FCKGW posted:

Bowe Bergdahl is the subject of, and publicly speaks on, Serial Podcast Season 2 which came out this morning

Joementum posted:

The House Armed Services Committee also released its report on the prisoner swap for Bergdahl today. Here are the key findings:

SavageBastard posted:

Jeffrey Lord is on Diane Rehm right now likening pro-Trumpers with civil rights activists and I'm getting itchy.

zoux posted:

I'm curious if the rest of the candidate pool is going to start walking back their repudiations of Trump's Muslim bullshit now that it's turned out to be massively popular in the base.

Joementum posted:

The House Armed Services Committee also released its report on the prisoner swap for Bergdahl today. Here are the key findings:

Crain posted:

Jesus Christ. Why choose him? I wonder how loving mental reddit's serial forum will get this time.

Nostalgia4Infinity posted:

Does anyone believe for a second that if this swap hadn't happened, the narrative wouldn't be "OBUMMER LETS AMERICAN SUFFER AT HANDS OF TALIBAN -- IMPEACH!"?

Joementum posted:

The House Armed Services Committee also released its report on the prisoner swap for Bergdahl today. Here are the key findings:

Rhesus Pieces posted:

Some say the moon is made of cheese and fascism is the new civil rights movement, others disagree. We'll have a spokesperson from each side on to duke it out after the break!




Well they're craven opportunists and Trump's positions are just the logical end point of GOP mainstream opinion so I don't see why not.

Adam Smith and Jackie Speier posted:

This report is an unbalanced, partisan, and needless attempt to justify a predetermined position regarding the transfer of five Guantanamo detainees in exchange for the release of Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl from enemy captivity.

Much of our disappointment with the report derives from the highly exclusive manner in which it was generated. The minority was excluded from the majority’s closed process for: analyzing and distilling the collected information, crafting findings and conclusions, and drafting the report. In fact, despite months of prodding by the minority, the majority failed to provide a draft of the report to the minority until 5:15 pm on Monday, November 23, 2015. (The underlying investigation was initiated by Chairman McKeon nearly a year-and-a-half prior, on July 17, 2014.) We were then provided two weeks, which included the Thanksgiving holiday period, to review the majority’s draft report and to make comment. All the while, the majority was making substantial edits to that draft. The majority did not provide a final draft of the report to the minority until 10:27 am on Wednesday, December 9, 2015.

We are disappointed that the majority needlessly allocated tremendous amounts of time and taxpayer resources to generate a report that essentially found what the supporters of H. Res. 644 already passed in 2014 with little evidence to support it.

We consider this report to be an expression of shrill demagoguery, contrary to the interests of national security, and beneath the dignity of the House Armed Services Committee.

For all of the preceding reasons, we dissent.

BI NOW GAY LATER posted:

left without further comment

delfin posted:

Well, the Dissenting Views section is fun.

The Kingfish posted:

I'd like to see one comparing total airtime.

Swan Oat posted:

Was the prisoner swap good, or was it bad?

Joementum posted:

The House Armed Services Committee also released its report on the prisoner swap for Bergdahl today. Here are the key findings:

zoux posted:

Is this legit or is this just standard party bickering?

zoux posted:

I dunno why the temporary ascendance of Cruz is now a mortal lock for the nom, or are we always going to talk about how the second place guy is juuuust about to sweep in and end Trump?

icantfindaname posted:

i imagine there are lots of delegates who will refuse to vote for Trump no matter how many rounds voting goes, who will support Cruz instead

Swan Oat posted:

Was the prisoner swap good, or was it bad?

Luigi Thirty posted:

Depends if you're asking Republicans, GIP or normal people

Crain posted:

That's exactly what the narrative was up until it was announced Obama was moving to get him back. Then the right wing tried their best to whitewash their Twitter feeds and switched to the current script.

Fried Chicken posted:

We desperately need a coherent, organizing oppositional force, active and working in those communities to channel their anger into a movement of political empowerment and commitment to process so that you get negotiating, egalitarianism, compromise, and ready acceptance of disappointing electoral and procedural outcomes as norms. It doesn't need to be the democrats any more than BLM or the Rainbow Coalition are in poor black communities. But we need someone in there and organizing to get them to push for change other than the kind Trump and Pence and Arpaio are offering. Otherwise this is just going to fester, and turn into something even darker like the alt right, eventually they will win.

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Terry Van Housen had a question. What he wanted to know from the 30 or so other Nebraska farmers and ranchers gathered in February at the York Community Center was this: What do you do with 10,000 dead cows?

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Among the farmers in the York Community Center was a petite, progressive organizer with close-cropped hair named Jane Kleeb (pronounced Klehb). She was the reason they were there. The fight over the Keystone XL has largely been portrayed as one about climate change, in which environmental groups like the National Wildlife Federation and 350.org are pitted against the fossil-fuel industry. But what has kept the pipeline out of the ground so far, more than anything, has been Kleeb’s ability to convince mostly­ conservative farmers and ranchers that they are the ones being asked to bear all the risk of Canada’s energy expansion. If something goes wrong, she says, they’re the ones who are going to suffer. Kleeb didn’t need to persuade all of the people in the room to be angry — many of the state’s landowners are plenty wary of what they see as the pipeline’s risks — but she has organized them to take on Trans­Canada and more or less their state’s entire political power structure. Days earlier, thanks to her efforts, a state district court had thrown the construction into limbo.

mcmagic posted:

Is this a serious question?

TheDisreputableDog posted:

The RNC will simply never let Trump win, including the possibility of brokered convention shenanigans and anything in their wheelhouse.

He's not going to win the nomination.

TheDisreputableDog posted:

The RNC will simply never let Trump win, including the possibility of brokered convention shenanigans and anything in their wheelhouse.

He's not going to win the nomination.

Rhesus Pieces posted:

nachos posted:

It's amazing to watch pundits explain away Trump as someone who's figured out how to capture all those frustrated voters in the Republican Party. Without actually going the next step and analyzing what they are frustrated about. Obviously it's because they can't just call out an entire political base on tv as racists, but it's entertaining in a somewhat terrifying way to watch them dance around the real reason people like trump.

TheDisreputableDog posted:

The RNC will simply never let Trump win, including the possibility of brokered convention shenanigans and anything in their wheelhouse.

He's not going to win the nomination.

Rhesus Pieces posted:

I can almost understand the spiteful contrarianism among Trump supporters, but actually justifying mocking a disabled person just makes you an utter rear end in a top hat, full-stop.

These people just don't seem to care at all about how they're perceived anymore and are proudly airing their most despicable opinions out of sheer anger and frustration.

mcmagic posted:

If he wins enough primaries to win, he's going to win. the RNC has no real power.

Shageletic posted:

Peggy Noonan on CBS This Morning pretty much said that he had views that were worth listening to.

GalacticAcid posted:

In my view, the long term strategy for working class organizing has to start with electable Dems who will maintain a more liberal NLRB, and an introduction of labor struggle into the public consciousness, some better way to propagandize. And I think a healthy dose of denigrating robber barons like Jobs could help undermine the worship of business leaders.

zoux posted:

Luckily Peggy Noonan doesn't have views that are worth listening too.

Shageletic posted:

in this sort of repulsive, let's be reasonable tone

A Winner is Jew posted:

Obama did a thing so I don't even have to guess what republicans think about that thing, but what's GIP and normal people think.