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OT: American Politics

MindzEye said:
Nah, race was a dead heat two weeks after the debate debable. The knives came out for for Biden from inside the house before the polling tanked.

But that's not what I'm on about regarding Pelosi. As recently as 10 yrs ago it looked like the democrats were going to walk into a demographically guided era of dominance where the GOP seemed destined to implode. Latinos were heavy democrat supporters and looked primed to push Texas blue within a decade, and key GOP constituents (old white people) were set to shuffle off to the great beyond while getting replaced in the electorate by their far more progressive kids and grandkids.

Fast forward a decade and latinos have pivoted from being heavy democrat to a toss up demographic and young white men are Trumpers while the only demo the Dems appear to be gaining with are the richer white children of WW2 veterans who are getting a sneaky feeling that today's politics are starting to sound like the stories they used to hear about. The democrats have bottled this nearly every step along the way, and the only democrats who seem to have understood how to win in this environment weren't Nancy's choices. Oh, she makes you think they were her choice after they win the nomination, but she always rides both sides of the fence until a winner emerges.

Zeke had it right earlier, everything is a chess move to her. There's no principles necessary, just pure politics. Even fucking Mitch believes in something. They're all shit things, but the bullshit and manuevering is all to satisfy ideological goals.
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Glad you finally admitted to the great replacement
 
The Pentagon Papers of Pete Hegseth

Sharlet wrote a substack article about Hegseth. Fucking terrifying.

"I began my journalism career covering courts-martial in San Diego, and I’ve reported on Christian nationalism within the armed forces. But I’m not a military reporter. This isn’t my beat. This isn’t my story. But I can read. That’s where I start, when I want to understand the thinking of someone who’s written—or, who knows, put their name on the cover of—a book. The NYT quotes one of the book’s first pages, too, and then none of the jaw-dropping, civil war fantasy rhetoric that fills what follows. The Washington Post quotes nothing. CNN wonders whether he has sufficient administrative experience. (Is “none” sufficient?) Politico worries what the lobbyists will think.

I want to be careful here—I don’t think any of these journalists, some of whom, at least, are otherwise strong reporters, is secretly rooting for fascism. It’s important to distinguish between advocacy, acquiescence, and simple abdication under cover of cabinet selection as court intrigue. Many can’t—won’t—see fascist rhetoric as such because they believe, or fear, that doing so is unsophisticated. They know guys like Hegseth are grifters, that in the green room, nobody’s a Nazi. Sure, he’s intense, but it’s mostly just theater."
 
If I were to say business doesn't work any one who wanted to place me on their company's board would get laughed at. Saying government doesn't work gets you elected.
 
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