I didn’t see it reported elsewhere, but Middle East Eye has a good reputation for factual reporting.

Yup. Primaries are how we do something about it. You know how many times I voted for someone in the primary other than Schumer in the last 28 years?

Democratic primaries see less than 15% turnout in congressional elections, yet people wonder why nothing changes. Do you know who always shows up? Retirees, and they typically love the incumbent centrist.

“How are you traveling to His Majesty’s dinner? Mind if I get a ride swingin from your nuts?”

In NY, a dozen has come down to $6.99 from $12.99 in March. They were ~$5.99 per dozen under Biden when MAGA could not shut up about them.

Ah, yes. The 2020 classic covid server shift. No need to distort what you don’t report!

Not for long. Y’see, when you roll back regulations and oversight for the USDA, you end up with large and costly recalls. https://www.nbcnews.com/health/recall/cdc-fda-eggs-salmonella-recall-rcna211610

I think it’s true. It’s a really fucked up story. She moved to Australia and advocated for women that had been through sex trafficking. Got married, had kids, then got divorced. She was emotionally unstable, so her husband put a restraining order on her.

Then she got into an accident with a school bus. They said she just had minor injuries and was sent home. A few days later she went to the hospital with a backache, turns out she was in renal failure and had only days to live. Tried to see her kids one last time, but her husband said no, so she took her own life so she didn’t have to suffer any more.

Poor, poor woman.

I’m not sure if you’re being sarcastic or not, but black people comprised a sizable amount of the population of Mississippi, predating the Civil War and through mid-20th century, as it’s a large cotton plantation state.

It’s like Ruth’s Chris, except Fat Sal sold it to another guy named Fat Sal.

You should tell this guy.

https://youtube.com/shorts/_MAXlkWLpfM

I’m simply saying your opinion is useless without a plan for action. The only way to get electoral reform without violently overthrowing the government is by electing more progressives. The action I’m suggesting is progressives voting for more progressive candidates in Democratic primaries to replace the centrists. Progressives have been unsuccessfully voting third party for decades, so that’s the one way we can be certain it will not happen.

Only Bernie and AOC? You’re not a US citizen, are you? There are many progressives in the House. The problem is there is only one in the Senate, Bernie.

https://progressives.house.gov/caucus-members

You write a lot of words in condemnation, but offer no real substance for action. Please keep to yourself about politics that you are neither informed of nor impacted by.

Actionless criticism is saying “this is what we should get, but I don’t know how to get it.” It’s the entire premise of your argument.

As I said above, I think that our system only has room for Republicans or Democrats to win seats in Congress in partisan primary states. Therefore, progressives in those states have far more influence by registering as a Democrat and voting in the primaries than they do voting for a third-party candidate.

As for the presidential election, there is zero chance of a third-party win in FPTP. A vote for a third-party is effectively a vote for your third choice.

I’m not defending Democrats. I’m trying to help people see how progressives have been consistently disenfranchised for decades, and advocating for a way to have their votes make an impact.

Neither will actionless criticism. Idealism is great, but entirely useless without an actionable plan. Complaining about the better of two options without direction to improve it, is indirectly advocating for the worse of the two. It’s been the Republican playbook since Nixon. They do it, because it’s effective.

I’m not asking you stop having ideals. I’m asking you to figure out a better way to realize them. Until then, maybe you should try taking the advice of people who have been trying to drive change for decades.

I’m not asking about the goal. I’m asking about the path. How do you propose we accomplish this? It’s far from a new idea.

What does a full reset look like to you? It sounds a lot more like anarchy than progressivism to me.

How many elections do you estimate it would take to gain a majority vote in a third party? How much longer do you want to allow Republicans to remain in control while you promote a new party? We’re facing the worst administration in US history and you’re advocating for splitting the vote over changing out the members of the most popular party in the last 20 years.

You do understand you’d be asking the people who have power from the current system to change it?

Our best chance at change is engaging more than the current ~20% turnout in Democratic primaries to replace centrists with progressives. It’s far more likely to be successful than rallying entire districts around a third party.

We’re trying to scare the Republicans in Congress into growing a spine. If they feel that their seats are threatened, they may actually begin to dissent.

He was diagnosed with throat cancer in 2014. His condition in Top Gun 2 was his reality. Pneumonia is what took his life, according to his daughter.

In pace requiescat, Doc.