That’s a weird assumption. Many Jews strongly oppose it, including Bernie Sanders, Jon Stewart, Ben and Jerry from the ice cream, and probably millions of less famous Jews.

But it was their primary he lost!

Also, conceding and then not dropping out isn’t really conceding, is it?

Honestly, if he can get them to switch from those gas guzzlers to Teslas, that would still be better. But for that to work, the brand has to be utterly reviled by any “libtards”. So keep sinking Tesla and let the Nazis rescue it.

And they’re actively looking to expand their borders too. Putin has referred to a Eurasian empire from Vladivostok to Lisbon.

His ideas are absolutely more brutal than those of the US, it’s just that his reach is less, and he hates that.

I totally agree that primaries are far easier. Orders of magnitude. But you hold on to a lot of baggage that way. There’s something attractive about a fresh start, and there are very successful independent candidates. Bernie has good reasons not to be part of the Democratic Party.

And ranked choice isn’t the only thing you need; you need proportional representation in Congress. That’s the only way to actually represent all Americans. It’s always going to be hard to get one of the two parties in power to give up that power to share it with more parties.

But as I said, such a big third party is incredibly hard. The system is rigged against it, and the financing and media even more so. You’d have to have a very broad popular movement, more than just a party. There’s nothing like that but there are candidates for primaries.

That’s not going make me stop dreaming about a big third party, though.

I will say this for Russia: they restrict their indiscriminate bombing and terrorism mostly to countries they actually border. I don’t know if that makes it any better, because it does mean they’re occupying a big part of another country and abducting or massacring parts of their population with the explicit intent of genocide, but at least it’s only regional instead of global.

And you’re not going to get ranked choice voting without a new party.

However, there are a lot of people who don’t vote, and a lot of people who are unhappy about both parties. There are Republican voters disappointed in Trump who still can’t bring themselves to vote Dem because of all the propaganda they’ve put in their heads. A jew party would be a fresh start.

A bigger problem is making it an actually big party, getting media attention, getting money to campaign with, etc. US politics runs on money. Because yet another Green or Libertarian Party won’t be helping.

Oh yes, very prolife.

Yeah, progressives need to take over the party. That, or start a new one without the baggage in order to really change the system, but that’s a lot harder. Not doing either of these is just giving up.

Don’t you see what kind of slippery slope this is? What’s next? Affordable housing? Free healthcare??

Rich, coming from him.

He blindly jumped into a sudden exchange of bombs because he didn’t want to be left out. I’m pretty sure Israel and Iran know very well that Trump is out of his depth, and that that’s why they ignore him.

Of course he’s right that they should stop, but everybody sees he’s a broken clock that just happens to be right this time. He lacks understanding and authority to handle these sort of conflicts.

Medvedev’s credibility is low indeed. He’s always the one to do the nuclear sabre rattling.

Even so, I wonder if this might not work as a devious plan for them. Give Iran a nuke, and if they use it offensively, they’ll be the ones testing the rest of the world about what they’re going to do about it without any risk of Russia getting turned into a steppe of glass.

Israel might get destroyed, Iran might get destroyed, but Russia will survive. And if Iran survives, that gives Russia more confidence that they will too if they use a nuclear bomb.

what I went through wasn’t an abortion

You’re ending a pregnancy, right? That’s all an abortion is: you abort the pregnancy.

Gold medal for mental gymnastics there.

The reason Kennedy left the Democratic Party and joined Trump, is because Kennedy is a dangerous idiot and Trump os a gullible fool, and Democratic voters don’t tolerate his idiocy.

Trump switched for the same reason. He said so explicitly: Republicans are easier to con.

The only thing he’s accomplishing is that people fondly remember Obama and want him back.

If he really believes the two countries should be united, he could always decide to surrender to Ukraine and give Ukraine control over Russia. I’m sure Ukraine would do a better job of governing Russia than Putin has done.

Not just Catholic. Most Christians understand very well that if God created the universe, he also created all the mechanisms within that universe, including evolution.

Seeing God as contradictory to evolution to me betrays a very small and limited view of God, as if he’s just some Slartibartfast creating just this one planet.

If heaven is full of those people, I really don’t want to go there.

Matthew 25 is pretty explicit about that that’s not where they’re headed.

Most blatant is the “Prosperity Gospel”, which blatantly and directly preaches the polar opposite of what Jesus said explicitly several times.

Exactly. It has nothing to do with following Jesus, and everything with cultural identity. They identify as Christian because they were raised that way, not because they actually care about anything Jesus said.