'Men Need to be Perp-Walked' After Epstein Files Release, Massie Tells BBC

Okay bud. I wish you’d led with that. Telling on yourself for living in fantasy land would have explained why your original comment was so short sighted, but better late than never.

Everyone plays the same instrument! Misery!

>Clinton, Obama and Biden were all considered establishment dems. Biden, yes. He'd been in Washington for what, almost 50 years? Clinton and Obama ***governed*** as establishment Dems, but they campaigned as anti-establishment change agents. The 2008 establishment candidate was Hillary and party insiders desperately favored her (often with unethical support and resources), while Obama was the dark horse candidate that crushed the Dem party in Chicago previously and then crushed the establishment in the primaries despite heavy opposition. That's something low-info Dems keep missing. Because people win based on their campaign image, not how they govern after the election. Also, Clinton & Obama both faced such hyper-establishment challengers that they got to be the outsider candidate as a sitting president. Bob Dole was the incarnation of Washington. Mitt Romney reeked of insider and was practically the physical avatar of the financial crisis. The more insider-branded candidate hasn't won an election since 1988, though you could argue 2020 either way because Covid scrambled those dynamics. >Biden would've beat trump in 2016 too. Biden got his ass kicked in 2008 by Clinton *and* Obama because he was too old, establishment, and dull. Biden in 2016 is the exact sort of candidate Trump was made to defeat.

Here's the thing though: Complaining about Republicans being evil is a genuinely pointless act. It's the equivalent of a toddler pointing at a toy on the ground and having a tantrum because it won't teleport into their hands. They are doing ***exactly*** what they said they would, ***exactly*** what their constituents voted for them to do, and ***exactly*** what we knew they would do. The Democratic Party, on the other hand, f****** ***never*** do what they promise to do. Yes, a portion of that can be blamed on Republican meddling, but it doesn't change the fact that the corpolibs that have a stranglehold on the party's political direction are happy to co-opt progressive beliefs and ideals for the sake of electioneering, but have zero actual interest or desire to follow through on any of it. It doesn't matter that it's unfair. When the police fail to prevent a woman being murdered by a stalker who they knew was stalking her, we recognize the stalker is the villain, but the police played a role in their laziness and incompetence. When a disabled person burns to death in their home because firefighters decided containment of the fire is more important that mounting rescue operations, we recognize the firefighters didn't start the fire, but played a role in that person's death via their mismanagement of the event. And, likewise, when the Republican Party launches a f****** coup against the goddamn United States and the Democratic Party elects a senile shitlib who selects a f****** conservative federalist society judge to oversee the prosecution of this coup, we can recognize the Republican Party are the real villains, but we need to hold the Democratic Party to account for yet again fumbling what should have been an easy victory that would have locked Trump away for the rest of his fetid life.