Too true.

"Defund the police" helped elect Trump.

Numbers showing how much better the bottom 50% of the country would be doing if 3 men didn't own as much wealth as the bottom 50% of the country. Add to that the cost of the GOP ignoring climate change - increased insurance premiums and such. We're in a class war and the rich are winning.

YouTube video by Uncle Dunc The Rich Did -Uncle Dunc

I put this up a month before the election. It never went viral, but it's still worth a look:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDea...

Many are asking: “What can I do now?”

Here’s a revised and expanded list of actions you can take, in rough order of importance. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/more-on-what-you-can-do

A tweet by Michael McFaul (@McFaul) that reads: "In 2012, when I was the US ambassador to Russia, Putin shut down USAID inside Russia. Why? Because their work supported free markets, democracy, human rights — ie causes that threatened Putin's dictatorship. Shutting down USAID is exactly what autocrats all over the world want."

Putin is full out celebrating our idiocy.

If Kelly really was a hero, he'd round up Gallego (AZ Dem Senator who also voted to confirm the new Treasury Sec) and some of their friends from the military and physically remove the Musk team from the US Treasury building.

Just curious - what can the Dems actually do when they're in the minority in the House and Senate?

And yet, by ending DEI policies, they're showing they care very much about skin color, in that they don't want minorities flying planes.

The public is asleep, and so are the Dems. I live in AZ. The latest AZ GOP tax cut for the rich resulted in Tucson (population 1 M) receiving $60million less in state tax revenue that was supposed to go to funding police and fire. I saw no Dem politicians publicizing this in their 2024 campaigns.

I suggested it's the gulf between Christian values and the values displayed by MAGA.

The Beatles changed pop music songwriting and production. All the other bands tagged along behind them.

Republicans are NOT cowards. They’re win-at-all-cost opportunists with situational ethics that exist to benefit the 1%. They paved the way for Trump who delivers on their dreams of stacking courts with unqualified ideologues, transferring trillions to the top, and rolling back a century of progress.

Yes, we need new leadership. What we don't need is angry Lefties trashing the Dem Party, which only helps the other side. Remember "never Hillary"? How did that work out?

This is why wealthy Americans, like Elon Musk, want middle class Americans to be obsessed with worrying about immigrants stealing from their piece of the zero-sum economic pie.

Ten Things We Can All Do to Protect Democracy From Marc | The most common question I receive is how everyday citizens can help in the fight for democracy.

The most common question I receive is how everyday citizens can help in the fight for democracy. My advice, take the first step, start with something small and see what works for you. Here are ten things all of us can do. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/10-t...

The purpose of a vote is to produce a policy outcome, not an ego boost. I was posting this message daily during election season. Did it do any good? Nope.

If only Israel had implemented a two-state solution decades ago, none of this would be happening, but no one talks about that.

Objecting to right wing Israeli fascists supporting genocide is not antisemitism, it's common decency.

30 years off cable. Yes, broadcast TV commercials are annoying, but that's when I do my dishes - in 4-minute increments. PBS is relatively commercial free, so that helps.

If it fits the character's mindset, it's fine. Reading about people who think differently than we do expands our consciousness. It also gives the author an opportunity to show the character's growth as the story unwinds.

Obvious explanation is that she quit because soft focus lenses can no longer hide the lines on her face, unlike women of character who don't give a flying f*ck about how the world sees them.

This 💟

Virtually every comment here totally misses the point. The Dems lost because the cost of living went up, but rather than explain why, they pivoted to "joy." The problem with Dems is that they think everyone is informed and capable of critical thinking. The opposite is true in presidential elections.

Saw this and had to repost. <3 Credit to Marpal Embroidery for the work!

Dark ages #2 coming at ya!

I'm one of the many FB users whose account got hacked (byTrump trolls) and eventually deleted, with no opportunity for an appeal or an interaction with a human to resolve the issue. For us, anything Meta is a no-go.