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[blastercombo]

Ok, this one got me

 

[blastercombo]

Now post the tweet about Fox News offering him 1st draft pick contracts

 

[Air Champa]

Has he started crying about cancel culture and snowflakes yet? You know it's coming. If not from him, it'll be from some other conservative blabbermouth on his behalf.

 

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[Mark Antony]

Has he started crying about cancel culture and snowflakes yet? You know it's coming. If not from him, it'll be from some other conservative blabbermouth on his behalf.

Can't stand when people who do obvious racist **** cry about the consequences. There's no "mob" or "culture" to blame, just you. From the damn "self-accountability" bootstraps people too.

 

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[rexanglorum]

To be fair to CNN, there’s no way they could could’ve known he was a bigot when they hired him. It’s not like he had made any public statements in the past.

 

[RustyShackleford]

I hate Joe Manchin and Sinema more and more every day.

The GOP out here not only trying to suppress the vote, but also they are making it easier for gerrymandered state legislators to invalidate election results they don't like.

They are attacking the ballot measure process. Passing laws to make it harder to collect signatures, to get issues on the ballot, invalidating them through the courts, or straight up ignoring the measures.

Then Congressional Republicans' description of Joe Biden's legitimacy is terrifying. They are not acknowledging that he won the election fairly, instead of saying that he is the president because he got enough votes in legislatures, including Congress to certify his win. They are framing Biden's election as an issue of Congressional votes, and therefore a partisan issue.

Four out of the needed five Supreme Court justices have agreed with an opinion that election laws are decided by the state legislature and state legislatures only. Take to the extreme it is legal reasoning for Republican state legislatures to unilaterally change rules and outcomes to their liking.

These fools are lining up a play to straight-up steal elections, out in the open, and clowns like Sinema and Manchin are holding firm that they will do nothing to stop it.

It is peak idiocy, it is like a gang of Bank robbers openly plotting a heist, and a couple of security guards at the bank saying they refuse to help the security firm prevent the heist unless 10% of the bank robber agree to their security plan.

The media is not sounding the alarm, and a good chunk of left-wing people seem preoccupied with complain that the Dems don't know how to talk white people off the cliff.

 

[gry60]

History is full of people like Manchin and Sinema, and the reason these enablers will continue to exist is that they get to walk away without much damage to their reputation or well-being.

Everybody remembers the dictator; nobody but history professors remembers the people who could have stopped them and just watched.

The media is not sounding the alarm, and a good chunk of left-wing people seem preoccupied with complain that the Dems don't know how to talk white people off the cliff.

They are divorced from reality in their own way. They still believe in American exceptionalism, when a cursory look at the political past of America shows that right-wingers have used violence, treachery, and deceit to unseat elected officials and turn their platform into law.

 

[rexanglorum]

Rusty, I agree with your take but what does Jimmy Dore have to do with Manchin and Sinema’s intransigence? You could have every leftist, nazbol or otherwise, use whatever platform they have to uncritically promote the Democratic Party and pressure Manchin and Sinema and it wouldn’t make a difference.

At this point, our salvation is out of our hands. We need the GOP to drop the ball in the midterms and we need a lot of wildcat strikes on the part of low wage, essential workers. The former to delay a slid into permanent minority rule and the latter to build power that will pressure centrists into supporting progressive legislation including voting rights legislation to stop the slid into minority rule.

Joe Biden, progressives in Congress, and liberals who have a platform, need to offer support and encouragement to workers and those workers, already chaffing under low pay and bad working conditions, can be pushed into strikes that could be EO disruptive that Congress has to act and the price of a return to normal commerce would be a VRA and an acceptance of those striking workers demands for a union. From there, we’d have better terrain to fight on.

 

[Belgium]

Should’ve just immediately responded with Big Pimpin’

 

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[rexanglorum]

They are fleeing socialism.


seriously, though, this outmigration and the outmigration from California have the same ultimate cause, out of control capitalism.

People leave California because of high housing costs and people are leaving West Virginia because of a lack of jobs. In both instances, we see what happens when capital gets such an outsized role in planning production as well in deciding how and where production will be concentrated.

 

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dwalk31

Jared Kushner’s May 2021 Stay at the Ritz-Carlton Abu Dhabi Cost U.S. Taxpayers Thousands

It is virtually unheard of for former administration officials to keep their Secret Service protection once they leave office.

www.thedailybeast.com

 

[dinyc3st]

Not my mayor

 

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[deusavertat]

Lol next time a cop stops me for a broken tail light and asks me for ID. I'm going to tell him to stop treating me like a Jew during the holocaust.

 

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[aepps20]

Not my mayor

Yang is not a cool guy. I don't live in New York but when is that snitch line open so I can report him?

 

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His neighbor should set up a gofundme