For 30 years, the Democratic Party sold itself as the last bulwark against slightly dumber managers of our imperial decline. Now, faced with a real incarnation of that fantasy, a Republican leader who even Aaron Sorkin would rewrite for lack of subtlety, they have transformed themselves into underdogs, racing to save the world from an evil genius.

The reasons for all of this become far clearer when you recall that, of course, nobody in a position of power in Washington really gives a **** about the Russians. They really don’t. Beyond vague feelings that undefined tampering in our elections is bad, nobody can tell you what, precisely, Trump has done or even could do on the level of material policy that benefits Vladimir Putin, except those things that the Republican Party was going to do anyway. He hasn’t even lived up to expectations. We’re bombing Syria. NATO is “good” again. Yes, rolling back environmental protections is excellent for a petro-state, but it’s difficult to imagine President Jeb! Bush throwing his full weight behind the Paris Treaty.

The objection, after all, cannot be to outside electoral influence in principle. Powerful entities have always had interests that run contrary to those of the American people, and those entities have routinely used their financial power or public relations outfits to meddle in our electoral process. It’s only that these entities are ordinarily multinational corporation, and the principle difference between the meddling of a multinational corporation and the meddling of Russia is that I can tell you precisely what a multinational corporation gets in policy concessions and regulatory kickbacks when they help elect an unpopular political candidate. And this really, is where this whole strange Democratic shift starts to becomes clear: This was supposed to be their game.

when did omg become the political forum? quick! some post a pizza pic!

fwiw that article The Crushing Idiocy of Donald Trump is worth a read for all the :fire: takes like these:

These people are idiots, and *******s, and no matter what Chris Hayes says, they’ve never made a “calculation” in their lives.

This is a curious development, mainly because Trump really is a dumbass. He is profoundly stupid. This is obvious. He is as stupid as liberals pretended George Bush to be, probably even dumber than that.

John Kerry would grind Iraqi bones into irradiated dust as well anyone — but he’d be strategic about it.

I'd rather not.

Got ****in' awesome - that's what.

depressing aiott

Right, it's like he knows of all the problems but doesn't come up with recommendations on how to fix them. Typical cis white male.

If you weren't being sarcastic I would have a well thought-out response to that.

No you wouldn't, you'd have some racists NorMN response like "whites rule!".

That's missourah!

You guys are really smart

Don't patronize us you manxy bastard!


Would you like us to change the conversation to the dream I had last night which included me getting a handy from Rachel Riley while driving Vettel's Ferrari?

fyp

fyp

Top dream mate, not very realistic, but the best ones rarely are.

Generally irony doesn't post well but this is the exception that proves the rule.

I don't see what's ironic about it.

Dontcha think?

A little too ironic?

Yeah, I really do think.

It's like rain on your wedding a day.

Are you all still you on your periods

**** you luck

Nice little six mnth break ya had thar

I think I must permanently be on my period.

Welcome back, New French guy.

in france, it's already friday

Lies!

9 games back, tied with the Mets for second (sorry, KoNY).
Softest division in MLB, and I like it.