rebecca-claire.bsky.social
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I was not expecting my Midlife Crisis to be quite so Constitutional.
Note: if I don’t know you & you DM me, Imma unfollow or block. If your thread is all AI or has a whiff of maga, Imma block.
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Not goth, but spent my youth wearing vintage, costumes, & a homemade cloak daily before it was cool (cloaks are cool now, right?). I don’t even see weird looks. Side-eye? Invisible. Scorn? Ha! Doesn’t register. Continuing to mask has been easy for me. Added benefit, we’ve gotten 1 cold since 2020.
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This dude gets it.
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Um… the original poster’s words were “a couple of 13 year-old girls…” so yes, the image was pointing out the ridiculousness while the poster fed right back into the “this is girl behavior” bullshit.
So looks like the OP missed the point.
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Oh but they can. They are 2 rich old white dudes who think they’re invincible because they’ve never had to face the consequences for their actions.
LET THE CONSEQUENCES COMMENCE!!!
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Maybe we need to recognise this behaviour AS masculine instead of denigrating women. Women get shit done. Men start wars because of their ridiculous egos
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I wondered the same thing - so I made this:
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And so the galactic divorce begins: Trump cancels Elon’s taxpayer rocket fuel, and Musk responds by grounding the Dragon like a sulky teen confiscating his own Xbox. Two men who think they are the government now squabbling like Bond villains over a parking spot on Mars.
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What I love about these men is how they lack ANY POLITICAL SUBTLETY WHATSOEVER, so the moment Musk moves past "Donald Trump is a brilliant god-emperor" he arrives at "the ungrateful betrayer Trump," switching directly from tweeting the former 400 times a day to tweeting the latter 400 times a day
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America is going to learn some lessons about being fast and loose with security clearances and appointments...and voting for people with the scruples of a ham sandwich of course.
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Thanks! I felt pretty clever. 😅
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They were so mad about incremental progress, and insisted we needed big changes now. We need changes. But not at the sacrifice of all progress back to the 1800s. I guess if we wipe away all of our gains to this point, getting any of our rights back feels like a large step forward? 🤷♀️
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Someone on here told me that the Democrats need to elect a president who just snaps his fingers and makes things happen because that’s what the Republicans do. They claim they were super left, but all they were talking about was having a left king instead of right king. No kings for me, please.
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No. He can take the next available rocket to mars. I understand the need for a big tent and open arms, but he’s got about 1000 years & all those billions to spend making up for the damage he’s caused before I would even consider spitting on him if he was on fire.
Also, his cars are garbage.
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I see they’re threatening us with a good time again.
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What delivered the loss is folks not understanding that any POTUS vote outside the top 2 is just a spoiler. It may as well be a vote for your least favorite candidate. If we had ranked choice & killed the super racist electoral college, vote however your heart feels. Until then, it’s Dem or fascism.
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Great! Who’s running? I’m up to date in my area & vote as far left as possible. But I ALWAYS pick one of the available options. And for POTUS, it has to always be the Dem until another party gets enough national standing to knock one of the 2 front runners down to “3rd party” (preferably the gop).
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We had a great one. Literally full of good ideas & competence.
Run folks locally & state wide. You can’t run a no name for POTUS. And that’s not where actual power lies when we have functional members of Congress instead of the clown show winning gerrymandered districts (state & local fixes this).
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I’m not the one making bad decisions. I’m out here fighting to claw back rights I’ve already lost & to protect rights for strangers I’ll never need. Your philosophy is how we got here, fighting for our lives. I’m probably farther left than you, but I’m not letting "perfect" be the enemy of "good.”
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The key is getting money out of politics & reestablishing that corporations aren’t people. Money shouldn’t be treated like protected speech. There should be a public fund for elections & truncated campaigns.
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I want a POTUS who isn’t busy lining their own pockets to enact those laws. Or veto the ones that aren’t good. One who isn’t out for personal vendettas who can’t be goaded into disaster by a mean tweet.
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I want a judiciary that isn’t bought to rule on the laws. Preferably one that thinks women are people & LGBTQ+ people are people & all races/religions/ethnicities are people (I know, it’s a lot to ask).
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I want people who don’t break Congress for personal gain or to “own the ___” in charge of the Legislature so they can make the laws that help people. And I’d love to ban them from trading stocks & accepting gifts.
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No. I want 3 co-equal branches of government. Preferably controlled by Dems, ideally as far left as we can go before that tricky horseshoe to fascism I mentioned quite a while ago.
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Also, that’s not how the presidency is supposed to work (although we’re experiencing why the checks & balances are so important as our gop congress cedes all it’s power). EOs are 100% over turnable by the next guy or the judiciary. They’re basically memos.
people.howstuffworks.com/three-branch...
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Gotcha. You want a king.
I don’t. I also don’t want a fascist dictator. Folks kicking over the chessboard because their favorite piece wasn’t available are a big part of why we keep losing & now have fascism.
If your fave isn’t on the menu, pick your second choice, don’t set the restaurant ablaze.
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Research now? I’ve been doing my homework for YEARS. Sit on my hands? Ha!
Progress is hard work & selling the younger generations on this disney version of “we can just snap our fingers & get whatever we want or we can fuck everyone & stay home” is specifically why we are currently so fucked.
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We DO need sweeping changes leftward, and Harris had a lot of those. But people were so busy ignoring her very detailed plans, poking imaginary holes in them because they didn’t read them, or holding on to some purity test that only 1 man could “meet.” Now we have fascism.
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Because people are so busy cutting down the folks who actually want to do the things you want, but they aren’t an old white dude from Vermont.
Progress is a fucking grind. If your take is “if I can’t have EXACTLY what I want NOW, I’m staying home,” you’re part of the problem.
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The big sweeping changes are all headed right. We lost bodily autonomy for women, we’re losing trans and gay rights, we’re losing fundamental constitutional rights because people refuse to see the steady slog to what we had was hard work & requires continued hard work.
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Her plan was m4a with a compromise to allow private insurance that had to follow all the rules of medicare. So a slow death for private insurance to get it approved vs a hammer that continues to scare off people who would otherwise support it.
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She’s done more to make active progress leftward than Bernie. So even if her compromise to improve our insurance system (which she called “inhumane”) isn’t exactly the same as Bernie’s m4a bill that has made no progress, steps left are better than stagnating while the right push us off a cliff.
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As VP, she didn’t have any bills. As Senator, she co-sponsored Bernie’s bill.
I’m not sure why m4a is the only issue that determines left vs right. She’s supported prison reform, LGBTQ+ rights, sued & won against banks screwing Californians, helping trafficking victims instead of prosecuting them.
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She literally signed on to his bill while in Congress. Her option has room for private insurance, but she personally has said she’d like to abolish private insurance.
www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...
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Not sure how sharing links to researched information to support my stance is spamming when you’re just reskeeting yourself at me. If I’m annoying you, you are welcome to ignore me.
She’s not only left of Bernie, she’s also gotten things done, bills passed, & positive changes made toward equity.
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Reskeeting yourself saying a thing is not a proper source.
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And here’s some analysis from a center-right group annoyed she wants to cover immigrants too.
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