It’s amusing how much time and energy the GOP is wasting on one race that was just a mayoral race. Aren’t they elected representatives of large swaths of people who aren’t in New York City? Don’t those people have problems and issues that need addressed? How does Greg Abbot’s snarky comment help the people of Texas? How does any Senator/Representative wasting time on Zorhan Mamdani help get the government open again?
It’s crazy to me how a majority of congress cedes their power to the president. I get why, that way they don’t have to take responsibility but I put more responsibility for giving up their power. I know there is more to it but basically the office of President and the Supreme Court exist because of Acts of Congress. I know we are supposed to have checks on governmental powers between the three “co equal” branches but congress has gridlocked itself into towering the president so what ever they want.
I keep reading articles that claim that “behind the scenes even Republincan Congress members have problems with what Trump is doing”. If that’s the case, I wish more had the guts to say it rather than toeing the party line.
Bunch of scared, greedy, assholes, just waiting for their next Lobbyist handout.
He didn’t even say the shooter might be MAGA, all he said was that the right was looking to pin this on the left before any details were known to the public. They just imagined that he blamed it on MAGA and got pissed off.
If you’re talking politically, then I agree 100%, like you said, we’ve done terrible shit in this country from before day one.
If I’m thinking literally though, 250 years have passed, including the start of Industrial Revolution. They would have no idea what anything was or what was going on, just like what would happen if someone today was transported that far in the future. That’s why I always think this argument is stupid.
“The worry is they’ll pull you over when you’re driving and ask for your papers,” said Lidia
Your papers, please (or “papers, please”) is an expression or trope associated with police state functionaries demanding identification from civilians during random stops or at checkpoints. It is a cultural metaphor for life in a police state.
Was he a bad person when he was working as a nurse for 45 years? Was he a bad person when he moved in with his mom in his 20s to help her out when his dad died? Was he a bad person when he volunteered at twice a month at a local food shelter? Was he a bad person when he took photos for the sports teams I was on and paid for a kid’s pictures out of his own pocket because the family couldn’t afford them?
Again, you know one thing. You don’t know why he voted that way, I said before, he is a single issue voter, taxes, period.
Don’t bother responding, those were rhetorical questions and I’m tired of conversing with someone so close minded.
And you formed a strong opinion on someone you’ve never met, based on one thing. I don’t mean any offense but that’s the sort of thing a bad person does.
He did. And in the last three presidential elections, I voted for Kamala Harris, Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton and I dislike all three of them and I dislike the democrats.
People contain multitudes and don’t always fit neatly into the boxes that society tries to put them in.
My dad doesn’t like Trump, gets vaccinated, and his best friend is the nephew of labor organizer Walter Reuther (that friend is a staunch democrat). But, he dislikes all democrats more than he dislikes Trump because he believes that all democrats want to raise his taxes. Classify that however you want.
I’m not sure, I moved away before he became a politician and I’ve never heard my dad mention his name. Knowing that he supported the teacher’s strike in 2018 and ran as a democrat, I’m sure my dad didn’t like him. Like I said, he’s life long GOP just not MAGA.
My dad has lived in WV his whole life. He’s sadly been a lifelong GOP supporter but hasn’t fully drank the MAGA kool-aid thankfully. I say all this because he hated Robert C Byrd with a passion but I’ll be damned if Byrd or someone from his office didn’t respond to my dad when he wrote letters or called his office.
Now GOP voters can’t even reach the numbskulls that they voted for.
Doesn’t matter unfortunately, oil companies have the most influence with the people in the room and oil companies make more money on cars. If they make functional public transport, it means less people will use cars as their regular mode of transportation.
That’s exactly what you need to do! What others are saying is true, it needs to be a sustained movement and not just stop at 4pm. Thankfully there were organizing tents at the protests in Denver but I was in my hometown, in West Virginia, for the No Kings protest and there was a good turnout just not the organizing.
These protests are great places to meet like minded individuals and do your own organizing if not one else will. Change will not come with once a month protests, change will come from a large movement of organized individuals. You’re the one here who is closest with the people in your area, start talking to them and making strong connections.
The stock market =/= the health of the economy.
I know, I said as much in my post just a sentence or two after the quote of mine that you used.
Exactly, Rawstory is basically the left wing version of Fox News, telling you what you want to hear instead of actual news. My basic takeaway from his statements is that the GDp is still growing just not quite as fast as it was last year.
I’m not an economist so I don’t know but the the S&P is also nearing in on a record highs again and it seems like most of the turmoil in the markets that we saw at the beginning of April is gone for now. I thought the Iran bombing would spook the market but not really. I know the markets aren’t the economy but it’s a bellwether for how the oligarchs and corporations are feeling about it.
Dem or not, I’m very hesitant with any politicians with ties to the military industrial complex.
While what’s happening in Gaza is horrific, it’s sadly far down on the list of grievances against the so called “far left” in the US. It was just one that came immediately to mind. They’ve also had no problem with “Citizens United” which allowed unlimited money in politics, they’ve continued to support the police state in the US, a lack of any meaningful movement on healthcare.
Joe Manchin is no longer a Senator but he used to be considered a “centrist”. He was a fucking coal barron who used his influence to get his daughter a made up MBA, she in turn was CEO of Mylan when they jacked up prices on the life saving Eli-pen.
What far left? You mean the “far left” that continues to support the surveillance state in the US or the “far left” that continues to support the total destruction of Gaza? I can keep going, those are only the first two that came to mind.
Anything that helps people with health care is a win but this is another tiny band aid on the leaking dam of American health care. Plus they’re adding stipulations on eligibility.