Max sanctions should have been yesterday - and agree this is a failure of resolve of the NATO countries. Biden can do all the bad Clint Eastwood impressions he wants, but until EU (mainly Germany) is ready to bite the bullet on some unpleasantness, Putin is going to be laughing at us all the way to the Polish border.
Biden is still holding back on sanctions and told us today it's going to take a month for the ones he did levy to have an impact. These were the damaging consequences the administration promised if Putin invaded?
Meanwhile, Kiev will fall before the end of the weekend.
No one is actually supporting Ukraine right now. If it's "support" it's the foreign relations version of sending thoughts and prayers over Twitter.
The West is all talk and Putin knows this. The guy invades another country and we - collectively - can't even muster a half measure.
Just a theory, but it seems to me that floating "cameras in the classroom" is more of a negotiating tactic for parents to achieve greater transparency and input. IF it is intended to be a concession in exchange for what these communities really want, anchoring the ask like this is probably going to work.
Of course, that is probably giving them more credit than they deserve.
While most everyone is reacting to this from a teachers perspective, I don't think it's really a good idea from a student's perspective either.
Kids that say or do something stupid and/or regrettable - it's potentially forever. The kids have enough opportunity to damage their future via social media. They don't need another channel to embarrass themselves in perpetuity.
But to the original point, while running against Trump in 2020 was a no brainer, propping up his carcass and projecting it on every other R has already proven to be a losing strategy. The problem with making Trump a modern Hitler is that it's pretty unconvincing to say the next guy is also Hitler. The Hitler well is going to be empty for a while.
The Ds best hope for 2024 is if Trump manages to win the R nomination again. If he does, y'all can run the 2020 strategy back.
Younkin did not win Va on a Trump! Platform. The sooner Ds can stop conflating anything not part of the progressive agenda with the Orange Man, the better off they will be. It's like y'all blinded by the spray tan.
Independents decide elections. it's almost always a choice between the lesser of 2 evils. Being "not that guy" is often a winning strategy. But that's the thing celebrating partisans never understand. They think they have mandates and find out the hard way that they don't.
Biden was elected bc he was not Trump, not bc they thought the Green New Deal was a super awesome idea..
The Rs are going to crush the Ds in the midterms simply bc they are not Ds. They don't need to provide a solution. Being the alternative is enough to win.
It seems that the Dems are currently running on a "democracy is in peril/worse than Jim Crow" platform which is a variation of the "But Trump" platform.
This study doesn't support your point. This is comparing the higher education level of non-hispanic immigrants with hispanic immigrants - who make up the vast majority of immigrants to the US. It also includes 2nd generations which make it even more irrelevant.
You could try and make the argument from this study that-Africans have a better probability of success in the US than African Americans do. And if true, is pretty messed up.
I don't understand how you can come to that conclusion. This isn't about a blue state still being blue on the state level. Or a red stay still being red.
It's about the power a party can wield on a national level. Local representation is entirely irrelevant as it is sacrificed to increase/preserve a political party's national power base.
What really suffers is local representation in the House, which is suppose to be the point of the thing. District 3 in NY now includes the Gold Coast of Long Island as well as the Bronx. It spans 4 counties/boroughs.
I would think that preserving the integrity of county boundaries would prevent a good bit of the absurdity of these maps - especially in more populated areas. For instance, if the population of two counties can fill a congressional district, you can't extend it into a third, if 3 can do it, you can't extend into a 4th, and so on.
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Max sanctions should have been yesterday - and agree this is a failure of resolve of the NATO countries. Biden can do all the bad Clint Eastwood impressions he wants, but until EU (mainly Germany) is ready to bite the bullet on some unpleasantness, Putin is going to be laughing at us all the way to the Polish border.
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Biden is still holding back on sanctions and told us today it's going to take a month for the ones he did levy to have an impact. These were the damaging consequences the administration promised if Putin invaded?
Meanwhile, Kiev will fall before the end of the weekend.
No one is actually supporting Ukraine right now. If it's "support" it's the foreign relations version of sending thoughts and prayers over Twitter.
The West is all talk and Putin knows this. The guy invades another country and we - collectively - can't even muster a half measure.
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Perhaps Republicans and non-partisans could fully support the President if they knew what it was they were supporting.
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Ah, you beat me to it!
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Close. But for the purposes of accuracy, it's: "clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right." But basically, yes.
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It's amazing how much expertise this country tosses into the trash bin.
Ageism seems to be the one ism without any meaningful advocacy.
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The long game being played by China is probably more analogous to the Trojan Horse.
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Just a theory, but it seems to me that floating "cameras in the classroom" is more of a negotiating tactic for parents to achieve greater transparency and input. IF it is intended to be a concession in exchange for what these communities really want, anchoring the ask like this is probably going to work.
Of course, that is probably giving them more credit than they deserve.
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While most everyone is reacting to this from a teachers perspective, I don't think it's really a good idea from a student's perspective either.
Kids that say or do something stupid and/or regrettable - it's potentially forever. The kids have enough opportunity to damage their future via social media. They don't need another channel to embarrass themselves in perpetuity.
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I guess you had to be there...
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But to the original point, while running against Trump in 2020 was a no brainer, propping up his carcass and projecting it on every other R has already proven to be a losing strategy. The problem with making Trump a modern Hitler is that it's pretty unconvincing to say the next guy is also Hitler. The Hitler well is going to be empty for a while.
The Ds best hope for 2024 is if Trump manages to win the R nomination again. If he does, y'all can run the 2020 strategy back.
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Younkin did not win Va on a Trump! Platform. The sooner Ds can stop conflating anything not part of the progressive agenda with the Orange Man, the better off they will be. It's like y'all blinded by the spray tan.
Independents decide elections. it's almost always a choice between the lesser of 2 evils. Being "not that guy" is often a winning strategy. But that's the thing celebrating partisans never understand. They think they have mandates and find out the hard way that they don't.
Biden was elected bc he was not Trump, not bc they thought the Green New Deal was a super awesome idea..
The Rs are going to crush the Ds in the midterms simply bc they are not Ds. They don't need to provide a solution. Being the alternative is enough to win.
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While I wholeheartedly disagree with you, I appreciate you confirming my point: The Dems are still running against Trump.
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It seems that the Dems are currently running on a "democracy is in peril/worse than Jim Crow" platform which is a variation of the "But Trump" platform.
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Yes, the circumstances have changed.
The mid-terms are rapidly approaching.
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Common Core was universally unpopular. A true bipartisan revolt.
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You just described the House of Representatives.
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I didn't realize Wonkette was still a thing. Ann Marie Cox left it eons ago.
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We live in a world where blacks can be white supremacists and women can have penises.
Catholics being considered wasps? [Yawn]
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This study doesn't support your point. This is comparing the higher education level of non-hispanic immigrants with hispanic immigrants - who make up the vast majority of immigrants to the US. It also includes 2nd generations which make it even more irrelevant.
You could try and make the argument from this study that-Africans have a better probability of success in the US than African Americans do. And if true, is pretty messed up.
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Would love to see the statistics that support the assertions you make in that first paragraph.
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I get that Meatballs has not aged well, but the movie that produced Bill Murray's "IT JUST DOESN'T MATTER" speech deserves better than an F.
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I don't understand how you can come to that conclusion. This isn't about a blue state still being blue on the state level. Or a red stay still being red.
It's about the power a party can wield on a national level. Local representation is entirely irrelevant as it is sacrificed to increase/preserve a political party's national power base.
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Wow. Rorschach would be jealous.
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What really suffers is local representation in the House, which is suppose to be the point of the thing. District 3 in NY now includes the Gold Coast of Long Island as well as the Bronx. It spans 4 counties/boroughs.
I would think that preserving the integrity of county boundaries would prevent a good bit of the absurdity of these maps - especially in more populated areas. For instance, if the population of two counties can fill a congressional district, you can't extend it into a third, if 3 can do it, you can't extend into a 4th, and so on.