yep. I was just worried that you might have to ask for help from Creighton or Bettencourt. glad you got Taylor... though there are some better options.
Also, Democratic politicians have been meeting Republican politicians halfway each time, several times (especially during the Obama administration). Only to have none of them even vote for any of the compromises in the bill. They succeeded in watering down the bill each time and then went out and railed against the ineffectiveness of the bill that they negotiated for in the first place. Biden learned his lesson as Obama's vice president and saw everything the Republicans did at each and every step and knows they're never going to vote for anything they want to pass, so they might as well just pass the bills they want to.
We know who started this and when--Gingrich with his Contract on America after Clinton co-opted some of the GOP's moderate positions. Democrats didn't move farther away from the mainstream, Repubs took the hard right turn that led to the cul-de-sac they find themselves in.
here's the thing: 76 million people allegedly voted for the orange turd. even if we lock up every single person involved in the 1/6 insurrection and any of the threats to state capitols (and we should definitely do that), there's still 10s of millions of people who voted for It and they aren't all going to up and move to Greenland.
HOWEVER, I think it's worth taking a delegated approach hear. not every Democrat needs to hug a red hat and tell them they're pretty.
some people voted for It because they felt keeping their precious tax cut was more important than Black lives and, certainly, no Black lives should have to make nice with them.
I'm not going to go have dinner with Briscoe Cain or anything, but I can reach out to, say, the people who used their tax cut to donate to the Lincoln Project, they in turn can reach out to the people who voted for the tax cut over Black lives and so on and so forth.
I'd also like some of our elected officials to have a bit more fuckin' follow through when some Republicans try to "both sides do eat!" this. when Kevin McCarthy dropped that censure resolution for Maxine Waters yesterday, we should have followed that with a flood of censure resolutions for all the people that Kevin needs to address in his caucus before he even thinks about criticizing Democrats. when TX State Sen. Charles Perry said in Finance that he felt that everyone was contributing *even him*, I wish Whitmire had been in the room to say, "okay. so you file the bill to repeal your shitty 'papers please' bill from 2017 and I will be your first joint author."
this can be done without making the idiots resurrect their Jade Helm hallucinations.
finally, some of us need to start cleaning our own house--this, too, is not a mandatory participation event, but we do need some volunteers. I legit sat through an HCR bill layout where TX State Rep. Phil King (who is kinda the TX version of Steve King) ended up looking less racist than TX State Rep. Richard Pena Raymond (D - Laredo). I shit you not. Phil King offered to be a joint author on TX State Rep. Gene Wu's (D - Houston) HCR 66 regarding anti-Asian American hate crimes and Raymond asked if it could be amended to say "all lives matter". so, like I said, we need some vols for this mission. (kinda think Rep. Wu probably already took care of that one.)
She's Miss Havisham with an op-ed gig. It really makes me wonder what the inside of her house looks like - lots of mouse droppings and cobwebs, I'd wager.
because I'm counting on him to make an error that results in the Jim Crow bill being killed with a point of order. I think that's exactly why he was put in charge of it.
This. Clinton’s second term was when I went from supporting third party candidates to voting entirely Dem. Not because I was all that thrilled with them, but because I could see what was on the horizon with the Repukes.
yep. I was just worried that you might have to ask for help from Creighton or Bettencourt. glad you got Taylor... though there are some better options.
What a twat. A concerned twat, but still a twat.
Also, Democratic politicians have been meeting Republican politicians halfway each time, several times (especially during the Obama administration). Only to have none of them even vote for any of the compromises in the bill. They succeeded in watering down the bill each time and then went out and railed against the ineffectiveness of the bill that they negotiated for in the first place. Biden learned his lesson as Obama's vice president and saw everything the Republicans did at each and every step and knows they're never going to vote for anything they want to pass, so they might as well just pass the bills they want to.
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Sorry, I was using the second accepted definition of the word.
What a salient point! Perhaps the world's limited success against Covid 19 is because we haven't tried reasoning with it...
I mean really! I find as much intellectual commonality with any virus as I do with people who believe even some of their dumbshittery
We know who started this and when--Gingrich with his Contract on America after Clinton co-opted some of the GOP's moderate positions. Democrats didn't move farther away from the mainstream, Repubs took the hard right turn that led to the cul-de-sac they find themselves in.
here's the thing: 76 million people allegedly voted for the orange turd. even if we lock up every single person involved in the 1/6 insurrection and any of the threats to state capitols (and we should definitely do that), there's still 10s of millions of people who voted for It and they aren't all going to up and move to Greenland.
HOWEVER, I think it's worth taking a delegated approach hear. not every Democrat needs to hug a red hat and tell them they're pretty.
some people voted for It because they felt keeping their precious tax cut was more important than Black lives and, certainly, no Black lives should have to make nice with them.
I'm not going to go have dinner with Briscoe Cain or anything, but I can reach out to, say, the people who used their tax cut to donate to the Lincoln Project, they in turn can reach out to the people who voted for the tax cut over Black lives and so on and so forth.
I'd also like some of our elected officials to have a bit more fuckin' follow through when some Republicans try to "both sides do eat!" this. when Kevin McCarthy dropped that censure resolution for Maxine Waters yesterday, we should have followed that with a flood of censure resolutions for all the people that Kevin needs to address in his caucus before he even thinks about criticizing Democrats. when TX State Sen. Charles Perry said in Finance that he felt that everyone was contributing *even him*, I wish Whitmire had been in the room to say, "okay. so you file the bill to repeal your shitty 'papers please' bill from 2017 and I will be your first joint author."
this can be done without making the idiots resurrect their Jade Helm hallucinations.
finally, some of us need to start cleaning our own house--this, too, is not a mandatory participation event, but we do need some volunteers. I legit sat through an HCR bill layout where TX State Rep. Phil King (who is kinda the TX version of Steve King) ended up looking less racist than TX State Rep. Richard Pena Raymond (D - Laredo). I shit you not. Phil King offered to be a joint author on TX State Rep. Gene Wu's (D - Houston) HCR 66 regarding anti-Asian American hate crimes and Raymond asked if it could be amended to say "all lives matter". so, like I said, we need some vols for this mission. (kinda think Rep. Wu probably already took care of that one.)
She's Miss Havisham with an op-ed gig. It really makes me wonder what the inside of her house looks like - lots of mouse droppings and cobwebs, I'd wager.
The Trumpers are doing exactly what Osama Bin Laden wanted to accomplish, which is to tear our country apart.
“The New York Times might've published The 1619 Project, but I wonder if everyone who works there bothered to read it.”
Are you implying that reading implies comprehending?
Ugh, Briscoe Cain. You would have to bring him up.
The Bothsiderism is strong with this one.
LOL Cohn's first paragraph is a list of everything the Republicans just did. And in a voice so passive, it doesn't even risk using a verb.
Recreants, all of them.
because I'm counting on him to make an error that results in the Jim Crow bill being killed with a point of order. I think that's exactly why he was put in charge of it.
This. Clinton’s second term was when I went from supporting third party candidates to voting entirely Dem. Not because I was all that thrilled with them, but because I could see what was on the horizon with the Repukes.