Where is your Humanity? - #ForceTheVote
This is a video with Jimmy Dore and his guest, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez! This video is from June 17th, 2017, when she was running to get elected, and if I'm not mistaken (could be), the first time she was on Jimmy's show.
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Interesting contrast with where we are today, don't you think?
Over 300,000 of our fellow Americans are dead. Tens of thousands who have "recovered", are going to have medical bills in the tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, and some medical bills will be over a million.
Consider those of us without "health insurance".
From HealthcareFinanceNews.com:
Hospitalization charges for patients under 20-years-old without insurance averaged about $68,261. For people over 60-years-old, that figure was about $77,323.
Tens of millions have been thrown out of work, through no fault of their own, but the hospitals have the "right" to demand 100% payment within 30 days. And if you haven't established a "payment plan they accept" within 90 days, your credit will be ruined for the next 7 years. I call it financial purgatory.
From HealthcareDive.com:
Nearly 27 million people in the U.S. may have lost employer-sponsored insurance due to rampant job losses brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new analysis from the Kaiser Family Foundation.
How are you going to pay for it? No job, no health insurance, no credit?
Jimmy Dore, like myself, has had a bad time with our healthcare system. If you happened to watch the live stream show last night with Arron Mate', Ben Norton, Max Blumenthal and Katie Halper, he spoke a little bit about it. He went years undiagnosed, and misdiagnosed, but it "cost" him quite a bit.
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We are about the only country on this planet that is not providing a real safety net for "the people". Where is the "humanity" in that way of thinking? Every other industrialized nation is providing at least 50% or more of a person's weekly income, WHILE they are NOT working!
But heaven forbid, Jimmy criticizes one of our elected "representatives" for not doing what she campaigned on and everyone's head explodes, and thinks he's some kind of "evil, insidious, Putin puppet".
I mean, people are resorting to stealing food and other "necessities" to feed and take care of their families because ya know, "saving the economy" strategy has really worked so well.
From the Bezos CIAMachine (Washington Post):
The coronavirus recession has been a relentless churn of high unemployment and economic uncertainty. The government stimulus that kept millions of Americans from falling into poverty earlier in the pandemic is long gone, and new aid is still a dot on the horizon after months of congressional inaction. Hunger is chronic, at levels not seen in decades.
(bold empahsis mine)
Gee, Bernie Sanders posted a video on his youtube channel yesterday, arguing for a $1,200 stimulus check, and I made the following comment.
To “save the economy”, one must first save “society”, not the other way around.
Here's the video:
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Another yt user replied to my comment.
So we should all be coddled like children and taught how to act? This is the real world. We need a strong economy and working class americans with love for one another. This is the lefts problem. Please save us big daddy government.
First, notice the conflation. “So we should all be coddled like children and taught how to act?” I just don't know how someone could go from what I said, to this kind of conflation. It makes no sense, at all.
Who the fuck said anything about “coddling” anyone? Who the fuck said anything about teaching people how to act? We can't have a “strong economy” if you throw everyone out of work and kill off society! Who is going to spend any money, when they don't have any to spend? People are stealing food to feed their families, because they DON"T HAVE ANY MONEY!
They don't have a job, they don't have a safety net, they have no means of buying anything to participate in the “economy”, much less they have no means to make the economy “strong”. Not to mention, tens of millions are facing eviction.
From USAToday:
An estimated 12.4 million adult renters say they are behind on payments, according to the latest U.S. Census Bureau survey. And nearly 83 million adults report they are finding it somewhat difficult or very difficult to cover their household expenses such as food, rent or mortgages and car payments.
All told, an estimated 30 to 40 million Americans could be at risk of residential eviction in January because they are unable to pay their rent, according to an analysis by the Aspen Institute, a nonpartisan policy think tank. America is failing the backbone of this nation: its people.
The “Economy”, is not society. Let's just start with that.
Society, can exist without an economy, but an economy can not exist without society. If one wants to “save the economy”, then one must first save society. It is society that CREATES the economy, not the other way around.
Am I missing something? Am I crazy to think, that if people had a real safety net, they would be "spending" that money into the economy? Ya know, paying their rent, paying their bills, ya know, buying food instead of stealing it?
Why is pushing for a vote on Medicare For All a bad thing? How many more Americans must die, or face financial ruin for 7 years, because, well, everyone wants to go back to "normal" BEFORE this health CRISIS is over, and gee, well we don't have jobs, we don't have healthcare, we have a vaccine, that well, the ruling is not in on how good it will be, and gee, no one has any money, except the already wealthy, who, well are not spending enough to "trickle down" so our boats will rise too, as their wealth has exploded.
From BusinessInsider.com:
When you add up the numbers, billionaires in the United States have increased their total net worth $637 billion during the COVID-19 pandemic so far.
Gee, how many "committee assignments" must we get, to be able to get at least a floor vote on Medicare For All? Alexandria Ocasio Cortez just lost a committee assignment to a "blue dog democrat", who did exactly what Jimmy has advocated, threatened to not vote for Pelosi for Speaker of the House! Gee, go fucking figure!
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It's time for Americans to really see who in congress, truly has humanity in their heart, and who is bought and paid for by business. Lets find out who truly represents "the people". Why is finding this out a bad thing?
Then we know EXACTLY where to direct our disdain and polemic ire, and whose coffee table we need to kick the fuck over!
Homelessness, financial ruin, starvation and death, threaten tens of millions of our fellow Americans. One need only ask one question, where the FUCK, is your humanity?
Saving the economy will not save society. This is not fucking rocket science.
If we don't push back, we get pushed over. It's just that simple.
#PushBackJimmy #ForceTheVote
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Some words from Dr. West
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C99, my refuge from an insane world. #ForceTheVote
Jimmy is a winner ... but
Few are guilty, but all are responsible.”
― Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Prophets
@phillybluesfan At what point does
What do you suggest?
C99, my refuge from an insane world. #ForceTheVote
@phillybluesfan.Good question. This
Few are guilty, but all are responsible.”
― Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Prophets
@phillybluesfan OMG, you really know
Obviously I'm an uneducated moron and missing something because I have no clue how to get from this esoteric, academic bullshit, to healthcare for all of us during the worst pandemic in a century?
How many more will have to die, or be subjugated to systemic poverty because we must make a profit off human sickness and suffering, before we get all warm and fuzzy "to feel it as a fact of the heart", and sing kumbaya together?
C99, my refuge from an insane world. #ForceTheVote
You might not be an uneducated moron,
but you're certainly closed minded to the fact that we are all one. If our congresscritters would only understand that they are but a pimple on the ass of the earth, they might give us M4A. Since they are incapable of understanding this simple fact, it is up to the rest of us to bring them up to speed. Sometimes that means we must bring our fellow human up to speed, too, because humans are normally pretty full of themselves and don't like to think of themselves as connected to the universe. We are but containers, expressing a lived experience for that which is the source.
I know this is difficult to understand, in America, but if only everyone could get on board - it might result in M4A for Americans. Spread the word!
"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11
Probably RR is just not feeling like talking about our
oneness in the context of the current situation, in which our government, at the behest of a small and extremely wealthy part of the population, is killing the rest of us, and impoverishing those it can't outright kill.
I don't think my assessment of the situation is particularly hyperbolic.
That's not to say that us all being one is not true. Yes, we are. However, that doesn't mean everybody has to accept that, or behave like it (as you know), and I doubt very much whether coming with that sort of philosophy to the people who rule us and their servants (the government) is going to do anything except give them another joke to crack the next time they get together over a drink.
I sincerely hope I'm not coming off as officious, or like I think you don't already know this stuff. I don't mean to.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
I get it,
but we have to start somewhere. We must come to unity consciousness and we will - it will just take a couple of years, but people have to start thinking about it now. I"m not saying it will be easy, but it will be. A consciousness that will bring us together is in the offing. It's time to spread the word and live in unity.
"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11
Where I come from “Unity Consciousness” is exceedingly rare.
That’s a pretty high bar to take as a first step.
I would venture to guess that most will never reach such an exalted plateau in their lifetimes, and I’m not sure I would even recognize it if I bumped into it. I can understand and relate to RR’s frustration and impatience.
But perhaps I just don’t understand what you are suggesting at all.
“ …and when we destroy nature, we diminish our capacity to sense the divine,and understand who God is, and what our own potential is and duties are as human beings.- RFK jr. 8/26/2024
Thanks for the essay bits
Was not familiar with Woolman but will check him out further.
Not that it addresses in the short term the pressing issues of healthcare - and more generally of *health*, but I'll offer this anyway.
Happens to be the first thing I ever posted online, back when in wasn't (for ordinary mortals) even the Internet, but Use Net. Just like to cast it into the ether once a decade or so...
Taoist (gimme that old-time non-religion!) wisdom as quoted in Bertrand Russell's "The Proposed Roads to Freedom" - written in 1918 just prior to Russell's imprisonment for opposition to WWI, published in 1920. From the section on anarchism:
FWIW
Here's the way Teresa Heinz put it a few years ago:
I want to preface my remarks with a metaphor that I drew from a visit to the Amazon jungle 14 years ago.
The most amazing experience for me was to stand beneath the jungle canopy towering 120 feet overhead. It truly had the feeling and simplicity of a gothic cathedral. The trees were like pillars, often anchored by buttress-like roots. They grew in a mere six inches of soil. You couldn't help but wonder what sustained them, and then you looked at the ground and saw the interplay of mosses, ferns, mushrooms, insects and animals, and you began to understand the beauty and complexity and interdependence of life.
We are, all of us, like those trees. Even they depend on the kindness of strangers, and so it is for us.
No matter how high we may sometimes soar, no matter how invincible we may sometimes feel, we are all fed and nurtured and sustained by complex webs of connection. We all truly are in this together.
That, of course, is the essential but too often forgotten wisdom that lies at the heart of all the world's great religions-that we should love others as we love ourselves. And it is the wisdom at the heart of all true charity and philanthropy.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
A visual representation of pushing the Democrats left.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
typical right-wing Calvinist garbage
This is just more typical right-wing Calvinist garbage. "If they were worthy of life, they'd be prosperous. Those needing help are superfluous, and Gawwd-damned anyway. Fuck 'em."
All your YouTube (YT) commenter's slime proves is a contention I've maintained for years: John Calvin should have been aborted. (And the majority of modern Christians, especially fans of Michael Servetus, tend to agree.)
n.b.: Most YT comments, especially about non-music videos, are garbage. I only know of one site today where the comments are worthy of participation.....
"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
You are so right.
He can take that bastard Jonathan Edwards with him.
*Not* the sweet guy who wrote "Sunshine Go Away Today." The asshole from colonial times. Bastard who has his portrait up in the Yale Theological School.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
Jonathan Edwards
I still want to know what North America and/or its pre-Christian inhabitants ever did to deserve the Puritan infestation of which "asshole from colonial times" Jonathan Edwards typifies.
"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
I'm not even sure
the non-Puritan European colonists deserved the Puritan infestation. There were some, even at Plymouth. Poor sods.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
And so...
What the hell were people supposed to do in response to the corruption of the Catholic church (and the CoE)?
Just keep on supporting the corrupt clergy that supposedly interposed between them and God?
That wouldn't allow people read even the church's own edited and redacted version of the Bible in their own language?
That had established it's primacy by stamping out the opposition (Gnostics, etc.) and sucking up to Imperial Rome?
And maintained it by labelling its critics as heretics and offing them in highly unpleasant ways (Cathars, Hussites, etc.)?
I'm damn glad people *did* rebel.
Sure, your early Puritan leaders were not exactly the sort of people you might want to hang out and have a beer with, but the accomplishments of the Puritan migration to America are impressive, nonetheless. As are those, in their own flawed ways, the other three early waves of British migration - of the "Cavaliers" to Virginia and the Carolinas, the Quakers and the Scots-Irish.
Recommended Reading:
"Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America is a 1989 book by David Hackett Fischer that details the folkways of four groups of people who moved from distinct regions of Great Britain to the United States. The argument is that the culture of each of the groups persisted, to provide the basis for the modern United States."
Hey, I support the Reformation. But every movement
has at least a few sociopathic bastards in it. The kindest hypothesis I could make about John Calvin is that he was crazy. And John Edwards was just a bastard. There's no way anybody not a bastard could come up with "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"--and that's not b/c he believes in sin, or believes that God is angry with sinners, or believes that God will punish sinners. I have a problem with Edwards' attitude about all those things. But the worst problem I have with him is this:
The God that holds you over the Pit of Hell, much as one holds a Spider, or some loathsome Insect, over the Fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked; his Wrath towards you burns like Fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the Fire; he is of purer Eyes than to bear to have you in his Sight; you are ten thousand Times so abominable in his Eyes as the most hateful venomous Serpent is in ours.
My first question is: who does that?
Do any of you dangle spiders or other insects over a flame because you find them loathsome? And keep them out of the flame a little while just because you feel like it, knowing that you've already decided to burn them alive?
Edwards' description here doesn't sound like someone who's frightened or revolted by a snake, an insect, or some other form of "vermin;" nobody bothered by "vermin" would sit around dangling that vermin over a flame. The whole point is that you want to get away from the vermin--or get them away from you. You're not going to hang out with the vermin in your hand, contemplating how you're going to burn it alive presently. It's not like Edwards said God was going to shriek and go get a handy slipper and bludgeon the offending soul to death while yelling "Eew! Eew! Get it off me!"
So who dangles insects over a flame? Is this like little kids burning up ants with a magnifying glass? The fact that God hasn't burned up the soul...yet...is the creepiest thing about the passage. He's just kind of hanging out, contemplating the fact that he's already decided to burn something alive. It's hard to avoid the conclusion that God, in this passage, is anticipating the upcoming conflagration, perhaps even savoring it. There's certainly no sense in Edwards' prose that God is delaying the burning out of kindness or compunction.
I can't even imagine choosing to do such a thing myself, much less imagine that that is the way the creator and absolute power in the universe behaves. It's plain revolting. How can that be anybody's conception of a Higher Power?
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
OK, thanks...
point well taken.
You're welcome--
and so are the Lutherans (for instance).
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
A couple days ago (on JPR?) I said
that if AOC forced a vote against Pelosi she wold effectively declare total war without hope of reconciliation against the Democratic Party. This has happened anyway. Pelosi just made what we all knew official.
So you got what she wanted, a death match. The most hated person in America today declares a death match. Don't roll over and bare your neck, even if it means the end of the neoliberal, fascist, quisling Democratic Party.
On to Biden since 1973
The mainstream Dems have always been at war
Idolizing a politician is like believing the stripper really likes you.
" The Dimmycratic party ain't on speaking terms with itself"
Mr. Dooley
I've seen lots of changes. What doesn't change is people. Same old hairless apes.
OT
Bullseye!
Plus Israel gets $11 million per day! While half a million people are living on the street!
Scientists are concerned that conspiracy theories may die out if they keep coming true at the current alarming rate.
Where? Nowhere! May be that helps?
May be there is more to force than just a vote?
https://www.euronews.com/live
Intriguing...
In the Land of the Blind, the One-Eyed Man is declared mentally ill for describing colors.
Yes Virginia, there is a Global Banking Conspiracy!
I am living in the middle of nowhere
and did find nothing. just some stuff I did not understand.
Amy Friend/A Field Guide to Nowhere - by Bart Gazzola
Magenta Magazine. I have not heard about it before. Magenta Magazine - The Magenta Foundation
www.magentafoundation.org.
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I am sorry. I just liked the image in context to RR's essay.
https://www.euronews.com/live
I just wonder
if blaming AOC almost exclusively is the best strategy.
I only see hatred of progressives here lately.
Call it the consternation of the hour
Remember always the wisdom of the Warrior-Poet:
In the Land of the Blind, the One-Eyed Man is declared mentally ill for describing colors.
Yes Virginia, there is a Global Banking Conspiracy!
I like the unknown unknowns the best
I know all about them. Terrible suckers.
https://www.euronews.com/live
Exclusively?
Nope, not at all.
As Bobby Kennedy once said, there's plenty of blame to go around.
I don't mean it quite as graciously as he did. OTOH, if he were alive in this situation, I doubt he would mean it graciously either.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
AOC has capitalized on her progressive
I am not seeing hatred, just disdain for her prominently displayed hypocrisy.
If she cannot make a positive difference for the benefit of the 99%, she can return to the bar.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
It did not start out that way
Also AOC is the most visible member of the Squad and Jimmy gave her her first interview when she originally ran for Congress on a platform of getting a floor vote on Medicare for All. Now Ilhan Omar is trying to deflect by reviving Russiagate.
Meanwhile all of the establishment Dems are now piling on Jimmy with personal attacks for his call to withhold their votes for Pelosi for speaker in order to force a floor vote on Pramila Jayapal's Medicare for All bill.
The bottom line for me is that I really do not give a sh*t about the personalities. What I give a sh*t about is my fellow citizens who do not have healthcare in the midst of a pandemic in which over 300,000 people have died. Ranting Rooster makes a great point that if you get a bad enough case of COVID and even if you survive, you may be in debt for the rest of your life. In no other industrialized country on this earth would that happen.
The fecklessness of the Justice Dems has caused Kyle Kulinski, the co-founder of the Justice Dems to call them out. These people were elected to take on the system, not become a part of it. And not one of them is willing to stand up FOR the people if it means standing up to mama bear Pelosi.
We do not have a government that works for the people. Our government works for the oligarchs as evidenced by the callousness and hostility of our elected officials towards the citizens that they were elected to serve. Compare the US to other developed nations as far as COVID relief.
And if this comment sounds harsh, it is because my anger over this has gone through the roof. I am personally okay, but it breaks my heart to know just how many people have been and are being harmed by our elected officials and it did not have to be that way. As taxpaying American, I am pissed as hell at how our government has abandoned its people.
As it has been said a lot recently, politicians are not our friends. We must hold them to account for their action or in the case of AOC, inaction.
Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy
Jimmy Dore has dealt with bankruptcy due to medical bills
Something Dore does not mention but has mentioned several times he has faced bankruptcy, without saying anything about the reason.
Here is Jimmy Dore telling about his medical problems
It was worse than I thought and he went thru a lot for a few years with suicidal thoughts while trying to come up with the money for treatments, maxing out credit cards, getting loans, mortgaging his home and going thru bankruptcy.
I keyed the video up to the part where he talks about his health problems, btw which are not over as he apparently still needs a lot of medications.
Maybe no one will see this but I'll know where it is on another essay where he is a subject.
I saw it :)
After everything he’s been through he is now getting shit for how much his house cost. Dixon is an ass.
Scientists are concerned that conspiracy theories may die out if they keep coming true at the current alarming rate.
Pelousy sure isn’t a momma bear.
Inner and Outer Space: the Final Frontiers.
+1000 agreed
Specifically, when AOC started debating Justin Jackson on Twitter rather than responding to Jimmy, she brought herself into it. This seemed especially passive aggressive (and cowardly) to me. So, the way I see it, she’s asked for this both by telling her followers to use pressure to make power (which she is) uncomfortable and via Twitter. I don’t think any other squad people have even commented, have they?
Idolizing a politician is like believing the stripper really likes you.
AOC is still only calling out the GOP and not Pelosi
or Schumer. It is just Mitch who laid this turdish bailout which is the bad guy in all of this. Even after she kept doing it yesterday and people called her out on her cowardice she kept doing it. AND guess what? SHE voted for the last bill. Some force of nature she is.
Scientists are concerned that conspiracy theories may die out if they keep coming true at the current alarming rate.
This!!!
This is something we should never forget.
Our elected officials do not appear to care about saving the American people. And for all of us, including those who are relatively secure, having a healthy society should always be the goal
Great essay! Thank you Ranting Rooster.
Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy
Congress laid a turd
Pelosi's husband received $3 million thru the PPP as did many other congress members and their spouses because so many own businesses, factory farms and other stuff and we get this.
Israel gets $4 billion which is around $11 million per day which sure could help house a lot of homeless people here don't you think?
Rich people get to write off 100% of their entertainment dinners instead of the 50% that made it thru the tax bill. GOP screwed up so many of their friends they needed democrats to help them fix it which they happily did.
So will Biden do the defense act that he gave Trump crap for not doing? If he wants us to mask up then send decent masks to everyone that should have happened already. Biden says he's going to be different than Trump in every way on his way to healing our 'souls'. Well then let's see how much different he will be from Trump. Remember it was both parties that pushed the OPEN UP and that's why they will not give people enough money to dig themselves out of the hole government dug. This will get people to risk their lives and their family's by staying at work while infected and even sick.
That Trump ignored the epidemic from the gitgo with congress' permission is a crime against humanity. No ifs ands or buttocks. They wanted us infected to create herd immunity. If this doesn't get under control soon then the whole medical system is going to collapse. People are dying from other issues than COVID because they can't get treatment. Health care workers are burned out. Not only because they have been working with sick dying people for so long, but because profits fell and hospitals laid off staff which means 1 nurse in the ICU is responsible for 3 or more patients. It's a one on one situation normally, but hey $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ right?
People are waking up more and more every day because congress actions towards their donors vs us. Good. Bought your yellow vest yet? Once again Bernie is voting for this dawg shit. He has been tweeting for months that we need $2,000/month then insisted we get another $1,200, but he is going to settle for $600? NOT GOOD ENOUGH! It takes ONE vote to block a bill till you get what you want. ONE. The GOP does it all the time. Can you remember the last time a democrat blocked a bill in the senate? It takes 5-10 members according to Twit for the house to have a bill blocked.
Scientists are concerned that conspiracy theories may die out if they keep coming true at the current alarming rate.
What good does this do?
—Rep. Ro Khanna
Bernie, Omar, AOC, Jayapal and many other so called progressives on tweeting this type of message over and over and I am wondering why they think that WE can do anything about it. Calling your rep does jacksh*t according to the evidence. People then either plead for more funds from a basically bot account because do you think these people are actually writing them or they say thanks for working for us. It keeps hope alive for so many when that's all it is.
Scientists are concerned that conspiracy theories may die out if they keep coming true at the current alarming rate.
With 13 % approval for Congress how can they represent the 99 %
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I wished my math were better. Sigh.
https://www.euronews.com/live
Who got money from the Paycheck Protection Program
It turns out a lot of very wealthy people benefitted while legitimate small businesses did not. Click on the thread below my comment on Twitter and it will unroll. It is pretty shocking that even the PPP was another source for the wealthy to grift off.
Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy
You know how the $ 600.00 or $ 1.200 check feels to me?
as if you tried to stop a bleeding man, who has lost his leg to walk on, with a band-aid. I am looking from the outside with an outsiders eyes. I can't even shake my head anymore. And some suckers try the same scams over here. If I had not justified fears, I would talk Tacheles.
https://www.euronews.com/live
I hope things don't happen this way where you are.
We are, at this point, the worst place in the world.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
And the Masks are Off!
Anyone not pushing to #ForceTheVote is our enemy, it's that simple. This isn't just a difference in tactics, it's a litmus test for who will actually fight & take risks for change. Those on the "left" who won't are basically sheep dogs, tamping things down to keep the status quo. AOC didn't start out like that, but after only two years in Congress, she's bought into the system and is now controlled by it. People can tweet all they want, but if they won't exercise power when they've got it, they're not on our side.