It pains me to say this, as a woman, and one who voted for Hillary, I am not sure a woman can yet win the presidency in the US.
Considering that Hillary, one of the most reviled politicians in recent memory (and someone who was subject to an almost 3 decade long smear job), DID win the popular vote by a fair amount, I have to say that a woman definitely can win the presidency of the US. A popular and not reviled candidate should be able to win. If Senator Warren or Senator Harris or Senator Klobachar is that woman, I do not know at this point.
I am sure a woman CAN win the presidency. I am not sure a woman WILL win the presidency (but, if Senator Warren or Harris or Klobachar is the candidate, I hope so).
Nobody thought a black man could win it. Not even in, say, 2004 or 2005. Nobody thought a Catholic could win it in 1957 either. The right candidate did in 2008 and in 1960. Whether Hillary Clinton was ever the right candidate is debatable, but she (the elite consensus personified in a change election) wasn't the right candidate in 2016.
Why not both? No need to choose. However, I would prefer handcuffs and steel bars to a straight jacket and padded walls.
...and restitution. Putin and his cronies can take whatever collection action against the family they see fit, although somehow I suspect it might not strictly conform with the FDCPA
No, a straight jacket and padded walls are far worse punishment for a clinical narcissist. It's a final declaration that he's not "a very stable genius", not even justa genuine criminal, just a f#@&ed-up nut that nobody will ever listen to again and never should have to begin with. What could hurt him more?
Besides, isn't there a constitutional prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment? If you put him in a regular prison cell he gets to mix with what cops in the UK call "the ordinary, decent criminals." Don't those guys' rights get to be protected? I mean, seriously, why should the likes of Jeffrey Dahmer have to share a shower with a serious lowlife like Trump?
Jeffrey Dahmer was sadly killed in prison, but I get your point. I would be fine if they received s family rate on a prison cell.
I'm kind of eager to watch them scramble to see who can rat out whom fastest for the best plea bargain / protection deal.
This is an extremely sad period of time for the nation, but it will be awesome to see the Republicans get their comeuppance finally.
Too many of them love the absolute power. Too few of them understand the precedence this sets for the day when the other side abuses the levers of power on their throat. OK, I'll duck out of this thread again.
Power? Absolute power?!?! A party that can be so completely, if you'll excuse the phrase, pussy-whipped by a "reality TV" star like President Snowflake von Pissed-in-his-Pants has no power of its own. They thought that Murdoch, Limbaugh and the rest worked for them and that the Mercers and the Kochs had their backs. Now they realise that they work for Murdoch and Limbaugh and that the Mercers and the Kochs are anarchists (anarcho-capitalists if you prefer). No sympathy for them. They mounted the tiger, it's too late to get down and now the tiger is mounting them. Over and over again.
and yet these creeps rail against the "Antifa." Well if being an anti-facist is loathsome, then sign me up.
A nice read about the teacher’s strike and how it relates to a broader fight against common enemies: “The goal is to expand labor’s scope of bargaining beyond wages and benefits to advance a broad, working-class agenda and go on the attack against shared enemies, including Wall Street and corporate America.“ http://inthesetimes.com/working/ent...union-strike-ctu-lightfoot-seiu-housing-labor
“The mayor could have easily avoided a strike by sticking to her campaign promises. Lightfoot actually ran on many of the Chicago teachers’ longtime demands for public education: an elected representative school board rather than one appointed by the mayor, a freeze on charter-school expansion, strong investments in public schools. She even told the Chicago Sun-Times, “As mayor, I will … provide each school with basic educational support positions like librarians, nurses, and social workers” — the CTU’s own contract demands in this strike.” https://jacobinmag.com/2019/10/lori-lightfoot-chicago-teachers-union-strike
I'm no fan of Lightfoot , but she's getting a lesson in Chicago politics 101. The teachers union is nothing but pawns in the machine saying "do as we say or thus city grinds to a halt"