I have some very bad news for you about our success intercepting missiles. We very much do not have a reliable defence against missiles. We regularly fail interception tests.
It's not the conclusion someone should draw from this poll, but it's the thing these authors want front and center. They won't show us the actual poll results, but that is far from the only disconnect and certainly a minor one since few Democrats think that's a primary focus, but it's the only example they provide of issues respondents believe are more broadly prioritized by leadership than the actual responses. It's at most a minor point, but the authors elevate it to first paragraph material even while the other discrepancies are much higher.
Love how this author's hand wringing piece about by the calcified establishment, he reaches out to Lis fucking Smith to be the voice of the fresh new insurgency. Even when they have an opinion piece worriedly highlighting the failure of centrism, the New York Times is still the New York Times.
"This" being the described story from the shooter's perspective. He made assumptions and that's what was reported in the story. I'm not sure how much of the narrative we should assume is correct. Not that they're lying, just that people make mistakes and memory becomes iffy in stressful situations. The video doesn't match the peacekeeper's order of events.
I think it was volunteers who had taken on the responsibility of responding to threats to the protesters. They weren't specially blessed to be armed, just wearing vests to let other people know they were friendly and carrying for defense. The guy with the rifle was probably also legally allowed to carry a weapon but was doing it in a way that seemed threatening.
Yeah, people misunderstand how citizen protests work when they talk about protest organizers like they're in charge. Maybe they filed some papers with city hall and did some promotion, but there's no such thing as "protest leadership".
So... regulate the other market. The purpose of the regulated marijuana industry is to have it regulated, not to protect those companies from competition.
Being idiots and being wrong doesn't mean you lose fights. If it wasn't risky to attack Biden, despite the blatantly obvious need to get him out, it wouldn't have taken weeks of nobodies trickling out in opposition before anyone of significance took the step.
Hogg being more directly hostile to centers of power in the Democratic party would absolutely not have made him win the fight to keep his position in the power structure. Thinking that's how politics works is just delusional.
Biden's brain was melting live on stage and it was still considered extremely risky to call for him to step aside. Schumer is just bad at his job and failing to meet the moment. There's no way Hogg comes away better both by publicly declaring his enemies list and including one of the most powerful members of the party on it.
They've been told for years that if they let their guard down or give an inch of kindness they're going to be killed by dangerous minority criminals, and that just made them more violent. They ride around in military surplus vehicles like they're going to be dodging mortar fire and regularly kill unarmed people because they "feared for their lives". They'd need to be experiencing significant and sustained violence before it becomes anything but validating their worldview.
I have some very bad news for you about our success intercepting missiles. We very much do not have a reliable defence against missiles. We regularly fail interception tests.
https://breakingdefense.com/2022/02/no-us-missile-defense-system-proven-capable-against-realistic-icbm-threats-study/