Robin D'Amato🌳🌊

For my entire life it has been true that every time Republicans are in power, they increase deficit spending, and whenever they aren't in power, they complain about deficit spending and pinky swear they will reduce deficit spending if only you vote them back into power. And what do they use that spending for? Tax cuts for the rich, subsidies for big corporate donors, and wars in the Middle East. If you voted Republicans into power again in the belief they would reduce the deficit and not go to war, sorry, but you were lied to and you fell for it, despite being able to learn from the past to avoid that. Yes, you voted for all of this. You may not understand that you did, but you did. This is all just the newest variation of what we see every time the GOP gets handed the reigns of the economy. Democrats need to stop playing this game and instead use deficit spending to make our lives better by focusing on our basic needs and our costs of living. Spend less on the military and more on healthcare and a basic income floor. Also, to hell with the two party system. We need more choices. We need other parties to win via proportional representation.

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

🚨 Speaker Johnson just said both things out loud in the same breath: “Iran declared war on us.” “We’re not at war right now.” Four days in. Six soldiers dead. Bases destroyed. A consulate struck. CIA arming militias for regime change. But it’s not a war. It’s “Operation Epic Fury.” The same people who can’t agree on what to call it are the ones who launched it without a vote, without a plan, and without telling the truth. Mullin misspoke. Rubio changed his story. Johnson contradicts himself mid-sentence. They’re not confused. They’re hoping you are.