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He's right, though. America does need to take this seriously. And elect all of them. To save the Republic.
Damn, beat me to it. Needs a shot of the bug, though. Those bugs are a great metaphor for our current ruling class.
Verhoeven: make these protagonists as fascist as possible. Even make them from Argentina. Make it as obvious as possible
Average viewer: They just really wanna kill bugs, man. Is that so bad?
Save the republic from… AFFORDABLE CHILDCARE!!!
Please pray for the business models in this dire time.
Back in my day we licked insurance boot and sucked billionaire cock. Who wants to live in a world of affordable healthcare? THE DANGER IS RAEL!
Ohhh noooes, he's coming to lower your grocery bills!!! Hide yo kids, hide yo wife!
From literally the guy posting the tweet. Fuck off with your "protection program".
I am a Mamdani!
It's okay, MAGAs. When we get free health care for ALL Americans, you'll get it too.
When we have free day care, you'll get it, too.
When we have free college or trade school, you'll get it, too.
No thanks necessary, not that we were expecting any. Clearly you weren't raised properly.
Didn’t they rally to get rid of Obama care, then cry foul when it turned out it was the same as the ACA?
Even if Americans achieve these things, the next Republican government would slogan them out of existence
Obamacare and Medicare are wildly different.
I think what you're surely referencing is that the so-called Obamacare was the ACA, and somehow some of the benefits of the ACA got through to their awareness - so they supported the ACA but were against Obamacare, which was… the nickname for the ACA.
Oh I didn’t realize they were different! Thanks for the correction
<3 I was pretty sure I knew what you were talking about though, so at least your argument was clear and salient :)
They don't care. They will starve their own children if they think even more colored children will starve.
Will America finally get a proper left wing?
I feel like we should know better than getting our hopes up, but fuck... this actually feels promising!
Anytime soon? Probably not.
But as someone who is decently US-left, I think that's not so important. If we can get people to the point of fighting for equal rights, human rights, universal health care, wealth equality, and social safety nets, we can worry about what's next after that.
For fuck's sake, we're dealing with fascism. Just getting us back to merely right-wing-centric politics would be a magickal feat.
Don't we typically stop once educated white liberals are happy, and go to brunch? I'm worried that's what's next without a change in how democracy works.
Not if tankies have anything to say about it!
(Please vote.)
Do bear in mind that the root of the problem in the US is our oligarchs. We must deal with them FIRST, or it doesn't matter what else we do. That's why half (give or take) of the Democratic party is useless - because they have been corrupted by the oligarchs as well.
I don't care the terms people use - we're now calling it Democratic Socialism. Whatever we call it, we need to drive support for that until that part of the party can take over. But it will not happen if we don't remove the corrupting pressure from the oligarchs.
indeed. very dangerous for the old pedo grifter gang
545 people
Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.
Have you ever wondered why, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, we have deficits?
Have you ever wondered why, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, we have inflation and high taxes?
You and I don't propose a federal budget. The president does.
You and I don't have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The House of Representatives does.
You and I don't write the tax code, Congress does.
You and I don't set fiscal policy, Congress does.
You and I don't control monetary policy, the Federal Reserve Bank does.
One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one president, and nine Supreme Court justices 545 human beings out of the 300 million are directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country.
I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered, but private, central bank.
I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason. They have no legal authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman, or a president to do one cotton-picking thing. I don't care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash. The politician has the power to accept or reject it. No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator's responsibility to determine how he votes.
Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con regardless of party.
What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive amount of gall. No normal human being would have the gall of a Speaker, who stood up and criticized the President for creating deficits. The president can only propose a budget. He cannot force the Congress to accept it.
The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, gives sole responsibility to the House of Representatives for originating and approving appropriations and taxes. Who is the speaker of the House? They are the leader of the majority party. They and fellow House members, not the president, can approve any budget they want. If the president vetoes it, they can pass it over his veto if they agree to.
It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million can not replace 545 people who stand convicted -- by present facts -- of incompetence and irresponsibility. I can't think of a single domestic problem that is not traceable directly to those 545 people. When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise the power of the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they want to exist.
If the tax code is unfair, it's because they want it unfair.
If the budget is in the red, it's because they want it in the red.
If the Marines are in IRAN , it's because they want them in IRAN .
If they do not receive social security but are on an elite retirement plan not available to the people, it's because they want it that way.
There are no insoluble government problems.
Do not let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they hire and whose jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they can reject; to regulators, to whom they give the power to regulate and from whom they can take this power. Above all, do not let them con you into the belief that there exists disembodied mystical forces like "the economy," "inflation," or "politics" that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to do.
Those 545 people, and they alone, are responsible.
They, and they alone, have the power.
They, and they alone, should be held accountable by the people who are their bosses provided the voters have the gumption to manage their own employees.
We should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess!
In June, Mamdani said:
"For far too long our party has seen its job as managing decline instead of delivering material change for working people. It has seen its job as explaining why we cannot instead of showing how we can."
I think the problem is systemic. These representatives are vulnerable not just to bribery, but to threats as well. The core concept of giving your political power to another person introduces a principal-agent problem.
Campaign Finance Reform is the issue from which ALL other issues flow. It should be the absolute top priority for our entire government, starting with ending the legal bribery of Lobbying. Any excuses they offer for keeping it need to be instantly dismissed. It is the main cancer in our government, and has to be ruthlessly carved out and destroyed.
Speaker Johnson has lost the plot entirely. His comments are showing consistently he has neither empathy nor perspective regarding the working class experience, and working class concerns.
Johnson has become a running trend of let them eat cake.
I don’t ever hear why the left leaning policies are bad, just that they are & should be hated. All I see is right leaning policies result in a reduction of liberties. What liberties would I be trading for left leaning policies? Which one isn’t a nanny state that tells me what I can and can’t do in situations that do not interfere with the liberty and health of another person? I’d prefer my tax dollars go to PSAs about good responsible parenting instead of having to prove my age to join a social media site. Parental control technology already exists. Tell people to use it.
This • 1000.
People gotta start getting Socratic about everything, but especially their news and politicians.
are the tiny Mamdanis in the room with us now Mike?
Would you rather fight one Mamdani-sized Mamdani, or one hundred Mike Johnson-sized Mamdanis?
Pedophile protector says what?
How does one become a mini-madami?
Run for office... any office. My town has elected positions they have to beg to have filled. Many running unopposed. It's stuff like "library board", etc. but you get your foot in the door somewhere
Get involved with your community.
Save the Republic from what, Mike?
Fulfilling our moral obligations to one another as Americans? Our duty to the sick, to the elderly, to the poor, as commanded by your God? Honoring the sacrifices of our soldiers by actually living up to the Constitution?
Is this that protection racket he was bragging about the other day?
This is one of the only benefits of Trump winning in 2024
And unintentional incentives to get off oil
I love how upset they get about Mandani. His crime, not been corrupt. Oh, the horror.
