😳…is this what voting will be like…😳
😳…is this what voting will be like…😳
This is 100% true, but it’s not that RFK Jr is unqualified (although he is that too), it’s that he’s *actively and intentionally sabotaging* our public health infrastructure
Michelle Obama: kids should have healthier school lunches RFK Jr: maybe if we let the plague run wild we can build a master race Media: wow these are the same thing
You're on earth.
Would addressing the media really help when all he would do is lie and then lie about lying?
If you enjoy… Weekends Safe working conditions Retirement benefits Paid vacations Breaks at work Sick leave Paid holidays … then you’re part of the labor movement. Happy Labor Day.
"He has mitochondria, the best mitochondria..."
Wages of unionized workers are 13% higher than their nonunion counterparts. But unions also set a higher pay standard that all workers enjoy. In high-union-density states, median household income is $12,000 higher than in low-union-density states. This is why unions are vital.
Liberal snottiness has not exactly helped us win many elections, but in this case, the smugness is especially misplaced because “right to work” is not an objective term. It is right-wing framing deliberately intended to minimize its true intent.
Happy Labor Day!
If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.
Beware the wrath of Flanders
In the spirit of bipartisanship, they've replaced a doctor on staff with a guy who googles "all natural medicine" on google
News outlets should send their medical correspondents (the ones who are actual doctors) to the White House on Tuesday - and every day after that - to ask him questions about his health, hand bruising, if he’s getting lasix infusion, etc etc
A reminder on this Labor Day: Slavery still exists in the form of incarcerated labor. It’s long overdue to end forced labor in prisons.
Keeping him on life support until January 21, 2027 is not that hard.
And taxpayers have almost no recourse when it comes to income taxes. Their bosses aren't going to not send withholdings off to the IRS and the self-employed would either be caught or not noticed if they tried to keep their taxes. It's not just you, I have been seeing this lots of places.
From fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-fin...
Except no states pay the federal government. Where are people getting the idea that Sacramento or Albany or any other state government sends money to the feds?
State taxes are collected by the states to use within the state. They do not fund federal programs. (Not counting state contributions to state run programs partially funded by the feds)
States taxes are collected by the states for state uses. Federal taxes are collect by the feds, not the states. States would be hard pressed to commandeer them.
What payments do states make to the federal government?
If you know California voters, tell them that if Trump rigs the next election and Republicans keep Congress, they will most certainly not certify the election in 2028 if they don't like the result. No one is saying gerrymandering is good, but unilaterally disarming could be the end of our democracy.
I thought conservatives didn't think about that kind of thing when a Republican was president?
This is inhumane treatment. “No sleep, snacks only, no toothbrush. I didn’t brush my teeth for 13 days,” he said. “I was worried that I’m going to die.”
Good Morning Everyone Happy Labor Day Weekend And Tell everyone Thank You Union Members The 1% didn't do this The blood, sweat, and tears of hardworking people did Keep fighting Keep raising your voice
Ali Velshi: "We are in the boiling frog moment of authoritarianism" in America.
Jill Stein and Cornel West both disgust me — such goddamn, self-serving hypocrites.
Odd. When I pointed out that Trump was planning ethnic cleansing, the pro-Palestinian crowd called me alarmist and then complained about Biden.
DOGE Stole Your Social Security Data The “forcible resignation” email disappeared after Borges filed a whistleblower complaint accusing DOGE of illegally exfiltrating SSA data - every American's Social Security records - outside the firewall. DOGE could erase you. www.wired.com/story/charle...
Knowing this administration, they very well could have just picked this up from some Russian archive.
I don't wonder. They won't.
To be fair, in their day and age an actual convicted felon would have been hanged. To be blunt though, the Founders had too much faith that the people running the system would actually be angels and not politicians. Especially when they made an elected king virtually untouchable.
Who forgot to put into the constitution that a convicted felon cannot hold the office of the president?
Remember when Trump trotted out an innocent Black child who was a cancer patient, like he was a prop, and then MAGAs pretended to be offended when we didn't celebrate that publicity stunt? Yeah...Trump's fascist policies have defunded pediatric brain cancer research. MAGA wants Structural Eugenics
"Malicious compliance is my love language." What's yours? H/T John J.
Remember when Biden was working on National Plan to End Parkinson's bill, and was consulting with experts, and NYT ran this hit piece?
A big difference between Republicans and Democrats is that Republicans understand the science of political communication. Republicans dictate the topics/terms of debate while Dems (and the left) usually burn energy in constant response. Thiel and Co call this mimetics, Lakoff calls it framing.
'democrats are obliged to govern but republicans get a pass' is bizarrely the mentality of both establishment institutions and a lot of leftist posting.
I wrote about this in more detail here: The Trumpists didn’t depart from a previously stable democratic consensus. They represent the radical wing of a rightwing coalition that was never on board with egalitarian principles and democratic pluralism.
Trump inherited an economy that was the envy of the developed world, one Biden's team navigated through post-pandemic inflation better than almost anyone. In just a few months, Trump has torched it—simply because he takes pleasure in destroying his predecessor’s accomplishments. belib.org/ZqBtts4
He also lost most battles he fought against people who weren't stuck in traffic in Fredericksburg or suffering from a head injury.
i don't know that the U.S. ever produced a finer general than U.S. Grant
Still one of the most underrated campaigns in American military history
*Not counting the wartime elections of 1812, 1814, 1862, 1864, 1942, 1944, 1950, 1952, 1964, 1966, 1968, 1970, 1972, 1974, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2020
In other news, water is wet
Why can't Caesar wear a suit?
See the 2017 film "Death Of Stalin". Laugh at the chaos. Then look again — and recognize that the comedy is a dress rehearsal. When Trump finally goes, America will learn that the death of a strongman is not the end of the nightmare. It is the beginning of the brawl over his bones. “The Death of Tr
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Inhuman. “I don’t have any choice” is a lie.
And yet Republicans have no prime searching every mortgage record in case they find a Democrat who forgot to dot an I
He still gets six weeks to collect his illegal tariffs. He still has the Supreme Court probably waiting to save him. Prices won't come down. The damage has been done.
Until SCOTUS steps into to protect their fuhrer
it shouldn't be easier to get a gun in America than the covid vaccine
Serious Question: I get courts staying some decisions. But if they rule that then government is acting illegally, why does the government get a stay to continue acting illegally? Why?
The importers might get money back. The consumers who saw hire prices won't.
Sums up America in 2025 pretty well I’d say
"It's illegal, but keep on doing it for another six weeks" A statement that only makes sense if you know that they know that SCOTUS will overrule them.
Corporations socialize their losses and privatize their gains.
Susan Collins believes Trump has learned his lesson and will not stage another autogolpe this year.
Don't need to speak Spanish with this new handy guide to determine who to target
Missouri voters overwhelmingly approved earned sick time last November. Governor Mike Kehoe and Missouri Republicans signed away that right. Corporations won. Working Missourians lost.  This is an actual email forwarded to me from an employee of a company removing earned sick time.
We don't have coequal branches if only a supermajority of legislature can check the president. The best solution, to me, is to make the executive branch non-political professionals who carry out the laws and policies created by the peoples' representatives elected to the legislature.
If we're seceding and starting over, do we really need a coequal senate? Or an all powerful unaccountable president?
"The rule of law that I have chopped to pieces is being eroded...yes, eroded..."
It is only incompetence if you assume she's working for the United States.
And I should believe James Bowman why?
The right has collectively mourned Ashli Babbitt more than every kid that’s ever died in a mass shooting combined.
I wonder how these "Trump Brings Peace" types feel about this
DON'T WORRY. DONALD TRUMP THE GREATEST PREWIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES IN HISTORY, WHO SHOULD MAYBE BE PRESIDENT OF THE WORLD WILL SAVE OUR GREAT FOSSIL FUEL INDUSTRY!!!!!!
Aren't there place where a common form of suicide is jumping out of a closed window and landing on a few bullets so hard that they end up in the victims skull?
If they had the shame to understand what they were doing, they'd already have quit
I can just point at myself and claim that one right?
Short of an armed uprising, probably not. Remember: Republicans mean it when they say "not a democracy"
Republicans are trying to redraw congressional district lines to keep their grip on Congress in the midterms and beyond. Voters should pick their politicians, not the other way around. Get involved with the @democraticredistricting.com as they fight back: bit.ly/3HJ1ayW
How does this make anyone healthy?
RFK Jr is driving this country towards an almost certain public health disaster. If Democrats can’t stop it, at the very least they can get it on the record now that they wanted him gone and the GOP wanted him kept in. Underline how they own the disasters to come. It’s Politics 101.
Cheap imitation of North Korea...
Never in my life will in comprehend why the Access Hollywood tape wasn’t the end for him. Almost 10 years of being deeply embarrassed for this country every day.
Tom Clancy's Autobiography of Malcolm X
Republicans: We should have all the seats where we won. Also Republicans: Democrats are wrong to not give us a fair share of seats where we lost.
Some have to be blackmailed. Some are just pretending to fawn because he'll let them do their pet evil project.
For the first time in 111 years, a President is planning to fire a sitting Fed governor—and of course, it’s the first Black woman, Lisa Cook. Trump’s message is clear: when Black women rise, he’ll do anything to push us down. Newsflash: we’re not going anywhere.
".. unless Pulte somehow had particular knowledge about issues with Cook's application, which is unlikely, then one has conclude that Pulte handed Fannie and Freddie a list of political enemies and asked for their loan files for review."
How is the President declaring “a lot of people are saying maybe we'd like a dictator" not the headline of every newspaper in America? And don’t say, what are newspapers?
Hey, it's 2025. He can do that from Harlan Crow's yacht
If the Democrats fuck this up, it's over.
pretty sure every single Framer would have an aneurysm upon realizing that the American people had elected their own Charles II
We need a National Flag Burning Day in protest of Trump’s destructive charge towards Authoritarianism.
So John Deere, a foundational company in American agriculture, paid $300 Million in Trump Tariffs and is now laying off American employees? EVERYBODY GET THAT?
You are living through the unthinkable: the president of the United States using the military to seize domestic power. The greatest crisis of executive power in American history, at the hands of the worst, most corrupt, and most unfit president in American history.
Why is this labelled satire. We all know this is exactly how it will play out
To make the stakes clear, potential Dem Presidential candidates should say that if SCOTUS allows this they will fire any Trump Fed appointees in 2028. Because that is the logical endpoint.
This is a classic authoritarian power grab- concocting a charge, with no due process- naked power grab to remove a check and balance and remove the first black female fed member. We support Lisa Cook