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This is bang on and part of the reason I'm having a harder and harder time engaging politics discussions outside of this thread.
Good. Stay mad. Die mad. Spend a thousand years howling in the great beyond mad.
You're a progressive, but are you a socialist? I don't really keep tabs on rose Twitter, but I know they're socialists.
I see a lot of people, ranging from marginally left-of-center liberals to progressives, fall into this trap where they assume that, as long as we're all voting democrat, we share largely the same worldviews and goals, and that our disagreements are primarily down to methods and details. But I think our differences are, in most respects, largely irreconcilable with those of people who support, believe in, or want to "fix" capitalism. I think keeping that at the forefront of your mind is vital when trying to engage with socialist discourse.
I am quite left, but I have worked in layers of politics long enough that disowning people and shouting memes on Twitter as soon as everything doesn't happen ASAP in exactly the same way it was originally planned isn't an effective way to get change.
My critique isn't that rose Twitter and the likes aren't often right, it's that it's unrealistic in its demanded paths to arrive. Most of the time I push back with "how do you expect them to do that?" I am met with "I'm not a politician, it's not my job to figure it out!" Which is basically saying "I have no clue, butI want it!"
There just has to be some ability to demand more and critique, but doing so in a way that recognizes the reality of the political landscape.
Any such country would be a banana republic living on Texas' Oil&Gas industry. If the market for that collapsed (as it often does), they'd be fucked hardcore
100% Agree and one of the reasons I find political discourse so unpleasant. They're ideologues which makes them hard to work with since they focus more on the ideology of how things get done than them getting done at all. The Medicare example you listed is one such example.
On the other hand, removing Texas's electoral votes would basically mean guaranteed democratic victories. Hmmm....
Yeah, some form of that is basically the guaranteed attempted solution. They don't have the votes for an outright nuking, but they really don't need to do an outright nuking.
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That looks awesome.
Harris will be their main target. For Biden, they'll just continue with the low effort dementia nonsense.
Yashar Ali @yashar
Judge Jeanine & @RaymondArroyo are confused as to why Kamala Harris is getting so much attention for being first woman, Black person, South-Asian person as VP
Arroyo: "Donald Trump was the first billionaire and first real estate mogul, he wasn't getting documentaries like this."
10:47 PM · Jan 18, 2021
Judge Jeanine & @RaymondArroyo are confused as to why Kamala Harris is getting so much attention for being first woman, Black person, South-Asian person as VP
Arroyo: "Donald Trump was the first billionaire and first real estate mogul, he wasn't getting documentaries like this."
10:47 PM · Jan 18, 2021
Judge Jeanine starts trying to say something about Melania Trump presumably being some important historic first and then stumbles over herself. These people are so bitter and deluded.
Maybe FOX News should get start a production company to make a documentary on Donald and Melania's pioneering ways....
Oh wait....
Oh wait....
I don't believe he's been charged in federal court. Maybe he will be, since he brought the gun across across state lines, and then went back to Illinois. But AFAIK he's only facing Wisconsin state charges — not that I don't assume some future awful Wisconsin Republican Governor won't pardon him.
A couple options...
1) A signed copy of the New York Post issue with the Hunter Biden emails story
2) An electoral map with Arizona, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and George scratched out with a Sharpie
3) A colored map showing the election results by land rather than population/state
4) A handwritten note from Putin
It's either:
- Nothing
- A list of trumps accomplishments or crowd sizes
- Some printed out tweet or news story shaming Biden
He's gonna have to reset the entire government like a god damn router I do not envy that task. I'm pretty sure they'll do it at some point
Posting to subscribe.
Also it's hilarious that Trump is completely incapable of doing a Live speech anymore because he might incriminate himself or incite another riot. I don't think I've ever seen so many taped/heavily edited video speeches by a President before.
Also it's hilarious that Trump is completely incapable of doing a Live speech anymore because he might incriminate himself or incite another riot. I don't think I've ever seen so many taped/heavily edited video speeches by a President before.
Money well spent. Given what Trump gets up to in Moscow hotel rooms, I dread to think what he's done ahead of Biden moving in.
I read he is a former addict. He reminds me of a friend (former addict) who latched onto religion as his "fix" and was so fervent, he drove all his friends away.
MyCoup guy's fix is Donald Trump and Qanon.
Do we have a gif of that climactic scene from Majora's Mask by the way? The Moon/Trump precariously close to dropping on Clock Town/The Capitol and then Link/Biden, accompanied by Tatl/Harris, plays the fittingly named Oath to Order. Cue the Four Giants to the rescue (= Abrams, Warnock, Ossof; not sure who should be the fourth there)... Because this very much needs to be a thing.
Red Rose Twitter is an entirely different thing than actual DSA folks who deserve to be taken seriously. I'm pretty sure very few of the dirtbag leftists on Twitter who use roses in their handles have any actual involvement in DSA.
I will make it absolutely clear when I'm actually calling out real DSA folks, which I occasionally do, but not often. (It's usually on housing issues.) But when I shit on Red Rose Twitter, that shouldn't be interpreted as shitting on DSA or leftists in general.
Apologies for any confusion.
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Bill Barr says Trump's election fraud claims 'precipitated' Capitol riot
Bill Barr says Trump’s election fraud claims ‘precipitated’ Capitol riot in his first TV interview since resigning as Attorney General Barr has given an interview to the UK’s ITV News, the first since he left office Trump’s claims Presidency was ‘stolen’ from him ‘precipitated’ DC riots, he said...
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Barr's first interview since leaving, and he specifically states that Trump and his insistence on voter fraud was responsible for the capital riot.
Going to be hard to defend that your own AG blames you in an impeachment trial. Also going to be hilarious to see republicans try to brush that damning evidence off as nothing.
Bill Barr says Trump's election fraud claims 'precipitated' Capitol riot
Bill Barr says Trump’s election fraud claims ‘precipitated’ Capitol riot in his first TV interview since resigning as Attorney General Barr has given an interview to the UK’s ITV News, the first since he left office Trump’s claims Presidency was ‘stolen’ from him ‘precipitated’ DC riots, he said...
Barr's first interview since leaving, and he specifically states that Trump and his insistence on voter fraud was responsible for the capital riot.
Going to be hard to defend that your own AG blames you in an impeachment trial. Also going to be hilarious to see republicans try to brush that damning evidence off as nothing.
Barr trying to rehab his image after he politicized the DoJ and stood by Trump until almost the very end. Yuck.
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