SleepyT11 🐯🌻⚖️
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SleepyT11 🐯🌻⚖️
@T11Sleepy
JD/MBA. Widower. Touring on my bike, reading every S.Ct. opinion. Fan of the Red Sox, Cubs, Blackhawks & Chicago Symphony. Getting more open minded. 🐯
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People keep talking about Democrats like they’ve never materially improved America.
But let’s look at the scoreboard.
• The last president to deliver multiple consecutive budget surpluses? Bill Clinton.
• Social Security? FDR.
• Medicare & Medicaid? LBJ.
• Civil Rights Act & Voting Rights Act? LBJ.
• Minimum wage, overtime protections, major child labor restrictions? FDR-era Democrats.
• FMLA protections? Clinton.
• Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act? Obama.
Even the modern middle class was heavily built through Democratic-backed programs like the GI Bill, labor protections, federal home loans, and expanded access to college.
And when people talk about “fiscal responsibility,” it’s worth remembering:
The only modern presidents to move the federal budget into sustained surplus were Democrats. [1][2]
A lot of what Americans now consider “normal civilization” came from policies Republicans originally fought, mocked, or called socialism.
People inherited the benefits so completely they forgot who built them.

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@AdamKinzinger Let's all hope it isn't accurate.
Because if it is, the "great deal maker" got played.
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In 1998, I was fired from my corporate job while 9 months pregnant because and I quote, “my priorities would be elsewhere after the baby is born.”
The lawyer I hired told me I didn’t have a case because discrimination like “that” was almost impossible to prove.
So I got pissed.
Took the LSAT. Went to law school. Passed the bar. Had 3 more kids.
Twelve years later, another woman from that same company was fired for the same reason. She sued them for a million dollars, and won, partly because I had kept every piece of evidence from what happened to me years prior demonstrating a systemic pattern of discrimination against women.
That company no longer exists. My law practice is thriving. And that baby they said would derail my priorities? She’s a brilliant attorney now working at my firm.
Turns out my priorities were indeed, elsewhere.
☥𝐋𝐞𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐱@fw_lennox1
What happened to you that changed the entire trajectory of your life??
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@WallStreetApes Has it dawned on you that the Supreme Court case that granted Mr. Trump significant immunity for official acts also granted the identical immunity to Mr. Obama???
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It’s sad to see Tulsi Gabbard having to resign to care for her husband
Let’s not forget, It has now been 303 days since National Security Director Tulsi Gabbard referred Barack Obama to the DOJ for criminal prosecution
303 days and the DOJ refuses to bring a single indictment
The charges she recommended are for Treasonous Conspiracy, Manufacturing and Politicizing Intelligence and Withholding and Leaking Classified Information
Tulsi Gabbard provided proof that Barack Obama orchestrated the Russia Collusion hoax and worked with the CIA to manufacture fake evidence
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@chiky_handlr I don't watch anything else they broadcast in the first place.
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CBS canceled Stephen Colbert to appease Trump.
Now a growing movement across the United States is calling for a boycott of CBS.
Do you support it? #BoycottCBS

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@thedaywar90 No sense of humor, eh?
Where were you when MAGA was wearing all sorts of anti-Biden clothing?
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I cannot believe that COSTCO, a family store where there are many children with their parents would allow this POS wear that shirt in the store. I will be contacting COSTCO CORPORATE later today. I know we, in the USA 🇺🇸, have freedom of speech but not hate speech or these kind of statements when in a public place. President Donald J. Trump should take action.


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@DavidLeavitt I did. And honestly, missing the last two seasons wasn't a huge loss.
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@EllenBarkin Because idiocy seems to be geographically concentrated.
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@Supersonic_Red How about drive in restaurants with wait-people on roller skates, and cherry coke with real cherry syrup in it?
Or staying home to watch the Mercury and Gemini launches when we were kids?
Or watching Star Trek as first run episodes? And thinking the stars were in our future?
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Good morning, Generation Jones. ☕️
Yesterday’s conversation was so much fun that I woke up thinking about all the things only our generation would understand.
High school was a blast then.
We passed notes instead of texts.
Had actual cruising spots.
Memorized phone numbers.
Listened to the radio waiting for our song to come on.
And somehow survived without GPS, Google, or anyone knowing where we were 24/7. 🤣
We really did grow up in two completely different worlds, and I think that’s why so many of us connected yesterday.
Now tell me yours. What’s something only Generation Jones understands?

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There’s a generation a lot of people forget exists. We were born at the tail end of the Boomers, but we are not culturally the same as people born in the 40s and early 50s. We are Generation Jones.
And honestly, it explains a lot.
We grew up in a world that still felt fundamentally analog, but we were young enough to be dragged headfirst into the digital revolution. We are the bridge generation between rotary phones and smartphones, between slide rules and AI, between Walter Cronkite and algorithm driven media.
We remember when there were only a few television channels and the entire country watched the same thing at the same time. We also adapted to the internet, email, forums, social media, streaming and now artificial intelligence. We lived before and after the technological singularity hit everyday life.
That is not a small thing.
People born in the 40s came of age in a post World War II America that was still industrial, deeply hierarchical and institutionally stable. Their formative years were shaped by the Cold War, Vietnam, the civil rights era and a society where information moved slowly.
Generation Jones came later. We inherited the aftermath of all of that.
We were the kids who watched Watergate destroy blind trust in government. We watched manufacturing begin to collapse. We saw divorce rates explode. We were the first truly latchkey generation in massive numbers. We learned independence early because many of us had to.
We grew up with one foot in old America and one foot in whatever this new thing was becoming.
We played outside until the streetlights came on but we also learned DOS commands. We learned cursive and keyboarding. We had card catalogs and Google searches. We went from vinyl records to cassette tapes to CDs to MP3s to streaming in one lifetime.
We remember maps. We remember memorizing phone numbers. We remember life before GPS and before every human interaction became filtered through a screen.
And because of that, I think Generation Jones developed a very unique perspective. We are adaptable because we had no choice but to adapt. We learned technology as adults instead of being born into it. We remember a slower world but were forced to survive in a rapidly accelerating one.
That creates a very different mindset than either older Boomers or younger Gen X and Millennials.
A lot of us also reject the caricature people now associate with “Boomers.” We were not buying houses for the cost of a sandwich in 1965. The interest rate on my first house was over 14% and that was after buying down a point. Many of us got hit by recessions, outsourcing, pension collapses and economic instability just like younger generations did. We watched promises evaporate in real time.
We understand older generations because we were raised by them. We understand younger generations because we had to evolve alongside them.
That’s why the Jones generation often feels culturally homeless. We are rarely discussed, rarely defined and usually lumped into categories that don’t actually fit us.
But we exist.
We are the human transition point between the industrial age and the digital age.
And frankly, there will probably never be another generation quite like us again.

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@atrupar What he isn't telling you is that most of the fraud starts within the White House.
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@briantylercohen For the record, the Illinois gerrymander in place since 2020 is quite effective.
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Why haven't we heard from a SINGLE Democratic state about steps they're taking to counteract the post-VRA GOP power grabs in Louisiana and Alabama and South Carolina and Tennessee and Texas and North Carolina and Missouri and Florida? Is every Democrat asleep at the wheel? Do you think this is going to fix itself? Why is it so fucking difficult for Democrats to fight back? If you're in power in NJ, NY, MD, CO, IL, WA, OR, wake the fuck up and announce steps to redraw the maps so that Democrats are not drawn out of power forever.
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