Small towns, big cities, we will show up!
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Small towns, big cities, we will show up!
I won't. I can't muster that much disrespect.
Oops, I forgot to translate that to PDT. Well maybe I'll catch the reruns.
BEGGING. Be involved at local & state levels. So much of what we see at the national level starts at school boards, council chambers & state houses. But state & local is where your voice is loudest and most effective. And where we are more likely to put a stop to this stuff before it gets to SCOTUS
If listening to Joe drone on and on and interrupt everyone constantly had not been so painful, I might care about their movement to the right. But it wasn't a far leap and I don't mind skipping that pain.
So confusing, having read all of those books. But yes, I have seen that confusion, usually AI, many times.
Some idiot once hung bacon on the door handles to a mosque so that the people couldn't get in. What idiots. OTOH, I am partaking of bacon right now. No I don't eat it, but I can smell it cooking and every smell has a physical component.
I am anxious to see also. What I assume will happen is that he will be amazingly successful and the only thing anyone will notice is the things he does not make happen. People really want magic and they want it all, right now.
His cabinet did not fare as well as Nixon himself. But I tend to believe that US history really sides with the idea of no consequences. She will instead write a book about how mistreated and misunderstood she is. She will complain nationwide when it doesn't sell well.
If you take away 5% from R and add that 5% to D...
I agree. We don't need to waste much energy on registered Republicans (though some really are reachable). Between the unregistered and those that decline to choose a party - well those two groups could outvote the rest of us. And many of them would be easier to convince.
Even if we had the House and Senate, it is nearly impossible to convict on charges of treason. Hinging on the definition of war. Feel free to dream, just don't hang any real hopes on it.
A picture is worth a thousand words! This idiom has words, a picture, and itβs worth everything! Two criminals!
I'm kind of glad to read that I am not people.
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You may be underestimating half of us. We know that we have to plan for elections while fighting fascism. It can't be just one or the other.
You are giving legitimate sex workers a bad name.
Miller?
Shocking that he was only 73, when he has left us with such a huge and great body of work. So many important roles. And great in all of them. Rest in Power.
Wow!
You are asking a lot from the candidates in swing districts. I say, push the safe district politicians as hard as you like. Please. They need to find out that moving right is not helping them or the country. Unfortunately, the candidates who are barely eking out a win in a purple district can't.
You guys see where this is going? Right?
I missed where you said anything about Trump at all, sorry. Biden and Obama both deported more people than Trump has in the same time. The major difference is that most of those deported were picked up from jails. That is why Trump can't deport criminals as promised. They are gone already.
Um how do you think we got Neandertals?
diatomaceous earth. But no.
I don't.
You insult my ancestors with that comparison.
This was actually entertaining to watch. I've never watched someone shooting and missing so many times. Though you never came out and said, yes, Jesus was not white. I'm assuming that you knew that part.
Gee, nothing has changed in the last year? I agree with you 100%, but think you might be just a tiny bit disingenuous there.
You are assuming that there are enough doctors, hospitals and clinics for everyone. That if you can't find a doctor, there is another around the corner. My impression is that if they are full of people who are paying with insurance, there is no room for you. It doesn't matter if you are covered.
Ask all you want. A) I don't see the relevance. B) I don't know.
Clearly I don't understand why the hybrid is better. I assumed that other countries were less greedy and doctors would take all comers, unlike the US. I haven't studied universal healthcare in other countries because I never use it there.
Schools are supposed to have security systems that do no allow terrorists in. Ask Sen. Cruz about that.
I was wondering about the timeline of these. Not that it makes them less horrific, but if we want to see what policies caused the deaths we need to know who died when. Makes me nauseated to be so clinical about children, but that is how we learn. Then go home and puke.
Complex tools are not more or less sophisticated than others. They just have several different parts put together. Well, by definition, they have at least 2 parts. A bow and arrow has by my count 5 distinct parts each very sophisticated. With a master's I couldn't make a decent spear and point.
you said that a hybrid system is necessary. If it is controlled to the point of non-competing, what is the use of buying insurance? If it competes, then it puts wealthy people above and before those who can't afford insurance. With American greed it puts them on the street.
Don't bet on it. There are a whole lot of things they don't give a damn about. Being so close and yet so far is painful.
What's the point? Why buy insurance if it doesn't get you in first? California can't get Universal Healthcare because the politicians keep voting it down and the governor has said he won't sign it. Workable bills have been written.
I decided that always reacting was obeying in advance. Instead I am remembering what we are fighting for and the good things we have. And when I have rested a bit, I get pissed off and start again.
Well feel free to attack those people. Almost everyone I have seen just said they were accepting that Newsom is pushing this one thing and we appreciate that. Mainly I see people like me saying to quit worrying about Newsom for President as we could all be dead by 2028. Some buy the hero shit. ick
I understand your frustration. I can't believe we haven't even implemented it for California. However, I don't believe a hybrid system will work in the US. Yes we are exceptional. Exceptionally greedy. How many times have I walked into an office to a sign "No Medicare". Because of insurance
Thanks, I did do the cheat and went to Wikipedia and just finished reading this article. I think I followed every link on the Arditi del Popolo page. And grateful I didn't have to crack out my meager Italian. (Can't even try in German.)
Holy Shit! Who is telling you that? Almost all of the protesting I see is about deportations and disappearances. The attacks are against ICE, CBP and Homeland Security. I have seen a lot of people cheering on Trump's demise, but that is just people being silly. The horrors run deeper.
Different thread. I haven't counted on the thread you react to. I will say that you have responded to a lot of people who supported what Gavin is doing on redistricting as if they said they would vote for him for President no matter what. So your count doesn't convince me.But thanks for the sources
If you're arrested in Illinois protesting the planned ICE HQ in North Chicago, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at sheryl@weikallaw.com. As always, I will take as many cases as I can.
Put me on the skeptical side. I believe that Neandertals made complex tools, but the bow and arrow is a really complex weapon and I am just not buying it. Hope I live long enough to be proven wrong.
I just read through the entire thread to count and came up with 0. Not one person said they supported Newsom for President. One of the other threads was started by someone who said that, and I remember one person agreeing strongly. That's 2.
Ah you're back. I have a question - really. Do you know what the level of push back to Mussolini or Hitler was early on in their rise. I have to admit I have avoided studying the men, so missed that part and don't know where to start. Are there good books? Good articles?
Please don't start again. None of us supports Newsom. We aren't that naive. That just isn't what is going on in this thread. If you are afraid he will win the Presidency in 2028, just work on supporting someone who will defeat him. Someone I would like to vote for, how about that?
I guess rural Californians are smarter than Texans. I assumed I experienced that because I was working near Fort Bliss, which has to actually suck intelligence out of men. (I was going to say "people", but only them seemed to get dumber every day.)
You do realize that most bands improve over time. To a point. So that band playing for 12 people was an unskilled bunch of kids with pimples and borrowed teenage lust filled lyrics.
Thank you for reminding us of that while we look at our situation in the US with total incompetents in every post. The puppet masters are pretty scary, however.
I'm no nihilist, but I believe you are being way too optimistic. By the time of the next Presidential election that will be counted, we need to be rebuilding from the ashes of what this regime has done. The 2028 election will only look normal if it isn't.
See you are implying he was still powerful until they strung him up. Think about that.
What cracks me up is that they don't remember that very few of the sycophants who helped Hitler come to power lived to see the end of the war. He offed them when they weren't needed and he could just take their money.
Thank you, thank you, thank you. I think Crockett is my favorite of those you mentioned, but that just means I want to hear more of her good sense.
So the censors got your tongue? Fascism has a very sparse history since it was invented by Mussolini.
What is your solution to fascism in the US?
But they owned the libs, so that is enough to keep them loyal.
Many of them treat the people they see just fine. It is the people they don't know and don't see that they assume terrible things about and treat badly. I know that is confusing, but out here in the hinterlands the racists even treat the two black people they know pretty well. It's complicated.
Thanks, We finally elicited the solution and it is: hate some guy. Those of us trying to save democracy definitely have no more time to waste on this guy. Thanks for getting the answer. Some on the left really are as useless as MAGA, I guess. Onward.
Pretty sure we asked for your solution, not ours. (I assumed anyone saying we need Newsom for President was joking because It Is a Fucking 3 years before the election!!!) Something the anti-Gavin crowd, except me, don't seem to get. Your solution please.
LOL, do you know anyone looking for a short, fat old woman with bad hips and knees?
I checked 8 years ago. They don't want me. Don't blame them. No one does. I'm just an old drain on the social coffers.
I really love the truly ridiculous ones. The one with the kitten is in the running with this for my favorite.
I know that is a joke, but Newsom is so dyslexic that he can't read a teleprompter. I doubt he spells anything correctly. That's why he just knows all those facts, he can't look them up in notes.
I love his poetry.
It isn't even that he is completely unqualified. He is heavily invested in quack medicine. This isn't just stupidity, it is theft of my money.
I have read the comments and most of them are wondering why you are jumping down their throats about something they never said. "it is" isn't even close to meaning "it should be". But offer the solution that was asked for and we'll quickly separate the blue MAGAs from the rest.
LOL, not caring if the puppet is dead is not the same as wishing him well. I don't get to take a vacation from the evil being done by: Vought, JD, Thiell, Miller, Bowser, and Newsom. Trump is not the worst, just the one with the mouth. Have the day you deserve.
First, I never every said I support Newsom. Second, right now (for the first time) Newsom is supporting me. I need Prop 50 to pass and if he is supporting it, good. I'll take his money and bully pulpit. Come back in 2027 and we can debate Presidential candidates. Newsom won't be on my list.
Okay. I don't care what you think of the the 2028 election. If you are putting some effort into someone running who is worth supporting, let me know. I don't mind working that between all the other campaigns. I don't care who you are against. I will vote for Gavin if it is JD. Not in my top 20.
Fine, I come to BlueSky as my best source for news while I eat my Cheerios. Today it is all people hoping someone died. So Time for me to hit YouTube instead.
Normalize talking politics in public places. Loudly. Start with the stuff that conservatives don't understand: rural hospital closures, PayGo, cuts to Social Security and VA... Loudly and often.
No, not irrelevant, a distraction. So many things we need to pay attention to all at once. Who will be the Dem Presidential candidate in 2028 doesn't make my list. FFS, get behind someone good. That I can support.
Oh, FFS, I shed blood at a demonstration in the 80s and haven't quit. Right now I have to keep my eye on ICE, SCOTUS and everything else while making sure we can have an election that matters in 2026. Newsom is an ass, but if he gets redistricting through, I will help him at it. You ain't helping
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I fear that everyone will breathe a sigh of relief and the Christian Nationalists will quietly take over. This is the time everyone should read Reading Lolita in Tehran and understand how they fought for revolution, then relaxed. Vought and Miller and Thiel will not waste time mourning.
Please wake up. He isn't a candidate. He isn't running for any office. We aren't voting for President for 3 more years. But ballots drop in the fight to make sure we have an election in 2026 and 2028 in just 6 weeks. You are wasting precious time. In 3 years I'll agree with you, not now!
Do you understand how weird it is to be jabbering on about an election in 3 years when we have ballots dropping in 6 weeks that will decide if we have an election in 3 years? No one is asking you to vote for a President right now.
he isn't running for anything. Vote yes on Prop 50 Anything else is just noise.
Are you conflating Congress with Governors? There are a bunch of governors working on their plans right now. God only knows what Congress is doing. (actually they said they are negotiating with terrorists -Republicans- again.)
We need to be the leaders that congress is running to keep up with. That is how revolutions actually work.
I'm voting Yes on Prop 50 this November. #YesOnProp50
I was just thinking how important it is that this fight is us. We aren't the cannon fodder in a political war, we are the ones who will make the decisions. I love that and I need to get to work explaining this proposition to everyone. I did just put a sign in the window "ask me about Prop 50".
I love this ad by Gavin Newsom! Must watch πππππ
I can be extremely grateful that someone is reading the room. You sure as shit aren't
stfu asshole. this is not about Newsom it is about fucking the country over for forever. Congratulations
Do you know how to stay on message at all? Sure thing, you just keep beating on that one note until we fuck up the redistricting and end up with this hell forever. This isn't about Newsom. It is about the entire fucking country.
Mississippi was hardest hit by Katrina. NO just suffered the most from the levee failure. The natural disaster followed by a man made one.
I think our local officials have the drill down pretty well. I have gotten alerts for fires, evacuations, flash flood warnings and earthquakes. And I think I live in a safe area (I guess I do, because we all got out safely.)
I did see a blurb on this just this morning. Another sad stupid cut.
Honestly, Ashli Babbit is the least of my worries. Obviously the J6 rioters have no shame, so why waste our breath. Everything this regime does dishonors the military. The way to honor the military is to overthrow this regime... at the ballot box.
I would be better and I don't know anything. I didn't quite flunk high school biology.
When a president decides to disregard the will of the American people, youβre right, thatβs the mark of authoritarian rule. The White House has notified Congress that it plans to cancel $4.9 billion in foreign aid funding that lawmakers had already approved, doing so without their consent.
Ha! But if you were just talking about a physical place, you wouldn't care enough to want to "take it back". You are talking about a way of life and that way isn't just you. We care about others and want that way of life for all of us. For some of us it spreads further... but maybe not.
Cop calls my battle buddy stolen valor, during our ICE hunting mission.
CDC employees standing up and walking out in light of the mass shootings, firings, and *waves hands in the air* everything else. #USAnotRFK Lets gooooo
