djourdan.bsky.social
Day hiker (not a thru hiker!), coffee enthusiast, and Canadaphile
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Maybe time to fire the chairman who created this mess?
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kyivindependent.com/breaking-ukr...
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Kamala gave voters plenty of policy, especially compared to Trump. I think a lot of Dem voters just couldn’t get beyond their disagreement with Biden’s Gaza policies, so they helped hand the White House to a guy who wants to destroy everything Democrats care about (including Gaza).
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While acknowledging Kamala could have answered the question better, that one interview wasn’t why so many Dems stayed home. It says more about them than it does about Kamala that they stayed home and helped Trump win. Maybe go back and watch Michelle Obama’s Detroit speech from last year.
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I’ll leave you with the same advice I offered earlier: Enjoy these next three and a half years of Trump. You deserve them.
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They must be. How else to explain why people who otherwise favor Democratic programs and ideals helped Trump regain the White House so he can take away food and health care from millions of people to give more tax cuts to billionaires?
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* That is what got us here.
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My strategy was to vote for Kamala Harris. Unfortunately, a lot of other people threw their votes away to Jill Stein or stayed home on Election Day. That is what for us here.
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All Trump needed to do is get the two GOP guys who missed the vote (Garbarino and Schweikert) to show up and vote yes. And he could also get the GOP guy from Maryland (Andy Biggs), who voted Present, to vote yes.
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Ah, yes. Somehow, no matter what, when bad things happen under GOP control, it is always the Democrats’ fault. (Trump would have found the votes on the GOP side to pass it no matter what.)
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Then you and I disagree. I worked on the Hill for 38 years. I don’t know of a single long-serving Member who has not taken a vote they later regretted. That’s largely because they can’t see the future. That doesn’t make them Nazis.
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You just compared Joe Biden to the Nazis because he — over the course of a 35 year Senate career — cast a few votes you didn’t like and made a mistake in supporting Clarence Thomas. Nothing Biden has done — and he did a lot of good stuff, too — puts him in the same camp as the Nazis or Trump.
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I hope you enjoy the next three and a half years of Donald Trump’s presidency, then. You’re so fixated on ancient history that you aren’t seeing what’s right in front of you. I’d take Biden over Trump any day of the week.
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100% true! The Gaza advocates have managed to alienate everyone.
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You have admitted what I’ve been saying. You helped elect Trump. And — even now as Trump and the GOP are about to take away SNAP and Medicaid from millions — you threaten you’ll do it again. So remind me again who’s in bed with MAGA.
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Then you and I agree: You helped give the country Donald Trump. Enjoy these next three and a half years.
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So, because Gaza advocates weren’t satisfied with Kamala Harris, they made sure she lost and helped elect Donald Trump, who wants to relocate the people of Gaza to Libya. Smart.
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So, according to you, Republicans are “trash” so they get a pass. But because Dems are supposed to be “the good guys,” the Gaza advocates spent 2024 protesting them, and then many threw their votes away to Jill Stein or stayed home. You got the President you deserve.
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I wasn’t aware we were celebrating anyone. The article was about people wishing someone who has cancer well. It is not at all like celebrating a rapist (although I think it would be good if our current president was not one.)
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But isn’t Biden a private citizen now w/o any power to change anything? It seems that the current President and Congress are unlikely to change the bankruptcy laws in the way you suggest. Do you have a Plan B?
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Cool. I would have thought there were more current issues to be upset about, and more damaging problems boiling over right now, but clearly we need to spend more time on 2005.
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You’re still stuck on something from 20 years ago? The salient point you’re missing is that as President Biden tried to help folks with student loans while Trump plans to crush them. But if dwelling on 2005 rather makes you feel better, go right ahead.
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The usual performative conservative GOP posturing that leads to the inevitable cave in return for nothing.
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As I say, you are lost.
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Our country is being run by a mad man who is burning the whole thing to the ground, and you’re focusing on the past?
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You are lost.
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Biden was forgiving student loans; Kamala Harris would have continued that policy. But no, America, you wanted to vote for the man who had you believing all kinds of untrue nonsense. Now look at you...
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So…you get to explain your opinions, and tell other people they are wrong, but you don’t like when other people do it to you. Got it.
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Anyone can go out there right now and make their case. Buttigieg has been great, as has AOC. What HCR is saying is that the media is wrong to start the 2028 race now, rather than spend more time on issues (like the impacts of the emerging GOP reconciliation bill).