graematterz.bsky.social
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I think that's what the lackadaisical marching was about. It was more of an organized amble versus the North Korean goose-stepping the Tangerine Dicktater has wet dreams about. Or is that his catheter leaking?
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The only debt they are concerned about is the debt that doesn't benefit them or their donors.
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The assumption all unemployed workers exiting LF did so voluntarily makes using unemployment numbers as litmus for economy disingenuous. LFPR trending downward for years, currently below pre-covid levels & on trend. What would unemployment be if those discouraged workers were counted as unemployed?
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Look! An ass wearing a hat!
I've always loved the term 'asshat'. It implies everything above the waist serves no better purpose than keeping the ass out of the rain.
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When Newsom says "liberal" he doesn't mean social liberal (social justice, civil/political rights, gov't providing social services). He means classical liberal, AKA neoliberal (free market, laissez-faire economics, limited gov't). There's overlap between the two, but he's a Clintonian Third-Way Dem.
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Here you are LARPing as a Democrat concerned about keeping communities safe. Please don't run. We don't need another neoliberal autocrat California governor who turns police loose on student protesters as President. We did that already in the 80s.
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True, but where are the rabid throngs following Newsom?
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You're asking this at 8AM?
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If they did they'd be subjected to lawsuits and labor department actions. But I guess when you are in control of and gut the labor department anything goes.
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I suspect that a MAGA troll was the origin of this rumor as an attack on the trans community.
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- While the Trump administration has proposed cutting federal funding for LGBTQ+ youth crisis services, no national suicide hotline has been shut down.
- Canada has not “donated” a national suicide hotline number to the U.S. or to LGBTQIA+ communities.
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From the website:
- 877-330-6366 is Trans Lifeline’s Canadian hotline number. It is a peer support line run by and for trans people. It is not a general crisis line and is not equipped to support the broader public.
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This is false. This number is a trans life line and is now being overwhelmed with calls from outside the trans community. They are not equipped to handle the traffic. Please remove it.
translifeline.org/clarifying-m...
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He isn't even worth the lint on the lint roller used to tidy the uniform.
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Temper Tantrum Tariffs.
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Groper Cleveland
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One can only assume that with their decisions they expect there will never be another Democrat POTUS.
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Thanks for the heads-up. Just blocked him too.
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Exactly. Don't try to mimic what others do best. Shine where others fail.
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Ironically, when Edwards first ran for City Council she received more votes that election year than Turner did who was then Houston Mayor.
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In 2023, Edwards ran in the Houston mayoral election. When Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee announced her run for the mayor's race, Edwards withdrew and endorsed her. Edwards then ran for the House seat Jackson Lee would be vacating and remained in the race after Jackson Lee lost the Mayor race.
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5/7
*Sylvester Turner was selected by a committee of precinct chairs to replace Jackson Lee as nominee/ Jackson Lee died after beating primary challenger Houston City Councilwoman Amanda Edwards (age 43). Edwards lost to Turner by a 4 vote margin; 41-37 after receiving 14,668 primary votes.
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(cont)
Rep. Sylvester Turner, TX (70, cancer)*
Rep. Bill Pascrell, NJ (87, hospitalized w/respiratory infection)
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, TX (74, cancer)
Rep. Donald Payne, D-N.J. (65, heart attack)
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, CA (90, "natural causes")
Rep. Donald McEachin, VA (61, cancer)
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3/7
The party needs new blood to keep geriatric incumbents from dragging it and the country into the grave with them.
The past 8 members of Congress to die while serving in office over the last 3 yrs were all Democrats:
Rep. Gerry Connolly, VA (75, cancer)
Rep. Raul Grijalva, AZ (77, cancer)
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The incumbents (or their selected replacement) ran anyway to hold onto those seats with what turned out to be a death grip. If primary challengers weren't aggressively blocked by the party bosses in order to protect their "friends" seats, this vote could have been blocked.
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Any lava would have been mild in comparison to the pyroclastic flow that destroyed everything downgrade. Imagine a humongous avalanche of ash and hot gas barreling down the valleys and canyons faster than you could drive to outrun it. That's the danger if Rainier blows as Tacoma, etc. is downgrade.
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I was into the 2nd week of Army Reserve summer training in Helena, MT with a construction battalion. We helped the city dig out. When we got back home, our town hadn't dug out yet. You couldn't find car air filters or panty hose anywhere. (The panty hose were wrapped around the air filters.)
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Replace the E in DOGE with Elimination instead of Efficiency to reveal the real mission.
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Breaking it is the point.
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When the slippery-slope fallacy becomes reality.
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When the choice is a shit sandwich or a shit sandwich with cheese, I'll skip.
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I watched the 68 con sitting on the livingroom floor at 7yo. Left the party the 1st time in 2010 after O revealed himself as another warmonger, etc. Bernie convinced me to come back, get involved & learned just what a den of vipers it is. Switched to "no party" & vote 3rd party at every opportunity.
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And pretty much the whole of the last one too. Think about what Truman did to unravel FDR's accomplishments after his death, and also what Johnson did to reverse JFK's policies (VietNam, etc.).
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Or possibly the Golden Calf.
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The corruption is at the core of the party, which was taken over by the "New Democrats" led by Bill with the premise that the party could simultaneously be the party of the working class and business. They proved the adage that you can't serve two masters and became the lapdogs of the oligarchs.
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That's why many Progressives have given up on the party.
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You are right, serving the people was supposed to be the intent. Now it's about grabbing and holding power.
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Unfortunately it didn't work.
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If campaigns were publicly funded and private contributions were eliminated then they'd have to run a successful campaign on a budget, which is a good litmus test for how well they can manage the national budget instead of writing blank checks to benefit their donors' pocketbooks.
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Because the point is not them winning every election. They get campaign contributions whether or not they are in the majority (which they would have to be in order to do all of the above) and all the perks that go with it. If we want to see these things happen, campaign finance has to be reformed.
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Their class always has. It was the industrialists who backed Hitler to further squash the rising Left who had been crushed by WWI reparations resulting in the largest inflation in history then by a world depression all contributing to wiping out generational savings. They won't help us now either.
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The reason they don't follow through on campaign promises is because they would have to find something else to run on instead of recycling their broken promises.
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When is a slippery slope fallacy not a fallacy?