Anti-labor, anti-Union, anti-worker are the current Republican party. They are all in the pockets of the 1%, who’ve bought them all. If workers voted their economic interests & not culture war BS, or racism, there’d be many less GOP in office.
Anti-labor, anti-Union, anti-worker are the current Republican party. They are all in the pockets of the 1%, who’ve bought them all. If workers voted their economic interests & not culture war BS, or racism, there’d be many less GOP in office.
Ppl felt unhappy about immigration & elected the GOP who are now fulfilling the most anti-democratic, anti-human procedures, including deporting kids & ppl with no criminal offenses. As usual, the GOP governs as radicals, but face no accountability from US voters. Wake up, America. 🛑 voting GOP!
It’s also when the 1% decided to own the entire GOP & selected other pols who then bought the Supreme Court who then decided Citizens United! It is all connected. 🛑 voting for Republicans…
Even if u believed that immigration wasn’t handled properly, to vote for the GOP after the cruel family separation of the 1st term & the GOP walking away from a solution in 2024 was just a poor choice. How long will the GOP go unaccountable to USA voters, or are u too swayed by RW media BS to care?
She wasn’t alone. Another member of Chuck Todd’s MTP club of “Let’s let Republican members of Congress gaslight us every week & then invite them back 4 weeks later for more”. The Sunday talk shows became unwatchable, literally parroting GOP talk points as if any of it were true. Look what we got!
Medicare for all, paid leave, universal childcare. Busting up big corporations and tackling Wall Street’s greed. Getting big money out of politics. Supporting unions and fighting for higher wages. If Dems want to win back working people, this is the agenda they must support.
And: -No sanctions against Fox & Newsmax for lying about the 2020 election & 1/6. -No repercussions for the 140+ GOP pols who essentially voted to sanction 1/6 & got re-elected, too. -And where’s all the “back the blue” folks that were totally silent cause the politics didn’t align with it??
Just a reminder.....
Philly DA Larry Krasner with the best 1-minute description about crime in America & how Republicans, & their U.S. media, have perpetrated a sham that crime is higher in Dem cities & the only answer is more cops & incarceration. It is just designed to “scare up” GOP votes. Listen & 🛑 voting GOP!
Jones: We have a presidential administration that has more outrage about the changing of the cracker barrel logo than they do about changing the policies that allow our children to be gunned down in school…
And our U.S. media did NOTHING to shun the folks that worked there and crossed over to regular media. No actions were ever taken against Fox, or their personnel, ever. It’s why we are here knocking on the door of fascism. Lies told on a 24-hour loop on a myriad of subjects for decades…
Check this version out of “On the Turning Away”. I love it. spoutible.com/thread/14431...
Economic policies in red states & now the Federal gov’t are designed to enrich the 1%, while everyone else suffers. The model is “wait your turn” & if u can’t get there, too bad for you. Blue states have been subsidizing red states, forever, & red states use the funds to keep their taxes down.
These distinctions don’t matter! Conservatives, moderates, biz types… they all whine, then turn around & vote to let the nonsense continue. No spines among any of them. The whole GOP party acts like a bunch of jellyfish. Vote “No” on something, or someone, then get back to us.
To all Iowans: Just 🛑 voting for Republicans! This is radical, insane gov’t & the destruction of our gov’t for ideological reasons.
I spent the last 15 years repeating right wing propaganda. But I didn’t actually vote for Trump, so you can’t blame me for the destruction of my country
They failed when they had power & didn’t can the filibuster or fight back after Reps stole Scotus seats. I agree, now their hands are tied, though I’ve had it with strongly worded letters that change nothing. They should all be gerrymandering just like CA is, not thinking about it or considering it.
This asymmetry has been there for decades & Dems failed to address the moment, frustrating their base, while hoping voters would make the GOP pay. Voters didn’t hold the GOP accountable, ever, but Dems’ base grew frustrated by small progress, while inequality continued, as they held power.
GOP obstruction was easy when the Dem majority didn’t steamroll them by changing rules & norms! The GOP luvs the filibuster cause they get to stop most progress with 40 votes, but their tax agenda only needs 50 votes for reconciliation & can then rely on exec power & stolen SCOTUS for the rest.
And ban the sale of assault weapons.
So much for the BS from Republicans about lowering costs. On healthcare, they STILL don’t have a plan, 17 yrs later, other than to let private insurers charge whatever they want from those seeking insurance. Their cuts to Medicaid, & possibly Medicare, will harm millions & close hospitals, too.
Sen. Jon Ossoff on the CDC: "[P]utting a quack like Bobby Kennedy in charge of public health was a grave error. The Trump Administration has been engaged for months in a campaign to destroy the CDC." "The Administration's extremism and incompetence are putting lives at risk."
American voters OWN this. They supported Republicans, who are financed by the 1% & the NRA. Until ppl stop voting GOP, at state & Federal levels, the waves of mass shootings will be nearly impossible to stop. Gun laws are being LOOSENED in most GOP states, for ideological reasons, that kill ppl.
When u vote GOP, u are sanctioning BS activities like this. She was a traitor & threatened the lives of Congressmen & she was dealt with. Only in the US & the perverse coverage of 1/6 from right wing U.S. media is this even feasible. More $$’s wasted that could have fed ppl or been used positively.
If u voted for DJT/GOP: -U set in motion the destruction of our gov’t -U anointed a dictator -U are okay with mass shootings that kill kids, at CHURCH -U have made it more likely that ppl will die of diseases -U are responsible for ppl losing healthcare & paying much higher premiums 🛑 voting GOP!
Cause it’s all about him! Our media has failed us & most corporations, too.
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Much of it by the media & press who aided & abetted content that they KNEW were lies, but hid behind “free speech” or “both sides” instead of labeling it, calling it out, & ostracizing those promoting it (see Fox & all the anchors & “reporters” that were welcomed into other positions).
The wealthy are ALWAYS going to complain if you ask them to give back. Capitalism needs guardrails. Those who don't want that can leave to a place they think is better. They will still be wealthy regardless .. but, the average citizen will have a better quality of life. youtube.com/shorts/MstDs...
In many cases the 1% will fight with the same $$’s, or move at their own added costs, rather than just pay back to advance our society. Personally, I can’t think of anything less patriotic to do than to dump on your own countryman for $$’s that you don’t need & will never miss. See Musk & DJT!
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Flea-brained excuse for human flesh is abbreviated "M A G A"
Speechless… We are the only country that can’t learn from our reality due to political ideology & gun lobby money. The insane answers about having more guns have always been wrong & are refuted by data. More available guns, more deaths, period! 🛑 voting for Republicans or supporting gun orgs.
MONDAY: mass shooting TUESDAY: mass shooting WEDNESDAY: mass shooting THURSDAY: mass shooting FRIDAY: mass shooting SATURDAY: mass shooting SUNDAY: mass shooting REPUBLICANS: we need money from gun lobby.
Nah, but pure cheating and reducing the value of a black vote to 1/3,or less, by denying them representation in Congress is just peachy. And so says, BTW, our partisan SCOTUS, who refuse to see that partisan gerrymandering can be just like racial, when 90% of blacks are Dems & 80% of GOP are white.
Maybe the “wake up” call is finally finding some resonance….Iowa used to be filled with reasonable mid-westerners, not MAGA’s. Steps to get there: - Turn off Fox, Newsmax, OAN & all far right “news” - Use real data to inform yourself of current events -🛑 voting for Republicans, everywhere
Nothing makes it more clear how off the rails we are than these sickening sycophants praising “dear leader” at every staff meeting. It shouldn’t be televised cause it’s not a meeting, just a PR stunt for cameras. When will America wake up to what’s going on?? 🛑 voting for Republicans, everywhere!
Spot on!! And most of America remains asleep to the entire process even though U.S. voters activated the entire process, by electing an authoritarian, twice, & not punishing the GOP for their 1/6 support & their lies, about everything!
He actually says the words, “just following orders.” Great kid, now if you had just read some GD books.
So what’s worse, these troops that don’t know what the mission is in DC, or the millions of dupes that watch right wing U.S. GOP media & really believe the BS that Dem cities are overrun with crime, even when GOP cities & states, are worse, per capita?? I say the dupes that vote GOP take the cake!
Dems became rule followers, while the GOP broke every rule, norm, & cheated by gerrymandering & stolen SCOTUS seats to gain control. Dems were thwarted in the ACA in not getting costs down enough w/o a public option & were skewered by GOP lies about “death panels”. This is on US voters in the end!!
And IMO, US voters have been duped for 10 yrs+ by taking right wing media lies seriously & showing almost no critical thinking skill in assessing who was breaking gov’t, & why. This is what the 1% wanted… they got their guy, their SCOTUS, & a “do nothing useful” Congress!
Two big things: 1-GOP tried to break gov’t for 25 yrs to prevent tax increases & make sure US gov’t got a bad name at Dems expense. 2-Dems tried to be “bipartisan”, despite no available partner. Results: MAGA got more power & Dems popularity dove, as ppl were frustrated by limited progress.
And most of these MO districts will go blissfully forward supporting the GOP & their 1% enablers. That's why these Reps have no responses. They "work" for their 1% donors, enjoy the benefits of health & retirement plans, while getting re-elected by those with no clue that they've been screwed over.
As @statman-stu.bsky.social reminds me, THIS is probably the single most important graph I’ve ever created. If you don’t mind my saying so, in one image it crystallizes everything wrong with America today.
Gov JB Pritzker (D-IL) “This isn’t a time to pretend there are two sides to this story. This is not a time to fall back into the reflexive crouch that I so often see, where the authoritarian creep by this administration is ignored in favor of some horse race piece on who will be helped politically”
And in today’s example of Fascism 101 here in the USA, a GOP FL AG refuses to follow a valid Court order. Hello, anybody awake in FL, yet???
It’s just another day that ends in “Y”! The Republicans, with their 1% enablers laying the $$’s out, try to convince CA voters, thru false info, to assist the GOP in stealing 5 House seats in TX, & more in other states, by using a democratic vote in CA, while GOP states “just do it”.
I liked the County graphic data, even better. It shows how profound the correlation is based upon just one variable, vax rate. It should be impossible to see this on a nationwide basis, given the many potential factors, yet there it is… bsky.app/profile/stat...
this point—that this era is not forever and accountability can come in many forms—has for some reason proved bizarrely elusive for democrats
Yup, love these comments… The GOP & their 1% enablers mangle democracy, over 3 decades, but it is Dems fault for trying to be “bipartisan” & work with them?? How about 0 accountability from US voters for a lying & cheating GOP? How about a U.S. media that has enabled the GOP for two decades+??
Pritzker: This is not about fighting crime. This is about the President and his complicit lackey, Stephen Miller, searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections.
I’d add a 3rd which was Mitch McConnell who stole 2 SCOTUS seats out from under Dems. With a real SCOTUS, DJT would have been in jail by now & not been allowed to run for re-election. This should be obvious, but it isn’t. They allowed a 1/6 insurrection to go unpunished, for DJT political gain.
Congress returns next week, let your representative know!!!
But he knows everything Fox News lies about and what a Dem Gov says about him.
Dems should swap out Hakeem Jeffries with Jasmine Crockett. They need that kind of fire.
The fact that this administration is hell bent on punishing Kilmar Abrego Garcia while rewarding Ghislane Maxwell tells you all you need to know about their violent racism and misogyny.
id be slightly less angry at dem leadership saying theyre only interested in throwing political punches on “kitchen table issues” if they were currently out there landing punches on “kitchen table issues”
Totally on brand for MAGA officials to deny the 200-250K lives lost in red counties & states from low vax rates, as compared to blue areas. It’s almost beyond belief that they’d stand behind their “beliefs” when their policies resulted in added deaths, in areas that vote for them. SMDH!
Dems should be in full support of Newsom & Mamdani for showing HOW to resist & campaign in this new era against the fascist MAGA. The days of "weak tea" responses of strongly worded letters are over. Their response to stolen SCOTUS seats was really poor. Failure to undo the filibuster was bad, too.
Result is Dem really not understanding what weird median voters want. Biden was relatively very good for immigrants and he lost huge ground with Hispanics. Dem made big rural investments and lost rural areas worse. Doing things for people just didn't work. Big union bailout and still lost ground
And why is that? Cause the message about what was done was lost in a sea of right wing media, more interested in winning elections for the GOP, & making $$’s, than anything else. The 1% oligarchs have bought the GOP, SCOTUS, & just enough Dems to allow fascism to root here in the USA. Remarkable!
MSNBC’s Ali Velshi Smashes the Panic Button in Rant About the ‘Collapse of Democracy’: ‘It’s Not Where We’re Headed — It’s Where We Are’
Somebody gets it, along with about a half dozen others on MSNBC. Most of the rest of US media is fully in the bag for the GOP, or fails to portray what is happening NOW, with the dire consequences of a fascism, that has already arrived. Two suggestions: -Wake up, America! -🛑 voting for Republicans!
Interesting take from ppl who can’t see X for the racist hellscape that it became after Musk took over. My entire feed was co-opted by MAGA, & racist BS, from many who never believed data presented cause it failed to match their BELIEFS, as with hi Covid mortality in red counties from low vax rates.
I’m good with all of these. Republicans have done nothing, including “moderate” ones, to vote against MAGA or to stop the move toward a fascist, autocratic state. Dems will need to undo much of this damage & it is very likely they will get ZERO support from any GOP elected at state/Federal levels.
Mark, in your biz lingo, DJT wanted full control of Intel & to can their CEO. Was it a victory that they “settled” for a 10% share? That’s no victory, it’s called a shakedown, or extortion, & ppl have been bowing down for a decade. This is on US voters, aided & abetted by US media, & the 1% elites!
The MAGA plan is to fulfill what they have FALSELY accused all facets of gov't of being...a "deep state" rigged against conservatives when there was nearly ZERO evidence of such. In fact, it took years for AG Garland to act on the obvious criminality of DJT's 1st administration, to our detriment.
If your disconnected from “real news” & subject to the onslaught of never ending right-wing media lies, than your “average” voter believed the hogwash presented about Biden & Dems, not to mention the unabashed lying by DJT/GOP about everything. They forgot we had 4X the death rate from Covid & more.
Or is it that our right-wing media & press have systematically ignored Dems that have warned about this Court, for years. This Roberts’ court have been GOP partisan hacks on Dobbs, VRA, gerrymandering, Citizens United, & DJT Immunity. Dem reaction to stolen SCOTUS seats was totally lacking, though.
Might the answer to her Q be nearly all the U.S. media complex has been in the tank for the GOP & DJT for decades. Not just talking about Fox & many 100% in the tank for the GOP, but the networks & most of the chattering DC class, who apparently can’t see their biased coverage has enabled ALL of it.
D.C. has more residents than two U.S. states. They pay more per capita in federal taxes than any other state. But they don’t get a serious seat at the table to decide how they’re governed. D.C. statehood now.
Chairman Mao touts his state-run economy
Least surprising headline ever.
So the U.S. didn’t even buy the shares!!! Full on: COMMUNISM!! I don’t ever want to hear another word about “socialism” from MAGA Republicans about Dems. This is BS of the highest order. So much for public-private partnerships, it is now do as I say, or screw your biz.
The true meaning of COMMUNISM & most of MAGA won’t even get it & certainly not understand it. Let’s call this what it is… the continued shakedown of America for the benefit of the 1%, & the oligarchs, while getting ever closer to Putin’s Russia, by the day. SMDH, 🛑 voting for Republicans!
Between the right-wing media complex, the GOP pols bought by the 1%, & their purchased justices, all the way to SCOTUS, it is difficult to think of any group(s) that have done more damage to the USA over 30+ years. Almost mind boggling the damage to America that has, & will be done, for greed!
If you’re a MAGA Republican who is down with the treatment of KAG, not only are you an absolute embarrassment to America, but you should question your own humanity & the news, or information sources, that have totally misinformed you!
Has there really been any doubt who DJT/MAGA/GOP are rooting for in the Russia-UKR war?? And our rightwing GOP US media/press continues with a facade that we're really supporting UKR, despite loss of funding & the nauseating "summits" between DJT & Putin. If DJT isn't compromised, he acts like it!
Just our police state in action…A direct result, I might add, of 30+ years of GOP TV in Amerika focused on urban & minority crime. Not really surprised to see such little reaction when millions have been sold the notion that cities are crime ridden, even as crime stats show it’s worse in red states.
The piece argues that people should stay on X to persuade onlooker who are still on the platform away from the fascist arguments. But, in a collective action, the goal isn't persuasion. It's power. The goal should be to destroy X as a platform so long as Musk owns it.
If ppl haven’t noticed how much the TX GOP are willing to lie, cheat, or steal to gain more power you’re just not paying attention… Gerrymandering to gain more seats for the GOP, twice. Chasing women out of state for abortion care or what bathrooms to use. Ignoring gun violence & flooding issues.
Breaking news for every university and law firm kowtowing to a convicted felon and adjudicated rapist trying to rewrite history: "Anti-woke" and "anti-DEI" are the biggest Republican lies since Fox News, Citizens United and Make America Great Again.
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🚨BREAKING: Both chambers of the California Legislature have passed the bill in support of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s redistricting plan. The question will now appear on the special election ballot on November 4, 2025.
Every Democratic presidential candidate in 2028 needs to commit to expanding/reforming the US Supreme Court. Absent that the person is full of crap.
As is the case with our U.S. GOP media, they always forget to mention that Republicans already gerrymandered FL & NC in the last cycle to gain 10-11 seats. There was no effective Dem response & those seats are why the GOP holds the House, NOW. Way past time for Dems to fight back & gain the House!
Doh! All performative, but it often works with our disconnected & distracted public. Wake up, America, we’re on the brink!
News alert…Most US media are in the pocket of the GOP. See Fox & Newsmax that have already settled about 2020 election LIES. The rest of our “crack” media have sanitized & rationalized DJT for a decade, despite rampant lying, criminality, & now authoritarian actions in LA & DC, plus gerrymandering.
Russian Foreign Minister, Lavrov said, “ #Russia would only agree to the measures if it had an effective veto over future efforts to defend Kyiv.” Yeah? Got the message? No ceasefire. No security guarantees. The dictator, #Putin, believes #Ukraine is his. He has snookered #Trump. #USA #NATO #EU
What blue state is stepping up next? Who’s gonna meet this moment with the urgency it deserves? Who wants to be able to tell their kids and grandkids that when everything was on the line, they didn’t just SAY the right things, but DID the right thing with the power they had?
And the Fox network received no other penalty for constant & KNOWN lying: -Not shunned or shamed by other networks -Not refused press entry at the White House or AF1. -Had their anchors, reporters shift media jobs w/o penalty & now work in our gov’t. The rest of US media was complicit & still is.
Can we end the sham that Fox is “News”. Their released texts from Pirro, & more, show nearly the entire outfit is an arm of the Republican party & have NEVER been honest brokers of news. How many lawsuits do Fox & Newsmax have to LOSE before Americans wake up to the fact they are lied to by GOP TV?
Another federal court calls out Government request to release grand jury transcripts as a "diversion." "The Government's 100,000 pages of Epstein files and materials dwarf the 70 odd pages of Epstein grand jury materials." Real transparency: DOJ can release the Epstein files.
We’re there! Read the caption. A new development will require proof that buyers are white. This is just the next logical step & those claiming that racism wasn’t part of their votes for the GOP will need to live with this. No affirmative action, DEI, or woke & now prove you’re white to live here!
It’s also why he wants interest rates to come down. The lower interest rates, the more they get cut, increases the price of his bonds. He absolutely should NOT be able to do this while Prez as he has motive for certain actions to occur that benefit him personally, even if it might help the economy.
And many Jewish organizations have followed suit by totally ignoring antisemitism from the right, & particularly the cesspool that is X, while having a focus only on college campus extremism, which has now nearly disappeared due to this Admin’s harsh 1st amendment blowback & lawsuits.