CURRENT EVENTS - DECEMBER

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ChileG said:
They just seem rudderless.
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To be fair, from what CNN reported last evening, it sounds like the report was a lot of inside baseball—stuff about how Dems need to focus less on knocking on doors and more on social media/new media, budgetary details, stuff like that.

While all of that might be useful, the elephant in the room is that the party simply should’ve cut Biden loose and held an open convention.

So I’m not too concerned about whether they release the report.
 
EyeballKid said:
To be fair, from what CNN reported last evening, it sounds like the report was a lot of inside baseball—stuff about how Dems need to focus less on knocking on doors and more on social media/new media, budgetary details, stuff like that.

While all of that might be useful, the elephant in the room is that the party simply should’ve cut Biden loose and held an open convention.

So I’m not too concerned about whether they release the report.
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To me, the symbolism of releasing the report is probably bigger than the report itself.

Just release the dang thing.
 
EyeballKid said:
To be fair, from what CNN reported last evening, it sounds like the report was a lot of inside baseball—stuff about how Dems need to focus less on knocking on doors and more on social media/new media, budgetary details, stuff like that.

While all of that might be useful, the elephant in the room is that the party simply should’ve cut Biden loose and held an open convention.

So I’m not too concerned about whether they release the report.
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Yalp. Honestly (and without reading it and knowing absolutely nothing about it's content) if the party mandarins wrote the report in the first place, I'm pretty confident it's better off ignored. I'm guessing there's not a lot of honest soul searching in there (i.e. about how the majority of Americans prefer vastly more progressive policies, but freed from corporate influences and dark money).

Written by the party establishment, I'm sure it's all about how they have to lean harder into the ever rightward drifting Overton window, because "this time, we're sure to win over all those 'independent' voters who always, some way somehow, when push comes to shove, somehow seem to find themselves pulling the lever for Republicans... but if we only go further to the right... THIS TIME IT WILL BE DIFFERENT!... we're sure of it!".
 
altmin said:
deadline.com

Workers Add Donald Trump’s Name To Facade Of Kennedy Center

Trump's name was placed above that of the late president.
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I don't think the Kennedy Center name change is as random nor as petty as it seems.

I think this is an object lesson. The currency of all directorships is "Because I can, that's why. See? You can't stop me from doing it, can you? No? Good. So we're clear who's in charge here, aren't we?"

Knowing that Congress is his whipped dog, he deliberately decided to execute the defacto name change, the primary benefit to him being precisely it's illegal nature. This is designed from the ground up to be an object lesson. "I am above the law, as you can clearly see from this example where I am clearly above the law".

I don't think he's playing 4-dimensional chess here. I just think that he has the natural talent any garden variety abuser has of knowing precisely how to gaslight and demoralize his victims.
 
Ddseddse said:
Yalp. Honestly (and without reading it and knowing absolutely nothing about it's content) if the party mandarins wrote the report in the first place, I'm pretty confident it's better off ignored. I'm guessing there's not a lot of honest soul searching in there (i.e. about how the majority of Americans prefer vastly more progressive policies, but freed from corporate influences and dark money).

Written by the party establishment, I'm sure it's all about how they have to lean harder into the ever rightward drifting Overton window, because "this time, we're sure to win over all those 'independent' voters who always, some way somehow, when push comes to shove, somehow seem to find themselves pulling the lever for Republicans... but if we only go further to the right... THIS TIME IT WILL BE DIFFERENT!... we're sure of it!".
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In hindsight, Biden's decision to run again in 2024 will go down as one of the worst gaffes in presidential history. Not so much because of the decision itself, but because of the end result. That said, it's really, really hard for the DNC to oppose the decision by a sitting Dem president. I think the DNC needs a total overhaul. We need a lot more Anderson Claytons and a lot fewer Jaime Harrisons. But as much good as Biden did from 2021-2023, he totally fucked us for the last two years of his term. It takes a while to dig out of that mess. Not as long as it will take the Pubs to dig out of Trump 2.0, but a long time nonetheless.
 
Ddseddse said:
I don't think the Kennedy Center name change is as random nor as petty as it seems.

I think this is an object lesson. The currency of all directorships is "Because I can, that's why. See? You can't stop me from doing it, can you? No? Good. So we're clear who's in charge here, aren't we?"

Knowing that Congress is his whipped dog, he deliberately decided to execute the defacto name change, the primary benefit to him being precisely it's illegal nature. This is designed from the ground up to be an object lesson. "I am above the law, as you can clearly see from this example where I am clearly above the law".

I don't think he's playing 4-dimensional chess here. I just think that he has the natural talent any garden variety abuser has of knowing precisely how to gaslight and demoralize his victims.
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Yep. I’ll say it again, it’s less what he is doing and more - the only people who do this type of shit are tyrants. He isn’t going to stop at just renaming buildings.
 
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