taxing billionaires out of existence should be one of the major policy pillars of the democratic party moving forward

Voted present on impeachment.

If you pay attention to any large industry long enough and follow it to its logical conclusion you eventually end up sounding like a communist even if you started off testing CPU case fans. youtu.be/cUrJVdF2me0?...

Senators like Kaine should resign mid-term, but insofar as they won’t, they ought to serve as archetypes for candidates who need to lose their primary elections. This kind of irresolute wimpiness ~entirely explains Democrats’ historically consequential failures in the Trump era.

the most consequential decision the obama administration made was building a DOJ that decided they would allow rich people to commit crimes without any real consequences; all the elite impunity & lawlessness we've seen over the last decade is a direct result of that choice

I see Lakshya Jain is complaining about not winning enough votes so as a reminder

the fun thing about living in tornado alley is knowing that a decisive majority of my neighbors voted for the guy who has been trying to dismantle the federal weather agencies that let us know when tornadoes are coming

We need an intense propaganda campaign just like....telling people what government spending does & how it benefits them, to undo the decades of the right brainwashing people that it's all fucking waste

astute observers have know for years that it isn't the 1950s that MAGA wants; they want the 1850s

JUST IMPEACH TRUMP FOR THE LOVE OF GOD

once you see it it becomes hard to avoid noticing that any time dems make a public comment about something terrible that's happened they never offer any plans to hold the people responsible accountable or to take any action to prevent it from happening again in the future

the reason why dems don't think of impeachment as the basic, appropriate remedy for political appointees who are refusing to fulfill their statutory obligations is because they think political appointees (of both parties!) are 'made men' who should be above facing consequences

Yes, but it’s not a “nuclear option.” It’s the most basic, obvious, conventional option available if you want to actually do something effective. The fact that they’re not immediately promising it en masse tells us something, and that something is not good.

Why is a member of Congress that can move to impeach anyone they want asking for criminals to voluntary resign?

when trump said kelly should be executed for treason kelly responded by doing an interview with a comedian and voting to confirm trump's latest nominee

Which is how we got here in the first place.

senator wyden has declined to issue any statements supporting representative al green's or rep. shiri thanedar's motions to impeach donald trump

This was a human being. What the fuck is wrong with you?

It feels like I've run out of things to say about the Democrats. When we're almost a full year into this and they're still voting for Trump's nominees, I'm not sure how you can make the case that the party is salvageable.

Trump has called for at least three of these senators to be thrown in prison. And they’re still voting for his agenda.

Voted present on impeachment.

the problem was that biden's actions didn't match his rhetoric so it was pretty understandable why the political press didn't take this speech seriously if you really believe democracy is at stake it's inexcusable to appoint garland or refuse to pursue judicial reforms

FDR was a democrat & the greatest president of the 20th century; reagan was a republican & the guy who kicked in the foundation this country was built on the most honest thing about dems like newsom is that they choose to quote reagan as the politician who embodies their beliefs, not FDR

you might need a reminder which right wing killer is which: daniel PENNY is the guy marc andreesen rewarded for strangling a man by hiring him at his venture capitol firm. PENNY hired by the MONEY corp daniel PERRY is the murderer TX's governor rewarded w/ a pardon for gunning down a liberal

ME: google is embracing enshittification, time to regretfully ditch their chrome browser and switch to firefox FIREFOX:

there are a bunch of reasons why this idea that's floating around again to install governors in cars that keep you from exceeding the speed limit is unworkable, not least of which is that any attempt to actually implement this would provoke a backlash nearly on par with confiscating every gun

several high ranking dems have voted for trump's budgets, voted to confirm his nominees, tacitly approved his strikes against boats in the caribbean, etc. they're not trying to stop this administration because to some extent they agree with or at least tolerate what trump has been doing

hey @usatoday.com maybe this hasn't occurred to you but if ICE agents wanted to tell the public "their perspective, which has been largely absent" they wouldn't be wearing masks every time they appear in public and only talking to your reporters if granted anonymity

it's working, keep it up

My hottest take is that letting cops park in red zones for mundane errands and coffee breaks; I think “you can break the law at your discretion as a job perk” is the small domino that ends in the large domino of “shooting protesters in the face with rubber bullets”

thinking about this with regards to the Uvalde cops twiddling their thumbs while kids got killed. all kinds of normies are naturally heroic under fire, you have to be trained to be that much of a chickenshit

i love the modern web & how even if you have an adblocker that defangs the legions of ad-infested websites like the one in the quoted post you still have half the web bombarding you with giant pop ups on ever visit pestering you to log in with google/facebook/apple/twitter & to accept their cookies

It's ridiculously out of touch to treat "abolish ICE" as untouchable. This stuff is wildly unpopular! People hate them! It's an irredeemably rotten institutional culture of thuggery and criminality. Cutting this malignant tumor out altogether isn't just right on principle, it's a winning message.

the democratic party regularly talks about wanting to get tough & show voters how macho they are. but then the dems trot out this wishy-washy wimp routine where with one hand they denounce trump as flaunting the law but in the next breath announce their refusal to even try to hold him accountable

it wasn't bad enough that the vietnam war was a disaster on its own terms; it also created a congress that was so scared of facing public scrutiny when they decide to wage war that it chose to effectively surrender its warmaking powers to the presidency so they could foist the blame on someone else

pete hegseth has admitted to ordering strikes that constitute textbook war crimes, it's insane that the democratic party's leadership has been hostile to pursuing impeachment so that instead a backbencher has to go rogue to file articles to attempt to hold accountable a war criminal

dr strangelove is maybe the best comedy film ever made, my brother and i quote lines like, "you can't fight in here, this is the war room!" all the time

“I will only process the world in terms of good guys and non-human enemies” is perfect shit from war professor radio tom

it's not enough to be arbitrarily fucked over by a $4 trillion company & has to desperately try to make his story go viral in the hopes that someone from apple will see it and make things right; he also has to endure hacker news grognards calling him an idiot for not running his own cloud service

You could probably substitute RFK jr for the antagonist of any mainline resident evil game and it wouldnt change anything about the game

"why are people on the left mad at me??" asks man who literally wrote a book where liberals would be banned from cities he controls and has openly called for "blues" i.e., dem voters, to be ethnically purged from san francisco

It's heartening the leadership firewall against any talk of impeachment is breaking down, because it's so delusionally out of touch with reality. Either you mean what you say about the current anti-constitutional crime spree or you don't, and if you do, impeachment is the unavoidable implication.

it's insane the way that everyone seems to have forgotten that nixon was never actually impeached but was forced out by the threat posed by his looming impeachment

would have been cool to have a democratic party that didn't spend 2021-2024 giving these lawless goons huge budget increases

I'm usually a "prioritize winning elections over winning factional fights" guy but that goes out the window with anything these group chat psychos touch. We have to crush them or they'll turn the Democratic Party into Labour

we gotta tax the mega-rich out of existence because they're demonstrating they're happy to crash the economy knowing it will make us all poor, desperate, & willing to tolerate their abuses while the worst that happens to them is they have to settle for two vacation homes instead of three

insightful thread, i think this also explains why there's not more pushback against the explicitly authoritarian Christian Nationalists who have been steadily taking over conservative politics in red states; the elite media simply does not encounter these types of people

i don't want a unifying Dem who promises to return to good government. i want an angel of death who promises the government the reconstruction amendments promise.