Once again the media is obtuse. Trump neithers deserves nor should he be given any credit for the current middle east deal. There is only one president at a time. it's not Trump. Trump meddled in the entire affair until it became convenient for him to sidle up to the players. But the fact is if the deal blows up - and there's always possibility that will because of Netanyahu, it will be framed as Biden's failure, not TrTrump'sTrump has nothing to lose.

The truth is I'll probably piss off some of my friends who refused to support Biden, Kamala, and the dems because they were pissed over the Palestinian issue. I'm sorry about that, but I'm okay with it.

The fact is (and I agree) that it is an atrocity and not handled well. But refusing to support the dems over it was always a failed, doomed and, frankly, dumb notion. The folks who turn against the administration and democrats want to believe that they took a stand based on values, integrity, and morality. Maybe. I don't doubt their intentions.

Time.

Time is arguably the single most precious resource because no one can replace it once it's gone. I've greatly resisted the urge to criticize Merrick Garland, not that he didn't deserve it, but adding to the din seemed unhelpful. But now we know the results. Between: 1. Garland wasting time initiating the investigation, and 2. SCOTUS enabling and encouraging Trump to stall, delay and waste as much time as possible, they're the two biggest reasons that so many folks believe justice wasn't served and why there's so little trust in the "system."

Thanks for responding. Despite it's brevity, there's a lot in your response to unpack. I suspect that you're making an overgeneralization and perhaps some oversimplification, too. You're equating diverse voters with "progressive" when they're not necessarily the same thing.👇🏿

https://twitter.com/SER1897/status/1876413652192116946

Furthermore, that progressive voters are younger/irregular voters are "veering right" is anecdotal at best. The wave elections of 2018 and 2020 contradict your claim and, at this juncture, 2024 looks more like a point in time rather than a trend.👇🏿

Former democratic voters who voted for Trump will come back as soon as Reagan democrats did: NEVER. Democrats who spent 30 years chasing them are like Chalie Brown with Lucy and the football: SUCKERS. Let's tell the truth for a change? If it wasn't Trump, it'd be someone else. Yes, it may be the economy, stupid. But their view of the economy is inextricably, indelibly, and permanently tied to race, hate, and resentment. Yet whenever the democrats achieved success, it came directly from expanding the electorate, not by perpetually looking backwards.

Folks are angry about election theft and the apparent lack of will of party leadership to do anything about it. That must be addressed. But for folks to deny that Biden being dislodged by big donors caused confusion didn't also contribute is just denial and must addressed, too.👇🏿 Democrats have always prided ourselves on being able to walk and chew gum. Now is not them time for tunnel vision refusing to examine ourselves because we're mad. Separate and apart from any election theft, party need to take a good, hard look at itself.👇🏿

FACT: Debt service - paying the interest on borrowing from Social Security or from other foreign governments - is the biggest component of the government budget. Not the military. Not social security.

Why?👇🏿 Because republicans refuse to raise taxes on the rich, insist ooncutting the revenue stream to pay for tax cuts for the rich, and have been robbing Social Security for decades to pay for their pet proects - like the Iraq War - without paying back.👇🏿

A big of the reason that Social Security was etablished in the first place is that employers have never paid a wage suffieient for employees to save for retirement, particularly those who do not have employer pension funds.👇🏿 Consequently, many retirees and ttheir survivors wound up destitute. Thus normative economics in a just society required a solution: Social Security.👇🏿

The democrats have a problem. It's not a Joe Biden problem or a Kamala Harris problem. It's an identity problem. Cornell Belcher (@cornellbelcher) provided one of the most insightful analyses of the Democratic party that I've heard in a long time on @NicolleDWallace today.👇🏿 I know that many of my friends have sworn off mainstream media and have specific and intense ire and invective towards MSNBC (so do I.) That's fine, but that's not the point or concern here. If you have the chance to watch that segment, it may be valuable.👇🏿

Your bearded, beer-belly cousin RickyLee, the Trump super fanboy who pinches your wife and insists on parking on your lawn, invited himself to dinner tomorrow. But that doesn't mean everyone can't have an enjoyable time. A few helpful hints:👇🏿 1. Offer him lots of booze during pre-dinner football and he'll sleep through dinner (perhaps the weakest option since you'll have to drive him home later.)
2. Put him at the kids table - in the next room.
3. Discretely tell him that you got the turkey at the halal meat store.👇🏿

MAGA, everything has a cost, and your bill is about to come due. This is what will happen: Eggs, milk, bread, gas and overtsized tires for your pickups, housing, and medical cost will go up along with everthing else in your lives, including beer. Jobs and companies will go away. But look on the bright side. You'll have religion and no books in school, your wives daughters, and mistresses dead from lack of women's health care, less "CRT and DEI," no immigrants to do the work that you're too good to do yourselves, and way more drug addiction and suicide.

I know that a lot of folks are worried about the problematic big names going into nomination, and for good reason. Some of them know just enough to be dangerous, while most of the rest are thoroughly clueless. But I think the nomination fight is a distraction.👇🏿 I think it may be more useful to keep an eye on the deputies and lower-level appointments. Many, if not all, of those folks will be ideologues, extremists, fanatics, Christian zealots, and undoubtedly Russian assets. That's not being paranoid, that's simply being real.👇🏿

I've heard a number of so-called "experts" say that abandoning Xtwitter for Bluesky or other platforms is a bad idea because, among other things, people are moving to places where there are fewer dissenting voices and diminishing the "public square."

I don't buy that.👇🏿 Conflict and dissent are the most fertile ground of problem-solving and creatvity. They allow for the cream of tthoughts and ideas to rise to the top, to be refined, and perfected. Dissent isn't just contrarian or disagreeble for the hell of it. It's for achieving what's best.👇🏿

When you stand back and take a clear-eyed view of republicans and the GOP regardless of what your idelolgical beliefs are, it becomes clear that practically everything that they believe about themelves is a lie. And when you examine history, data, and facts, it's all supported.👇🏿 It's no wonder why they're so desperate to erase and rewrite history and to literally whitewash the minds of America. For them, the truth is a hard - impossible - sell.
-Their policies have never worked and have been popular with the majority of Americans.👇🏿

I am sick to death of people like David Axelrod and others who seem to believe that liberals/progressives ought to hang our heads and apologize to people who don't give a damn about anything but their own hate because we want and expect more and better from our government.👇🏿 They insist that we must listen and understand. Be more empathetic. We tried that. It failed. They had - and have - no interest in listening. What they heard from Trump made them feel good. All of the listening in the world will not sway the endorphins from their good feelings.👇🏿

It's no coincidence that every area in the nation with a majority white population has the full menu of rights, privileges, and benefits of the constitution, including statehood. Enough Native Americans were killed off or moved out of all of those areas to ensure that result.👇🏿 Whereas there isn't a single area or territory where people of color represent the majority that has full citizenship rights and statehood. Name one. Puerto Rico? No. America Samoa No. USVI? No. Washington, DC? No. Why? I suspect that we all know. 👇🏿

It makes no sense to have laws on the books that don't have serious enough enforcement mechanisms and penalties to either serve as a disincentive to breaking them or punish people severely when they do. Once again, it needs to be stated until lawmakers hear it and change it.👇🏿 The Justice Department also needs to have the will wherewithal, and resources to enforce it, too. Otherwise, rules are just suggestions, and unscrupulous folks see them as challenges, impediments and inconveniences to be ignored on the way to doing whatever the hell they want.👇🏿

Let me tell you a little story. Most of you probably remember, but others may not know, especially young, first-time voters. So it's better to be safe than sorry.👇🏿 Almost immediately after Trump was inaugurated in 2017, over a million women in pink hats (and the men who love them) went to Washington, DC to protest in anticipation of what was to come from a Trump administration. It was probably the biggest protest in history.👇🏿

I've been seeing republican ads blaming MVP for paying for inmate "sex change" operations. They're purely ignorant, dumb and counterintuitive. But stupid people see what they want to.

1. Even if she made the recommendation, the decision was made by the court and prison system.👇🏿 2. It's far less expensive and far more responsible to continue and support the processes during incarceration for people who began the process outside than to incur the cost of liability for sickness or death by not allowing it to continue.👇🏿

The red state governors who are in full panic now about Trump, Musk, and others putting out lies and conspiracy theories about FEMA to terrify and manipulate hurricane victims are reaping what they sowed. They thought they were cute and smart enough to have it both ways:👇🏿 To support Trump just to be associated with political power, and still be independent so that they could pretend that they were in charge and not accountable to the MAGA machinery. It's their fault. Did they think that there wouldn't be a political price to pay?👇🏿

Why we need to pay attention: In one interview, JD Vance said that we need a "de-bathaafication process" in America. The question is WHY? I suspect that many people don't even understand what that means, but it's essentally the same process used in Germany to get rid of Nazis.👇🏿 Originally, Baathism and the Baathist party were created as a means and political force to break away from British colonialism. Decolonialism also meant being separated from western domination and control (keep that in mind.)👇🏿