Beemer? Not much to comment on, at least not yet. 2 outlier polls isn't exactly a trend. No poll since November has had Biden any more than +2, so Biden +5 looks to be, by definition, an outlier. Now if Trump starts losing ground in the Rasmussen, Emerson, or Economist/Yougov polls that are taken a...

Also, it varies a lot state-by-state. In Georgia, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Nevada, Trump's margin is about 2-3 points bigger in a 5-person race than a 2-person race. The opposite is true in Michigan. Wisconsin is a wash. Nationally, Trump does about 1 point better in a 5-person race. I don'...

RFK Jr. candidacy hurts Trump more than Biden, NBC News poll finds https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/rcna148536 This, per the Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/29/robert-kennedy-jr-independent-run-president-2024 As to how this will affect the national election, I suspect he will...

Car wash mode?

Biden sucks way less and has kept the economy stable. Trump is incapable of that. That makes Biden immune to criticism? Is that your claim? That when he does things that would otherwise be worthy of criticism, that because Trump is worse in your opinion, Biden deserves a free pass? That is what is ...

As much as I generally distrust the federal government to do much of anything without abusing its power, the need for national security, much like any other kind of security, is a delicate balancing of individual rights against the broader want of society to be safe and secure. You have to inherentl...

Is it fair for me to say that those of you who will ultimately vote for Joe Biden this fall are mentally and physically incapable of criticizing him without invoking Donald Trump? For all the complaints of "whataboutism" you people have had through the years here, you are the group that is most guil...

This conversation has strayed from the original question of, should a child be suspended for using the phrase "illegal alien" in a classroom? Yes, the "right wing media" as you call it does focus a lot of their attention on the issue of illegal immigration. You and I can differ in opinion on how big...

To be clear, I was responding specifically to RT saying this: the Republican Party has turned the term into a slur the same as calling Democrats communists and socialists when they are neither. All of these terms are used by that political party in bad faith to rile up a bunch of people who don’t kn...

I'm still waiting for one single example where someone used the phrase "illegal alien" as a racial slur. If that's its only use today, surely one of you internet sleuths can find me one example. I have yet to see one.

Yes the jury will have names everyone knows. The smart ones will parlay their notoriety into book deals, the speaker circuit, etc. Become a millionaire. Maybe run for office somewhere. I've heard that discussed by others. I suspect it will end up being true, and for me anyways, that prospect raises...

This whole "it is now 2024 and that was 1995" line of argument is utter BS. The definition of "illegal" hasn't changed since then. The definition of "alien" hasn't changed since then. The phrase "illegal alien" means the same exact thing today that it did in 1995. I asked for one example of someone...

This whole "it is now 2024 and that was 1995" line of argument is utter BS. The definition of "illegal" hasn't changed since then. The definition of "alien" hasn't changed since then. The phrase "illegal alien" means the same exact thing today that it did in 1995. I asked for one example of someone ...

So Bill Clinton, Al Gore, New Gingrich, and quite literally every single person in the 1995 House and Senate was a racist. Got it.

Just one example. Show me one single example of somebody using the phrase "illegal alien" as a slur. You can't be this myopic... "Illegal alien" is inherently a racist slur. It is impossible to use those words and not sound racist. Do you also say the n-word because rappers say it? Are you calling ...