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Of course he did.
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Of course he did.
ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent
Then say that. One wrinkle, states like Florida just said no. Close but again no cigar.
ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes, bullshit is standard Democratic policy. Getting money out of politics requires an amendment or court packing. Peddling nonsense is no better than thoughts and prayers.
ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent
Medicare for All has meant traditional Medicare (eliminating insurance companies). They suck, but going to war with them is suicidal. Obama knew that. Universal health coverage is a fine platform.
ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent
I wouldn't bet that Trump does. He's delusional enough to believe otherwise. Bessent, Lutnick, etc. are another matter.
ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent
It's a left-wing wish list with many items that are impossible to implement.
ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent
Boycotting tariffs won't do squat. To them, 150 billion is a drop in the bucket. They're screwing their own, whose response needs to be kicking them out.
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Imbecile.
ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes. But he thinks we're too stupid to figure that out.
ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent
The left has a pension for redefining reality. Genocide is the systematic attempt to eradicate a group. Casualties of war are not victims of genocide.
ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent
What's good for Wall Street is unrelated to what's good for Main Street.
ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent
edicts.
ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent
One of the first edits of King Ronald I was to fire PATCO. The worshipful serfs cheered their new-found liege.
ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent
As for money and politics. There is Citizens United. Constitutional amendments are as common as passenger pigeons. Your motives are pure but feckless nevertheless.
ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent
How do you deliver on I and III? Promise and fail, and we're done. Medicare for All will never happen. The Swiss model might work. Tranformation requires some transactions. Get shit done!!!!
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"Casey Jones, you've better watch your speed." - TGD
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"Don't drink the water, and don't breathe the air." - Tom Lehrer.
ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent
Quality reporting is an endangered species.
ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent
The comment must have been an epiphany for Wolf.
ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent
MAGA extremists are also taking healthcare away from other MAGA extremists. Karma!!
ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent
Do all reporters play dumb or are they actually dumb?
ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent
Should have been air quotes around prosperity.
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Thank.
ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent
The Reagan Democrats abandoned the party to embrace the prosperity of neoliberalism. Right after he was elected, he fired PATCO. It's been downhill for the middle class ever since. In response, they've moved further right.
ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent
Sure it was. They just weren't honest about what would be trickling down.
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GUNS ASSHOLE!!!!
ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent
Or another novel pathogen.
ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent
Eat your soft serve and ignore the smell.
ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent
Don't Look Up and Idiocracy are actually documentaries.
ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent
No. But we have to wake them up. The great mass of MAGA is one natural disaster or pandemic away from destitution.
ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent
Is that manure?
ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent
We are the Eloy.
ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent
You are implying that everyone thinks that your HRT is frivolous. You can't support that. What is likely is that half the country is tuned out and can't be bothered to pay attention. Most of them are doing far worse, yet they elected the jackass. Most are getting shit on to deferring degrees.
ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent
You can insist all day long that a steaming pile is chocolate ice cream, but the stench still won't go away.
ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent
In other words, the Democrats are feckless whiners.
ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent
My favorite: norm breaking.
ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes, and Big Macs are health food.
ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent
Prayer and Ivermectin are equally effective.
ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent
It is obvious to anyone paying attention.
ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent
Unless it's Ivermectin and bleach.
ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent
Then we're screwed.
ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent
Someone take away the car keys. During Trump 1, farmers were nearly wiped out. The poor and middle-class are now subsidizing billionaires. The patriotic thing to do.
ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent
You're over 65.
ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent
Trump is about to launch a nuclear attack. The courts have ruled that he had no authority to do so. They will suspend the stay while he appeals, and the world is destroyed. Idioprudence.
ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent
I don't think so. IMHO, they will have to rule that Congress has to declare an emergency. If not, he can ship SCOTUS and Congress to CECOT. Roberts isn't dumb.
ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent
I suspect SCOTUS will eventually rule that Congress must declare the state of emergency. If they don't, Trump will rule by decree and start arresting them and the legislature. Roberts isn't that foolish.
ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent
You don't have to be a math whiz to know that 30/38 (78.9%) >> 56.1%. Nine Pinocchios!!!!!! Where is Tommy Udo when you need him?
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Who anointed you king?
ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent
You and Peter Dinklage.
ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent
Sudafed doesn't have the NRA to lobby for it.
ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes, an you would give him an F.
ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent
Amen. Please add. SCOTUS decides money is speech, corporations are people, and McCain-Feinhold is unconstitutional.
ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent
Chris is being diplomatic.
ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent
Pestilence cares more about public health than RFK does.
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ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent
Ergo, Ron, and Greg are Christofascists.
ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent
If Florida is Desantistan, Texas is Abottabad.
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ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent
I think it's more like 25/75.
ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent
Every patriotic American should send him a $100 McDonalds gift certificate.
ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent
The career of "we're all going to die" just did.
ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent
Just ask your magic 8 ball.
ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent
I didn't know that Nazis dropped windowpane.
ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent
If i wanted to see shit, I would walk my dog. He won't change, so there's no point.
ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent
Moderates for sure. Some conservatives. The thinking kind.
ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent
Trolling, I guess.
ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent
I blocked him. Sources of news and robust debate are in short supply. Those who resort to name calling can't construct an argument. Twitter is the place for them.
ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent
"Never argue with a fool. They'll drag you down to their level and beat you with experience." -Mark Twain.
ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent
Tom has the patience of a saint.
ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent
Prohibitions of any kind don't work. Alcohol can cause fatalities, so can narcotics.
ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent
People should be allowed to have guns if they obey the law. If you're going to impinge on someone else's personal liberty, don't whine when they impinge on yours.
ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent
That is a hyperbolic non-starter. Assault weapons should be banned, period. Handguns should be limited to clips of seven licensed and insured. Hunting rifles as well. Google Prohibition.
ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent
Vladimir Harkonen. Where are Trump's suspensors?
ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent
Obviously, so can your idiot supporters.
ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent
If Congress doesn't take back its power, there will be a resurgence of childhood diseases that were nearly eradicated, not to mention Covid: Paxlovid isn't available to everyone. I fail to see the point in allowing this to happen.
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Nor is it popular to cripple soy bean and corn exports. Good news in Iowa!
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Deregulate and let industry run amok.
ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent
Johnson is a Johnson.
ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent
Right. To deal with mental health, we could lock up anyone who looks odd (80 percent of us), or we could put restrictions on gun ownership, which, despite what SCOTUS says, should not be an individual right. We shouldn't be required to live in bunkers so some moron can be armed.
ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent
Are they bragging or complaining?
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Projection.
ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent
Russian asset and American liability.
ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent
The need for HRT is not limited to trans people. Don't put words in 97% of people's mouths.
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@msnbc.com is having a wonderful academic discussion between Meachem and Ignatius based on the premise that the voters wanted populist. TRUMP IS NOT A POPULIST. HE JUST PRETENDS TO BE ONE. WE WERE FOOLED.
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Covfefe has congestive heart failure because Big Macs, Diet Coke, and Blow aren't healthy.
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Option.
ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent
For example, Medicare for All makes perfect sense, but it will never fly. Why? You will put trilion dollar insurance companies out of business. Obama brought them on board to get ACA. A system like Switzerland might work.
ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent
You have to compromise. The only way you will achieve all of what you want is by force. If you work within the system, you'll have to satisfice.
ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent
Economic, yes. Neoliberalism is killing us. But the cure is not Stalinism. As for some of social policies, yours are hated.
ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent
Lay off the bong.
ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent
Nuts are nuts. Nuts should not have access to guns. Period.
ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent
Like Butch before him, Bill Cassidy has blood on his hands.
ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent
It's the wrecking crew writ large. Eviscerate government so they can steal us blind. Bon apetit.
ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent
Many would have started praying, and that is the problem.
ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent
Yep. The clueless public embraced it so they could buy cheap luxury goods. Forty years later, they still haven't learned. Beware of Republicans bearing gifts!!!
ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent
This brings the synecdoche of migrant crime to an even more ludicrous level. If you wanted to protect us from mass shooters, you would start with right-wing Christian males.
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That said, the subset of pregnant people that is not pregnant women (genetically) is the null set.
ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent
The mean looks had nothing to do with NY and everything to do with him being an asshole.
ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent
The twit doesn't realize that women are people.
ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent
IOW, religion really is the opiate of the people. All that prayer and no change. Repeating the same thing over and over and expecting different results is insanity.