In November 2024, inflation was at 2.1%. I wonder what "inflation crisis" JD thinks they inherited from the Biden admin.

Okay, Pete, thanks for warning everyone you're after, that you're after them. Now I'm just waiting for the various mishaps that any op you're in charge of will undoubtedly have. How many helicopters will crash. How many of our elite soldiers will be apprehended by the foreign authorities? Etc.

One of the saddest days of my life occurred about 30 years ago. It was the day I realized I would not live long enough (even if I lived to be 100) to have enough time to read all the books that ought to be read.

A HUGE PoS, but a tiny, tiny, cowardly, insecure person, and in using the word "person" I am being generous, because if you rise to that level at all, it is just barely.

Unless they just flat out refuse 2 reveal them, or they've already been destroyed, we are about to see "the rest of the story" related to Epstein's child sex trafficking activity. It will shake our republic to its core because so many VIPs will be revealed to having partaken in his evil enterprise.

Personally I don't think it's OK to say "I'm not interested in politics, I just want to live my life", because it means you're asking others to hold the line against people who would destroy you.

Hey Pete, I've got a list of eight doubters, regarding this philosophy. Those eight completely sold the rest of us down the proverbial river. Are they even aware of the cost, to us, of their stunning cowardice?

Greg Bonvino is a first class coward. How do I know he's a coward? He's a bully. After a lifetime of dealing with bullies, there's one thing I know about them: They are all cowards. That's how I know.

I wonder if Chump (or Hegseth) will order another military jet flyover in an attempt to drown out their voices.

9 million veterans are covered by VA healthcare. 83 million people are covered by Medicaid. 69 million people are covered by Medicare. 161 million people are covered by government-run health "insurance." The population of the US is ~334 million. That leaves 163 million either without ... (1/3)

I wonder how long it will be before the old-guard Democratic leadership realizes that the Repulsivans have no intention of having good faith discussions about restoring the ACA subsidies. One might think they would have learned that a Repulsivan's word means nothing.

So... Now that Democrats have finally given in to Republican attempts to repeal, restructure, and defund the ACA, who will we elect in their place next time we get a chance? I'm kinda thinking I'm not going to vote for any incumbent Democrat in the primaries. Also, how can we help ... (1/2)

Where did Sen. Jeanne Shaheen get the money for her senate campaign?

Where did Sen. Jacky Rosen get the money for her senate campaign?

Where did Sen. Angus King get the money for his senate campaign?

Where did Sen. Tim Kaine get the money for his senate campaign?

Where did Sen. John Fetterman get the money for his senate campaign?

Where did Sen. Maggie Hassan get the money for her senate campaign?

Where did Sen. Dick Durbin get the money for his senate campaign?

Where did Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto get the money for her senate campaign?

Over the next 30 minutes (or so), I'm going to post links to the OpenSecrets.org pages that list the donors to the campaigns of the eight Senators who sold the rest of us down the river. If you want to see for yourself, go to my profile and check out the posts.

This makes me sick to my stomach.

My pleasure to share this far and wide…

The only sanity I can find in Dems caving to the dictator is that Adelita Grijalva will get sworn in, the Massie discharge petition will get an up-vote, the Epstein files come crashing in like the Kool Aid man, the Repulsivan child rapists will all be eliminated from ...(1/2)

Katie, We're getting the clearest view ever of the corruption and deceit endemic at the highest levels of the Democratic party. Younger Democrats such as AOC want to stand up for their constituents, the old guard wants to stand up for their big-money donors and the rest of us can go fuck ourselves.

...and we should organize around it. Not a criticism of the British spelling of "organise." Rather, it is my concept of how you might have ended your assertion.

File this under the incomplete MAGA cliche "We support our troops!" The parts they always leave out are "As long as they're killing people we don't like, ..." and "..until they come home."

There is only one path to [obscene] wealth, being "elite," or being powerful: That path is psychopathy. And yes, by definition they are completely devoid of empathy, which enables them to use their wealth, elite status, and power to destroy anything and everything to stay hidden.

Professor Reich doesn't want to alarm you, but I do. If you're not already alarmed, become alarmed. The shit has hit the fan. There is no doubt about Chump's intentions or how he plans to achieve them. If you're not already a target in his sights, you will be, sooner than you think.

No matter what you think, both sides are NOT the same.

Capitalism is a system in which there is no higher good than capital.

Wtaf, ABC8? MfL candidates only won *uncontested* races. In every case in which a MfL candidate had to compete for a seat, they lost. If you-all have anything in your offices that claims you are journalists, throw it/them into a fireproof bin and burn them.

The cruelty is the point.

MAGA's president is using military weapons to surveil protestors and drown out his child sex-trafficking victims. And to be clear, an MQ-9 Reaper is not your daughter's expensive drone. Pictures of an MQ-9 and its potential armament in thread. This is now the government's response to protests.

...and nothing has changed since he said it 73 years ago. That makes 93 years they've been using the same old, tired, bullshit. Tell them to go to hell.

I have an idea that I've never heard put forth before: Let's make a law, that no member of congress can vote on any issue in which a donor has an interest. You can take as much campaign lucre as you want, but every corporate donor disqualifies you from voting on issues that might affect that donor.

My daily plea: #LeakTheEpseinFiles I'm considering changing this hashtag to #LeakThePedoFiles or #LeakTheChildRapeFiles Tell me what you think!

What Kat said, AND: What the hell, The Hill? You couldn't even spare one or two lines to explain that Chump's bullshit about Afrikaner farmers is, well, bullshit? Grow a pair, faux journalists, tell the whole story even if the facts disfavor the long-tied fascist.

How does a "trained dog" help you fight crime, Gavin? I have a lot of respect for the way you've pushed back against Trumpist fascism, but dogs are used by corrupt cops to justify illegal searches and dogs have absolutely no concept of reasonable force. They have no place in law enforcement.

This isn't the flex you think it is, Rod. I don't have any power-hungry, fascist, stuffed shirt, friends, so there isn't any way for me to match what you did. Nor would I want to. I also didn't waste time hanging out with a bunch of liars, pedophiles, or sociopaths. I didn't ignore the ... (1/2)

Starve children, sexually abuse children, zip-tie children, traumatize children, orphan (verb) children, take away children's healthcare, but hands off zygotes.

Chump: How are we going to get rid of this damn Obamacare fiasco? His advisers: We could create an untenable dichotomy where the people have to choose between eating or going bankrupt from healthcare expenses. They'll choose eating, for sure! To all the MAGA fuckwads: this is what you voted for.

If the federal gov't isn't going to do its job, we shouldn't have to send it our money (inc tax). If the pedophile Repulsivans aren't going to fund SNAP, for example, each earner should withhold the money from the fedgov and send it to their state so the state gov't can continue serving the people.

There’s never been a Gen X president. Insane

Please pay close attention to this trend. They're not living there because there's a bigger mansion or because they have easier access to their offices or staff. They're moving onto military bases because they're afraid of how WE will react to the changes this regime is planning.

Human capital. This is what billionaire-run companies like Oracle think of you. Not as human beings, but as "human capital." In other words, you are not a living being with aspirations and agency. You are something else, something they own and manipulate to maximize profit.

My daily plea: #LeakTheEpsteinFiles

In 2008, a blogger named Curtis Yarvin called for a future president to kill foreign aid programs as part of a plan to replace democracy with dictatorship. Now 600,000 people are dead—and 14 million will die by 2030, according to the Lancet. This is the running death toll of tech fascism.