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Proud đ Mom â recovering lawyer â plant based whole food â soggy PNW island dweller â đđ˝ dancer â book loving tree hugger - Gen X (remember us?)
âThere's only one rule that I know of, babies - God damn it, you've got to be kind.â K. Vonnegut
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They look like they canât wait for this to be over
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Haha, I know! We were all, thatâs a threat? Bring it on!
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Mmmmm, tacos. Remember when Trump promised us a taco truck on every corner?
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But those votes still wouldnât have made a difference! As the party out of power, there is really not much Ds can do EXCEPT what you are calling âtheatricsâ but what I consider âdrawing attention to the bad stuff the Rs are doingâ. There are plenty of people who wouldnât otherwise hear about it
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Well, I celebrate for at least a week myself đ¸đ¤Ł
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Straight to bong rips
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What a bizarre coincidence. King Charles bday and US No Kings Day on the 14th
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Exactlyâ âsittingâ. Afterward, she is fair game
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Yes. Getting rid of âburdensome leadershipâ is a military coup
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And âburdensome leadershipâ đł
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We are trying.
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As a veteran of the Portland BLM âriotsâ, I can assure you that this is happening. Not necessarily paid, but Proud Boyz etc will happily stir the shit for free
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Similar vibe âŚ
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Better call Saul!
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Maybe some women too, like Jen Rubin and Katie Phang
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How do I speak about progressives? I am very progressive; I strongly support Pramila Jayapal, my progressive Member of Congress. I am also a political realist about who gets elected in this country. I realize I am far out of the mainstream.
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Iâd like to meet his tailor
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I learned to parallel park a stick shift car on the hills of San Francisco and I deserve some kind of trophy.
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Same with Portland, which unbeknown to us residents, âburned to the groundâ
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Yes, and she is what her constituents want. She ran on an anti-immigration platform.
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Sure hope not. They will lose if they run to the left of her, and I certainly wouldnât want anyone more to the right.
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Yes, BARELY elected in an extremely conservative district. I worked hard to get her elected even though I disagree with many of her policies, because another vote in the D column for impeachment is my priority. Her district will turn back R if she is primaried.
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They canât save the country if they lose their races!!!
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I donât think that type of purity test will help the Democrats re-take the majority, which is absolutely imperative. I respectfully disagree with you; now is not the time to challenge Democrats as long as they will vote the right way on things like the reconciliation bill and IMPEACHMENT
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And sometimes the completely WRONG person đ¤Ł
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Yes, obviously. But cynically speaking getting elected is a reps primary concern. They are not dealing with people with a lot of nuance, and this bill is purely performative
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Hey, thanks for the personal attack. Good bye
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What are you talking about? We are discussing ONE vote, on ONE (non-funding) bill and suddenly I ignore genocide? I think we are done here.
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I will join you in screaming from the rooftops if any Dems vote for the Billionaire Bailout Bill, which has real actual consequences for children and families, rather than getting tied up in knots about performative political grandstanding
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Wow. You are reading a lot into one vote for an inconsequential bill which includes (but is not primarily aimed at) thanking ICE for helping in one particular situation. The reps who voted for it ARE in conservative districts and they DID win
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Please. I hate what ICE is doing with my whole being. I just think that attacking Dems for inconsequential votes that they feel they need to take for purely political reasons is not in the best interest of the anti-fascist imperative that we face right now.
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The bill was not related to funding
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No, they are like their very conservative constituents who they managed to get to vote for a Democrat.
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Different concerns in different districts
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Yep, it is really tough. She won by inches with a whole lot of help from progressives who knew the game
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Or they could recognize their is no winning on this kind of pointless useless bill, make a decision and get back to fighting against the Big Billionaire Bailout, where there are actual consequences
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I feel that Ds must hang together or we will all hang separately. But I respect your point of view.
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I disagree. Some of those votes MUST be winnable for Ds or we are stuck with R rule forever. Voting for a toothless bill that does no actual harm as a cynical political calculation is, in my opinion, not a reason to primary someone who votes with Ds when it really matters.
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The bill condemned the anti-Semitic attacks in Denver, then thanked ICE for helping bring down the attacker. Very cynical politics designed to divide Dems, and itâs clearly working
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The Bill condemned the anti-Semitic attack in Denver, and at the end thanked ICE for their assistance in bringing down the attacker. If Rs say they wonât take out the âthank youâ bit (which they wouldnât), Ds get slammed on Faux News for being anti-Semitic. Not so easy. Very cynical politics.
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âThis is a well-worn DC play. Put Ds in a box by forcing them to choose btwn voting against an antisemitism resolution so Rs can slam them as being antisemitic or voting for the resolution, so they can hit the Party for being divided.
Political theater, designed for bad-faith attacks & Fox clips.â
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It depends on their district. Rs forced them to play very cynical politics.
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But votes 95% of the time with the Democrats? isnât she better than getting some MAGA in there? I know that district. Anyone to her left would lose.
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I believe it was 1965
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Read the article.
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Read the article. Explains it all.
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Read the article. The signatories were really between a rock and a hard place.