Booo Wendy Testaburger, boooooooo

3/17/2022 2:51:29 AM

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"welp https://t.co/87YflqKM3W"

[Edited on March 24, 2022 at 1:13 PM. Reason : E]

[Edited on March 24, 2022 at 1:14 PM. Reason : E]

3/24/2022 1:13:07 PM

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"New York is giving the Buffalo Bills $850 million in taxpayer funds for a new stadium, the biggest pro sports subsidy of all time. Three days ago, NY announced a $800 million cut to children and family services. The Bills owner is worth $5.8 billion. https://t.co/ELNdzXySI9"

3/30/2022 7:35:36 AM

Shameful.

3/30/2022 11:35:26 AM

Why should we invest in children? Some 5 year-old rug rat in a Spiderman onesie does nothing to help quarterly numbers

3/30/2022 12:35:44 PM

But he might become a football player one day.

3/30/2022 6:51:52 PM

Capping the price of insulin and decriminalizing cannabis passed out of the House on straight party line Dem votes. I’d like to see way more of these pragmatic, clean, single issue bills passed out of the House. Even if there is no chance in the Senate.

4/1/2022 7:58:41 PM

It's good but the jaded part of me always wonders what the vote would be (or if they'd have one) if this had any chance in the senate

4/2/2022 12:25:02 AM

^I wouldn’t even call that jaded, it’s a realistic fact that some of the yes votes would flip or hesitate if these bills had a chance in the Senate. It’s an important question for Dem voters to ask who would be a let down in those situations, But it’s still good politics to pass these extremely popular bills (and keep the bills simple and clean). The strict party line votes are what’s really golden, as nothing paints the GOP as obstructionist assholes like voting in lockstep against popular bills. Make them do it every week from now till November.

[Edited on April 2, 2022 at 7:03 AM. Reason : .]

4/2/2022 7:01:27 AM

@TheDemocrats

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"1 in 3 adults in the U.S. has medical debt. By holding medical providers and debt collectors accountable to informing consumers of their rights, the Biden-Harris administration is working to protect consumers and lessen the burden of medical debt on American families."

4/13/2022 2:21:29 PM

I enjoyed AOC’s answer to the question, “How does cancelling student debt help us who paid their loans?”:

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" I've said it before and I'Il say it again: Not every program has to be for everybody. People with apartments pay for first time homeowner benefits. Young people pay for Medicare for our seniors. People who take public transit pay for car infrastructure. Maybe student loan forgiveness doesn't impact you. That doesn't make it bad. I am sure there are certainly other things that Student loan borrowers' taxes pay for. We can do good things and reject the scarcity mindset that says doing something good for someone else comes at the cost of something for ourselves. An example: If a person is blessed enough to be in a position to have paid off their loans, maybe they have a home now and benefitted from first time homeowners programs that people crushed by student loans help subsidize when they aren't able to buy a home because of student debt. It's all comes around. It's okay. We can support things we won't directly benefit from."

5/2/2022 11:33:28 AM

"How does canceling student debt help those still in high school" is a better question.

5/2/2022 2:24:03 PM

It’s interesting the democrats get labeled the identity politics party, when identity politics is the core governing principle of the gop

And lawyerbrained centrism is the core governing principle of the democrats

5/3/2022 6:57:59 PM

You literally could not manufacture a worse tragedy than Sandyhook that combines multiple societal failures (rightwing extremism, poor mental health access, lax gun laws and regulation) and democrats were still unable to create any positive legislative outcomes from this

Worse yet the conspiracy loons that said this was fake got a president elected

5/3/2022 10:22:54 PM

Not sure where to put this, guess we need a "democracy credibility" thread.

Anyway this twitter thread and linked article are interesting but depressing

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"One dumb, politically clueless Twitter millennial who endorsed the abolition of the Senate was John Dingell - the longest serving member of Congress in American history, who died in 2019 at the age of 92. https://t.co/8T6cMf0OtT"

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/12/john-dingell-how-restore-faith-government/577222/

Not sure how not to feel totally hopeless about our ability to solve any of the critical broken pieces of our system much less actual world issues like climate change or health care. My state is pink and my district is deep red, so maybe I'll try for donations to toss up state races in other states.

5/5/2022 3:32:00 PM

https://www.salon.com/2022/05/05/senate-democrats-join-with-to-vote-down-bernie-sanders-effort-to-stop-outsourcing/

Manchin lone 'democrat' vote to move climate change funding to weapons

5/6/2022 4:00:32 PM

Oh no! He didn't vote the way you wanted on a non-binding ammendment.

5/6/2022 4:29:25 PM

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"NEW from @sueonthetown: Rep. Henry Cuellar, the last anti-abortion Democrat in the House, fired a staffer at 28 weeks pregnant after she requested maternity leave. Two weeks later, her pregnancy ended in a stillbirth... ?? https://t.co/7BbaQnoVSl"

https://jessicacisnerosforcongress.com/

5/9/2022 2:05:38 PM

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"Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse demands a new FBI investigation of Brett Kavanaugh. MSNBC"

Good start!

5/9/2022 6:29:12 PM

Did you just pull that from a rando on Twitter? I can't find anything relevant

5/9/2022 8:21:31 PM

I guess it was a rehash of a story from last year. Got my hopes up.

5/9/2022 8:42:16 PM

more and more people brazenly posting things as facts that are bullshit, and people who should know better keep falling for it (not you. people in the media)

getting wild out in these Twitter streets

5/9/2022 9:06:23 PM

Yea let my wishes get the best of me

5/9/2022 9:07:47 PM

Biden admin is firing on all cylinders for ukraine

But they’re dropping the ball on every domestic issue, makes no sense

5/10/2022 1:00:25 AM

We need a domestic policy industrial complex.

5/10/2022 9:01:27 AM

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"Q: "Are you comfortable with the protests that we saw outside the homes of Supreme Court justices over the weekend?" @SenSchumer: "If protests are peaceful; yes. My house, there's protests 3-4 times a week outside my house." https://t.co/Mlu5dbHDbr"

Good answer

5/10/2022 7:36:03 PM

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"My house, there's protests 3-4 times a week outside my house."

To me it look like a protest to me.

5/10/2022 8:13:42 PM

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"Pelosi continues backing Cuellar: "I’m supporting Henry Cuellar, he’s a valued member of our caucus. The FBI has said he’s not under investigation." "He is not pro-choice, but we didn’t need him" to pass abortion-rights legislation in the House"

https://twitter.com/nataliewsj/status/1524773334382264320?t=ZKxE6HZdHmmLkuacDIoLoA&s=19


Ah, well, in that case!

5/12/2022 1:33:37 PM

^https://twitter.com/nataliewsj/status/1524773334382264320

5/14/2022 1:34:23 PM

Iswydt

5/14/2022 2:17:59 PM

^^Got 'em!

rwoody, I am disappoint.

Do you also post Amazon product links with chained referrals? You can stop after the product ID.

5/15/2022 7:44:48 AM

https://theintercept.com/2022/05/25/henry-cuellar-jessica-cisneros-texas-runoff/

Nra A rating. Won by 200 votes

5/25/2022 7:28:48 AM

democrats want guns to stick around same as republicans want abortion to.

5/25/2022 10:03:04 AM

Lobbyists pay them all lots of money.

5/25/2022 10:19:36 AM

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"“Do you want to ban trucks? Do you want to ban airplanes?” -Henry Cuellar using NRA talking points after a mass shooting in 2017 with @KatyTurNBC #TX28 https://t.co/nr8d9Kci2g"

Sigh I guess I'll let this go for two years

5/25/2022 3:45:53 PM

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"Do you want to ban trucks? Do you want to ban airplanes?"

Yes.

5/26/2022 6:45:30 AM

Nobody else on here agrees with me but it really sucks that at State level, if you want to vote based on Police issues, your choices are either "give them more money and power" or "give them EVEN MORE money and power"

This post brought to you by a Stacey Abrams tweet thread.

6/23/2022 4:48:51 PM

her margins are already razor-thin, and she’s making a bet that this won’t alienate enough voters to make a difference

she of course could be making a losing bet, but we’ll see

best case scenario she wins and doesn’t actually increase their funding, which would be a win-win

[Edited on June 23, 2022 at 6:14 PM. Reason : .]

6/23/2022 6:10:43 PM

Oh I get why they're doing it, still sucks!

Best case scenario of the static quo, also pretty much sucks!

Oh well

6/23/2022 6:29:38 PM

it sucks if you don’t factor in all of the variables she’s up against in a traditionally red state

I’m sure if you gave her a truth serum, she’d say that of course the police need to be defunded

it’s politics, tho

6/23/2022 7:12:14 PM

I don't care about the politics im talking about reality. It sucks period. I hope she beats any republican any day, but it sucks.

Im not judging her specifically, she's like a million other state/national level democrats, hers just happened to be the tweet I saw today that made me want too vent. I'm sure my states Dem sen/gov nominees will say the same stuff, as will the those of most other states and whoever is on the ticket for pres in 2024.

6/23/2022 9:00:10 PM

If democrats want to fundraise on this they better have a plan in place and probably some explanation of why they can't execute that plan now or 10 years ago.

Pelosi should prob explain why she campaigned hard for an anti abortion Dem in a primary

6/24/2022 4:40:02 PM

Is he on the Supreme Court too?

6/24/2022 5:38:42 PM

Im not sure why you think that gotcha question is relevant?

If you think the SCOTUS makeup is the only thing that can ever affect this again, even more reason that Pelosi shouldn't fundraise off of this. HOR doesn't approves SCOTUS.

6/24/2022 6:10:40 PM

I'm just blowing off steam after a shit day. That's no gotcha or even a serious post. Sorry!

6/24/2022 6:15:27 PM

Ok, I'm hair trigger today too. Peace.

6/24/2022 6:16:11 PM

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"Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia, one of the few congressional Democrats who has frequently opposed abortion rights, criticized two conservative justices after the Supreme Court decision overruling Roe v. Wade. https://t.co/yBGN8w9B8X https://t.co/Dr8oa8OLuh"

Fucking rube ass piece of shit. I believe him now about as much as I believed them then.

6/24/2022 6:20:39 PM

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"BREAKING: In light of the Supreme Court's decision in #Dobbs to overturn Roe v Wade, the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing next month to explore the grim reality of a post-Roe America."

https://twitter.com/JudiciaryDems/status/1540341413107441664

HELL YEA!!!!

6/24/2022 9:08:10 PM

“next month”

Gotta get that summer break in I guess

6/24/2022 10:42:12 PM

Well it's so surprising though

6/24/2022 10:52:24 PM