bgant.bsky.social
Lawyer, gardener, cyclist, dad, and radical believer in the importance of justice.
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Exactly. This is the part of talk. Time to be the party that does. It’s time to do.
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Hell yes. Fight for once. Give the people a reason to think they stand for something. Define themselves rather than letting everyone else define them. It’s time to do.
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I don’t know what you’re complaining about, the people in that video seemed all white to me. Sorry, slip of the tongue. I meant “alright” to me.
(But seriously, this group of people look like Casper after laundry day…)
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Words are words, and actions are actions — the Democratic Party has been telling people for years, but if they have “zero credibility” it’s because their actions don’t match.
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I agree that this isn’t the real problem, and may well be the right choice. But it was also one of the first significant decision points for the party — and I think people are just worried about what it says for future decisions, and for whether the party will change or not.
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A lot of voters apparently think the current Democratic Party is not worth their vote. So, sure, the party is prone to circular firing squads. That’s a problem. But that doesn’t mean all criticism of its strategy is wrong, or must be avoided — and now is the right time to start to change.
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Precisely. People think it’s either that (a) Trump is doing what Democrats say he’s doing, and it is as bad as Democrats say it is, and yet the Democrats aren’t taking any action to protect America or (b) Democrats are blowing smoke, just like Fox and everyone else.
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I can think of only one, Kwame Kilpatrick, but the reason he’s free is that his sentence was commuted by Donald Trump. It turns out the only thing more important to Trump than racism is making sure criminal politicians go free.
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This is why it’s important to constantly remind Trump supporters that they own this. They either supported what he said he’d do or didn’t believe he do what he said — but either way, they voted for these policies and on their heads be it.
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Just like Trump’s fake ear bandage….
It’s like pro wrestling at this point — even though most people know it’s fake they just don’t care.
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“Never do for money what other people will do for love.”
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Never do for money what other people will do for love.
Teachers, to their unending credit, are willing to keep teaching for the kids through some awful circumstances — but since schools know that, they have no incentive to make the circumstances better, or pay them what they’re worth.
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“You’ve got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new west. You know… morons.” — The Waco Kid
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The economy is broken, because wealth inequality is out of control and the middle class and young people are facing harder headwinds than ever. It’s broken, and it’s been broken for a while now.
But we just voted for the people who broke it, in the hopes that breaking it more will fix it. So…
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Yeah, but you say being “highly partisan” loses viewers but ignore that Fox is apparently doing fine despite ACTUALLY being highly partisan. So maybe it’s not “partisanship” that turns people off. Maybe it’s that they don’t feel like they’re getting anything useful from other media outlets.
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Selective prosecution isn’t about whether they committed crimes — it’s about selective prosecution. Hunter Biden committed a paperwork crime that is almost never enforced, particularly on its own. Trump committed crimes we would ordinarily enforce. Your false equivalence just doesn’t work here.
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And that’s the effect of all this — people actually think that NOT being partisan in favor of the right means being “highly partisan.”
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And? One reason the right tells that sort of lie is to eliminate the very idea of truth. Here, by any real standard Hunter Biden was prosecuted for political reasons. Sure, Trump supporters will falsely claim the same — but we can’t stop telling the truth because someone else tells a lie.
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A person targeted by politically motivated prosecutions should be pardoned. He happens to be the president’s son, yes, but THAT’S WHY HE WAS PROSECUTED IN THE FIRST PLACE. Prosecuting him because he’s the president’s son and then claiming he can’t receive a pardon for the same reason is absurd.
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So your circular firing squad take is that this was the wrong thing to do, despite objectively being the right thing to do, because there were other right things he didn’t do? Yeah, no. Not doing the other right things was wrong. Doing the right thing is still doing the right thing.
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This was the right thing to do whether or not he should have started doing this type of thing earlier. Hopefully it won’t be the last right thing he does, though for sure the “backlash” in the media is intended to prevent him from acting further.
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On some mom boards I follow, I see FTMs and think “wow, that pregnancy he’s talking about must lead to some serious dysphoria.” No, “first time moms.”
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Can we also just pause on the CNN baloney about “Some Democrats fume” over the pardon? Actual journalism would say “the vast majority of Democrats recognize why this was the right thing to do.” But our billionaire-first media predictably gives us a right wing talking point instead of a headline.
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Yep. For too long Democrats have played by the norms because, golly, if we don’t follow every norm then the other side might use that precedent to do bad things. The other side is going to do that regardless! Heck, even if you follow EVERY NORM the other side will just lie and say you didn’t.
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It will trickle down aaaaaaaaany day now.