📌I will NOT be a part of the self-loathing by too many in Democratic “leadership” as they try to convince people like me — a high school dropout — that I'm some college-educated elite who doesn't understand what the majority of "hardworking” white voters want in this country.
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📌Look, if these complete morons on the Right want to vote against their self-interests, and America, they are beyond help, and all I will do is keep working my ass off to make sure people understand this.
📌What we have is a failure to communicate on the Left, but much more on that in a minute ... (And a warning: I am typing like the sailor I was right now, so if four-letter words offend you, you can skip all this. And happy Veterans Day to my fellow vets.)
📌I will not take a scintilla of blame for supporting the smart, qualified, career public servant who understands the dangers of unchecked racism and fascism, and was part of an administration that inherited a dumpster fire from the SOB WHO ATTACKED US ...
📌So listen to me, you haughty, Democratic know-nothings, I have seen what the majority of white voters want, because of WHAT THEY TAKE:
-They TAKE Social Security, and Medicare.
-They TAKE the recent cuts in the obscenely high drug prices.
-They TAKE the higher wages, and better-paying jobs.
-They TAKE the high-paying union jobs.
-They TAKE the money from the America Rescue Plan.
-They TAKE the money for disaster-relief.
-They TAKE the millions of jobs from the once-in-a-century Infrastructure Law.
-The TAKE the good-paying jobs an starter money from the CHIPS and Science Act.
-They TAKE the healthcare that doesn’t penalize people for pre-existing conditions.
-They TAKE the childcare tax credits.
-They TAKE the free lunches for their children, so they don’t go hungry.
-They TAKE the new broadband Internet access.
📌They TAKE all of these things and much, much more that good-hearted Democrats have worked hard to provide them during this administration and the decades before.
📌Me? I support the party that is providing these whining babies all this, because it is the right thing to do, even if they refuse to grow up and get the fuck out of their own way to see it.
📌I am not remotely wealthy, but gladly pay a shit-ton more taxes living in the suburbs here in Wisconsin than these brainwashed babies do in the country, so that THEY can benefit.
📌Now I ask YOU: What do THEY give people like ME??????
📌These whiny white people are angry because they’ve decided to plant their asses in place, and expect everybody to meet them where they are, and see things their way. They want to be coddled and held, just like the babies they are.
📌They don’t want to make America better, they want to make everybody else’s lives worse.
📌All they are is angry, and have finally found a lewd, racist conman who can put a megaphone to their tantrums, and deal the rest of America plenty of pain. He has no goddamn answers for them or us.
ZERO.
📌These white people have proven without a shadow of doubt that they will literally eat their own if it means holding onto the power they have had in this country for 248 years.
📌Because THAT is what this is all about, you Democratic dummies. And what really confuses me is that while you might not know much about the electorate, you do know that. Power is everything in politics, and your mealy-mouthed approach to getting it back is doomed.
*NOTE: I was only getting started here, and you can find the rest for free by hitting the link on my profile, that Trump's boss, Elmo, would rather you didn't.
Thank you. We need leadership now, NOT excuses.
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🇺🇸 We are a battle-tested group of badass patriots that has prevailed time and again, and won one key political skirmish after another at an astonishing clip the past seven years.
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🇺🇸 The fact that we have accomplished this in the face of long odds, and unrelenting opposition has been an inspiration, and will fill fat chapters of the history books Republicans would rather people didn't read.
🇺🇸 We have generated breathtaking Blue Waves and drowned Red Ones. We have won the House, and we have won the Senate. We have won the presidency, and an overwhelming majority of the vote. We have won special elections, and not-so-special ones.
📌Spent the afternoon on the road canvassing for @KamalaHarris and @tammybaldwin here in Madison, Wisconsin.
📌So a quickie thread, with a big finish ...
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📌Turns out where I am in West Madison we've hit our canvassing marks so well, they sent me out to SW Dane County in the town of Oregon to help out there.
📌Dane County is the Blue Wall of this Blue Wall state. Joe Biden beat the revolting Trump by 175,000 votes here in 2020.
📌The Oregon area is rural as hell, and might be confused for stereotypically being kind of Trumpee ...
📌Well, there's some of that, but damn if it isn't bluer than blue in most places, so get this ...
📌I have heard more than enough of this grotesque garbage that perhaps we should try to understand what makes the Trump voter tick, and somehow sympathize with their support of an unapologetic loudmouth who sees “good people” on both sides of a violent white supremacist rally.
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📌Have you seen this drivel that Kamala Harris and other Dems have done an inadequate job of connecting with Trump voters who see nothing dangerous about a man who refers to human beings as “vermin,” and has adopted Adolph Hitler’s talking points at his odious campaign rallies?
📌Have you seen this low-grade nonsense that we should work to lower the temperature in this country, and maybe not take it personally when one party has gone completely in the tank for a hideous man who told the losers who attacked America on Jan. 6, 2021 that he “loves them?"
📌Let me tell you why the traitor, Trump, has NO SHOT in Wisconsin this year:
📌Where I live in Madison, we had a 45% turnout yesterday — the highest for a fall partisan election EVER. This is an obscenely high number. The state overall was at 26%, the highest in 60 yrs.
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📌You can expect the turnout numbers to be close to double that in November. So why does that matter?
📌Well, take a look at what we thought of the GOP's disgusting ballot initiatives, which lost statewide by a whopping 15 pts. -- 57%-42%.
📌Here in Dane County, home to Madison? Well, those initiatives were defeated by 66 pts.
Read the again.
83% to 17%. Astonishing. Truly astonishing.
"To protect older Americans’ life savings, President Biden pledged in October to crack down on financial advisers who recommend investments just because they pay higher commissions. Then the insurance industry got to work."
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📌"Lobbying groups representing New York Life, Lincoln Financial Group, Prudential Financial and other companies first pushed back against the newly proposed regulations before suing to topple them entirely."
📌"Now the government’s latest attempt to protect retirees is in political and legal limbo, facing the possibility that it may never take effect."
Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brands
🗞️The goods these prisoners produce wind up in the supply chains of a dizzying array of products found in most American kitchens, from Frosted Flakes cereal and Ball Park hot dogs to Gold Medal flour, Coca-Cola and Riceland rice. They are on the shelves of virtually every supermarket in the country, including Kroger, Target, Aldi and Whole Foods. And some goods are exported, including to countries that have had products blocked from entering the U.S. for using forced or prison labor.
🗞️Many of the companies buying directly from prisons are violating their own policies against the use of such labor. But it’s completely legal, dating back largely to the need for labor to help rebuild the South’s shattered economy after the Civil War. Enshrined in the Constitution by the 13th Amendment, slavery and involuntary servitude are banned – except as punishment for a crime.
🗞️“I was in a field with a hoe in my hand with maybe like a hundred other women. We were standing in a line very closely together, and we had to raise our hoes up at the exact same time and count ‘One, two, three, chop!’” said Faye Jacobs, who worked on prison farms in Arkansas.
🗞️Jacobs, who was released in 2018 after more than 26 years, said the only pay she received was two rolls of toilet paper a week, toothpaste and a few menstrual pads each month.
🗞️Former Angola prisoner, Curtis Davis, talks about his time at the Louisiana State Penitentiary during a 2021 interview near a former antebellum slave plantation near Angola, La. The Myrtles, as the antebellum home is known, sits just 20 miles away from where men toil in the fields of Angola.
🗞️“Slavery has not been abolished,” said Davis, who spent more than 25 years at the penitentiary and is now fighting to change state laws that allow for forced labor in prisons. “It is still operating in present tense. Nothing has changed.”