Good take n/t

Aside about your sig .gif

Very cool!

The Jersey Generals had Herschel Walker

who was the strongest fan draw the USFL could have hoped for.

Still, Trump fucked it up. He has probably blamed it on the NFL all this time, carries that grudge to this day.

Kicked and recommended

Particularly for the comments. I admire those who can find humor in times like these.

"did cast doubt" - Natasha Bertrand

a political and foreign policy journalist for Business Insider.

Clapper's quote from the social media director at Shareblue, Leah McElrath:

"did I think serve to cast doubt"

There is a tremendous distinction between those two statements.

Which doesn't even address whether the journalist, who appears to have edited the quote to change its meaning, might have some agenda that the social media director at Shareblue does not. And then it's Clapper talking, who's got a history of lying under oath.

Understanding this topic of Russian meddling in the election is fraught with difficulty.

kpete's post has a Tweet with an embedded quote from Clapper that indicates more surety on his part.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029623224

Fortunately I missed it

I was prompted to download v 5.33 and immediately prompted to do the same for 5.34. I have in fact just downloaded 5.35 this morning, within the past hour.

Executive summary

The nuance troll, the deficit troll, and the feasibility troll.

(In contrast to the OP, I personally have not seen folks advocating these positions at DU, and would not call them trolls even if I had.)

In order: "We need more details", "How do you pay for it", and "What about the GOP", i.e. it will never pass, it's too impractical, etc.

Last graf:

President Eisenhower — an early practitioner of concern trolling — told the New York Times in 1957 that he supported integration “in principle” but said activists in the South risked going “too far, too fast.” Give it more time. We need more details. Who will pay for it?

All meaningful changes to society have been met with these types of objections. But the game of politics isn’t won by waiting for the ideal. Its most successful actors establish a moral goal and fight for it until reality catches up to them.

Note that the HuffPo article

mentions both former candidates, not just one.

Indeed (as to your first graf).

But several members have the same sincere misunderstanding as you re: Sanders being a Democrat or not, and have applied same in the jury system.

That's probably all I can say without having this post hidden because of this, from the TOS:

Don't interfere with forum moderation
Don't post messages about site rules, enforcement, juries, hosts, administration, alerts, alerters, removed posts, appeals, locked threads, or anything else related to how this website is moderated (except in the Ask the Administrators forum).

Why we have this rule: The purpose of Democratic Underground is to discuss politics, issues, and current events. Open discussion of how the website is run tends to distract from our core purpose.

I won't alert your posts.

I think that would contribute to the ongoing disruption of this forum.