I’m not so sure he’s much of a security risk, unless he is still in possession of sensitive documents. I sincerely doubt he is capable of remembering anything in the way of valuable secrets. Anyways, even if he did, any adversary would be daft to trust he remembered correctly.
Aren’t you just restating my comment? Yes, progressives regaining relevancy results in a Democratic party that is left of one taken over by conservatives.
I already answered your first paragraph in the comment you replied to, but I’ll embellish. Not every wealthy person involved in politics is in favor of insanely low taxes on corporations and the wealthy. Over reliance on austerity to balance the national budget is ultimately not in their best interest, and some of them are bright enough to realize it. Those are the concessions I mentioned.
The stark reality is that the situation for working Americans has gotten worse under both Republican and Democratic administrations. It’s not just because Republicans have always managed to out maneuver Democrats in leveraging power. It has often been caused directly by Democratic legislative “successes”. “The era of big government is over!” came from Bill Clinton as he shredded federal welfare programs. Obama reacted to the mortgage crisis by bailing out his Wall Street donors and hanging homeowners out to dry.
As for your second paragraph, it’s as delusional and historically ignorant as anything I’ve heard out of MAGAts. Democratic victories are necessary for progress, but it’s only the threat of immanent fascism that has historically driven Democrats to make improvements.
Biden went from being one of the most conservative Democrats in Congress to the most progressive Democratic President in fifty years. All it took was a massive fascist movement barking at his heels.
That’s not usually how it works. Democrats serve Wall Street and Silicon Valley first, but make concessions to Main Street as necessary to keep Republicans from taking over. The less of a threat Republicans are, the less incentive establishment Democrats have to put the needs of voters ahead of their sponsors.
Conservatives took over the Democratic party over 30 years ago. Progressives have just recently started inching themselves back into relevance.
Anybody that the Republicans put in charge of any federal agency is there for the purpose of destroying that agency. I used to think defense was an exception but, given Republican’s new found love for Russia, I don’t think that can be assumed any longer.
Trump’s way ahead of you there.
How about you go do that fuck off thing yourself. These movements need a failing political system in which to pedal their bullshit and the world’s neoliberals have been more than happy to provide it for them.
Right wingers have an unreasonably radical view of liberals because that’s what the right wing hate machine churns out relentlessly. Liberals think most right wingers are confused but reasonable because thinking otherwise clashes with liberal philosophy. Leftists think that right wingers are rabid fascists because right wingers always show themselves to be rabid fascists the moment someone gives them permission. Enlightened centrists think both sides have equal and opposite prejudices because they like that vibe, not because it reflects reality.
He was arguably a worse president than even Trump. Which of them is a worse human being is a different question.
After End Game they stopped being Marvel movies and started being Disney movies.
Agreed. It’s pretty telling that none of these corporations would accept an open ended arbitration clause in their dealings with any other corporation.
I could see very specific cases where arbitration makes sense with a very well defined scope. “Parties agree that disputes over widget quality related to this agreement are to be adjudicated by the Widget Quality Counsel”. The courts are not always the best arbiters for every dispute.
However, what we have now is every corporation finding ways to slide arbitration clauses of global scope into every transaction. That is always bullshit.
Arbitration contracts, especially in click-through licenses, are always bullshit and should be universally thrown out.
Doesn’t seem all that smart to me. Does the company offer an API to the device so consumers can write their own “server”? No, I’m sure they have it locked down behind some proprietary encryption scheme so that anyone who tries can be charged with violating the digital millennium copywrite act.
What a bunch of weirdos.
Democrats should suck less than they do, not just less than Republicans.
While Trump is personally worse on this and so many other issues, Biden’s complete failure to contain Israel means that the results would probably be nearly identical.
Which part is the disinformation? I think “genocide Joe” is a bit over the top, but Biden has clearly not pushed back on the Palestinian genocide as hard as the left (reasonably) wants. As for Biden’s age, I think that’s been pretty well vindicated now.
I don’t dispute that the right disingenuously jumps on leftist issues, but I also think we need to grapple with the fact that the Democratic establishment has continuously chosen to make the party vulnerable to such attacks. Democrats should suck less than they do, not just less than Republicans.
claims included in a report from the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review think tank…
I immediately distrust anything coming from a “think tank”. From what I can tell of this organization, they look like a front group for the interests of the health insurance mafia.
Strict adherence to sentencing guidelines actually would see him jailed on his current convictions. If he isn’t given some kind of imprisonment it will be because the judge was afraid of the aftermath.