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I changed a person's mind today and got my comment muted by Robert Reich, today was a good day - except for the invasion of Chicago, the missile strike, and finding out that moving Space Com would put us at risk of a nuclear strike. Two out of five ain't bad!
#UnexpectedTaoism
Many of us realize it, but I worry it won't be enough, and I fear people will be afraid to speak out because these were *accused* criminals. For a lot of people an accusation is as good as a confession. Still, it's grotesque.
Happy to have helped. o7
I’m old enough to remember when we had 47,000 congressional hearings over Hunter Biden allegedly making money off his father’s name. Meanwhile, Trump’s corruption, in the billions, gets openly celebrated.
Ehem.
Seconded.
I agree that's not good, I just don't think it helps us to drag Democrats when they say things like that, because that makes dragging Democrats the conversation instead of kitchen tables OR DC. If a Democrat says something dumb, ignore it, or salvage what you can.
We genuinely I think need to evolve a kind of quasi official public party spokesman, or top party representative position, when we don’t occupy the White House, so we don’t keep trying to put it on people whose job it really isn’t.
Ordering an illegal strike using a $20m missile on a single engine speedboat to own the libs.
How do you think that would have worked? Republicans filibustered the Affordable Care Act then went on to win the biggest electoral victory in their party's history, American voters loved Republicans for filibustering the ACA.
Trump firing a missile into a "drug boat." Eleven people were on it, and he published it to Twitter. Just not my cup of tea, really, I don't generally like watching people die.
I don't think you're being unreasonable. What I'd tell you to do is pretty mundane: When your representatives screw up, give them a call, don't post it on social media, take it straight to the horse. You can still register your frustrations while not worrying about dragging the party.
Friendly reminder here that Joe Biden increased SNAP benefits by more than 20%, because both sides aren't the same. www.vox.com/future-perfe...
Connecting front panel buttons is a pain that must be experienced to be fully understood.
This is just a reminder that civilian casualties in Afghanistan went up by more than 300% during Trump's first term in office, he's nothing if not indiscriminate when it comes to the use of military force.
I'll be honest, I didn't want to see a snuff film today.
The media's basic assumption that crimes only count if they happen in secret has been Trump's saving grace throughout his two terms. He keeps blabbing about them -- here, he's posting a video of a targeted assassination of civilians -- but because he's so brazen they assume it's no big deal.
we learned nothing huh
I'm aware that the President likes to go on television and beg me to call him to ask for troops. I find it strange, as Chicago doesn't want troops. I also have experience asking him for assistance – just to have the rug pulled up from underneath me when execution meets reality.
Good thread, worth your time to read. Trump is yet again making us less safe in new any horrifying ways.
Just wanna join the chorus and say I appreciate the judges who are calling SCOTUS on their bullshit. It is really nice to know that they aren't just gonna play doormat.
It's a GOOGLR DRIVE, OMG No way in hell I'm downloading jack shit from a Google drive the US government directed me to.
I agree that's not good, I just don't think it helps us to drag Democrats when they say things like that, because that makes dragging Democrats the conversation instead of kitchen tables OR DC. If a Democrat says something dumb, ignore it, or salvage what you can.
We need the media and the press to frame these actions honestly, we need them to start defending liberal democracy with us, we need them to be on the American people's side.
From my latest. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
Reads to me like someone who gets their talking points from angry YouTubers, which is probably the same kind of person you're talking about, anyway.
Joe Biden literally stepped away from his Presidential campaign so Harris could run! 😅
Speaking as a white person, here, I didn't hear shit about parachutes. I did hear stuff about expanding Medicaid, building new homes, protecting the disenfranchised, sane domestic and foreign policy, but not much about personal parachutes.
I wish we all knew this. However, I live five minutes from the ocean. An off-shore wind project here has been fought against tooth and nail--by the same people overfishing, polluting, and ruining that ocean--under guise of "save our oceans and wildlife!" So...no. We don't.
Much as I'm sure this is going to rial, I think the messaging on how Donald Trump is fucking with kitchen table issues is strong, it's something that everyone in every county in America is hurt by and Trump's polling is underwater, I think repeating that message would pay dividends.
Operation Idiot Sicario is very dangerous because once you’ve decided to missile random boats rather than interdict them you’ve ignored the advice of every good person in your organization and ensured your kill chain is exclusively staffed by the most evil, malicious, or lazy bastards alive
Have a nice evening!
That goes double for voters.
Democrats have a minority in the House and Senate, voting them out would only give Republicans an even larger majority. We don't need to make that kind of mistake. Let's vote the Republicans out instead.
Yeah, I'm angrier at the fascists in the Republican party who are kicking people off SNAP, kicking people off Medicaid, destroying USAID, killing clean energy investments, firing unionists, deporting workers, invading US cities, and putting tariffs on the American people. Different priorities.
I still think the fascists are the actual problem, here.
Democrats have passed a helluva lot considering the fact that 30 years ago the Speaker of the House was Newt Gingrich, and Dems have had the House, Senate and Presidency 10 of the last 50 years—and 4 of the last 25. We have to win a lot more elections www.spokesman.com/stories/2020...
I keep hearing even MORE people, good people like Max, saying they e heard that Trump’s been replaced by a double! We need proof of authenticity.
Blame the voters for the outcome of elections, the buck stops with us. A plurality of American voters chose fascism, a third of American voters stayed home, a fraction of American voters chose third parties - those are the people you want to blame for Trump's election.
And yet we reached record high rates of health insurance coverage under Biden and passed Medicare prescription bargaining rights; he expanded healthcare despite the attacks against him, and you're damn right I'm proud of the good he accomplished.
Calling the messaging weak is what makes it weak, perception is reality; if you tell everyone that the message sucks, they'll believe it. Dragging the messaging doesn't help it gain traction; the complaining make the message less effective, not more.
Yeah, people are so laser focused on the iota of similarities (some of them specious as hell) they forget the differences, and those differences can be measured in human lives. We have to be the reminder, because the cynics and the nihilists don't want to spread truth, they just want more cynicism.
That's fair... but remember that you're not just speaking for yourself, all of us will be affected by this. If there is a government shutdown, make sure to pin all, and I mean ALL the blame on the Republicans. If it's going to hurt, America should know who's hurting us.
Maybe Rob just got sick of me replying to the nonsense. Still, I thought I made pretty good points. Maybe that was a problem, too. Thanks for checking for me!
Ironic.
Your saying Republicans won't release the long form Epstein files?
One of the best things Democrats could do is start quote tweeting counter factuals when the press that badmouths them. Right now it feels like the media is failing at their jobs, dunking on the media seems like an easy win.
Do you also want us to shut down the courts that are overturning Donald Trump's illegal executive orders? Because I'm pretty sure the courts get shut down, too. I don't know the right answer to this, but we can't go into it blindly, it's going to be a nasty tradeoff either way.
Rao is right up there with Aileen Cannon and Emil Bove on the list of worst judges ever.
I think my comment got muted. :(
I'll play the doomer: If Trump's White House does release the Epstein files, how are we to trust them? As Bill says, these files have been scrubbed. I still want the files released, but even if Trump's name isn't in there, that doesn't exonerate him, at least not in my eyes.
Wow, House Republicans are going to a lot of trouble not to force the release of the real Epstein files. The real files, the ones that we know Donald Trump features in, since FBI agents working at the direction of Bondi and Patel spent a lot of time redacting his name.
Pritzker: "I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal ... I refuse to fall into the pundit trap that demands we sacrifice vital constitutional rights if it's being done in the fake guise of fighting crime."
really remarkable how clear eyed Pritzker is about all this
It's a BFD, but I admit I'm worried about how much worse it's getting. Like, Trump has a plan for ethnically cleansing Gaza, that might not be a genocide, but it's an atrocity nonetheless. Goddamn I wish we had a sane person at the wheel.
Trump and Republicans' Big Ugly Law is nothing short of a big, ugly disaster for American families. Millions of Americans kicked off their health care and millions more kicked off food assistance. Trump and Republicans have no real plan to make life easier for hardworking people.
Obama had an actual, in Senate Super Majority for, like, six months of his first term. Republicans held open Al Franken's seat for months and Ted Kennedy died, denying the 60 votes. If you want to blame someone for the lack of progress, blame Republicans, they're the ones who tried to stop it.
Yeah, I think you dodged a bullet.
Oh neat, I need that! I've been blocked by half the site, can't see shit sometimes.
I'm hearing that. Very smart people are telling me that "Donald Trump" is an AI body double. It's true! Why won't Trump deny that "he" is an AI body double? Why won't he deny? I'm just asking questions.
The problem is making politicians responsible for the outcome of elections rather than the voters. The buck stops with voters; they were the ones who gave Republicans a federal trifecta. Politics is sales, marketing, and advertising; trashing the Democratic party doesn't help them win elections.
Dude, you gotta' screenshot these things! How am I to snark on people if I can't see what I'm snarking on?
It's always Austral*a.
had to conclude anything other than huge chunks of mainstream media like donald trump and want him to be dictator
" well I haven't adjusted my politics since the 1990s so I have to treat every politician as if they're Ronald Reagan 2.0 Just because they can't give me everything that I want immediatley" maybe he
Oh Star, what have you gotten yourself into this time? 💚
It’s been one of the best shows on tv for decades www.youtube.com/@frontline/f...
You can probably find this online or with pbs passport, which is $5 a month. There are several on the ACA and Biden, JFC. And pro publica is free. www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/f...
Oh wow, this is in earnest? Then so is this
I'm not chasing your goalpost to oil subsidies. If both sides are the same, hit me up when Republicans invest $400,000,000,000.00 in wind and solar.
So I imagine you must be angry at Republicans for destroying the Department of Education, increasing student loan costs, defunding previously funded climate projects, and denying FEMA funds to Democratic run states. The differences matter.
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What I mean to say is that the individual mandate was the *only* part of the ACA that can be traced back to the Heritage Foundation, Republicans hated it anyway and got it repealed. Denouncing the ACA on the grounds that it's a "Heritage Foundation Plan" is utter pig shit.
Maryland's minimum wage is $15/hr, more than double the federal minimum wage, because we elect Democrats.
Again: Democrats raised SNAP benefits by 21%, that's what the article you're commenting on was saying, that Joe Biden issued a massive increase in SNAP benefits. I saw one right wing think tank estimate Biden increased benefits by as much as $300,000,000,000.00. epicforamerica.org/social-progr...
No, what I was saying is that I'm a white person who voted for Harris. I think you misfired there, chief.
The 1st bill under Biden was to raise the minimum wage. The FIRST BILL needed 60 votes in the senate and republicans Would NOT support it. Democrats in cities and states around the country have raised minimum wages. Check how many red states have.
So it was passed three years ago, was doing incredible work, and naysayers repeating the lie that it was never put into law is why people believe that Biden & Democrats never do anything and transformational laws are being undone. Way to go, keep on fucking that chicken. www.edf.org/solution/pol...
It passed as the Inflation Reduction Act and Bipartisan Infrastructure Law in 2022 earthjustice.org/article/the-...
Again: Democrats raised SNAP benefits by 21%, that's what the article you're commenting on was saying, that Joe Biden issued a massive increase in SNAP benefits. I saw one right wing think tank estimate Biden increased benefits by as much as $300,000,000,000.00. epicforamerica.org/social-progr...
not all of us :(
70% of US citizens didn't know that the Democrats passed a trillion dollar infrastructure bill, don't feel bad, you're probably still miles ahead of my median countryman.
Strikes me as kind of a selective reading.
while those without full time employment are the ones struggling. psmag.com/economics/he... Very few of SNAP recipients work full time due to a number of factors.
Also, it's just so funny that he's yelling about corporations, when the people often receiving SNAP benefits, don't work for some large corporation. In fact that's actually one of the major issues with the economy right now is that those with full time jobs are generally viewing things as okay,
I take more issue with what the Republicans are doing than with the Democrats, that's where I'm going to put my attention. Republicans are hurting Americans at every level, repealing the good things Democrats have done, and the poor are just the first to pay the price. Republicans are the problem.
Thanks, I'll put away some cash!
My dude, you've planted you goalposts in so many places this thread looks like a cheap golf course.
You're in this thread opposing the Democrats instead of opposing the Republicans who are cutting SNAP, cutting healthcare, cutting climate investments, cutting union employment, cutting foreign aid, and passing massive tariffs on the American people. Why aren't you opposing the right's BS?
Unionization in Democratic run states is way higher than in Republican run states, there's probably a reason for that. The differences matter.
It's hard to win elections without money, unless you're going to start donating to the party, they need donors to contribute. But you'll be happy to know that big donors have been fleeing the Democratic party since Trump's win, so I guess you got your wish.
I mean for one thing the Democrats never did any of those things when they had power, Democrats tried to do things they thought would win elections, like halving the uninsured rate, eliminating preexisting conditions, passing Medicare prescription bargaining rights, and defending unions.
Republicans filibustered the Universal Public Option in 2009, if you want to blame someone for the fact that we don't have universal healthcare today, blame the Republicans. Republicans were the problem, Republicans are the problem.
The Affordable Care Act saved lives; I'd rather people be alive and in debt than dead. Do you think Republicans kicking ten million people off of their Affordable Care Act provided Medicaid will: A. Increase B. Decrease C. No change The number of Americans who die from preventable causes?
Meanwhile the Affordable Care Act halved the uninsured rate, eliminated preexisting conditions, regulated the health insurance industry, established mandatory minimums of coverage, and it's saved us over a trillion dollars since it's passage. I don't think that's a fascist policy at all.
The individual mandate was conceived of by the Heritage Foundation, Democrats thought the GOP would support the idea as it was making people "take personal responsibility" for their health insurance, instead the GOP got the mandate repealed in the Supreme Court.
Like, if you want me to list all the good things Democrats have done in the last thirty years, like regulating the big banks, creating the CFPB, investing $400,000,000,000.00 in renewable energy, or forgiving $180,000,000,000.00 in student loan debt, we'll be here for a while.