Joe Biden is now the president of the United States of America. His day one executive orders should have prioritized ending the single worst crisis in the world in Yemen, a war he campaigned on ending US involvement in, but they did not. Ending US participation in the Yemen genocide could and should have begun on day one.
From that linked piece in The Independent (a purportedly 'progressive' UK news site): "Health care reform is complicated and technical" which it isn't but let's claim it is so that we can avoid annoying Dem funders. What does Noah Berlatsky think is more important than saving millions of lives with universal, free health care? Why, "reforms [that] would make it easier for Democrats to get into office", of course. That's vital. Not that they would achieve anything worthwhile, as we see by the very fact that universal health care should be dropped in favour of careers for Dem politicians - paid for by, in part, the healthcare lobby.
"Unable to blame their refusal to advance progressive policies and basic human decency on Trump and Vladimir Putin these next two years, they'll be forced to kill any leftward movement all on their own." I guess you missed Clinton's and Pelosi's public gabfest in which they blamed the Capitol mob on Vladimir Putin.
And what's this supposed to mean, "The first step to escape is to stop pushing against the fake door falsely labeled "exit"? Are you actually suggesting we should not withdraw our support from Democrats? After four years of Trump Republicans telling us that he really, really wants to end our regime change wars but that those nasty Democrats and never-Trump Republicans just won't let him, and your own projected two years of transparent Democratic globalist war mongering against foreign countries and evictions at home, it should be obvious none of this will stop until the people start electing 3rd party candidates at all levels of government. AOC has not changed the Democratic Party. Instead, she has banally guaranteed her eventual rise within the party by becoming its most effective foil against the real left and anti-war Republicans.
A month or two ago, you predicted that Biden would be harried with charges he is Xi's puppet because Hunter's shenanigans would be blown up in the press. I told you that wasn't going to happen, that it would be buried. Now here we are; Putin is still the whipping boy and Biden "will be continuing Trump's cold war escalations against China." Who'd a thunk it?
From that linked piece in The Independent (a purportedly 'progressive' UK news site): "Health care reform is complicated and technical" which it isn't but let's claim it is so that we can avoid annoying Dem funders. What does Noah Berlatsky think is more important than saving millions of lives with universal, free health care? Why, "reforms [that] would make it easier for Democrats to get into office", of course. That's vital. Not that they would achieve anything worthwhile, as we see by the very fact that universal health care should be dropped in favour of careers for Dem politicians - paid for by, in part, the healthcare lobby.
This is chilling.
Thank you. I think you're hands down, one of the best American journalist around.
Rather what I expected from Biden. We knew who would be doing the heavy lifting weeks ago. He's a congenital centrist; not a leader.
"Unable to blame their refusal to advance progressive policies and basic human decency on Trump and Vladimir Putin these next two years, they'll be forced to kill any leftward movement all on their own." I guess you missed Clinton's and Pelosi's public gabfest in which they blamed the Capitol mob on Vladimir Putin.
And what's this supposed to mean, "The first step to escape is to stop pushing against the fake door falsely labeled "exit"? Are you actually suggesting we should not withdraw our support from Democrats? After four years of Trump Republicans telling us that he really, really wants to end our regime change wars but that those nasty Democrats and never-Trump Republicans just won't let him, and your own projected two years of transparent Democratic globalist war mongering against foreign countries and evictions at home, it should be obvious none of this will stop until the people start electing 3rd party candidates at all levels of government. AOC has not changed the Democratic Party. Instead, she has banally guaranteed her eventual rise within the party by becoming its most effective foil against the real left and anti-war Republicans.
A month or two ago, you predicted that Biden would be harried with charges he is Xi's puppet because Hunter's shenanigans would be blown up in the press. I told you that wasn't going to happen, that it would be buried. Now here we are; Putin is still the whipping boy and Biden "will be continuing Trump's cold war escalations against China." Who'd a thunk it?