If this is the case, I would not be surprised that the both of us would be judged as vile over some reason we aren’t even aware of in the future. Perhaps at some point humanity will be vegan, and even owning leather belt would considered highly unethical.

I find all of your feedback to be interesting but also judging him from the context of today, not his times. I do think that the ‘unfairly dunk’ comment suggests that somewhere you intuit that are making some unfair criticisms (by removing the context).

Let’s not forget that Trump and Republicans found $40 BILLION for Argentina and $300 MILLION for a ballroom. If they wanted to lower costs and save health care, they would.

That’s a good answer. But no matter how reasonable or normie he is as mayor, I don’t think it will move the needle nationally at all towards Democratic Socialism.

I mean in some hypothetical matchup between Ike and FDR, and if it were post interment camps, Ike is probably one of the few Republicans I would have voted for over the Dem.

So now we’re going after Eisenhower? The ‘progressive conservative’ that got us the interstate highway system and vocally supported organized labor?

We gotta have a clear term for people so cynical they become gullible.

This narrative really has nothing to it. The measuring stick is the lockstep authoritarianism in the GOP.

So now it was conspiracy by Dems that somehow prevented people voting in the primary? I remember the lines to vote in the primary in my polling station were as long as a general election.

Why can’t we be more like the neofascists is a helluva argument.

Maybe give people more than two hours?

I’m just not interested in stringing up fellow Democrats like this anymore. If there is a disagreement, I’m inclined to think there are valid arguments.

When Trump and Republicans say they care about health care, they’re lying. Their Big Ugly Law stripped millions of Americans of their health care and guaranteed premium price hikes. They created a health care crisis and refuse to do anything to fix it.

Ah yes, it’s a consthpiracthy, of course. How fully unsophisticated of me not to notice.

I don’t know, but I suspect building an airtight case against a former president under our system of justice might not be as straightforward as people imagine.

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BREAKING: Trump spent hours with a victim at Epstein’s mansion, according to emails from Jeffrey Epstein to Ghislaine Maxwell that were unearthed by Oversight Democrats. In them, Epstein calls Trump the "dog that hasn’t barked."

The American Alliance of Museums put out its annual industry snapshot and it's not great. Trump's targeting of museum programming had downstream effects and put a "chill on corporate philanthropy." n.pr/43lIZa7

I think talking about wealth in terms of ‘earning’ it is a very productive way to start on an obvious problem, which currently, has no obvious solution. ‘Tax it all away’ isn’t a tax, that’s tyranny. Break up large companies? In some cases, in others it will drastically increase costs to consumers.

Best comment I’ve seen tonight is that SCOTUS pausing the judgement to make the admin release SNAP funds during a shutdown…is further proof of why a deal to end the shutdown was…bad? Yesterday they were saying the ‘defectors’ were idiots because of this federal judge ruling, bc SNAP would be A-ok.

Put it in the louvre.

Republicans failed to lower the high cost of living. We have them on the run because they refuse to extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits. The extremists were crushed on Election Day. Now they Big Mad.

When you're inside a moment of change, you can't see its full shape. The entrepreneurs of 1985 didn't know they were living through a golden age because they were too busy wrestling with 300 baud modems. (Via Kevin Kelly) www.joanwestenberg.com/p/you-are-n...

Likewise, ‘rich people do bad stuff’ is an easy statement to make. But centralized production is doing more than eliminating capital, it’s also centralizing all risk. So a shortage of nails could have a butterfly effect that eventually produces runaway, unstoppable inflation. Because of nails.

From retirement to college funds to literally their life savings, the issue of housing costs has no easy solution. This is just one example, but the many ‘this is obviously morally wrong’ arguments you see do not have obviously morally correct solutions.

When you don’t own a home it can seem a reasonable thing to say ‘housing is too expensive it should be lowered immediately.’ But the reality is lowering the value over the course of 6mo-2yrs or something would financially devastate millions who’ve planned their lives around the equity in their home.

I don’t think there is viable mechanism to transfer these gains directly into federal revenue without it being via some administration with literal dictatorial powers. I don’t believe most of the people who would shrug this off saying ‘do it’ really comprehend what they are saying.

I’m just very skeptical that European stylized socialism will take off as an accepted concept in the states. Americans are generally obsessed with what is the most authentic or original version. We will always have a diehard group in the wings advocating ‘real’ socialism (centralized production).

Senators having constituents is truly a damning revelation.

Apologies for not rewarding your rage bait by getting dragged into an obtuse argument where we are simply speaking past each other rather than having a real discussion, but I’m currently experiencing life as a doughy ball of sentimentality, so I just don’t have it in me today.

Ahead of Veterans Day, I was honored to welcome a flight of veterans and their families as they arrived in DC.

It’s difficult for me to see how others do not grasp that ‘socialism’ is dead on arrival here. But to be fair, it wasn’t all that long ago I still subscribed to the ‘socialism just means food stamps’ definition myself. Socialism doesn’t mean food stamps.

This year, we launched the Democratic Veterans Caucus in Congress. Honored to be among those who’ve served and are committed to standing up for our fellow veterans and active service members.

Like a lot of talking points these days I find assumptions over what the pentagon budget must necessarily represent to be unfounded. Is there waste? Probably. Are there morally objectionable actions? Demonstrably. Is this the general purpose of the budget? I don’t find convincing evidence for this.

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I think the House and Senate are entirely different bodies with different purposes and he, as always, is doing a great job at embodying the spirit of the House. Which is to champion popular opinions and issues. The Senate on the other hand is 95% about pragmatism.

Republican policies have cut thousands of jobs from the Department of Veterans Affairs. This means veterans have LESS access to medical care and services. Veterans fought for our rights. The least they deserve is access to the benefits this country promised them.

A thought divorced from a thread I am apparently not qualified to say anything for being a man, thus anything I say can and will be used against me as ‘mansplaining,’ I’d just like to put it out into the ether that the term ‘independent media’ also includes the likes of Shapiro and Walsh.

What Trump actually thinks of our veterans

I’m afraid this narrative is a long lived fantasy that has passed its expiration date. The crowd that believes overthrowing the Democratic Party, or taking it over from the inside is the inevitable next big thing, has completely lost the plot.

We are all upset at the 8 Dems who made a compromise. However, for your consideration: Gift article: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/o...

This shit is tiresome. These Senators (maybe not Fetterman who’s ideologically opposed to shutdowns) may just as well have decide last week’s blowout was so significant that the fight has basically already been won. People keep trying to read weakness without ever considering any other possibility.

Yeah, I’m a supporter and basically was going along with the ‘Schumer probably helped orchestrate this’ logic. But as it turns out, it seems you might have to be entirely focused on the Senate as a career to really understand what’s going on.

I think MTG is a completely honest and sincere person, after everything I’ve been seeing lately. She just comes from a fucked up culture. Does she still earnestly hold opinions I vehemently disagree with? Probably, likely in fact. But it’s become clear she actually cares about her constituents.

A Republican sheriff in a swing county that Trump won by 0.1% signed a contract to help ICE, then lost last week by 11. New by me in @boltsmag.org: boltsmag.org/sheriff-of-b...

A setback is just that. Democrats still have momentum.. It’s easy to forget but the facts are we are still in the moment

People really aren’t grasping the profundity of last week’s election. The GOP experienced cuts down to the bone. This is no longer a matter of inches or framing. We are seeing the beginnings of widespread popular rejection of MAGA.

The generation that grew up on Carlin and Murphy seems to have a big problem with the thought control that goes along with leftism. Also, there are a ton of straight up psychos around here that never had any supervision. The 80s are their golden era because ‘we drank out of hoses’ or some nonsense.

Yes weird anomalies in the sky are not ever aliens visiting us from another galaxy. These days, you probably just saw a drone. I wouldn’t bother commenting on nonsense either.