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  1. I'm not clicking that.
  2. Sure, you've been saying that a personality who can break through the noise and garner attention is what wins, but the who in question still needs to have a message, and scapegoating someone(s) is the best means of making noise. If that is true, then Trump has to be the short-term scapegoat, so right now the Dems need the best shit-talker out there to channel our anger and simply attack, attack, attack.
  3. By my reading, what's happened is that during the 1990s and following the Reagan Revolution, the mainstream of both parties more or less reached a consensus on neoliberal economic issues, e.g., free trade. There were, of course, differences on taxation, with the GOP firm believers in supply-side shit but moderate Dems not being too far off. Both were wrong on this, of course, as the benefits didn't "trickle down" to the working class, which now felt abandoned by the Party of Labor. To separate themselves from the Democrats, the GOP began to fully embrace all the "culture war" shit, demonizing immigrants, gays, minority groups, the "coastal elite," and Murphy Brown wanting a kid, with Pat Buchanan and Rush Limbaugh leading the charge, slowly winning over Labor who felt threatened by all three. This, in turn, led to the Democratic Party basically becoming a loose coalition of the downtrodden trying to keep their shit together by watching each others' backs. So, yeah, you've been correct in your thesis all this time about Dems needing to win back labor. And since Obama, the progressive branch has been proposing all sorts of economic reforms, but keep getting accused of being Marxists, a message that Republicans and moderate Dems have both used to gain/retain power in primary and general elections alike. Meanwhile, progressives keep getting pulled into the sexy culture wars by trying to protect all these out-groups from personal attacks. What's the solution, then, in your opinion? Abandon the disfavored in the culture wars and just be neoliberal moderates, hoping to win back Labor (a bloc that now consistently votes against their economic interests in elections? Go full-force Far-Left, waging a war on both billionaires and the culture war-supporting evangelicals? Just be the Party of Labor with progressive economic/fiscal policies only, while ignoring human rights and civil liberties altogether?
  4. I’m no security analyst or foreign affairs expert, but I would think taking out the "Supreme Leader" of Iran would be a bridge too far, even for the Israelis. The blowback on toppling a Head of State could be far-reaching and difficult to predict. I could be wrong, of course, as I was not anticipating they’d kill upwards of 50,000 or so Gazans.
  5. Yeah, we’ve seen how vocal many posters have been in support of brutality perpetrated by cops and civilians against protesters, with comments in favor of cracking skulls, shootings, and running over protesters in the past. It’s by no means a stretch to imagine they’re perfectly content with bringing in the military.
  6. The same facility where the mayor was arrested and a congresswoman was charged with assault for attempting to conduct oversight. https://bsky.app/profile/barbisblue.bsky.social/post/3lritjhgl3c2l https://abcnews.go.com/US/delaney-hall-newark-detainees-missing-unrest/story?id=122817323
  7. https://bsky.app/profile/wired.com/post/3lrispma4fc2x https://www.wired.com/story/cbp-predator-drone-flights-la-protests/
  8. Embiggened response below.
  9. What they are saying in Clown World and the Daily Texan in defense of the government agent declaring a war of occupation on California: "We need to protect our pure-as-the-driven-snow lady from disruptive testosterone dudes.”
  10. Some "red" states are on this list. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/12/us/la-protests-trump-marines-ice/at-least-22-states-join-california-in-its-effort-to-block-trumps-troop-deployment?smid=url-share At least 22 states have joined a legal brief in support of California’s request for a court order blocking President Trump’s deployment of the state’s National Guard. Mr. Trump has deployed nearly 5,000 National Guard troops and Marines to the Los Angeles area with members of the Guard accompanying federal immigration officers on raids across the city, an action that California officials have sought to stop with an emergency court order that would limit military troops to protecting a complex of federal buildings downtown where protesters have been gathering. “The president is escalating events in Los Angeles not to prevent violence, but to stoke fear and division,” said Nick Brown, the attorney general of Washington State, whose office led the filing in federal court in California of what is known as an amicus brief. “It’s a deliberate enticement to chaos.” “Washington State would act swiftly to protect our residents if the president did the same here,” he added. Gov. Gavin Newsom of California has condemned the president’s deployment of the military in Los Angeles as a “brazen abuse of power.” The amicus brief calls Mr. Trump’s move “unlawful, unconstitutional, and undemocratic.” “Since 1792, when Congress first gave the president the authority to call forth the militia in limited circumstances, the president has only ever used it as ‘a last resort,’ when a state requests help to quell an insurrection, when necessary to enforce a federal court order, or when state and local law enforcement are unable to enforce the law,” the brief said. Attorneys general for the following states also joined the brief: Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont and Wisconsin. The office of Gov. Laura Kelly of Kansas also joined. “We should all be shocked by President Trump’s decision to federalize and deploy California’s National Guard without the consent of California’s governor,” Charity R. Clark, the Vermont attorney general, said in a news release. “The president’s actions are illegal and un-American. Vermont proudly stands with California in fighting for the rule of law and defending states’ sovereign rights.” Ms. Clark called the president’s move “an unlimited claim of presidential authority” and said it could put states at risk by taking Guard members away from being on call for other emergencies, such as responding to natural disasters. On Thursday, Los Angeles City Attorney Hydee Feldstein Soto and her co-counsel, Democracy Defenders Fund, also filed a brief in support of California’s request to block the troop deployment. The filing points out a disproportionate response by the Trump Administration, noting that the number of troops sent to Los Angeles to manage protests involving about 1,000 people was nearly equivalent to the number of police for the entire city of Houston, with its population of 2 million. “The military’s unsought and dangerous deployment in downtown Los Angeles should not be allowed to stand,” the brief says.
  11. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/12/us/la-protests-trump-marines-ice/at-least-22-states-join-california-in-its-effort-to-block-trumps-troop-deployment?smid=url-share At least 22 states have joined a legal brief in support of California’s request for a court order blocking President Trump’s deployment of the state’s National Guard. Mr. Trump has deployed nearly 5,000 National Guard troops and Marines to the Los Angeles area with members of the Guard accompanying federal immigration officers on raids across the city, an action that California officials have sought to stop with an emergency court order that would limit military troops to protecting a complex of federal buildings downtown where protesters have been gathering. “The president is escalating events in Los Angeles not to prevent violence, but to stoke fear and division,” said Nick Brown, the attorney general of Washington State, whose office led the filing in federal court in California of what is known as an amicus brief. “It’s a deliberate enticement to chaos.” “Washington State would act swiftly to protect our residents if the president did the same here,” he added. Gov. Gavin Newsom of California has condemned the president’s deployment of the military in Los Angeles as a “brazen abuse of power.” The amicus brief calls Mr. Trump’s move “unlawful, unconstitutional, and undemocratic.” “Since 1792, when Congress first gave the president the authority to call forth the militia in limited circumstances, the president has only ever used it as ‘a last resort,’ when a state requests help to quell an insurrection, when necessary to enforce a federal court order, or when state and local law enforcement are unable to enforce the law,” the brief said. Attorneys general for the following states also joined the brief: Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont and Wisconsin. The office of Gov. Laura Kelly of Kansas also joined. “We should all be shocked by President Trump’s decision to federalize and deploy California’s National Guard without the consent of California’s governor,” Charity R. Clark, the Vermont attorney general, said in a news release. “The president’s actions are illegal and un-American. Vermont proudly stands with California in fighting for the rule of law and defending states’ sovereign rights.” Ms. Clark called the president’s move “an unlimited claim of presidential authority” and said it could put states at risk by taking Guard members away from being on call for other emergencies, such as responding to natural disasters. On Thursday, Los Angeles City Attorney Hydee Feldstein Soto and her co-counsel, Democracy Defenders Fund, also filed a brief in support of California’s request to block the troop deployment. The filing points out a disproportionate response by the Trump Administration, noting that the number of troops sent to Los Angeles to manage protests involving about 1,000 people was nearly equivalent to the number of police for the entire city of Houston, with its population of 2 million. “The military’s unsought and dangerous deployment in downtown Los Angeles should not be allowed to stand,” the brief says.
  12. +rep for correctly using les accents circonflexes et aigus.
  13. Totes normal quote from head of DHS: "We are not going away. We are staying here to liberate the city from the socialists and the burdensome leadership that this governor and that this mayor have placed on this country and what they have tried to insert into the city." Senator from said city who has oversight over DHS: "Hey, wait a darn second." *Goons shove Senator to the floor and handcuff him* Cowardly fascist lickspittles: "That Senator was being disruptive."
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  15. @WashHorn needs to report that.
  16. I just thought it'd be helpful for folks browsing the news content of the site not to miss news/discussion about this attack, thinking this thread was about Israel & Hamas. Your site; you can make the call.
  17. That one is in the Cloak Room and was about the US possibly bombing Iran. Just change the title then to the "Israel's Catch-All Wars Thread" or something.
  18. Libertarian in favor of dissolving civil liberties is certainly a choice.
  19. @immamac Can we start a new thread for the attack on Iran?
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