You can hunker down and fight or negotiate to get what you can get given how much leverage either side has. Those are the choices . . .
Thats the definition of "Politics" -- "who gets what, when and how . ."
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You can hunker down and fight or negotiate to get what you can get given how much leverage either side has. Those are the choices . . .
Honestly, if we don't put more progressives into office and get them into leadership positions (or at least show that we have their backs when it counts), we're probably going to end up just as screwed as if we let Republicans win.. . . House Races in Ohio Will Test Democratic Divisions and Trump’s Sway
Two primary contests on Tuesday for open House seats in Ohio will act as a stress test for both Democrats and Republicans, offering early hints about whether party leaders are aligned with their voters ahead of the midterm elections next year.
© Maddie McGarvey for The New York Times Nina Turner, third from right, built a national following as a surrogate for Senator Bernie
Sanders’s presidential campaigns. She is now seeking a House seat in the Cleveland area.
© Mike Cardew/Akron Beakon Journal, via USA Today Network Shontel Brown is the candidate favored by establishment-friendly politicians and allied outside groups.
In the Cleveland area, two Democrats are locked in an increasingly embittered and expensive clash that has become a flash point in the larger struggle between the party’s activist left flank and its leadership in Washington.
The early favorite to win, Nina Turner [from the party's "Progressive Wing"], is now trying to hold back Shontel Brown, the preferred candidate of more establishment-friendly politicians and allied outside groups.
Ms. Turner, a former state senator who built a national following as a surrogate for Senator Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaigns, has been buoyed by support from Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and other leaders in the progressive movement.
Ms. Brown, (on the other hand) a local Democratic Party official, has benefited from the help of Hillary Clinton, Representative James E. Clyburn of South Carolina and others in party leadership roles.
2 House Races in Ohio Will Test Democratic Divisions and Trump’s Sway (msn.com)
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. . . put more progressives into office . . . But Dem leadership is literally centrist left, and just barely that.
We won't get the change we need so long as they are there worrying about upsetting their personal/business interests.
Hey. I'm all for open dialogues and proper compromises. I'd love to see Washington figure out how to make that happen. But I think a big step for that is establishing that the public wants that, and will start holding their leaders accountable when they won't make that happen.Progressives, Centrists, Leftist . . .
. . . Its a "Big Tent".
How about some give and take over issues that results in progress?
Hell, but then again, what is progress?
McConnell: Biden 'is not going to be removed from office' - NewsBreak
Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) on Wednesday shot down calls from within his own party to try to impeach President Biden , pointing to next year's midterm election as a potential check on the administration. "Well, look, the president is not going to be removed from office. There's a...www.newsbreakapp.com
Don't ever say
Georgia Voters Oust District Attorney Criticized Over Involvement in Ahmaud Arbery’s Case
Georgia residents used their votes to remove a local District Attorney who was heavily criticized for her handling of the Ahmaud Arbery casetime.com
‘It’s an act of war’: Trump’s acting Pentagon chief urges Biden to tackle directed-energy attacks
“If this plays out and somebody is attacking Americans [even] with a nonlethal weapon … we owe it to our folks that are out there,” said Christopher Miller
The suspected directed-energy attacks on U.S. government personnel worldwide are “an act of war,” said former acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller, who launched an initiative to investigate the incidents during his time at the Pentagon last year and is urging the new administration to stay on the issue.
“If this plays out and somebody is attacking Americans [even] with a nonlethal weapon … we owe it to our folks that are out there,” Miller, who served as former President Donald Trump’s acting defense chief from November until January, told POLITICO. “We owe it to them to get to the bottom of this.”
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I didn't get the impression most people were upset about the deadline. It was about the last minute execution that made the whole thing look bad and annoyed folks.We Now Know Why Biden Was in a Hurry to Exit Afghanistan
There was a moment in Tuesday’s Senate hearing on the withdrawal from Afghanistan when it became clear why President Joe Biden decided to get the troops out of there as quickly as possible.
© Provided by Slate President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the end of the war in Afghanistan at the White House on
Aug. 31. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
It came when Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, explained why he and the other chiefs—the top officers of the Army, Air Force, Navy, and Marines—all agreed that we needed to pull out by Aug. 31.
The Doha agreement, which President Trump had signed with the Taliban in early 2020 (with no participation by the Afghan government), required a total withdrawal of foreign forces. If U.S. troops had stayed beyond August, Milley said, the Taliban would have resumed the fighting, and, in order to stave off the attacks, “we would have needed 30,000 troops” and would have suffered “many casualties.”However, it is extremely unlikely that the Taliban would have observed the semantic distinction. In their eyes, 2,500 U.S. troops would be seen as 2,500 U.S. troops, regardless of whether their mission was officially said to be “military” or “diplomatic.” Therefore, the Taliban would resume fighting, as Milley said they would, and Biden would then have been faced with a horrendous choice—to pull out while under attack or send in another 30,000 troops.
Some historical-psychological perspective is worth noting. In the first nine months of Barack Obama’s presidency, the generals were pushing for a major escalation of the war in Afghanistan—an increase of 40,000 troops—and a shift to a counterinsurgency (aka “nation-building”) strategy. Biden, who was then vice president, was alone in suggesting an increase of just 10,000 troops, to be used solely for training the Afghan army and for fighting terrorists along the Afghan-Pakistani border. As Obama recalls in his memoir, Biden urged the new and relatively inexperienced president not to be “boxed in” by the generals. Give them 40,000 troops now, and in 18 months, they’ll say they need another 40,000 to win the war. As Obama later acknowledged, Biden was right.
And so, as Milley was advising President Biden to keep 2,500 troops in Afghanistan, even while acknowledging that another 30,000 might be needed if the Taliban resumed fighting . . . it’s easy to imagine Biden thinking, “They’re trying to box me in, just like they did before, just like they’ve always done since the Vietnam War,” which was raging when Biden first entered the Senate in 1973 and has shaped his views on war and peace ever since.
Milley and Gen. Kenneth McKenzie, the head of Central Command, both acknowledged at the hearing that the U.S. military was flying blind through much of its 20-year war in Afghanistan, the longest war in American history. The officers of the day tried to mold the Afghan army in their own image, making them too dependent on U.S. technology and support, so that once we withdrew, collapse was inevitable. Milley also noted that he and the other officers paid too little attention to Afghan culture and to the corrosive effects of the Afghan government’s corruption and lack of popular legitimacy. So, Biden might well have been thinking, why should he pay attention to anything these guys had to say on the war in Afghanistan, which they’ve been wrong about from the very beginning?
Biden made several missteps, some of them disastrous, in the pace and sequence of the withdrawal. Most of all, he should have pulled out all the spies, contractors, U.S. citizens, and Afghan helpers before pulling out all the troops. But on the big picture, he was right, and the generals, as they now grudgingly admit, were wrong.
We Now Know Why Biden Was in a Hurry to Exit Afghanistan (msn.com)
We now know why Biden was in a hurry to exit Afghanistan. (slate.com)
Welfare isn't socialismI hope Biden cut off the all the welfare farmers have been getting from Trump since they hate socialism.
They are all faggits