I love all of you with all of my brain, but this isn't going to be a fun feed if you can't handle criticism of Democrats when they're being infuriating. There's always an excuse for it and it's rarely a good one.
The story could be “In interests of unity, Democrats offer to block their own bills” and even the most tepid cautiously worded complaint would result in my mentions flooded with angry reflexive defenses—as if the way you get what you want in politics is by never demanding better.
“Sigh. Ummm blocking your own bill is how the sausage gets made, it’s very good actually.”
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The Great American Forgetting Project starts today. They're going to simultaneously try to tell us the last four years were an aberration that is over, and that it never happened.
And it's natural to want to forget these awful years.
It's our moral duty not to.
Those who benefit from our country's malicious priorities will do everything they can now to get us to forget how incontrovertibly Trump exposed those priorities.
Many of us thought we were something better than we were, but now we know.
We've seen our nation's face.
And many among us knew the truth all along. Many of us always saw our nation unmasked, because they were the ones who suffered it.
They told us all along, and the rest of us didn't listen.
Now that they've been proven correct, we're going to be asked to not listen again.
“What is a saint? A saint is someone who has achieved a remote human possibility. It is impossible to say what that possibility is. I think it has something to do with the energy of love."
"Contact with this energy results in the exercise of a kind of balance in the chaos of existence. A saint does not dissolve the chaos; if he did the world would have changed long ago."
"I do not think that a saint dissolves the chaos even for himself, for there is something arrogant and warlike in the notion of a man setting the universe in order."
Every argument against raising the minimum wage involves pointing to some other part of our broken system as if it were a beloved cultural treasure to defend rather than just the next unacceptable thing that needs fixing.
“How is it fair to pay people making minimum wage $30k a year when high school teachers start at that?” as if stagnant wages for teachers were an unrelated matter; don’t worry, Bill, we’ll get to it.
Everyone should have the means to survive and thrive and if the current system doesn't provide for that then nuts to the current system; we shouldn't work for it, it should work for us.
All the bizarre and horrifying things he did are going to come back to us at random moments like half-remembered scraps of dreams.
"Am I wrong or did the president of the United States sit behind a truck just like a big boy and make honk honk sounds? Was that a real one or did I just ... OK he did? He did. Good. OK."
Now listen am I off here or did Trump make the joint chiefs pose for a fake situation room photo after all the shit was unplugged and make them pretend he was part of the successful op against Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi while they all looked like they'd swallowed a live cat—he did! OK.
Pundits: The fact that Ossoff and Warnock are unlikely to both win their elections means Joe Biden needs to court Republican votes rather than push a much-needed progressive agenda
The only way political reporting in this country makes sense is if you understand that the almost universal, almost subconscious default assumption: that conservative white people are the protagonists of any story that's being told, no matter the facts of the story.
Just do the obvious and necessary good things and let the horrid evil people who hate good things squeal and cry about it forever.