Elections More Americans Identify as Republican than Democrat for the first time in 30 Years

[Nizam al-Mulk]

. When he is gone will be the true test of the viability of the party.

Yeah Desantis / other smart Republican is gonna destroy the Democrats for the next 10-15 years.

 

[Madmick]

TYT is not very left-wing lol. They're pretty much centrists and have been for years. Ana is basically a conservative at this point and we're all waiting for her "why I left the left" video.

I have trouble believing it. Donald Trump is going out there and saying that Biden isn't sending the weapons fast enough. Who knows though, this election has already surprised me enough.

He's correct. Hell, Cenk tried to fight unionization in the workplace and Ana is repeating rightwing talking points as of late

LMFAO, JFC, no he's not. TYT is a far-left news outlet. Every story checked by Allsides ever reviewed scored the furthest left-wing grading of "L" for its coverage. So does the media bias fact check:

The Young Turks - Bias and Credibility

LEFT BIAS These media sources are moderate to strongly biased toward liberal causes through story selection and/or political affiliation. They may

mediabiasfactcheck.com

The Adfontes media group rates it:

Interactive Media Bias Chart | Ad Fontes Media

The Interactive Media Bias Chart offers the ability to search from among the thousands of rated web/print, TV and podcast sources.

adfontesmedia.com

Their channel practically stumped for Bernie Sanders back in 2016, the most liberal Senator by voting record and rhetoric, as measured by objectively-weighted congressional partisan trackers, and Bernie ironically endorsed Cenk in his own race before the party whipped him (like they so often do) into getting back in line, and subsequently retracted his endorsement. Yes, I remind you, the owner of that news network himself ran for political office as a Democrat.

In mid-November 2019, Uygur filed to run for Congress in California's 25th district, a seat recently vacated by the resignation of Katie Hill. He did this despite the fact that he did not live in the district.[85] Uygur ran in two primary elections on March 3, 2020: the special election primary to fill the vacant seat through January 2021 and the Democratic primary for the next full term (decided in the 2020 November election).

Uygur positioned himself as left-wing, supporting single-payer healthcare, raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour, and overturning Citizens United v. FEC. In the wake of the 2019 Saugus High School shooting, he supported strict gun control laws.[97] He criticized his Democratic opponent, Christy Smith, for her opposition to Medicare for All.[98][99] Uygur's primary issue was to get money out of politics.[100] He also opposed war with Iran and supported passing the Green New Deal.[101][102][103]

You guys are just detached from reality. You live in this weird wonderland where TYT in 2024 can be described as a "centrist" news outlet.

 

[Zazen]

LMFAO, JFC, no he's not. TYT is a far-left news outlet. Every story checked by Allsides ever reviewed scored the furthest left-wing grading of "L" for its coverage. So does the media bias fact check:

The Young Turks - Bias and Credibility

LEFT BIAS These media sources are moderate to strongly biased toward liberal causes through story selection and/or political affiliation. They may

mediabiasfactcheck.com

The Adfontes media group rates it:

Interactive Media Bias Chart | Ad Fontes Media

The Interactive Media Bias Chart offers the ability to search from among the thousands of rated web/print, TV and podcast sources.

adfontesmedia.com

Their channel practically stumped for Bernie Sanders back in 2016, the most liberal Senator by voting record and rhetoric, as measured by objectively-weighted congressional partisan trackers, and Bernie ironically endorsed Cenk in his own race before the party whipped him (like they so often do) into getting back in line, and retracting his endorsement. Yes, I remind you, the owner of that news network himself ran for political office as a Democrat.


You guys are just detached from reality. You live in this weird wonderland where TYT in 2024 can be described as a "centrist" news outlet.

You have no idea what a far leftist is. Decades of right wing propaganda made you think that anything that isn’t right or centrist must be far left. Even a guy like Bernie is nowhere near the far left. Far leftists are more like authoritarians, they believe in language policing, abolishing capitalism, and they’re often anti-tradition such as hating on the nuclear family. A lot of these types are actual communists and not the types that just want stuff like universal healthcare and lower tuition costs. TYT is hated by actual far lefties.

 

[Madmick]

You have no idea what a far leftist is. Decades of right wing propaganda made you think that anything that isn’t right or centrist must be far left. Even a guy like Bernie is nowhere near the far left. Far leftists are more like authoritarians, they believe in language policing, abolishing capitalism, and they’re often anti-tradition such as hating on the nuclear family. A lot of these types are actual communists and not the types that just want stuff like universal healthcare and lower tuition costs

LOL, knew it. Bludgeoned with the truth an unhinged leftist will always resort to, "That isn't real Communism."

 

[Zazen]

LOL, knew it. Bludgeoned with the truth an unhinged leftist will always resort to, "That isn't real Communism."

Name at least five communists within our government and a few communists on the TYT network.

 

[Madmick]

Name at least five communists within our government and a few communists on the TYT network.

LOL so dumb you're not even picking up on the barb. You actually read that literally.

 

[Zazen]

LOL so dumb you're not even picking up on the barb. You actually read that literally.

No names, exactly what I figured. Concession accepted.

 

[Madmick]

No names, exactly what I figured. Concession accepted.

"If it's not Bolshevik, it's centrist."

Thank you for proving my point. The failure to identify irony was just icing on the cake.

 

[Goatenstein]

How cute desperate Trump lovers are making shit up. Anyone who votes for Trump is a racist.

 

[Seano]

How cute desperate Trump lovers are making shit up. Anyone who votes for Trump is a racist.

Remember when the word "racist" actually had some sort of meaning?

 

[Zazen]

"If it's not Bolshevik, it's centrist."

Thank you for proving my point. The failure to identify irony was just icing on the cake.

Concession accepted

 

[Madmick]

And, for those as humored by this flailing as I am, a friendly PSA, here's one of the bodies I was referencing when I mentioned that Bernie Sanders consistently ranks the furthest left member of the Senate by objective measurements such as voting record or bill sponsorship-- the Govtrack website. The voting records sometimes vary by partisan weighting, but for Bernie, they don't, they reflect the following.

Report Cards for 2022 - Ideology Score - All Senators - GovTrack.us

Year-end 2022 legislative statistics.

www.govtrack.us

Ideology Analysis of Members of Congress​

The ideology analysis assigns a left–right score to each Member of Congress based on their pattern of cosponsorship. The left–right score reflects the dominant ideological difference or differences among Members of Congress, which changes over time.

In a nutshell, Members of Congress who cosponsor similar sets of bills will get scores close together, while Members of Congress who sponsor different sets of bills will have scores far apart. Members of Congress with similar political views will tend to cosponsor the same set of bills, or bills by the same set of authors, and inversely Members of Congress with different political views will tend to cosponsor different bills.

You can find this analysis on the pages for current Members of Congress and in the charts to the right which plot the ideology score on the horizontal axis and the leadership score on the vertical axis.

As you can see, the ideology score is weighted on a curve, so that the furthest right Senator scores a 1.00, and the furthest left scores a 0.00. Here's Bernie's score by congressional history:

• 2022: 0.00 (#1 furthest left)
• 2020: 0.00 (#1 furthest left)
• 2018: 0.01 (#2 furthest left, behind Gillibrand)
• 2016: 0.04 (#2 furthest left, behind Warren)
• 2014: 0.04 (#7 furthest left)

Remember, Bernie is a centrist. He isn't far to the left on our political spectrum! Just like TYT!

 

[Witchhunt]

This is a positive for the U.S’ mental health average…

 

[WhiteMousse]

How cute desperate Trump lovers are making shit up. Anyone who votes for Trump is a racist.

Come on dude

 

[Unknown Pleasures]

Except they could not figure it out and lot the war, then what you think USA shared their blueprints with Russia? You make zero sense.

Obviously USA figured it out first.

They (some combination of American scientists / spies) did indeed share info with Soviets as some scientists were very afraid of the ramifications of folks with atomic bomb tech if there wasn't Mutually Assured Disaster.

The Soviets shared it with China because of China's massive human sacrifice in the Korean War that was at that time deemed in China and the SU's mutual best interest.

 

[deviake]

LMFAO, JFC, no he's not. TYT is a far-left news outlet. Every story checked by Allsides ever reviewed scored the furthest left-wing grading of "L" for its coverage. So does the media bias fact check:

The Young Turks - Bias and Credibility

LEFT BIAS These media sources are moderate to strongly biased toward liberal causes through story selection and/or political affiliation. They may

mediabiasfactcheck.com

The Adfontes media group rates it:

Interactive Media Bias Chart | Ad Fontes Media

The Interactive Media Bias Chart offers the ability to search from among the thousands of rated web/print, TV and podcast sources.

adfontesmedia.com

Their channel practically stumped for Bernie Sanders back in 2016, the most liberal Senator by voting record and rhetoric, as measured by objectively-weighted congressional partisan trackers, and Bernie ironically endorsed Cenk in his own race before the party whipped him (like they so often do) into getting back in line, and then retracted his endorsement. Yes, I remind you, the owner of that news network himself ran for political office as a Democrat.


You guys are just detached from reality. You live in this weird wonderland where TYT in 2024 can be described as a "centrist" news outlet.

No they aren't and no level of gish gallop will change that. Bernie isn't far left either

 

[deviake]

Lol, it's funnier when you know Mickelson is wrong about something but he posts a dissertation anyway. Sometimes you don't even need to skim

 

[Madmick]

No they aren't and no level of gish gallop will change that. Bernie isn't far left either

Concession accepted.

 

[Unknown Pleasures]

You people who do not live here have no idea WTF you're talking about. It feels like the 1990's New York where people are beating the shit out of each other on the street all the time.

1. There was a historic surge in assaults last year (2023). And it's still high this year. That and theft.

2. Your benchmark of whether crime is down or not is only counting 7 major felonies — which include murder, rape, robbery, FELONY assault, burglary, grand larceny and car thefts.

And ONLY counting them if the DA's decide whether to upgrade, downgrade or stick with the charge as one of the 7 major felony offenses.

A lot of times just beating the shit out of each other is never upgraded to a felony - often only charged as a misdemeanor or just dismissed. These misdemeanors are not counted in the "crime reports" that say crime is down. Theft is never even prosecuted.

What happens if you never prosecute theft and beating the shit out of each other? It happens everywhere. Duh.

3. The new bail reform laws are a complete failure. So that smaller crimes like theft, shoplifting, simple assault are just a slap on the wrist or you just spend a night in jail and nothing happens.

Even the DEMOCRATIC Mayor has been trying to get the bail reform laws changed.

Adams Wants Tougher Bail Laws. Can He Get Other Democrats to Agree? (Published 2022)

Mayor Eric Adams will need buy-in from prosecutors, judges and a Democratic-led State Legislature that may balk at some of his tough-on-crime prescriptions.

www.nytimes.com

4. Saying this and this crime is down from this same time period from last year means jack shit. That is cherry picking. "Oh this crime is down from October of last year compared to this October."

That means nothing. Because at the BEGINNING of this year, there was a big spike compared to the end of 2023. It goes up and down and back up repeatedly.

5. Any time an administration or DA or Mayor claims "crime is down" there is a political motive because if it's up, that means they're doing a bad job. You can't take what they say at face value.

Stepping away if all this is right or wrong, you are indeed on to something in that this is a pretty complex issue, and multiple people can be right in many ways while thinking each other is wrong.

First off, crime is often vague in itself, and assigning it to politicians can be really hard to make it an exact science.

Some food for thought...

A significant portion of very severe crimes like murders and rapes are committed by spouses/partners, or someone the victim knows. A significant portion of violent crimes are committed while folks are under the influence of alcohol or other drugs.

Sooooo, if you have way more people spending time isolated at home online instead of out on the town, or with spouses, couldn't that be the driver of many things? It might even tilt behavior from harm to others to self-harm. Either way, it's likely a trend that is largely outside of government policy.

Throw in violence of gang bangers. Getting back to Nimbyism, if gang banging or drug related crime in the bad side of town going up, people outside of that lifestyle might just have a small violin. But, those people might have a very different view of crime if in their nice part of town, robberies, grafitti, simple assaults, etc are up.

Then of course the layer of how things are or are not prosecuted is another thing. I think over the years law enforcement has become unhelpful with enforcing laws if they didn't deem it in their cost-benefit analysis, or maybe increasingly social views of being soft on crime as a strategy.

Anyhow, there is a lot of layers of onions to peel.

 

[Bob Gray]

No they aren't and no level of gish gallop will change that. Bernie isn't far left either

Could you give me a couple of politicians and maybe some youtube channels that you'd consider far left?