Rep. Cool Rick

@reptavner.bsky.social

Half a goon and half a god

I hate to hand it to the New York Times, but they've had this headline in place basically all day and they still haven't sanewashed it with "Trump Exhorts Iranian Leaders With Nontraditional Overtures" or some shit.

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I imagine those opposed would give the same answer today as back then: Whatever country lines up with your ethnicity. Yeah, I realize that’s stupid because one’s ethnic background can be complicated. They didn’t care then and they don’t care now, so they can offer a simpler version: “Not here.”

jamelle@jamellebouie.net · 5mo ago

“We propose to settle all the difficulty of the Dred Scott Decision by putting it into the Constitution. If a man is not a citizen of the country in which he is born, in God’s name of what country is he a citizen? If he may not live there, where has he a right to live?“

I really wish he gave it another shot in '04. Kerry didn't truly excite people, and the swiftboating didn't help, but there were at least 46 electoral votes that could have easily swung the other way, and Kerry only came up 20 short. Ohio alone would have flipped it.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 6mo ago

"You're 77 years old. Spring chicken — two years younger than Trump; younger than Biden. Maybe one more walk around the block?" "I'll give serious reflective thought to what you've said, Tim." Tim Miller and Al Gore discuss the prospect of a Gore 2028 run.