thejadedsage.bsky.social
Disaffected liberal offering polemics, bad satire, and unwanted insight.
The Trump Administration, the entire gamut, need to be thrown in prison for their crimes against the American People #LockThemUp
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El Paso is the only reliably blue district on that side of the state so that could have been any Democrat. He would have been better off staying in the house.
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It’s why I instantly disregard anything from Beto O’Rourke. Dude tried to run for Pres. and Gov. when his biggest accomplishment was…*almost* not losing to the Senator most disliked by his peers. Couldn’t beat him last year either; both years Dems actually thought they were gonna turn Texas blue lol
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There’s always time for the best Final Fantasy game
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While hope is important, the skepticism is valid. Even those on the right side of history are capable of falsehood.
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It isn’t radical to demand the truth, and it certainly is problematic to spread misinformation just because the other team does it to a higher degree. When you stop demanding the truth, you lose the epistemological high ground. In post-truth America radical truth is a necessity.
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I mean this is way highballing, there weren’t 20M+ people out there
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Almost all of the reports I’ve read so far say 5 million. Does the 11 million include the protests around the globe? Then again 5 million does seem like a lowball if it’s true that Boston alone had a million.
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No, he’s saying that if liberals were more engaging outside of their base that they would win more elections. It’s the plain truth, and it’s something that liberals are slowly realizing too late.
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That’s not really what he said though? There *are* consequences to neglecting the deep red areas—it’s how Dems lost the Senate (four seats: MT, WV, OH, PA). It’s allowed the GOP to flip OH and FL from the battleground; make TX uncompetitive. Of course Dems get away with it in CA, NY, IL.
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“Delicate”
The woman kills dogs.
“Beautiful”
She’s a hag.
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They talk about cutting waste, fraud, and abuse; let’s take a look at the dozens of profitable businesses (corporate welfare queens) receiving billions in subsidies.
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It’s just a DNC/PAC fundraising scheme, they pester me a dozen times a day with different names (Carville, Harris, Ossof, Slotkin, Obama, Walz, etc) it feels super shady, never mind the audacity to ask for money when they pissed away $1B last year.
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I work in food production. I’ve watched supplier defects and foreign materials appear at increasing rates, getting really bad in the last couple of years; I anticipate it only getting worse in the coming years. The more incidents like these happen, the more stress it puts on the food safety net.
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It doesn’t hurt my feelings at all, in part because it doesn’t apply to me and in part because you’re still being reductive.
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This is so reductive that you’d fit in well with the professional pundit class.
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This line of reasoning is part of the problem and ignores the fact that political ideology exists on a spectrum.
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Why are Republicans so obsessed with Democrats’ use of profanity these days? (yet not a problem when their own swear). Grow the fuck up.
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“They need to focus on Trump” I do agree but Tapper spends most of his screen time scrutinizing Trump and will continue to do so.
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“This isn’t the right time” for people who say this for just about any political issue, there is never a right time. Republicans do it with guns all the time.
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Coming from the left of center, I’ve long come to be wary of dismissing centrism as fence-sitting or “as bad or worse than the right.” Not everyone in the center is our ally, but the center is not our enemy; we should reach out a hand to them.
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If Democrats are serious about winning again, they need to start building a bigger tent rather than fight over who gets to be under the existing one. There is a pool of talented young left-of-center and liberal members of the party, the most in my lifetime anyway. We can work together. We must.
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The Democratic Party doesn’t do enough to bring these factions together. It’s structured for the centrist wing, and tries to keep progressives at bay; when progressives get a foot in the door, they try to take over and make the party in their own image.
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It goes both ways too—centrists spend too much time trying to work with republicans when the latter are not interested in compromise, and too often they scorn and dismiss their more progressive counterparts.
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I’m tired of the public treating Melanie as if she isn’t willfully complicit.
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They voted to reject an anti-DEI policy though