Geez…I live in Georgia and I hear about Gavin Newsome a lot. The Governor’s race, including Harris, Porter et al. I also heard @pelosi.house.gov is considering another term. That wasn’t covered in your news? I read @nytimes. Maybe @sfchronicle.com and other local news aren’t doing their job.
Again if that’s the case, you contact them and get as many other people to contact them as you can. They pay attention to issues based on number of people raising them, and their committee assignments. # for Congress:
202-224-3121. Tell them you expect to see them at protests. Good luck 🍀
For that you will have to call your reps office and complain. And keep complaining. Get your family and friends to complain. The higher the numbers on an issue, the more reactive they are. 202-224-3121 is the number for the Congressional switchboard. Good luck. 🍀
But he couldn’t get elected on these percentages were an election held today. I don’t think having ICE arrest elected officials and suspending habeus corpus will help those numbers. But yes, an approval above 40 is disappointing.
Trump ignores the Constitution, the law and the courts. He has empowered Fascist oligarchs to avoid taxes with impunity. Congressional Republicans routinely break the law to protect his ongoing criminal acts. Trump’s criminal Fascist, tariff, and crypto schemes have destroyed the American economy.
Yes they are entitlement programs. People paid into them their entire careers. They're ENTITLED to that money.
That's what entitlement means. It's always meant that.
Please stop redefining english terms just because some assholes have their panties in a bunch.
Sadly it is the GOP that has revised the meaning of the word so it sounds like people are “entitled” whether it was earned or not. Earned is a clearer word from a communications standpoint. But don’t mind me; I only worked in PR for the largest U.S. utility, was a reporter before that and
Last time: it is about changing a word to combat the fact THEY have turned “entitlement” into a dirty word in the mind of the public. You are free to use “entitlement” benefit instead of “earned” benefit all you like…but you won’t win hearts and minds and that means you don’t win the vote! 💙💙💙
My you are a person of good cheer and enthusiasm. Yes, I recognize we live in an authoritarian, fascist and unlawful time. But I am not willing to give up on my country. I may not succeed, but I certainly will try to help restore normal order. It’s called voting, protesting peacefully and
public pressure on our representatives. Again, at least I am trying. I also count on the incompetence of this Republican Administration to bring itself down. You can’t count on Dems to save you…just yourself. Vote!!!
Voted. Protested. Sacrificed. For more than two decades. Here we are, anyway. There will never again be a fair and trusted election. Not in my lifetime. Follow me for more optimism and levity. It took WW2 to force Nazis out. Hoping for incompetence isn’t a strategy. This is the end.
Believe me, I have my moments when I feel as you do. But I can give up and feel miserable, or fight back and feel like I am doing something for my kids and those in future. So I fight as I can and know I tried and resisted. 💙
Every Democrat keeps making the point that they are the Minority Party and all they can do is write strongly worded letters to the real people in power. Quit telling us you're going to save Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security when you can't pass a single bill or even bring one to the floor.
Well that wasn’t the case a year ago when Democrats held the House, tied the Senate and had the Presidency. Look up the Biden Administration’s legislative wins and get back to me. Oh, btw, vote Blue in 2026 and 2028.
I vote Blue. Yesterday I was in a Town Hall and this was the message. They can't get legislation on the floor without 3 Republicans to sponsor the bill. They can't pass anything by themselves. This is the truth, now.
Maybe instead of blaming @housedemocrats.bsky.social and @senatedemocrats.bsky.social , blame Democratic and Independent voters who sat out the election and wouldn’t help stop Trump!
I definitely voted for the smart Black lady. I wish @kamalaharris.com had had more runway for her campaign and messaging that better resonated. Being joyful is wonderful but hard to do when you cannot feed your family and fascism is on the doorstep. I know she is capable of a more forceful message.
I wouldn't even call it an earned benefit. It is a (forced) savings account that cannot be accessed until a certain age in most cases.
Half of it is what would have been a pension in years gone by, provided by the employers.
Now how does that translate into "earned" or an "entitlement" FFS.
Well it is not an entitlement, because it is money you did earn. And yes, pension funds are wonderful unless mismanaged or looted. It is indeed enforced savings, because we are a country that spends what we earn. Which is why FDR instituted
it. It’s better than nothing at all, though it could be better, there is no denying that. I feel it should be reviewed based on medical need periodically. People shouldn’t have to go broke to qualify for Medicaid, provided it’s not blown apart in the budget. #HandsOffMedicare
#HandsOffMedicaid
We agree, I am just so done with people referring to it by any term but what it is, a savings account.
There are people that aren't so clear about what it really is because of all these made up names.
I don't know exactly how the term "entitlement" went from meaning "something one is entitled to" to meaning "something one is not entitled to," but it annoys the hell out of me.
Never let the opposition define the terms in a debate. If you do this, you have already lost. If I am entitled to them, then they are entitlements. If you need lessons on how to deny the opposition's efforts to set the table, take those lessons.
every 5 years or so the Republicunts "borrow" a couple trillion US dollars because they say it has a surplus. Then they say it's insolvent.
Which is it, mutherfuckers????
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I’m here in San Francisco; I never hear a word about my elected representatives in the news.
Are they just sitting about so certain of their incumbency that they don’t feel the need to act on behalf of democracy?
I’m feeling a bit angry about the apparent complacency.
Warren, Sanders, AOC, Crockett, Gallego, &c. I hear a lot about them.
Where are my lawmakers? They’re not even showing up to protests here in SF.
202-224-3121. Tell them you expect to see them at protests. Good luck 🍀
That's what entitlement means. It's always meant that.
Please stop redefining english terms just because some assholes have their panties in a bunch.
I refuse to enable their feefees.
trump has 0 proof of his innocence and a stolen election and its May 10th, 2025 outside.
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Half of it is what would have been a pension in years gone by, provided by the employers.
Now how does that translate into "earned" or an "entitlement" FFS.
#HandsOffMedicaid
There are people that aren't so clear about what it really is because of all these made up names.
Seems a little fukking late to be starting now!
Which is it, mutherfuckers????