I dunno about that. The CIA has at least been competent at undermining leftist movements.

The rules haven’t changed (much), but enforcement has been stepped up with better scanners that catch a lot of minor violations that used to be missed. I wouldn’t count on things that went through before necessarily going through now.

That’s just going to become a standard disclaimer attached to every introduction, isn’t it. Soon it’s going to start showing up on business cards.

Is that supposed to be a positive? What’s going on now with the ACA was written into it’s DNA from day one. I don’t think there is a single government program that has transferred more wealth to Wall Street than the ACA. Not even defense contracts can compete.

Pretty much everything wrong with Democrats is as bad or worse with Republicans. On the other hand, the Republican establishment did not want Trump to be nominated in 2016 any more than the Democrats wanted Sanders. It’s up for debate if they were less heavy handed in manipulating the process, or if they were just more incompetent.

What? Bill Clinton is more responsible than anyone but maybe Reagan for the gutting of the middle class. The Clinton’s set us on this path. Hillary’s only real track record is on foreign policy, and her positions there reflect the absolute worst aspects of American arrogance and interventionism.

The Clinton’s and the rest of the Democratic establishment are responsible for destroying the underlying social fabric that would have made any of what you want possible. They are also diametrically opposed to a “fair” primary. Democrats have near 100% control over their own primary process, and the whole thing is rigged to maximize their ability to manipulate voters through their domination of media.

What? How the hell did you get murder and terrorism out of that?

What I want is is social libertarianism. What I’d settle for is an FDR progressive. My bare acceptable minimum is liberal democracy. What the Democrats are is ineffective illiberal elitist technocrats.

It was not Biden’s job to prosecute his political opponent,

Bull fucking shit it wasn’t. The President is the chief law enforcement officer in the Federal government, and his “political opponent” was the most dangerous criminal we’ve seen in decades. Yes, it was his fucking job to make damn sure the DOJ did theirs.

• Give it up. We know what he did and what he tried to do. You assume we don’t, but we just have higher standards than you.

If Democrats had absolute control, we’d still be on a slow boat to oblivion. That is no doubt an improvement over the express train we are on, but let’s not pretend the Democratic establishment has anything in mind for the future of the middle class but utter destruction.

Oh, and Congress didn’t exactly need to put a gun to Biden’s head on Palestine.

It’s been like that a lot longer than that. It’s just that most of the damage leading up to 2016 was under the surface and most people didn’t read their damage reports.

He didn’t have the juice to not do something for Ukraine that Biden didn’t do either? Fuck off moron.

OK, so you don’t have an answer or can’t be bothered to read the entire question. Trump has gone beyond what Biden did. I’m done with your bad faith bullshit.

You never answered my question, so I’ll make it more pointed. Why is Trump providing Ukraine with intelligence for targeting Russian energy infrastructure? Intelligence that Biden refused to provide BTW.

/looks around

Who’s denying it? American criminal organizations have always had ties to criminal organizations everywhere, and the same is true of intelligence organizations. That’s not even interesting, and it’s not “alignment”.

He’s blowing up nato

He’s also helping Ukraine blow up Russia. Not as the reliable ally Biden was, but not in a “doing Putin’s bidding” way either. Now he’s capturing oil tankers from Russia’s oil fleet.

Trump has always hated NATO.

The party isn’t “aligned with Russia” and neither is Trump. That’s a bunch of conspiratorial nonsense.

Russia had/has an interest in the Republicans and especially Trump holding power, and they act on it, but only because of how bad they are for America in general.

Trump aligns with whomever last complimented him on how shiny and gold his asshole tastes, and it lasts until the next guy rolls out their tongue.

Biden wasn’t our last chance, Bernie was.

The idea that Russia and the US are going to carve up Europe and leave the UK unmolested because of brexit is borderline delusional, as is the notion that Trump will be removed from office by anything other than too many cheeseburgers. There is no electoral math that would give the Democrats the ability to remove him, and there is no way they will get ~20 Republican Senators to defect.

How do you come to this conclusion? What I see is the administration consistently failing to execute on their domestic agenda and backing down. Their National Guard deployments were shut down by the courts. ICE is nowhere close to meeting their stated goals, and becoming less popular by the hour. They can’t even fill the positions they have, nevermind growing it larger with the new budget. Even Jimmy Kimmel is still on the air.

Assuming that the cable hadn’t already been manipulated, in which case they were protecting it from being read.

I was assuming an imperfect narrator. The only person who knows why the cable was locked up was the one who locked it up.