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Welcome folks, to the Biden administration!

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If we only allocated money to races we were sure to win or likely to win it would be malpractice. You have to try and keep trying or nothing changes.
 
Handyman said:
If we only allocated money to races we were sure to win or likely to win it would be malpractice. You have to try and keep trying or nothing changes.
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I agree with this, but zero chance is still zero chance. There was zero chance McConnell or Graham were losing. I wouldn't hang the guy that lost in either case (I have zero opinion on the new DNC chair, other than wishing him the best), but I definitely think the decision to spend hard for them was a mistake.
 
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If we only allocated money to races we were sure to win or likely to win it would be malpractice. You have to try and keep trying or nothing changes.
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Not to mention that it also forces the other side to play defense. Every dollar the other side has to spend in Kentucky, South Carolina, or Alaska is a dollar they can't spend in Georgia or Pennsylvania.
 
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I agree with this, but zero chance is still zero chance. There was zero chance McConnell or Graham were losing. I wouldn't hang the guy that lost in either case (I have zero opinion on the new DNC chair, other than wishing him the best), but I definitely think the decision to spend hard for them was a mistake.
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Donations and enthusiasm are not fungible. If you don't go after McConnell hard you raise far less money and generate far less interest.
 
Swansong said:
I agree with this, but zero chance is still zero chance. There was zero chance McConnell or Graham were losing. I wouldn't hang the guy that lost in either case (I have zero opinion on the new DNC chair, other than wishing him the best), but I definitely think the decision to spend hard for them was a mistake.
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One of the guys was actually a female, and the DNC did next to nothing to support McGrath. Which was the right choice.
 
A year ago the idea of winning both races in GA was almost unthinkable. Hell a week before the runoff the odds weren't great. It is never zero and it is never a waste.
 
money is never an issue.

this is almost like feeling bad for john w henry when he cries the redsox have spent too much $$$
 
First step in ending kids in cages and concentration camps.

The Justice Department rescinded a Trump-era memo that established a “zero tolerance” enforcement policy for migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border illegally, which resulted in thousands of family separations.

Acting Attorney General Monty Wilkinson issued the new memo to federal prosecutors across the nation on Tuesday, saying the department would return to its longstanding previous policy and instructing prosecutors to act on the merits of individual cases.

“Consistent with this longstanding principle of making individualized assessments in criminal cases, I am rescinding — effective immediately — the policy directive,” Wilkinson wrote.

Wilkinson said the department’s principles have “long emphasized that decisions about bringing criminal charges should involve not only a determination that a federal offense has been committed and that the admissible evidence will probably be sufficient to obtain and sustain a conviction, but should also take into account other individualized factors, including personal circumstances and criminal history, the seriousness of the offense, and the probable sentence or other consequences that would result from a conviction.”

The “zero tolerance” policy meant that any adult caught crossing the border illegally would be prosecuted for illegal entry. Because children cannot be jailed with their family members, families were separated and children were taken into custody by Health and Human Services, which manages unaccompanied children at the border.

While the rescinding of “zero tolerance” is in part symbolic, it undoes the Trump administration’s massively unpopular policy responsible for the separation of more than 5,500 children from their parents at the U.S-Mexico border. Most families have not been prosecuted under zero tolerance since 2018, when the separations were halted, though separations have continued on a smaller scale. Practically, the ending of the policy will affect mostly single men who have entered the country illegally. Prosecutions had dropped sharply after the Trump administration declared a pandemic-related health emergency that allows them to immediately expel Mexicans and many Central Americans without applying immigration laws.

“While policies may change, our mission always remains the same: to seek justice under the law,” Wilkinson wrote in the memo, which was obtained by The Associated Press.

President Joe Biden has issued an executive order to undo some of Trump’s restrictive policies, but the previous administration has so altered the immigration landscape that it will take quite a while to untangle all the major changes. Some of the parents separated from their children were deported. Advocates for the families have called on Biden to allow those families to reunite in the United States.
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As the article notes, this does not do much of substance for the Nazis policies, which are deeply intertwined with immigration policy (they were designed to hold the whole immigration process hostage to prevent change). We will eventually undo the policies and some of the damage. But my god these animals should be prosecuted for crimes against humanity. Ship them to The Hague if we can't do it here.

Put the sociopaths in cages instead.
 
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Welp.

A new NPR/Ipsos poll finds that a majority of Americans think President Biden has not done a good job in his handling of the war. Many say the president has been too cautious, even as a majority say they're wary of sparking a broader conflict.
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Apparently the guys who "you could drink a beer with" have a better idea.
 
A recent poll also showed Americans don't want to be involved in an active conflict with Russia by 35 points. About 20 point margin said they wanted a no fly zone.

Americans, by and large, are dumb.
 
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A recent poll also showed Americans don't want to be involved in an active conflict with Russia by 35 points. About 20 point margin said they wanted a no fly zone.

Americans, by and large, are dumb.
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Part of the issue is that you have every news service amplifying the incorrect stance that a limited no-fly zone would not be an escalation. Except for:
  • There is no such thing as a "limited" no fly zone.
  • It would need to be enforced, which means shooting at (and being shot at in turn) Russian planes.
People are dumb. Even smart people are dumb.

this week on NPR they had a retired diplomat and retired USAF pilot. The retired diplomat went on and on about how "limited no fly zones" aren't escalatory and that Russia would likely abide by them so long as they were "limited" (without going into detail of what that actually means). The retired pilot was incredibly polite and defferential but pointed out - repeatedly - the fact that Russia wouldn't just "comply" with any such thing and we'd be in a shooting war whether or not we liked it.
 
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Every story I saw run on the NFZ stressed that it would mean shooting down Russian aircraft.

I agree the media blows chunks, and I certainly agree our fellow citizens are door stops, but I think coverage did get that one essential detail right.
 
I don't have cable so my "tv news" intake comes in 5-6 minute youtube clips, but I swear every one I watch, be it CNN, ABC, MSNBC, has some well-meaning guy arguing that we aren't doing enough and we need the NFZ.
 
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