The truly sad part is it's this exact data spigot, not only publicly accessible but likely with a decent API, that Don could point at his website have a real presence with value enough for repeat visits rather than his stale ego trip he's been peddling for way too long...

So you're saying Don is a conspicuous combination of gratuitous self-puffery, tedious indolence and manifest pseudo-intellectualism? Agreed.

hillary's biggest problem in politics wasn't her record, nor even her "perceived" record. on a human level, she just didn't connect with enough people to be successful at the highest level of politics.

Not sure everyone is aware who possessed the brains behind the two very successful terms the Clintons -- plural -- spent at the "highest level of politics" in the United States of America, so I'll just keep it simple: It wasn't Bubba. Bill could definitely connect with people emotionally while reading the speeches she composed, but as for Hillary as the candidate, she connected with millions more of "enough people" to be successful at the highest level of politics than the guy who won under the Electoral College with multiple millions less connections. Only in America.

people would not have believed any of the lies if they'd felt in their gut that they knew her and knew what she was about.

Biden is living proof that Americans are finally waking up and catching on to the universal truth that a career policy wonk and problem solving candidate can make a great president whether or not he/she is a great candidate and a so-called "great candidate" can make an extremely lousy president.

I think it is a huge mistake for progressives to do anything but support the burgeoning space industries to the hilt. They need freedom at the moment to innovate and the more players the better. Let them do their thing and throw NASA some juicy bones as well. We are way ahead of the rest of the world in what is very likely to become an extremely profitable sector. It's feel good to point at Billionaires and lust after their wealth but Space is likely to bring in much more revenue...

American citizens are paying for political campaigns every day, and your outright misinformation claiming they're not is stunning in its ignorance when the names of the millions of citizens doing so is easily searchable and public record.

The truly sad part is it's this exact data spigot, not only publicly accessible but likely with a decent API, that Don could point at his website have a real presence with value enough for repeat visits rather than his stale ego trip he's been peddling for way too long...

Your list of things the Deathocrats are allegedly fighting for is nothing new.

If it was a requirement that ideas be "new" in order to be discussed, your repetitive shit would be relatively ignored... oh, wait!

And because citizens are not the ones paying for the campaigns the politicians will continue to do what they have been doing as they have not suffered the consequences for doing so in the voting booth.

American citizens are paying for political campaigns every day, and your outright misinformation claiming they're not is stunning in its ignorance when the names of the millions of citizens doing so is easily searchable and public record.

Spewing your propaganda while ignoring the real story is not acceptable and I will not let you get away with it.

I know, right!? I have an idea: Why don't you spend a shit-ton of your time hurling personal insults toward CW and his readers and repeating your mountains of misinformation and plethora of propaganda and outright fabrication in CW's comments section and spewing the same words over and over again and expecting different results while CW virtually ignores your very existence for nigh on a decade; that'll show him. :)

But I didn't shed a tear over Hillary not winning. Although likely a half million Americans might still have their lives I feared Hillary's victory would prove be a setback for Progressivism.

Funny, if you look at her voting record in the Senate and that of Bernie Sanders, they voted the same 93% of the time. She wasn’t without her faults, but also was not the corporate shill that people desperately try to make her out to be.

Today's Anniversary of Medicare & Medicaid reminds us to reflect on the critical role these programs have played to protect the healthcare of millions of families. To safeguard our future, we must reject Socialist healthcare schemes.

~ Elise Stefanik

*
Which one of the other cult members neglected to inform this one about Operation Coffeecup wherein Medicare and Medicaid-type coverage for Americans has already been heretofore defined as a "socialized medicine" scheme by none other than Saint Ronald of Reagan *genuflect* their worship GOP former Hollywood celebrity president?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bejdhs3jGyw

The revisionist history histrionics and Red Scare never ceases with these con artist (so-called) "conservatives." If you believe the GOP is going to "safeguard" Medicare and Medicaid:

* You haven't been paying attention
* You're the mark.

It's nice to hear from Michale. Thanks for posting that!

I have invited one person to join our little group who would bring a different perspective here and I remain hopeful they will decide to participate. We sure could use more healthy debate around here.

As for the music, I'm sorry about not getting things rolling last night but, I'll make up for it next Sunday night!

About the incident itself?? Deplorable.. You can read my comments to more fully understand my disgust and sorrow..

michale's comments on realclearpolitics - he's a lot more fair-minded than perhaps you'd think

About the ridiculous... kabuki theater that is the 1/6 hearings??

Let's take stock..

We've had 14 years of Democrat AntiFa riots and 8 years of BLM riots... and looting and destruction.. Many killed including 8 cops... Tens of thousands of people injured.. BILLIONS of dollars in damages.. Hundreds of government buildings destroyed and burned, many with people trapped in them...

Democrats were silent or, in many cases, egging on the rioters..

Then we have a SINGLE unarmed, albeit violent, riot in a SINGLE building at a SINGLE location over a span of a few hours..

THAT is something that needs to be investigated...

rioting and looting and killing and destroying government buildings all over the country is justified in the eyes of the [Democrats]...

But a few hours in a single building?? THAT is an "insurrection"... :eyeroll:

The hypocrisy is glaring and blatant..

obviously i disagree with quite a bit of what he says, but i consider it a major loss that we no longer have michale here to give us a different perspective on the way events are unfolding. i mean, donald didn't get 74 million votes from white nationalists - there are legitimate grievances and concerns that he tapped into, and which we ignore and ridicule at our peril.

JL

https://youtu.be/WAkJ-DfyoeA

I stand ready to assist -- woot!

Signed --

I'm a fine Bassist
But this is the kind of work
You end up doing
When you sell your soul

Heh.*

*Notice: This "Heh" was approved by the
Society for the Prevention of Gratuitous Usage of "Heh"

...Having restored Holiness to the Kingdom of Grenada.

Sooomebody...stop me! ;D

Yo, is this a short and catchy enough attempted Talking Point? Or is it, as I fear, still too verbose?

AND thence did He say,

"Verily, the most fearsome ten words are:

'I'm with the government and I'm here to help you.'"

Funny how we don't much hear that every time there's a hurricane down in Florida or Texas.

I figured that all the rah rah over,

1-First woman President, and,

2- not clown Republican Trump would allow another four-plus years of Democratic selling out to the ownership class.

Frankly, Elizabeth, that's what I expected out of Joe. Boy, am I glad that I've been so wrong thus far!

The ultimate answer to the "Joe -- HERO or ZERO?" question will be, will he pass SR1 For the People Act (Filibuster be damned if thats what it takes. C'mon, Mitch will ditch it the moment he's back in charge.)

If Joe fails, Democrats are going to find themselves severely handicapped for the foreseeable future.

And THAT, my Dear Elizabeth, is what I'm a waiting to see. As infamous as Democrats are for not making a strong case for themselves, this failure would be an epic capitulation.

John M from Ct. wrote:

Can you condense your 'talking points' into actual points? That is, turn 1 through 7 into one sentence summaries, catchy and memorable.

I believe that Chris can do that. But, wondering the very same thing myself, I've concluded that it's extremely difficult and time consuming to do so. I find that the work of writing is, in the end, about tossing out words, rephrasing and distilling down. If short and catchy were easy just anyone could take five minutes to think up a trending #Hashtag type meme or thingy.

[Effective messaging] is the type of thing that can pay off for all Democrats, instead of just in one particular race.

Absolutely, positively, unequivocally - after all, I learned all about that from you!

I Can Dream about You.

Jungle Love.

Just for you Back to Life (Acapella) Soul II Soul (13:34, but 'tis wonnerful.)

And... Lester's Methodin Clinic (3:50)

Bravo, Chris!

The essence of all the discussion in Washington, and all of Chris's voluminous verbiage, can be distilled to one short phrase - 'Redistribution from the more productive to the less productive'.

And perhaps craziest of all is that it is NOT EVEN A CONTROVERSIAL SUBJECT!!! Everybody acknowledges the need for redistribution of income/earnings, the only argument is about the means and the degree!

that's another good one!

if a guy can afford to shoot 50 million dollars into space, he can afford to help give the 12 million american children living in poverty a few free lunches.

JL

i'm psyched to read your column, but before i do, i know you're one who appreciates a good talking point, and david litt just popped out a great one:

the party of personal irresponsibility.