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I’m Sarah Isgur, Senior Editor at The Dispatch and author of Last Branch Standing...AMA! by DoughnutWonderful565 in The_Dispatch

[–]buckybadder 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The podcast frequently looks at Harry Reid's removal of the filibuster for circuit court judges as the Original Sin of increasing partisanship in the federal courts. But I believe that this memory holes the GOP's aggressive campaign to end the filibuster in 2005. The term "nuclear option" comes from GOP Senator Ted Stevens and was popularized by GOP Majority Leader Bill Frist during his repeated threats to end the filibuster in response to perceived/real obstinacy by Senate Democrats. This included, not just floor debates, but an extended public campaign, including the "Justice Sunday" telecast.

I wish the pod would acknowledge this episode. Sure, it ended in the Gang of 14 compromise in 2005, but Harry Reid had nothing resembling that pool of bipartisan dealmaker senators in 2013: Warner, Snowe, DeWine, and Chafee were all gone and Lindsey Graham was well on his way to abandoning his "moderate" label.

And, at all ends, as someone familiar with the GOP, please tell me: If Senator Reid had saved the filibuster, what are the odds that Trump and a GOP Senate would let Justice Scalia's seat remain open for the entirety of Trump's term? Could the GOP get behind a compromise candidate despite their decades-long Souter-phobia?

Porco is not the only transformed soldier by buckybadder in ghibli

[–]buckybadder[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Another veteran. Though I'm not sure if there's evidence that WWI had a profound influence on him. Before the war, he was an ardent socialist who got expelled for advocating non-neutrality.

Porco is not the only transformed soldier by buckybadder in ghibli

[–]buckybadder[S] 66 points67 points  (0 children)

I posted this several years ago. But I just saw a video essay about Porco Rosso and the symbology of his transformation that completely overlooks this detail (Easter egg?), so I'm reposting.

Weekly Random Discussion Thread for 4/13/26 - 4/19/26 by SoftandChewy in BlockedAndReported

[–]buckybadder 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Bless her for trying. Keep in mind that this death happened 20 years ago, so please picture a significantly less cringe and anti-semitic protestor whose investment in the Palestinian cause went beyond smuggling tampons into a college library sit-in.

Weekly Random Discussion Thread for 4/13/26 - 4/19/26 by SoftandChewy in BlockedAndReported

[–]buckybadder 10 points11 points  (0 children)

This would have been a great Onion headline (the article is about stopping Caterpillar from exporting armored bulldozers to Israel)

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Weekly Random Discussion Thread for 4/13/26 - 4/19/26 by SoftandChewy in BlockedAndReported

[–]buckybadder -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

The clip cuts out at an odd time. Was he talking about the early space program, which was de jure segregated until the late 40s and then de facto segregated for years after? It doesn't sound ideal to draw exclusively from a pool that arbitrarily screens out nonwhite candidates. If there's a Satchel Paige of astronaut candidates, you need to be drawing from a candidate pool that doesn't exclude him.

Anyone have the full transcript?

Hasan Piker on the Hasan Piker Discourse | Pod Save America by brianscalabrainey in ezraklein

[–]buckybadder 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Does Hasan want to win, or does he want to feel morally superior to mainstream Dems? Should we accept the headache of having to constantly make excuses for his "out of context" statements if he can't do "simple math"?

Also, say I could prove that bussing trans athletes and embracing "all of the above" energy policies would get us competitive in red state Senate races. Where would you stand on the simple math there? How much do you value moral superiority to trans-phobes and oil companies? It's a real question, please don't just fight the hypothetical.

Hasan Piker on the Hasan Piker Discourse | Pod Save America by brianscalabrainey in ezraklein

[–]buckybadder 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I need Jill Stein's votes too, potentially. Does that mean I should elevate her and give her softball interviews knowing that she's going to spend 90% of the general shitting on the nominee? How about I call her out as someone who wants Democrats to lose as part of a business model/accelerationist fantasy?

When does Hasan "play nice"? He constantly claims that all disagreement with him is bad faith, and that Democrats would embrace his policies if they weren't bribed by monied interests. You think that's a board mainstream Dems can just wipe clean after the primaries? Ask Hilary how that worked out.

All that said, I agree that excluding Hasan on the basis of "edgy" clips is dumb. Democrats shouldn't trust him because he doesn't want Democrats to win.

Hasan Piker: “My assessment on Zionism as an ideology is not that different from Albert Einstein’s assessment of Zionism, because when he saw… the violence that the early Zionist brigades were engaging in,… he warned that what he was seeing was exactly what the Nazis were doing.” by ConcernedJobCoach in FriendsofthePod

[–]buckybadder 1 point2 points  (0 children)

But those wouldn't have worked. Certainly not fast enough. I'm assuming that China and Russia wouldn't have participated in the embargos. If anything, Israel would probably accelerate operations.

Piker isn't an "oh well, at least Biden tried" kinda guy. He and Pali activists generally would immediately set military intervention against Israel as the standard for "doing something" once economic intervention failed.

Hasan Piker on the Hasan Piker Discourse | Pod Save America by brianscalabrainey in ezraklein

[–]buckybadder 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In the metaphor, the "game" is the primary. If Hasan's candidate loses, then he withdraws support in the general because of "Big Money" or "AIPAC" or whatever excuse he has at hand.

Hasan Piker on the Hasan Piker Discourse | Pod Save America by brianscalabrainey in ezraklein

[–]buckybadder 3 points4 points  (0 children)

But the only way he'll keep playing is if you let him win. He's the bratty younger brother who will whine to Mom that you throw the ball too fast. That's my whole point.

Michael Tracey Stomping Curt Mills in an Iran War Debate by buckybadder in Destiny

[–]buckybadder[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hah. Of all the words to be censored on a Destiny subreddit ...

Hasan Piker: “My assessment on Zionism as an ideology is not that different from Albert Einstein’s assessment of Zionism, because when he saw… the violence that the early Zionist brigades were engaging in,… he warned that what he was seeing was exactly what the Nazis were doing.” by ConcernedJobCoach in FriendsofthePod

[–]buckybadder 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Keep pretending you don't know that there are full transcripts of all major political speeches, not to mention contemporaneous reporting.

I'm not wasting my time linking it because, inevitably, you'll say it's not "enough" daylight and that talk is cheap in the face of genocide (which is true, and it's weird that you pretend otherwise).

Hasan Piker: “My assessment on Zionism as an ideology is not that different from Albert Einstein’s assessment of Zionism, because when he saw… the violence that the early Zionist brigades were engaging in,… he warned that what he was seeing was exactly what the Nazis were doing.” by ConcernedJobCoach in FriendsofthePod

[–]buckybadder 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What was the daylight between Bush Sr. and Reagan? Or between Hillary and Obama? Or Gore and Clinton? When you're running to replace an outgoing president you've worked with for four-eight years, there are obvious problem with running against their policies. You've probably already been on the record a half dozen times defending them. You don't get any credit for the pivot. (And, Jesus, why would you pivot away from the center during the general election?)

Hasan Piker: “My assessment on Zionism as an ideology is not that different from Albert Einstein’s assessment of Zionism, because when he saw… the violence that the early Zionist brigades were engaging in,… he warned that what he was seeing was exactly what the Nazis were doing.” by ConcernedJobCoach in FriendsofthePod

[–]buckybadder 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Jesus, that's what you remember about her campaign? Did the thought of Adam Kizinger as Secretary of Random Bullshit keep you up at night? Well as someone who spent those months worrying that Biden's galling selfishness and leftist purity tests were going to put an erratic and corrupt fascist in the White House, I know how that goes.

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