Not about Kavanaugh, that shit was a done deal when he was nominated. It was the culmination of 40yrs of repub planning.
I'm pissed because it's the fault of lazy ass people who couldn't be bothered to vote.
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If you could vote in 1980 and didn't this is YOUR FAULT.
'82? YOUR FAULT.
'84? YOUR FAULT.
'86? YOUR FAULT.
'88? YOUR FAULT.
'90? YOUR FAULT.
'92? YOUR FAULT.
'94? YOUR FAULT.
'96? YOUR FAULT.
'98? YOUR FAULT.
'00? YOUR FAULT.
'02? YOUR FAULT.
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Sensing a pattern here?
I listed those for effect, to show how many missed opportunities the average non voter has had to fix the shitshow that is our democracy.
Meanwhile repubs have been voting like it's a religion because to many of them IT IS.
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While the majority of this country was asleep at the wheel, the repubs have been planning, strategizing, shaping the gov't and most importantly WINNING ELECTIONS.
If you've been not voting then you only have yourself to blame.
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Lets just take 2010 as an example shall we?
The repubs CRUSHED the dems that year.
Why is that? Obama turned Indiana blue in 2008.
Fucking INDIANA.
So what happened in 2010?
I'll tell you: there was no HERO to vote for; no fun, no personality.
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So everybody who voted for Obama stayed home and the repubs stopped every bit of progress you voted for.
Then they gerrymandered the SHIT out of our nation and secured the house for TEN YEARS.
Why?
Non Republicans didn't VOTE.
It's been defense ever since.
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Lemme let you in on a secret of politics: if you're reacting and playing defense you're fucking LOSING.
The shitshow our nation has become is because we have a FORTY PERCENT voter participation rate.
The repub base is roughly 26% of America.
You see that math right?
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I am pissed because people are losing their shit on politicians right now when they should be looking in the mirror and losing their shit on themselves.
Some people say if you didn't vote you don't get to bitch but I never believed that, every soldier knows bitching is good.
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But I've just about had enough of this shit, this constant fucking outrage.
WHAT DID YOU EXPECT?
Usually I end my threads positively, I try to send off a good vibe.
I ain't got that for ya'll today.
It's everything I can do to not just say fuck off.
I had a complex relationship with my mother, who's name was Retha btw. She was a terrible angry drunk, and was drunk by 10AM daily.
I hated her and loved her. I crashed a car getting to her when I thought she was hurt once, yet haven't called her in years.
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She was a southern girl through and through. She dolled out advice both good and bad, as all parents do. About sex she told me "Do for her what you think would feel good," but about race it was "Don't bring a black girl home."
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This gerrymandering is a huge deal yes, but I'd also point out that the people of Ohio voted on a Constitutional Amendment that would have prevented this, and the GOP just ignored it.
Ignored the will of the people. If that's not already authoritarian I don't know what is. 1/
Same thing happened in Wisconsin. The people of that state voted to participate in the Affordable Care Act and their government just ignored that too, as they AGAIN are gerrymandering themselves into a very lopsided and undeserved majority.
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Look at Texas, now an arguably purple state. The policies coming out of that legislative body and executive office are authoritarian to the core. Telling businesses what to do, private citizens what to do.
From the "smaller, less intrusive government" people no less.
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Let's talk about passing the two infrastructure bills and the #VotingRightsAct for a bit okay? I know the process isn't exactly what you'd like and I know you've got donors who aren't too keen on some of the proposals, like prescription drug prices for instance.
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You should know that your recalcitrance is making a lot of folks nervous, and for a myriad of reasons. But polls are showing there's one thing most Americans DON'T care about: the price.
The only people out here that care about the price aren't your voters.
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I'm seeing over and over the pandemic has (re)taught us something VERY important: work to live, don't live to work.
I thought maybe I'd thread my thoughts on that, so here we go. #HowToHuman
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Y'all, the work habits of Americans have driven me crazy for years now. I've lost count of how many 60-80 hour a week workers I've talked into toning it down.
"If you're always working how can you enjoy the fruits of your labor?" 2/
And the worst part about it is we've been brainwashed into overworking. Corps have told us since the invention of TV that we're less than if we don't have an extra car, or a too big house. All this enriches THEM, not us.
The Virginia GOP just nominated for governor the hedge fund billionaire ex CEO of The Carlyle Group, who personally hosted Osama Bin Laden's brother at a gala dinner on September 11, 2001.
Because they're the party of "patriots" & the "working class."
The best part about it? They had a train wreck of a primary designed to weed out the trumpies so this guy could win. He played on about "election integrity," but that's the old white supremacist dog whistle party line anyway.
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They had a "drive through" primary and required all sorts of numbers and signatures from their primary voters, information which the actual base refused to give, basically en masse.