Sullivan was the guy that had to get climate policy 101 explained to him by John Podesta back in 2015 theweek.com/articles/65742…
fondly remembering the primary days when Bernie Sanders' focus on welfare and jobs was somehow crypto-racist. hope we enjoy the next 4 years of austerity and imperialism
for instance, here's a guy lying about my previous work and lying about a silly history tweet. the important thing is to start building excuses for Biden's near-certain future failure
@AliceFromQueens here he is lying about AOC, accusing her of attacking Iran when she was attacking the Trump admin
@AliceFromQueens here he is being extremely deceptive about journalists' 1st amendment protections followed by a prolonged meltdown when some BLM activists hassled him
site note: let's not give into Chris Cillizza brain and defeatism about this stuff. is Biden likely to do all of this on his own? no! could he be bullied into it with sufficient popular pressure? yes!
Mugabe ended up as a fairly ruthless dictator, but he was also born dirt poor, helped lead a guerilla overthrow of an apartheid regime, and actually served as a moderate Mandela-esque figure before he turned authoritarian
Mugabe is the kind of guy who would have been a good, maybe great prime minister in a functioning democracy. but colonialism left Zimbabwe in a virtually impossible position, with weak institutions
pollsters have spent 4 years trying to fix the errors of 2016 and they got it *much* more wrong this time fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-…
the numbers aren't worth piss for whatever reason, but hard to imagine polls becoming less important. they're practically baked into the political system
how could you even conduct a campaign without polls these days? half the arguments turn on some kind of survey
Biden looks more likely than not, but boy hoping they squeak out a Senate tie. could be 30 percent unemployment come 2022 if they don't get that
my primary takeaway thus far: polls are fake, poll averages are fake, nobody knows anything, we live in hell
one more takeaway: 2008 was the biggest political missed opportunity in American history. we would be living in an unrecognizably different country but the Obama administration made sure we did not theweek.com/articles/66187…