Writ Marge
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A man who dedicated his life to dehumanizing Black people yet cursed to love the music they invented
The Anarchist Turtle 🏴Ⓐ🔆🏳️⚧️@anarchoboognish
AC/DC at the top I can't
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@TheEnemyIsUs_ It's not bullshit and even Cigna exec Wendell Potter criticized Obama for failing to sell the public option AFTER he testified to Congress earlier that session about its benefits. Sucking on the teat of a Heritage Foundation concept is nothing to hang any hat on for any reason.
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@ogtwunt He was not as bold as I wanted him to be, that's for sure
But to say he capitulated on gvt option is complete bullshit
Me?
I'd kill the filibuster
Pack the court
Claw back wealth
In 2028 I would have done a 3-5T stimulus
But Ocare DID change things... a lot
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He did not cave to the public option
Joe Lieberman would not vote for it and 100% of Rs were against it
He needed that vote or to kill the filibuster
Writ Marge@ogtwunt
@ljmontello can't forget caving on the public option.
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@carry_er @MarcoFoster_ So you were a freshman when I was a senior. What state?
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@ogtwunt @MarcoFoster_ I’m 50 ma’am. I went to public school an were taught real history
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Hasan Piker: “America is, in its foundation, a white supremacist country. This is very frustrating for Republicans to hear, this is even frustrating for liberals to hear sometimes, but it’s just the truth”
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I seem dumb
Yet you're the one still making excuses for Obama saying his only sin was being too nice with Republicans.
Not bank bailouts as people lost homes.
Not drone strikes.
Not Libya & Syria.
That he was too nice to Republicans.
GTFO
TheEnemyIsUS@TheEnemyIsUs_
@ljmontello You seem dumb In retrospect, yes, he should have gone much harder But it was a different time and .. YOU are missing something Obama was being noble, he wanted to change the tenor of politics, he tried to reach out But he was wrong about Republicans That's his only sin
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@russell64882258 @MarcoFoster_ to escape religious persecution dummy but keep going.
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@MarcoFoster_ We get it Hasan - you skipped history class in school and are ignorant of 13 tiny colonies standing up for their rights against the most powerful European power.
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@carry_er @MarcoFoster_ how old are you? did you go to public school? private?
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@MarcoFoster_ It’s not a white supremacist country. It was just majority white. That’s like going to Japan and saying Japan is a Japanese supremacist country because they try to preserve their successful cultural skills.
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@Acyn False equivalence.
The “Job 1” role of the federal government is to provide for the National Defense.
Parents should be paying for school lunches. Children are not wards of the state.
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Mockler on Cost of Iran War:
So in New York, they did free school lunches for $300 million a year, put that against the $50 billion, which is a conservative estimate for this war. We could have funded this across the country. How about in Connecticut? They have paid family leave. It was $450 million a year. And it is $5 million to start up. Put that against the $50 billion. It is a no brainer. What about one more in New Mexico. It costs $1.5 billion for free college. We could do that 20 times over with the $50 billion that we've spent.
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Due to the @SpiritAirlines bankruptcy travelers are trapped around the US.
People showed up to the airport to fly this morning. Cancelled.
Workers showed up for their shift. Now jobless.
My family member paid for a flight. Now they won’t be reimbursed.
We must call out @SenWarren and the Communists who are responsible for this.
@JetBlue tried to buy Spirit for billions under the Biden admin 2024.
Democrats blocked it.
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did you just, with a straight face, have John Yoo on? what kind of bottom fucking barnacle scraping are you doing @smerconish? @cnnn
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@SarahIronside6 it was a huge mistake. granted. it was also before he turned into a right wing genocidal supporting ogre. those red flags didn't exist during the election cycle.
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@ogtwunt The nominee pushed hard on us by PROGRESSIVES?! I voted for Lamb in the primary and Fetterman in the general election. What a stupid comment because you’re proving my point about progressive ignoring red flags
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@davidrkadler Its almost as if Democrats support Trump's planned invasion of Cuba. They have been curiously silent about Trump's threats against Cuba with the exception perhaps of senator Chris Van Hollen and he isn't vocal enough
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Donald Trump has given Marco Rubio the green light to annihilate a peaceful nation and its people — and the ‘resistance’ is silent. What does “No Kings” mean when one man can snap his fingers and kill innocent Cubans on a whim?
Peter Harrell@petereharrell
Quick takes on the new Cuba sanctions EO out today: 1. The new Cuba sanctions are potentially very broad. Basically any non-U.S. person or company doing any business in/with Cuba could be sanctioned. Initial focuses are businesses involved in the energy, defense, mining, finance, and security sectors, but these can be expanded. 2. In many respects, the new EO resembles EO 14024 from 2021, which created a broad authority to sanction Russia. (As a partial drafter of that EO, it is interesting to see some of the provisions carried over here). 3. Most designations will be status-based, e.g., "operated in X sector," or "is a Cuban official," rather than requiring the government to prove specific conduct, though there are also conduct-related designations, for, eg, corruption. 4. The EO puts the State Department in the lead for making sanctions designations. Trump expanded State's role in sanctions designations during his first term, and this is consistent with that, as well as with Rubio's interest in Cuba. (State has long had a role in specific sanctions designations, and a critical policy and diplomatic role on all sanctions, but Trump expanded the designations authorities given to State). 5. The EO gives the Trump Administration a fair amount of easy-to-deploy firepower to drive remaining international businesses out of Cuba. The questions will be in implementation. For example, will Trump sanction a Chinese firm installing renewable energy in Cuba? (Cuban renewables have been growing given the oil crisis).
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@davidrkadler @nkulw they're taking their cues from Libya. another useless quest to placate another Secretary of State.
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I suspect there is one career person in the Pentagon who has played a yearslong prank to see how long he can get the American media to talk about armed dolphins. There should be an award in that guy’s name. 🫡
Mike Benz@MikeBenzCyber
Annual reminder that every time we go to war we accuse the other side of having weaponized attack dolphins
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Call me crazy, but I think this guy might be running for President.
Blue Georgia@BlueGeorgia
Gavin Newsom: Since I've been governor, no other developed nation has outperformed our economy. No other state has outperformed the economy of the State of California. We're dominating every key industry.
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the picture is terrible though, that bat looks taller than Jeffries. it looks like he represents the lollipop guild.
Candidly Tiff@tify330
Hakeem really gets under his rotting skin.
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