Tyler Balbuena
@BalbuenaTyler
Is anyone in politics ever going to acknowledge or respond to the fact that the absolute most repugnant version of biological racism has been fully embraced by the most influential right-wingers in America? That literal neo-Nazi ideas are just standard claims on the right?
I am following with great concern the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza, where the civilian population is suffering from severe hunger and remains exposed to violence and death. I renew my heartfelt appeal for a ceasefire, the release of hostages, and the full respect of…
The government is now requiring news organizations to say nice things about Trump in order to get their mergers approved. The third worldification of America continues.
Trump's FCC Chair says he will put a "bias monitor" in place who will "report directly" to Trump as part of the deal for Sky Dance to acquire CBS
The DSA which is attempting to take over the Minneapolis and St. Paul DFL believes in "popular control of resources and production" which means confiscating private property. This is not European Socialism. It is far closer to Communism. It's imperative to push back.
Too many Democrats are deeply in denial about how badly we need to move back to the political center.
In Mpls, politics, anyone even slightly to the right of the DSA gets slapped with “Republican” or “Conservative” even if they’re actually closer to the average Democratic voter than the activists throwing the labels (AND even if they worked for the DFL & the current DNC chair)
This is legitimately one of the funniest things I have ever read in my life.
A political party that wants to win elections needs to understand this: there's no way around the hard work of cultural alignment. It's time for Dems to embrace "Big-Ass-Truck abundance," alongside "High-Speed-Rail abundance."
I wrote the case for Abundance Democrats to engage in the debate over cultural issues — a key part of the left-populist pitch inside the coalition is the false promise that populist economics will let you get away being out of touch on values issues.
communists are so stupid they're evil but fascists are so evil they're stupid few understand this
In all seriousness, can someone explain to me why being a fascist is unacceptable, but openly being a communist is perfectly fine?
I often wonder if the weird "Catholic Integralists" (who are largely adult converts, make of that what you will) are aware that most far-right Protestants hate Catholics.
Have you taken sensitivity training since celebrating a constituent’s murder?
Quoting MLK’s Letter From A Birmingham Jail as a means of mocking a black pastor running for office? Yikes. Really disappointing invective coming from Sheriff Witt’s IGR Director.
Born and educated in the DC-area, Sen. @OmarFatehMN is just as American as the racists saying “go back to Somalia”. True patriots will debate his policies & experience, not his heritage. 🇺🇸 And if Democrats don’t restore common-sense and fix bad policy & broken systems,…
"Somali rule of Minneapolis"? I may not support Omar Fateh, but his base of support at yesterday's convention was white leftists, not Somali. He is a leftist candidate supported by leftists. You can literally look at pictures from yesterday and see this.
Reminder that the DSA national platform calls for eliminating USAID
How many African kids will die because we accepted the Trump/socialist position that foreign aid is bad?
Those aren't liberals. Liberals believe in individualism, property rights, and limited government. Those are post-liberals just like JD Vance and Peter Theil, just of another variety.
This wasn't a typical goofy convention. It was a convention where no votes were taken and remotely close to properly counted. Perspective below from former Council Member and DeWayne Davis supporter Robert Lilligren:
This is full on psychotic behavior by wedge live and a massive invasion of privacy against that delegate. Who goes around trying to read other people's phones?
How bad were things at today's Minneapolis DFL convention? The First Lady of Minnesota probably had to turn her phone off to avoid being bombarded with "Dear Gwen Walz" letters.