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The Ginsburg of the Presidency

By running again—despite his age, despite his low approval ratings, despite his poor showing in the polls against Trump—Biden could be engaging in one of the most selfish, hubristic, and potentially destructive acts ever undertaken by an American president. If he winds up losing, that’s all anyone will remember him for. Bill Maher has said Biden could go down as the “Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the presidency.” Or of democracy.

— “It’s Not Just That Biden Is Old,” The Atlantic
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The problem with anti-woke centrism

From CNN’s Chris Licht showed the problem with anti-woke centrism:

[W]hen we have a left that is pushing America to finish the work of the 1960s and create a true multicultural democracy and a right that is banning Black intellectual ideas from public schools, it’s a huge mistake for powerful non-Republicans in society to spend so much time bashing the left. This anti-woke centrism often sounds as though people are auditioning to be today’s version of the “white moderates” the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. castigated six decades ago.

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Free Community College Won’t Be in Spending Bill, Jill Biden to Say

From Free Community College Won’t Be in Spending Bill, Jill Biden to Say:

“One year ago, I told this group that Joe, my husband Joe, was going to fight for community colleges. But…”

Anything after Dr. Biden’s “but” is just more bullshit to cover up the corruption and immorality of corporate Democrats.

Since I’m not a dumb-ass Trump supporter, I’ll say it outright: Fuck Joe Biden.

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We suffer from Republican radicalization

From It’s not ‘polarization.’ We suffer from Republican radicalization:

While it’s true that the country is more deeply divided along partisan lines than it has been in the past, it is wrong to suggest a symmetrical devolution into irrational hatred. The polarization argument too often treats both sides as equally worthy of blame, characterizing the problem as a sort of free-floating affliction (e.g., “lack of trust”). This blurs the distinction between a Democratic Party that is marginally more progressive in policy positions than it was a decade ago, and a Republican Party that routinely lies, courts violence, and seeks to define America as a White Christian nation.

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Joe Manchin’s reconciliation memo: What to know

From What Joe Manchin Wants, Decoded:

Simply put, Manchin wants to be fully in control of any new mandates or regulations of the coal and energy industry that has fueled his state’s economy for more than a century…He opposes any new energy standards falling under the control of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, which has traditionally been dominated by coastal liberals hostile to coal- and energy-producing states.

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On Concerns About Debt and Disregard for Climate and Child Poverty

From On Concerns About Debt, and Disregard for Climate and Child Poverty:

The Democrats trying to scuttle Biden’s agenda are more accurately described as the party’s corporate wing than as “centrists.” After all, polls suggest that the policies they oppose are highly popular, so in that sense they’re well to the right of the political center.

But not everyone defining conventional wisdom is on the take. There also seems to be a sort of social dynamic in politics and the media, perhaps reflecting the circles in which opinion leaders move, that treats people who want to make the lives of ordinary Americans harder as courageous, while considering those who want to raise taxes on corporations and the rich flaky and unrealistic.

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“Elect More Liberals”

From House Democrats delay planned vote on $1 trillion infrastructure bill amid dispute between party moderates and liberals:

“I’ve never been a liberal in any way, shape or form,” [Democratic Senator] Manchin said. “I don’t fault any of [my fellow Democrats] who believe that they’re much more progressive and much more liberal. God bless ’em. … For them to get theirs — elect more liberals.”

West Virginia: Please take Senator Manchin up on his suggestion and vote the stonewalling fucker out.