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This was to protest the budget cuts to social programs. Supporting Israel’s genocide isn’t the only wrongdoing by this administration. There’s plenty to speak out against.
Absolutely agree. We have been in need of change for decades. I’ve been actively trying to engage people in congressional elections and primaries for almost 30 years. That’s what needs to happen. The same people who complain about the appeasement Democrats and scream about term limits are the ones who fail to show up at the polls when we actually have a say.
Democratic midterms get ~20% turnout. Midterm primaries are even less. You know who always shows up? Retirees, and they always pick the more conservative candidates.
David Hogg is a Parkland School shooting survivor that was just named the Vice Chair of the DNC. He’s finally doing something about this from the inside. He allocated $10M to congressional midterm primaries to get out the centrist deadwood and help elect progressives to create a real opposition party for the working class. I’m actually hopeful the message will finally get out after shouting from the rooftops for decades.
I agree they’re not all good. It’s when people paint them all with one brush and refuse to acknowledge good action when I call bullshit. Be loyal to your ideals, not your party.
What Booker and Jeffries are doing by giving the microphone to people on social programs on the steps of the Capitol will reach many more citizens than shouting into an echo chamber. I applaud that. I’m not defending every vote they’ve ever cast, I’m simply recognizing a good action.
The pessimism on here is so diseased that people don’t even seem to have their own ideals other than ‘Democrats bad.’
In many ways, absolutely. I was only referring to displaying impaled enemies on pikes along the roads as a deterrent.
I completely agree. There are a lot of comments that just seem to find a way to keep people down on Democrats, even when they do the right thing. Many of them were the ones shouting Genocide Joe last year. Plenty of them are accelationist leftists or possibly even right-wing propagandists just trying to keep people from a blue wave next November.
Exactly. He’s like a modern day Vlad the Impaler.
We’d prefer they arrest the one in the White House.
The chamber was closed for recess for two weeks.
That’s completely true, but he didn’t create an Anti-Protestant Bias Coalition to protect Protestants from persecution. If he’s championing Christianity, so he should respect all of its sects.
You and I both know he’s full of shit, and just doing this to tighten his grip on the Bible Belt. All the more reason I feel compelled to call out his hypocrisy when it’s visible.
How is protesting cuts to Medicaid and social programs helping those you listed, and not benefiting you and me?
He spoke like an honest and unpolished person. He read countless letters of concern from his constituents regarding this administration, told relevant personal anecdotes of his father’s battle with Parkinson’s disease, and focused heavily on America’s previous challenges and triumphs over oppression while drawing similarities to the current state of our nation. It was actually quite moving.
He had plenty of engagement with his 25 hour speech. Let’s hope this generates similar awareness.
16·5 days agoIt can. Bleach is quite effective at cell death through protein denaturation. The pesky problem of wanting to keep our other cells alive is the reason we don’t use it internally.
Fair point. They both typically use smaller sample sizes than Pew or Reuters/Ipsos as well.
Catholicism is a sect of Christianity, just like Protestantism, and Eastern Orthodoxy. If he’s going after people who disrespect Christianity, he should show respect for it himself.
They’re the lowest in
presidential history70 years. Don’t forget, they’re not exclusively asking informed people.
It’s a bullshit poll. 10% selected “I don’t know.”
The AP-NORC poll surveyed 1,260 adults from April 17- April 21, using a probability-based method from AmeriSpeak. The margin of sampling error for the poll is plus or minus 3.9 percentage points.
He’s underwater at 54.6% unfavorable on YouGov as of five days ago.
https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/trackers/donald-trump-favorability
He’s 59% unfavorable on Pew Research Center as of three days ago.
It’s a Roman Catholic custom. The Pope is the leader of the Roman Catholic Church, so it’s kind of a bigger deal than going to a family funeral.
“I knew it!” —Marjorie Taylor Greene