politics

I really wish he had been the candidate in 24. There would have been a good chance of him winning.

He's also just a really nice guy and from what I can tell a great dad. That on its own is practically all the qualifications I need from a politician. I'd rather have a good-hearted idiot than a black-hearted genius (or idiot... which we currently have in charge).

I would absolutely vote for him for president. I like Minnesota Progressives anyway, and he also possesses that natural trustworthiness that appeals to rurals that are going to be brutalized by MAGA policies over the next few years.

Of course, it only matters if we can have fair, cheat-free elections, or even have elections at all.

Here are some things that Reagan had no control over whatever.

Before he became President a Polish labor Union, Solidarity, began tearing away at the myth of the "workers' state." Pope John Paul II began speaking out against Communism. The soviets invasion of Afghanistan became a quagmire.

Chernobyl nuclear disaster happened while Reagan was President. Three Soviet leaders died within three years.

The final nail in the coffin was when hardliners staged a coup against reformer Gorbachev and the Soviet citizens went to the streets to protest.

Somehow, we've been fed the lie that "Reagan destroyed the USSR and won the Cold War."

I see they are trying to tie Tim Walz to Feed our Futures. I don't know if it is going to work but it is expected.

If you are following the trial of Aimee Bock its pretty obvious that the way the law was written was suppose to give our food aid fast with checking afterwards. In the middle of global pandemic whether this a good idea or not is debatable but I think it was. Also it was a large operation which sued to keep itself open. If you are interested I recommend the Sahan Journal which has been doing some great coverage.

I love how they talk about all this fraud and criminal activity, and yet has anything actually been found?

I mean don't get me wrong, our government gets fleeced in a lot of ways, but it's usually through government contracts to private companies, not the agencies themselves.

AOC's district leaned way more heavily towards Trump. Either they cheated literally everywhere or the results were valid.

There was a misleading post about "bullet ballots", but if you looked into the numbers they didn't check out.

We don't have the evidence really but I think the "rigging" has mostly been in the form of disenfranchisement -- making it hard for those most likely to vote Democratic. If we can flip the tables and get rural, traditionally Republican, counties to go blue then I don't think the GOP is prepared to counter that.

As a Minnesotan, I'm worried this will alienate him from the state constituency and we'll lose him (and then he'll lose the presidential election cause Minnesota luck)

Good job letting perfect get in the way of progress.

Tim Walz is a progressive but because he's not calling for guillotines out of the gate you're dismissing his credentials and record.

Stop helping the enemy divide us.

Sanders has been going on rampage and is as passionate as ever. We don't need someone who "is a nice guy and follows the rules", the rules are what's getting broken, we need someone (man or woman) with some fucking BALLS. This is class warfare and we don't have a ton of time left. Between AI and climate change we need to figure out shit out way sooner rather than later. Waltz seems like a fine guy, but come the fuck on, we don't need a Midwestern nice dad, we need someone with some fire.

That's absolutely not what he's doing jfc

Unpack that one for me, champ.

Is this the nose of the “blue maga” diatribe poking out from behind the corner?

Elaborate?