I do love Oystergruppenfuhrer, that's a good one

Or at the very least, you and your company never gets another federal contract, and there's a fraud investigation opened to determine if you're crooked or just incompetent.

On the other hand, the last time someone ran to the left of most Democrats, won, and then largely failed to deliver (Obama), I think that led pretty directly to the revival of interest in socialism that started around the time of the 2016 Bernie campaign.

I'd say you make a public statement that your support is conditional on maybe two pledges, for example:

1. End U.S. aid to Isrsel.
2. Forgive all student loan debt for the entirety of your term.

Pick one foreign and one domestic. Make them big demands, make them popular, make them simple, and make them something the president directly controls.

• If she pledges to do those things at all, you've shown your organization is a major influence at the highest levels of national politics, which is useful for all sorts of things.
• If she refuses, you've forced her to tell the public where she really stands, and you distinguish socialists from the Democratic Party.
• If she pledges and wins, you can take part of the credit whether she actually does anything towards them.
• If she pledges and loses, you learn something about what needs to be done going forward.
• If she wins and doesn't follow through, you radicalize some of the people who voted for her.
• If she wins and follows through even partially, you've gotten at least part of what you want.

She really doesn't miss!

He dropped it

Years ago I was reading some "is China really communist?" argument and ran across the following point:

Whatever you think about the current character of the Chinese government, everyone there openly says they're communist, reads a bunch of communist literature, names their main party "communist," etc. If they aren't communist, it's hard to imagine a better not-already-communist place for an actual communist to rise to power.

Something similar applies to the DSA.

wiping out more than $300 billion in value

If it can be erased with one news story and reappear with another, it's not real value.

But his defense attorneys now argue that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives 'was unable to identify the bullet recovered at autopsy to the rifle allegedly tied to Mr Robinson.'

"Unable to identify" is quite a bit different from "does not match." Think fingerprints: "we can't make out what was recovered from the scene" is different from "we can make out what was recovered, and it isn't the suspect's fingerprint."

There may also be different levels of certainly in these types of analyses, and this is just arguing that less than 100% certain means "unable to identify."

But Kirk's widow, Erika Kirk, has called for full transparency in coverage of the trial, saying: 'We deserve to have cameras in there'.

Damn, she really does just want to maximize her TV time.

I'm not an expert in missiles, but it seems like a strait that's 24 mi / 39 km at its narrowest makes it easier for a neighboring country to shoot missiles at ships and harder for those ships to defend themselves.

This shit is going to ring more and more hollow as libs get radicalized by ICE violence. You can't get to the point where libs are talking about protesting while armed (or doing it) and simultaneously punch left because they aren't pacifists.

Back in the 00s or earlier, a lot of people said the r-slur basically as a way of saying "dumb" with emphasis. There wasn't always the connotation of an edge to it, or a direct understanding that you were demeaning people with intellectual disabilities. Even when it was directly mocking those people, you hadn't had an extended period of mainstream reflection on punching up/punching down, or on how fucked up mainstream language can be (e.g., the former name of the Washington Commanders).

But all those cats are out of the bag now. People who say that slur today are at best trying to be edgy, and are at worst consciously being mean. The edginess only kind of works -- everyone knows you weren't saying this a few years ago, so how edgy are you, really? I'm not even sure it works well anymore as performative meanness, because the whole idea of "we're bringing this back" so strongly emphasizes how uncreative it is.