be done. As the current injustices in the UK clearly show. Its a very fine line.
Who says most lynching were done under robes? Leo's wasn't, neither was Till's.
So you basically agree with Clarence Thomas.
You say lynching was rare. Do you think every time a black man made a pass at a white woman he was beaten/assaulted or lynched? And more to my point do you suppose every case of lynching was a good boy getting murdered by them evil whites? You talk about southern willingness to deal with blacks doing wrong. Where do you think that willingness came from? At what point did the issue flip from murder of innocent black men lookin at white women to the rightful punish of violent anti-social types with black skin?
Perhaps it could be said that the history of "justice" in the south as been one of refinement from loose cannon hotheadedness to a more restrained use of court, procedure and evidence. However, I can't think of what would make the south better about dealing with black crime but that hotheadedness, that the rest of the country lacks. Maybe it has to do with the lynching in the sense that the southerner will be tarred and feathered no matter how we deal with black crime, so we might as go for proper justice. Whereas others are to scared of being labeled racist as to do the same?
I really don't know enough about Wilson to comment beyond him liking that film, birth of a nation.
Do you have any good sources on this, I've never read or seen anything about a the sexual aspect of slave trade in the south.
Interesting figure. Do you oppose the expansion west and conquest of native Americans? It can easily be conveyed that both were undertaken by primarily private citizens, without the backing of the federal government on a number of occasions.
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Morning, ladies and germs! It's Taxpayer Tuesday and there's no telling what crazy shit will happen today.
Ira Steven Behr seemed to have a serious problem with Marc Alaimo.
The Cardassians were one of the best alien societies that Star Trek ever conceived. Jeri Taylor deserves full credit and it's fucking shameful that she does not get more credit for her work throughout Star Trek.
It's unfortunate that, of all the characters, Gul Dukat got this treatment. I feel like, after the death of Ziyal, the writers should have closed the chapter on Dukat and let his last line be "I forgive you" to Sisko. In my opinion, Ira Steven Behr was the one who had a serious stick up his ass about Marc Alaimo and people humanizing Dukat - they redeemed Damar who was Dukat's right-hand man, they redeemed Garak who was a brutal murderer, they redeemed Kira who was a vicious terrorist; but Dukat? That went too far. For some reason.
Ira Steven Behr seemed to have a serious problem with Marc Alaimo.
The Cardassians were one of the best alien societies that Star Trek ever conceived. Jeri Taylor deserves full credit and it's fucking shameful that she does not get more credit for her work throughout Star Trek.
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I know, I was more pointing out that at least you have a better system of picking your leader so an independent-type can win. Although the huge vote for Reform in the UK is showing people are waking up. Ours is basically a 2 party system too. The last time the Liberals won was in 1906. The 2010 coalition doesn't count. Conservatives won the election but didn't have quite enough seats to form a government (they had 306 seats and needed 326 as you need over half of the 650 seats contested) so the Liberals, who were a distant 3rd (57 seats) well behind Labour (258 seats), agreed to a coalition so that there were enough seats to form the government.
Unlike the USA we don't get to pick the leaders of the parties just before the general election. There are leadership elections in parties when the party wants them via a vote of no confidence (except Labour, there can only be leadership challenges) or if a leader steps down and you can't just have anybody running as a candidate for the leader of a party (or at least not the big 3) like you can in the USA, the candidate must be a member of the party who is an MP ("member of parliament", an elected politician) and the other MPs in the party (and also trade unions in Labour's case) select a group of candidates the party members can vote for. In order to vote for a candidate to be a leader of a party you have to be a fully paid-up member of that party, not just registered to vote for them as we don't have party affiliation on voter registrations.
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Can't let the people know that Biden and Harris, the last person in the room, left countless people to suffer and die in Afghanistan. There were literally videos of people falling out of wheel wells and the mainstream media tried telling everyone those were luggage bags. These people are true disciplines of William Randolph Hearst.
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Let's go Brandon!
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When/how did he get his CSM rank stripped? I was under the impression that he didn't finish 3 years as E-9 which is why he retired as an E-8 (but I think that just means he gets paid as an E-8 though, not that he is one? idk)
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Interesting data to keep in mind while watching this:
"The cable news audience is even older, with MSNBC's median age at 70, Fox News's at 69 and CNN's, 67. Among broadcasters, CBS's median age is 64 and ABC's is 66."
Source: https://archive.fo/FiutV
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To be fair, Obama dodged the draft by only being 13 when the Vietnam War ended.
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He got promoted but never completed an assignment at that new rank.
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He should leave an empty podium up there. Also it should be undersized but not quite so much they can say it was.
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Honestly I’m skeptical. Adults make up 65% of the world’s 8 billion population, or around 5 billion people. So, one billion views would imply that it was watched by 1 in 5 adults in the entire world.
I suppose it’s possible that it racked up a billion views based on whatever internal metrics Twitter uses to count “views”, e.g. someone tuning out and tuning back in counts as multiple “views”. I just sincerely doubt it was watched by 1 billion individuals.
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Tulsa should run to daddy Klaus shwab at wef to have this fixed, being a wef asset and all.
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I think it was only several million views for the stream/space/whatever, it was a billion cumulative views on xeets discussing it, so ten-to-a-hundred thousand xeets with ten-to-a-hundred thousand views each, something like that
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me when I read that crazy bitch's tweets
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These people live extraordinarily toxic lives, fueled by an obsession with screens and social media. At least people on this site go out and touch grass once in a while.
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