.@NYGovCuomo has thrown out New York's carefully-prepared vaccination plan and is micromanaging everything himself on the fly, with disastrous results timesunion.com/news/article/N…
@NYGovCuomo can't decide which are more obnoxious, the Cuomo stans who think I love Trump, or the Trump stans who think I haven't criticized Cuomo before
the Texas GOP leadership are incompetent monsters but at least they are being less fussy about this. just get shots in arms
PA Senate Republicans just refused to seat a Democrat who narrowly won reelection and whose victory was confirmed by the PA Supreme Court inquirer.com/politics/penns…
the thing about democratic government is it requires all parties to follow the procedural rules. if you can just refuse to seat people because their opponent won't concede, everything is fair game
"This is a lesson that you literally have to be a high-ranking member of the DNC not to get: when people got checks from the government ... that’s governing, it’s giving people what they need" jacobinmag.com/2020/12/donald…
conversely, I reckon moderate Dems would have a lot more success breaking through the conservative noise machine if they could just advance their own policies rather than constantly starting slap-fights with the left
the problem, I suppose, is that the ruling moderate elite is *theoretically* dedicated to mostly the same outcomes as the left, but insists for various reasons that It Can't Be Done
so they're stuck either plugging Rube Goldberg tax credits that are meager and/or don't work, or bait themselves into trying to slap down the left for advancing straightforward solutions to big problems
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
@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