Kevin Salem

Helpless≠Hopeless Youth disengagement isn’t apathy. It’s a rational response to a system that rewards power, not participation.

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I bet these were the $2500 psychics, too. She didn't just dip in to the little storefront on St. Mark's Place.

I'm sorry, but we need an operational definition for "moratorium on mischief." Though I think we have one for Cave Caucus 🙄

And the musician!

I'm already an entrepreneur who cannot get insurance on the exchange. I called United Healthcare, though, to negotiate my rate, and they told me to go fuck myself... which was quite rude, but frankly, a welcome departure from their usual tone of murderously, arrogantly uncaring.

I'm glad this says ruthlessly *strategic*. This morning I saw a headline that said ruthlessly pragmatic, and I'm sorry Obama, but that is not really a thing. Pragmatic ruthlessness maybe, but not ruthless pragmatism.

instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters."

I'd start your sentence, "Without the authoritarian Right being banished; without Nuremberg-style accountability; without an agenda that addresses wealth inequality, healthcare, climate change, foreign policy, and affordability..." That sets the bar at damn near impossible, but... not totally.

Einstein wants to jack up the price of health insurance, then subsidize it by giving you half of the increase. This explains how he bankrupted a casino 🤷🏻‍♂️

“DSA stands with working people as democrats sell out to the right”

DSA stands in absolute opposition to the proposed deal to pass Trump's billionaire budget. Healthcare is a right, not a bargaining chip.

If they want to get out of DC, I suggest these spineless creatures do so permanently.

What a condescending POS. I think Durbin doesn't know how *politics* works, nor dies he understand that his arrogance is killing democracy.

What the actual fuck?

Excellent

Wrong. Just... fucking no.

Bullshit

This is the leader the Dems rejected for a guy that they should have supported in battling cancer. The Jeffries and Schumers and Pelosis are desperately afraid of the few people that are fighting to save their party.

The normies are being radicalized... At this point, even the Baileys are telling Schumer, "Get our names out your fuckin' mouth, brah!" Fetterman has to tie a pork chop around his neck to get his dog to play with him. Just historic failure.

Cowards.

I'm gonna float this theory. Schumer is punishing Democratic voters for calling him out, for calling Israel out, for saying "no fucking more," and yes, for electing Mamdani. The Baileys hate him, too.

We need a DSA takeover.

This sucks dude. EVEN if Thune isn’t lying to you about the vote, the House won’t hold a vote.

You got nothing, and just proved to the public that the shutdown was your fault.

And you proved to Republicans that they can weaponize hunger. You negotiated with terrorists

He's a fucking embarrassment. The Aaron Boone of the senate.

Political malpractice. It's voter suppression by inflicting learned helplessness on the Democratic constituency. I really don't wanna hear a peep about "big tents" from Ezra Klein or Morning Joe. There is no tent, because there are no principles to serve as a tentpole.

States... do not comply.

Instead of "NUMBERS," I literally saw NUREMBERG. Shows you where I'm at with this.

I once recorded a version of a bunch of WWE wrestlers singing "Balls to the Wall," a song I'd never heard before, never since. I do not include it in my discography. Freelance rule #1... sometimes you gotta grin and bear it. 😔

Why must every single part of the People's Economy be a scam? Oh right... because we have to prop up bubble after bubble, failure after failure, scam after scam of the Elite Economy.

Democracy demands participation, and we may not always do our part. But... it is MADDENING, the degree to which the Democratic Party, under its current leadership, makes its constituency walk ten fucking miles uphill for every inch. If that's the fight they want, we will have to give it.

Husbands with Grindr profiles?