Yes, I didn't read your reply to your quote post of the post that I replied to.

If you define strong as not nominating someone like Trump, then anytime a party nominates someone like Trump they weren't strong enough.

Apparently not. What did you mean?

I am showing curiosity by asking you a second time in what way the 2016 GOP was weak.

The GOP had 54 Senate seats and 246 house reps in 2016. How is that weak?

How is she right? How would being strong prevent the Republican party from becoming fascist?

the touch stove position is that dems shouldnt vote for (an entirely hypothetical!) Cares Act 2. thats it! its a bitter meme about a narrow question. crazy how much talk it gets from participants and detractors

I'm realizing it's possible our disagreement is based on semantics. For clarity, would you say the laws of Nazi Germany were legally binding?

I don't follow. If it's illegitimate how can it legally bind you?

its just an fu. something to make your enemy seethe. if dems dont fight hard over it thats useful info and they get away with it. as soon as they get real pushback they can swear her in and say dems are overreacting

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And this is an example of a second best solution. I don't think it's a bad position for them at all. "I want Zohran to have the power to approve new hotels and pressure them into recognizing unions" is a great and reasonable position

I did tell everybody but Right now I am shouting, "if we focus exclusively on how bad and dangerous Trump is and not on how important it is to reverse what he's done, what comes after will just ba pause of the worst stuff with no accountability."

Or at very least, they're making the best of a bad situation and it doesn't make sense to call it out as some bad or stupid thing that they're doing

Public policy positions of unions at the local and state level are often defined by these second, third or fourth best solutions. Rarely the positions are just stupid or short-sighted, and other times it's it's anti-solideristic, but almost always they do make sense and they aren't bad positions

Because that's preempted by federal law.

I don't think this is correct. The vast majority of hotels get organized either through leverage that the union has at other sites, or more commonly, by using the permit process to put pressure on the employer to agree to card check.

Streamlining permitting generally means more union busting.

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There's been a qualitative difference though as well. Everything's definitely built on the Bush Obama era, but for example, the latest video where they arrest an alderman who's simply asking to see a warrant... Something's different

yeah, you do need to fire the cops, but at the moment you also need to replace them. hard to see how you could recruit enough. under a dem pres you could use natl guard but would federalize

nazi public radio

best is gop gets rid of filibuster but otherwise the same

im unconvinced

berkeley tried to focus on new construction. courts said no. the safety alibi is a good one. this policy is better than status quo.

electrification is feasible many places, this incents it. creating a constituency to make it feasible everywhere is good

apnews.com/article/berk...

yes law enforcement is important and possible. electrification is necessary and worth the money.