Charlie, I have lived in The Tar Heel State since 1981 and served 14 years as a local election official in two of its bluest counties (Durham and Wake : aka Raleigh) Tillis may be heading for the exit but I remember the 1984 race between popular Gov Jim Hunt and the late Jesse Helms. We know how that turned out. Roy Cooper must consider that, especially of our President(?)'s daughter-in-law, Lara is the Republican nominee. There must be beaucoup (since your French family is visiting) economic hurt in these rural counties for Cooper to win. Merci beaucoup
Charlie, my understanding is that they've timed the Medicaid (and related) cuts to not happen until 2029, so that if they go forward, they'll be in the next administration. If I'm not misinformed on this, why would THIS be the thing that makes Tillis fall on his sword? It's structured this way to point blame everywhere but where it's due...
It is Fear of Trump, mainlined, not fear of failure. My money is on Mamdani not winning and Adams rounding home plate, who is corrupt but not in the leftwing stratosphere. And we do need to take Auggie's advice, we all need a breather, actually regularly. For me, another Rx is thinking about the one man in the D ranks who should be the next president, Senator Chris Murphy. Please ask him on your podcast. For me, he is the Lincoln of our time. (Full disclosure- UCONN grad, born in Boston, longtime CT resident. Don't ask where I now live.)
My response to Jason Miller: Trump's "mandate" - it's a stretch to call it that when he won the popular vote by a mere 1.5% - was 7 months ago. Have you seen the polling? Now that the public has actually seen what deporting millions unlawfully looks like, and who's affected by cuts to Medicaid, they are no longer with him.
Why does no one on Twitter point this out to him? Or, if they do, Charlie, why don't you report that too???
Nothing enrages me more than hearing the Convicted Felon declare to God that “we love you” (which was weird in an update about a bombing run) and then display not a single iota of being God’s Hands and Feet or anything resembling His commands.
Thank you for standing against the far left as well as the far right. We will never defeat fascism if we allow Trump the golden opportunity to paint all Democrats as socialist. And as many of us know, the far right and the far left both end in tyranny. Excusing or embracing Socialists within the Democratic Party is not only losing strategy, it is just another version of Trumpism.
I think Mamdani ran a great campaign that Dems should learn from. But his ideas are wildly impractical. If he wins as mayor he will be brought down to earth very quickly.
Charlie Lance Bolyer is the Minnesota shooter. He killed the Hortmans & their dog Golden Retriever named Gilbert . That's important to report.
On Mamdani here is a recap from the NYT article
In the interview with The Bulwark, Mr. Mamdani said he believed the phrase spoke to “a desperate desire for equality and equal rights in standing up for Palestinian human rights.” He said the U.S. Holocaust Museum used a similar Arabic term for “uprising” to describe the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising against the Nazis, and stressed his own commitment to nonviolence and fighting antisemitism.
You are losing prospective . Listen to some more Beatles songs.✌️ 🙃
I’m glad Tillis made his stand, and genuinely hope the courage he dredged up infects his R/MAGA colleagues……
……..AHAHAHAHA😂
However, I can’t help but wonder if Tillis has the stones to go scorched earth (ish) on Trump for the next year and a half? Become an absolute pest; every time Trump tweets: tweet back, Trump press conference: call every reporter Tillis knows and make a statement, book any/every Sunday political show that will have him from now ‘til retirement day.
Tillis doesn’t, necessarily, have to be defiant or anti-Trump, but he sure could be! Turnabout is fair play, after all; Trump tortured Tillis, so Tillis should torture Trump.
Tillis could also inform the public about threats that Trump/Mike Johnson regularly make to elected officials to keep them in line.
Normally I would be all grins and giggles over the Dems chances in the mid-terms if I wasn't already so queasy knowing the bad orange man would think nothing of starting WW3 if that's the excuse he needed to stop elections.
I think negative reactions to government-run grocery stores are glib. There are grocery deserts in even medium-sized cities. Lower income neighborhoods don’t attract grocery stores. Residents, who often don’t own cars, have to travel miles to shop for groceries. Small business owners often attempt to fill the gap, but must charge much higher prices and generally end up going out of business. A logical solution might be government run grocery stores.
It appears to me that Skykes' position is that "globalize the intifada" is a bad phrase in itself as opposed to bad political messaging. He and pretty much all other Bulwark contributors think that "globalize the intifada" = globalized support for terror.
I have no idea why they reach that conclusion. All "intifada" means is resistance. What's wrong with being globally anti-colonialist resistant? And lets be clear, what is happening in places like Columbia University are a form of indirect Israeli oppression of the free speech right of Muslims in the United States (Israeli students & the Israeli government have been behind the SUCCESSFUL efforts to have Muslims deported for exercising free speech on campus at Columbia. Where do you think that the Trump administration is getting these names from? What you think, Stephen Miller is out there reading everything written by random Columbia students to see who to deport?) If Israel can apply global pressure in its propaganda campaigns to oppress Palestinians, why can't the resistance be global as well?
It's the same weird acceptance of Israeli propaganda that the phrase "from the river to the sea" somehow means that they want to wipe Jews off the land. The phrase says no such thing. The full phrase is:
"From the river to the sea, Palestinians/Palestine will be free."
Nothing about killing or even displacing Jews. Nothing about the religion of people in that region who have the right to be free. There is absolutely nothing in the phrase than even implies the exclusive occupation of that land by non-Jews.
You have a problem with freedom?
This is yet another example of the Israeli pathological tendency of accusing Arabs of doing what Israelis are in fact doing to Arabs.
This is the literally the first official guiding principle of the Netanyahu government as of December of 2022 (i.e. a full 10 months prior to October 7) per Vox:
"Further clues to how Netanyahu and his partners will govern are apparent in the coalition agreement that sets out the new government’s guidelines. Though it is not legally binding, it states plainly its ideology: “The Jewish people have an exclusive and inalienable right over all areas of the Land of Israel. The government will promote and develop the settlement of all parts of the Land of Israel — in the Galilee, the Negev, the Golan and Judea and Samaria,” the latter referring to the occupied West Bank."
Note the word "EXCLUSIVE" in referring to the right of the JEWISH people, and Jewish people only, to the occupied territories.
Their very first guiding principle is literally advocating genocide (unless you can tell how it is exactly that you get rid of 4.5 million Arabs whose relatives have lived in those exact same lands for thousands of years, without genocide).
Sadly, this sort of bias against Palestinians will never change in the pages of the Bulwark. It's really disappointing that the same empathy that the Bulwark has for Hispanic immigrants is wholly lacking when the victims are Muslim.
I can't speak for Charlie, but my impression is that it's not the saying itself that bothers him...it's how the MAGA types will weaponize it.
There's not a MAGA in the world that's going to read your explanation but they will see "globalize the intifada" as support for terrorism...without question.
Charlie, I have lived in The Tar Heel State since 1981 and served 14 years as a local election official in two of its bluest counties (Durham and Wake : aka Raleigh) Tillis may be heading for the exit but I remember the 1984 race between popular Gov Jim Hunt and the late Jesse Helms. We know how that turned out. Roy Cooper must consider that, especially of our President(?)'s daughter-in-law, Lara is the Republican nominee. There must be beaucoup (since your French family is visiting) economic hurt in these rural counties for Cooper to win. Merci beaucoup
Charlie, my understanding is that they've timed the Medicaid (and related) cuts to not happen until 2029, so that if they go forward, they'll be in the next administration. If I'm not misinformed on this, why would THIS be the thing that makes Tillis fall on his sword? It's structured this way to point blame everywhere but where it's due...
The republicans make me think of a lyric from Sting…
Another working day has ended
“Only the rush hour hell to face
Packed like lemmings into shiny metal boxes
Contestants in a suicidal race
Daddy grips the wheel and stares alone into the distance
He knows that something somewhere has to break”
Heaven only knows what will break the fever dream that is anchored by The Don
It is Fear of Trump, mainlined, not fear of failure. My money is on Mamdani not winning and Adams rounding home plate, who is corrupt but not in the leftwing stratosphere. And we do need to take Auggie's advice, we all need a breather, actually regularly. For me, another Rx is thinking about the one man in the D ranks who should be the next president, Senator Chris Murphy. Please ask him on your podcast. For me, he is the Lincoln of our time. (Full disclosure- UCONN grad, born in Boston, longtime CT resident. Don't ask where I now live.)
My response to Jason Miller: Trump's "mandate" - it's a stretch to call it that when he won the popular vote by a mere 1.5% - was 7 months ago. Have you seen the polling? Now that the public has actually seen what deporting millions unlawfully looks like, and who's affected by cuts to Medicaid, they are no longer with him.
Why does no one on Twitter point this out to him? Or, if they do, Charlie, why don't you report that too???
Nothing enrages me more than hearing the Convicted Felon declare to God that “we love you” (which was weird in an update about a bombing run) and then display not a single iota of being God’s Hands and Feet or anything resembling His commands.
Thank you for standing against the far left as well as the far right. We will never defeat fascism if we allow Trump the golden opportunity to paint all Democrats as socialist. And as many of us know, the far right and the far left both end in tyranny. Excusing or embracing Socialists within the Democratic Party is not only losing strategy, it is just another version of Trumpism.
A potential mayor of New York City states his intention to "defund" the police? Of a city whose population exceeds that of 38 U.S. states?
Trust it to a "modern Progressive" to find a new way of committing political Harakiri.
Politicians such as this are a far, far cry from the founding voices of U.S. progressiveism, such as Tarbel, Sinclair, Steffans, and Roosevelt (T.R.).
I think Mamdani ran a great campaign that Dems should learn from. But his ideas are wildly impractical. If he wins as mayor he will be brought down to earth very quickly.
Charlie Lance Bolyer is the Minnesota shooter. He killed the Hortmans & their dog Golden Retriever named Gilbert . That's important to report.
On Mamdani here is a recap from the NYT article
In the interview with The Bulwark, Mr. Mamdani said he believed the phrase spoke to “a desperate desire for equality and equal rights in standing up for Palestinian human rights.” He said the U.S. Holocaust Museum used a similar Arabic term for “uprising” to describe the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising against the Nazis, and stressed his own commitment to nonviolence and fighting antisemitism.
You are losing prospective . Listen to some more Beatles songs.✌️ 🙃
I’m glad Tillis made his stand, and genuinely hope the courage he dredged up infects his R/MAGA colleagues……
……..AHAHAHAHA😂
However, I can’t help but wonder if Tillis has the stones to go scorched earth (ish) on Trump for the next year and a half? Become an absolute pest; every time Trump tweets: tweet back, Trump press conference: call every reporter Tillis knows and make a statement, book any/every Sunday political show that will have him from now ‘til retirement day.
Tillis doesn’t, necessarily, have to be defiant or anti-Trump, but he sure could be! Turnabout is fair play, after all; Trump tortured Tillis, so Tillis should torture Trump.
Tillis could also inform the public about threats that Trump/Mike Johnson regularly make to elected officials to keep them in line.
Charlie - thank goodness for your snark. It cheers me on.
Normally I would be all grins and giggles over the Dems chances in the mid-terms if I wasn't already so queasy knowing the bad orange man would think nothing of starting WW3 if that's the excuse he needed to stop elections.
I think negative reactions to government-run grocery stores are glib. There are grocery deserts in even medium-sized cities. Lower income neighborhoods don’t attract grocery stores. Residents, who often don’t own cars, have to travel miles to shop for groceries. Small business owners often attempt to fill the gap, but must charge much higher prices and generally end up going out of business. A logical solution might be government run grocery stores.
My comment concerning the BBB - Kill the bill, not the American People!!
It appears to me that Skykes' position is that "globalize the intifada" is a bad phrase in itself as opposed to bad political messaging. He and pretty much all other Bulwark contributors think that "globalize the intifada" = globalized support for terror.
I have no idea why they reach that conclusion. All "intifada" means is resistance. What's wrong with being globally anti-colonialist resistant? And lets be clear, what is happening in places like Columbia University are a form of indirect Israeli oppression of the free speech right of Muslims in the United States (Israeli students & the Israeli government have been behind the SUCCESSFUL efforts to have Muslims deported for exercising free speech on campus at Columbia. Where do you think that the Trump administration is getting these names from? What you think, Stephen Miller is out there reading everything written by random Columbia students to see who to deport?) If Israel can apply global pressure in its propaganda campaigns to oppress Palestinians, why can't the resistance be global as well?
It's the same weird acceptance of Israeli propaganda that the phrase "from the river to the sea" somehow means that they want to wipe Jews off the land. The phrase says no such thing. The full phrase is:
"From the river to the sea, Palestinians/Palestine will be free."
Nothing about killing or even displacing Jews. Nothing about the religion of people in that region who have the right to be free. There is absolutely nothing in the phrase than even implies the exclusive occupation of that land by non-Jews.
You have a problem with freedom?
This is yet another example of the Israeli pathological tendency of accusing Arabs of doing what Israelis are in fact doing to Arabs.
This is the literally the first official guiding principle of the Netanyahu government as of December of 2022 (i.e. a full 10 months prior to October 7) per Vox:
"Further clues to how Netanyahu and his partners will govern are apparent in the coalition agreement that sets out the new government’s guidelines. Though it is not legally binding, it states plainly its ideology: “The Jewish people have an exclusive and inalienable right over all areas of the Land of Israel. The government will promote and develop the settlement of all parts of the Land of Israel — in the Galilee, the Negev, the Golan and Judea and Samaria,” the latter referring to the occupied West Bank."
https://www.vox.com/world/2023/1/20/23561464/israel-new-right-wing-government-extreme-protests-netanyahu-biden-ben-gvir
Note the word "EXCLUSIVE" in referring to the right of the JEWISH people, and Jewish people only, to the occupied territories.
Their very first guiding principle is literally advocating genocide (unless you can tell how it is exactly that you get rid of 4.5 million Arabs whose relatives have lived in those exact same lands for thousands of years, without genocide).
Sadly, this sort of bias against Palestinians will never change in the pages of the Bulwark. It's really disappointing that the same empathy that the Bulwark has for Hispanic immigrants is wholly lacking when the victims are Muslim.
I can't speak for Charlie, but my impression is that it's not the saying itself that bothers him...it's how the MAGA types will weaponize it.
There's not a MAGA in the world that's going to read your explanation but they will see "globalize the intifada" as support for terrorism...without question.