politics
Welcome to the discussion of US Politics!
Rules:
- Post only links to articles, Title must fairly describe link contents. If your title differs from the site’s, it should only be to add context or be more descriptive. Do not post entire articles in the body or in the comments.
Links must be to the original source, not an aggregator like Google Amp, MSN, or Yahoo.
Example:
- Articles must be relevant to politics. Links must be to quality and original content. Articles should be worth reading. Clickbait, stub articles, and rehosted or stolen content are not allowed. Check your source for Reliability and Bias here.
- Be civil, No violations of TOS. It’s OK to say the subject of an article is behaving like a (pejorative, pejorative). It’s NOT OK to say another USER is (pejorative). Strong language is fine, just not directed at other members. Engage in good-faith and with respect! This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban.
- No memes, trolling, or low-effort comments. Reposts, misinformation, off-topic, trolling, or offensive. Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.
- Vote based on comment quality, not agreement. This community aims to foster discussion; please reward people for putting effort into articulating their viewpoint, even if you disagree with it.
- No hate speech, slurs, celebrating death, advocating violence, or abusive language. This will result in a ban. Usernames containing racist, or inappropriate slurs will be banned without warning
We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.
All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.
That's all the rules!
Civic Links
• Congressional Awards Program
• Library of Congress Legislative Resources
• U.S. House of Representatives
Partnered Communities:
• News
view the rest of the comments
What?
If this is the worst Pete can imagine, then he should be nowhere near Dem leadership because there are going to be much larger fuckups than this.
We need people who will do more than just react, especially when their reactions are just repeating public opinion.
And if you aren't predicting what they'll do next, all you're doing is reacting.
I'd prefer to not think about how you could get worst than this. Thanks.
Hate to break it to you but after these ‘lapses’ lead to a new 9/11 your government is going to blame it on Canada and invade. Your people will be on board and write country songs and have freedom gravy fries and nobody is going to stop them.
Millions are going to die because you think, as a culture, again, that you will steamroll. And after the cities are razed and as you guys are mining and pumping the ruins, a million Canadians will cross, with nothing left but hate, thousands of kilometres of open forest border into a world of lootable weapons, identical appearances, and immigrated guerrilla terror.
Which strawman are you yelling at in particular?
Ain’t nobody touching ourtine aka poutine. Pronounced Poo-Tin like a proper Quebecois-Canadien.
Don't get me started with 9/11. The Iraq War was my fucking teenage years.
Seriously?
This was an accident, you can't imagine they wouldn't trade this kind of info for personal profit?
Like, they've done worse than this even in this situation. The attack was worse than how they planned it or that a journalist was added.
I swear people focus on the dumbest shit to be upset about
It's exactly what fascists always try for, but they need a population willfully ignorant of history for it to work.
Which is why Republicans and neoliberals united for "no child left behind" decades ago, and today's younger generations suffer from "brain rot" that shit was intentional.
Knowing that this administration is incompetent is enough for me. I'd prefer to not to spend the rest of these four years or god knows how long thinking about the consequences of their incompetence. Let me have some resemblance of peace.
So...
You posted this to a political but don't want anyone to talk about politics...
And your plan to do that is to keep replying to people, telling them that you don't want to talk, instead of just not replying? Or better yet just not posting in the first place?
Because I genuinely have no idea what you're doing
The highest fuckup imaginable was reelecting an insurrectionist and hoarder of classified documents, but people hate hearing the truth sometimes.
What about the guy who talked that president into running because he thought it was the only way his historically unpopular wife could win a decade ago?
Who do you want to see as democrat leaders?
Not anyone who is affiliated with or worked for McKinsey.
That's an answer about who you don't want as leadership.
The question was who do you want to see as democratic leaders?
Are you inferring that Buttigieg is a Democratic leader?
In what way? Did he win a Federal election? My understanding was he received a position as trans. Sec for the splitting/ ratfucking he did to to the progressives in 2020.
He's not a leader in the sense that he has been elected to any form of leadership position.
In a democracy, this is how we define what a leader is. We elect them. Appointments to the children's table of cabinet positions don't count. Hillary, for all her faults, at least she did win a Federal election. And her cabinet appointment was material, not a handout for a job done. Even the ag secretary is a much bigger deal than the trans secretary.
Other being constantly elevated as if his voice matters by corporate media, Buttigieg is a basically irrelevant failed candidate whose primary qualification is being a one-time mayor of a college town.
What I said was ‘Who do you want to see as democrat leaders?’.
Yeah to someone else. Not to me.
I asked you a question:
Are you inferring that Buttigieg is a Democratic leader?
Oh I thought you went off on a rant instead of answering the question you replied to, my bad.
Op's point was a challenge to the notion that Buttigieg is a leader of the Democratic party. They are getting briggaded for it.
Your response is a typical, two faced, backhanded way of dismissing the challenge. The kind of non-addiitve, toxic, snide, perspectives we always see from corporate democrats and their apologists. And its a legitimate question because obviously some media at least presents Buttigieg as a Democratic leader. And its a totally fair point to contend that Buttigieg is a leader for the Democratic party, if thats what you believe.
And since you are white knighting on their behalf, its totally fair to bring the question to you:
Do you see Buttigieg as a Democratic leader?
Asking who they want to see as democrat leaders is a typical, two faced, backhanded way of dismissing the challenge, the kind of non-additive, toxic, snide, perspectives we always see from corporate democrats and their apologists?
Here I though it was a valid question giving them a chance to say who they thought would be positive for the party.
Hi, just wanted to check in here. Are you familiar with the concept called "hyperbole" and a "figure of speech"? Figurative language is a thing that people use sometimes, and some people say that perhaps he is using that here. Many people are saying that you can say things like this and still imagine worse
Perhaps if you have other issues with him, those should be expressed rather than just taking a statement like this super literally