Hmmm seems like someone should win the presidency promising those things so someone will write about it - ThreadSky

kleinman.bsky.social • 41 days ago

Hmmm seems like someone should win the presidency promising those things so someone will write about it

63% of Americans support deporting undocumented immigrants so the NYT splashes this on the front page as a mandate to do just this. It becomes urgent—the will of the people. 71% of Americans support universal pre-K and 69% support Medicare For All but this mysteriously provides no such mandate.

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aeolist.bsky.social•41 days ago

yeah i'm sure if a bernie-like socdem won they'd be splashing the agenda all over page 1

anthony.parts•41 days ago

thank you for endorsing third-party candidates!

griffonatrix.bsky.social•41 days ago

Harris (and Biden before her) promised this too, they just promise to do it with slightly less open sadism

jikukeiseki.bsky.social•41 days ago

the Democrats literally tried to pass a Trump immigration bill last year. The repeal of due process for immigrants just passed with dem support. they did not make meaningful pledges on immigration, education, or healthcare. you're writing Democrat fanfiction.

charleycoty.bsky.social•41 days ago

The vote on Laken Riley will be early next week. (Monday maybe? Not sure.)

On 1/17 they voted to take it out of cloture.

S.5 - 119th Congress (2025-2026): Laken Riley Act | https://Congress.gov | Library of Congress https://search.app/RMUX9w6AnDHtpPFS9

jikukeiseki.bsky.social•41 days ago

appreciate the correction. though probably not Monday since Congress simply will not work on a scheduled day off

charleycoty.bsky.social•41 days ago

Yeah. Friday I read the vote would be Monday, but that doesn't make sense so we'll have to see what happens. More time to fill up our senators's voicemail telling them what we expect from them. 💙

jonforsyth.bsky.social•41 days ago

At the risk of being a typical internet jerk, I'm skeptical that people vote for a candidate based on their policy positions

ejmaron.bsky.social•41 days ago

Imagine thinking the press is limited to only covering things the President talks about

edwardallenthree.bsky.social•41 days ago

Deportation is always a crime against humanity. Exile is always wrong. The fact that so many Americans supported is absolutely damning of America.

The nation state system, as championed by America, has undermined humanity's basic values.

To understand, see the Hebrew Bible, or the works of Homer.

matthewraskob.bsky.social•41 days ago

Few people want to hear this, but Johnson’s side decided how they wanted to play the past election, & it wasn’t by focusing on family benefits or education or even health care.

whisperingsage.bsky.social•41 days ago

"Johnson's side" wasn't in office.

matthewraskob.bsky.social•41 days ago

I meant that there was an election, & Johnson & others who share his views (or perhaps you mean there are none?) had to decide how they wanted to handle that. If they are convinced of their righteousness, my observation should not trouble them.

whisperingsage.bsky.social•40 days ago

You seem convinced enough of your own righteousness.

kleinman.bsky.social•41 days ago

We're gonna see a lot of people who spent all of her campaign trashing Kamala mad that Trump is going to do exactly what he promised.

idontknowmanmaybe.bsky.social•40 days ago

Have you considered that Kamala deserved to be trashed?

johndoemn.bsky.social•41 days ago

They would not have trashed Kamala if she ran on those good and popular things. Hope this helps!

aeolist.bsky.social•41 days ago

acting like there's some hypocrisy in this is sad man

kleinman.bsky.social•41 days ago

If you care about this you should've cared who won, he didn't seem to.

aeolist.bsky.social•41 days ago

if dems cared about humane immigration policy kamala wouldn't have run on "we tried to do trump's border control but he wouldn't let us"

arrogantmonkey.bsky.social•41 days ago

You still don’t seem actually mad about it

jeanlucbacardi.bsky.social•41 days ago

Are you illiterate? Why aren't you mad that the party of human rights that was supposed to stop fascism decided they'd rather bomb brown babies?

mbletst.bsky.social•41 days ago

like trump is gonna have to hustle if he wants to even match biden's deportation numbers

markidactyl.bsky.social•41 days ago

Have you considered that expecting everyone to act like an unpaid uncritical campaign surrogate at all times is a little unreasonable

lennon-s.bsky.social•41 days ago

"please do the thing I think will help you win" seems like caring to me

ladyaranea.bsky.social•41 days ago

We did care who won. That's why we were upset that she was throwing the election by rejection opposition to Republicans in order to promise to bring them into her counsel, and threw out the entire Arab-American community by telling them to shut up when they begged for the lives of their families.

beefalo.bsky.social•41 days ago

Extremely rare bad take from Bobby Big Wheel

walterbrando.bsky.social•41 days ago

run an actual campaign next time bozo

lobsterbutt.bsky.social•40 days ago

I didnt support her financially or subjectively and i still cared who won, because she failed a layup election by sucking ass. What do you think you are doing here.

ddiiggss.bsky.social•41 days ago

But she didn’t even pretend to want to do any of those things

geoffthejohnson.bsky.social•41 days ago

It seems impossible to believe that you are being anything other than willfully disingenuous. And to what end? I get being angry. But making false accusations against people who are (very clearly) broadly on "your side" of the fight against fascism is aggressively not smart. You don't have to do it!

thanatz.bsky.social•41 days ago

If only Adam didn’t put up rookie caring numbers she woulda won. Personally I’m spending the next 4 years getting my care reps up and putting the whole squad on my back.

mattymerz.bsky.social•40 days ago

You know who else didn’t seem to care who won? The democrat that embraced the war criminal and his awful daughter instead of her own base.

adamkotsko.bsky.social•41 days ago

What are you even saying?

jeanlucbacardi.bsky.social•41 days ago

He's saying "enjoy the camps!"

adamkotsko.bsky.social•41 days ago

That's helpful.

bing78.bsky.social•41 days ago

The dems are complicit in this mess, but go off I guess

miniocre.bsky.social•40 days ago

People were trashing her for running a losing campaign and were proven right. The people who said nothing about her fumbling, preemptive capitulation and pretending it's fine should get the blame.

twentyyards.bsky.social•41 days ago

To be fair hell be doing lots of what Kamala promised as well

happylocs.bsky.social•41 days ago

Like what?

hobojoe.bsky.social•41 days ago

like trying to one-up his border policy
https://www.axios.com/2024/10/06/kamala-harris-trump-immigration-border-security

happylocs.bsky.social•41 days ago

Just read it didn’t say anything about removing birthright citizenship of citizens already here or putting them in camps.

She also advocated to strengthen those countries economically like she did with Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras.

hobojoe.bsky.social•41 days ago

and you actually believe that shit? she famously went to guatemala to scold them for immigrating to the US

do you also believe cops when they say they want to protect and serve?

chucksm4sh.bsky.social•40 days ago

Yes and?

n39471v3cr33p.bsky.social•41 days ago

we're going to see a lot of people who supported a losing candidate's bad decisions mad that those decisions resulted in her loss

joebarczak.bsky.social•41 days ago

I don't know, I think a lot of us will say it's too bad that Trump's political opposition is dogshit and that it's motivated by the same cowardice as the Kamala campaign. Hope they figure things out, I guess. Not optimistic about that though.

vegetablegremlin.bsky.social•41 days ago

People concerned that harris was doing loser shit that will cost her the election now are upset that her doing loser shit cost her the election. The ironing is palpatable.

billcubbieblue.bsky.social•41 days ago

What was the other option, vote for Kamala so genocide can continue and undocumented people can still be deported in large numbers? Neither option was worth anything and Harris deserves to be called out for both being a shitty person and running a horrendous campaign.

thecommonills.bsky.social•40 days ago

You are exactly right and thank you for saying it. Saw your Tweet when Eion Higgins tsk-tsked it.

leftinfighter.bsky.social•41 days ago

People who follow politics closely enough to trash an entire campaign are not representative of the general public, whom her trashers were correct about her being inept at winning over and thus ceding the presidency to Trump

riv3th3ad.bsky.social•41 days ago

Perhaps the Harris campaign should have been open to entirely accurate criticisms then, my dude.

These people are ostensibly meant to work for us. You’re not supposed to kiss their ass no matter what they say and do. When they’re fucking sucking they need to be told they’re fucking sucking.

prdolan.bsky.social•41 days ago

oh bobby

mediumvillain.bsky.social•40 days ago

yeah and

lila-satori.bsky.social•41 days ago

I sure fucking hope so. That they're mad, I mean.

bertoltmehcht.bsky.social•40 days ago

Fart

untimelygamer.bsky.social•41 days ago

This is not a great take. (Also is willfully misreading the OP's point; there IS a double standard in how the media presents leftist priorities that poll well vs. right-wing ones. Power matters, yes, but that double standard exists regardless of who is in power).

redhero.bsky.social•41 days ago

lol what a piss baby

johnnycleancheeks.bsky.social•41 days ago

You’re somewhat of a dumbass yourself aren’t you?

jtadetroit.bsky.social•41 days ago

Truly the first as tragedy, the second as farce ….and, sadly more tragedy

zzimonz17.bsky.social•40 days ago

Your brain is mush

heylookaturtle.bsky.social•41 days ago

Why my reaction to any tariffs will be “that’s really stupid” but not that I’m mad - he was very clear!!

Going to be infuriating seeing people shocked by things that were obvious months ago.

melbuer.bsky.social•41 days ago

How is this even remotely helpful my dude

traindubs.bsky.social•41 days ago

It's gonna be depressing when the people who screamed about GENOCIDE JOE and not voting are shocked when trump cheers on Bibi

johnbrownsbody.bsky.social•41 days ago

He should have stopped commiting genocide

sadhorseprogram.bsky.social•41 days ago

He literally just pressured them into a ceasefire deal that they're pissed about.

vegetablegremlin.bsky.social•41 days ago

We dont know how true this is yet tbh

sadhorseprogram.bsky.social•41 days ago

I mean all the reporting I've seen seems to indicate that is what happened.

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-01-13/ty-article/.premium/trumps-mideast-envoy-forced-netanyahu-to-accept-a-gaza-plan-he-repeatedly-rejected/00000194-615c-d4d0-a1f4-fbfdce850000

vegetablegremlin.bsky.social•41 days ago

Yeah but it remains to be seen if they will actually cease firing

traindubs.bsky.social•41 days ago

well this is the most depressing news i've seen today. had no idea about trump's involvement. *really* makes biden look bad, damn.

jeanlucbacardi.bsky.social•41 days ago

We do know Biden and Kamala spent over a year giving Israel all the bombs they wanted

vegetablegremlin.bsky.social•41 days ago

Indeed

traindubs.bsky.social•41 days ago

Yeah I'm sure Bibi won't just keep slaughtering people there 🙄

sadhorseprogram.bsky.social•41 days ago

I didn't say he wouldn't. That's not the point. The point is that all it takes is firm pressure from America to get Israel to do what we want and this just illustrates Biden never used it because he didn't want to.

traindubs.bsky.social•41 days ago

imo its not because he didnt want to but because the man has full on dementia and has no clue wtf is going on. the staffers that hid that from the american people should be prosecuted.

egality.bsky.social•41 days ago

You literally supported a set of Democrats who opposed universal healthcare.

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