He was just reading letter after letter after letter from American seniors who are scared about what the administration might do to Social Security. Really helps bring home that these are real people who are affected.
Edit: 15 hours now and he’s still going strong. He just gave a fiery speech about how his colleagues need to do more.
Edit: 25 hours. He beat the record. At least it won’t be held by a racist anymore.
Open bribery for votes. In a society based on the rule of law, officers would be on hand at the rally to arrest him the moment he attempted to hand over the money. But of course they weren’t, because only the plebeians are held accountable for their actions.
Wisconsinites, you should demand accountability.
Destroying a car hurts a company’s bottom line. The other stuff you suggested hurts workers and regular people.
And they would vote for him again.
The Democratic Party is not a serious party. Both the party elite and the die-hard supporters need to wake the fuck up.
Days after President Donald Trump took office for the second time, a boatload of candidates vying to lead the Democratic National Committee crammed into a Washington auditorium plastered with MSNBC logos.
This was their last big forum before the vote to make the case that they had what it took to rescue their party from irrelevance.
The moderators called on a little-known contender, Quintessa Hathaway, to deliver the first opening statement. “I just want to give you all a little bit of something that’s been on my heart,” she told the audience.
Then, suddenly, unexpectedly, she broke into song. “When your government is doing you wrong,” she belted out, “you fight on, oh-oh, you fight on.”
It had only taken four minutes for the battle over the future of the Democratic Party to devolve into what critics likened to a scene from Portlandia, a comedy satirizing ultra-liberals — and it was a punchline that was clipped and replayed across social media in the days ahead. Things only got more surreal, and viral, from there. […]
“How many of you believe that racism and misogyny played a role in Vice President Harris’ defeat?” asked MSNBC anchor Jonathan Capehart. Every candidate raised their hand. “That’s good,” he added. “You all pass.” Later, a DNC member asked, in reference to party positions: “Will you pledge to appoint more than one transgender person to an at-large seat?” Only one of eight contenders kept their hand down. […]
In multiple surveys since the election, a plurality of Democratic voters has said that Harris should be the 2028 presidential nominee. […]
Progressives calling for a more leftward tack on economics haven’t gotten a much better reception. Faiz Shakir, the former campaign manager for Bernie Sanders’ 2020 bid, has said that Democrats should adopt a muscular economic populist agenda to win back working-class voters. When he ran for DNC chair on that platform, he only won two votes. […]
David Shor, an influential liberal pollster, has been circulating a presentation to Democrats dissecting the 2024 election. Slide after slide paints a dire picture for the party: Young voters have become more Republican. Trump likely won foreign-born voters. The electorate trusts the GOP more than Democrats on Social Security. Higher turnout wouldn’t have saved Harris; in fact, it would have made Trump win by a larger margin. […]
But intraparty critics said Democrats’ near-certain belief that they are going to take back the House in the midterms is also enabling them to continue avoiding hard conversations and perhaps obscuring the need to have a reckoning. There’s still a pervasive sense among some in the party that they don’t need to bother with all that — the pendulum will swing their way regardless.
I dare say I’m beginning to suspect this Trump fellow may not be as competent as he claims
Ah yes, solving the actual problem by changing your username.
Yeah, I’m paranoid, turn off location services for nearly all apps, frozen credit, locked down bank account, friends only everywhere… and I missed this. Useful public service announcement by Wired.
Lawmakers from bOtH pArTiEs
Reminder that Don Bacon barely won NE-2, a purple district that went for Harris, and shouldn’t be used as an example when citing Congressional Republican outrage, because they’re not actually outraged.
“Members of both parties,” and yet they only quote Democrats, except for one Republican who won his purple district representing Omaha by less than 6,000 votes. That district was the one Nebraska electoral vote that went for Harris.
Former presidents, vice presidents, secretaries of state, etc. receive briefings because until recently they served as a kind of private advisory board to presidents and their successors. It was also, in a worst-case scenario, about continuity of government: if a nuke drops on DC, Obama could step in temporarily to help lead a transitional government.
Of course, Trump and his cabinet don’t need advisors because they’re all geniuses who know everything.
One of them, Reagan-era Justice Department attorney and Trump’s own former campaign lawyer Joseph diGenova, was furious about the release of his personal data. “I intend to sue the National Archives,” he told USA Today. “They violated the Privacy Act.”
When Hitler was in power and did something stupid, Nazi party members would first seek to blame external groups. When that was implausible, they would instead blame other members and groups within the Nazi party. There was a lot of infighting and finger pointing within the Nazi party because 1) well, first and foremost, it was a kakistocracy, and 2) because Hitler himself could never be blamed. So as a result, Hitler was frequently the victim of “bad counsel,” or his orders weren’t carried out “properly” (even if they were followed precisely).
This bill can be stopped. Contact your representatives.
Sure, if there’s a depression.