I think you're absolutely right. But sometimes we need strong leaders to save us from our own dipshittery - some of those 7 democrats from the House vote wouldn't look so awful if Jeffries had whipped the vote.

gee whiz it would be really great if the opposition party smelled blood in the water right now and went on a full offensive to harness this spark of momentum

Apologies for yet another Irish Revolution comparison: the Irish population was very much opposed to the Easter Rising in 1916 because downtown Dublin was destroyed for, seemingly, no purpose. Until the British executed James Connolly as he was dying of gangrene. He was strapped to a chair and shot.

I'm saving this one because it's the literal truth in my life: key to recovery, cure for loneliness and a habit I can take anywhere and be just fine.

RIP Alex Pretti. You bought this, now you own it Marie. Words cannot express my disgust.

Thank you for being clear and firm. And for signing up to impeach Kristi Noem.

That was useful. Thanks. (My rep is on the list so I'll send her a message to thank her)

Exactly - 1980 Chevy Malibu in my case.

Bingo! Was just about to pose this very question - with Chris Murphy's succinct statement. Thank you.

"I'm not paying for masked thugs to shoot moms in the face. Period." ericsalwell.bluesky.social Niceand clear.

This is how you do it.

Isn't that Jackie Rosen in the pink, next to Schiff? And is that Coons next to the woman in white? And, of course, there's Schumer. Any other dems? Very helpful pic. Thanks for posting.

Thank you.

It's just a game to them

Exactly!

Man, it’s bad enough with Alexa. You’re here to be my on-demand jukebox (a job you suck at) and tell me the weather. Our relationship ends there. I don’t want a “morning routine”, hydration alerts or for you to pipe up every time it rains (I own another more effective device called a window.)

Thanks for posting this and to all who made it possible. "Doesn't advance the ball" says CBS's commissar. See for yourself.

I hate that every week there's something stupid like an Everyone Has To Drink Pee Now Bill and the alert sounds to CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES THIS IS NOT A DRILL and you really wish you could just trust them to not go for the pee drinking bill

i'm a broken record on this: voters may not be able to express *why* you seem weak, but the accumulation of times you don’t punch back on behalf of your allies looks bad even to people 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘥𝘰 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 those allies. it's "this is how they treat their friends? guess they wouldn't care about me either"

Thank you for stepping up. Again.

They're trolling the public. That's who run the show these days: upper class trolls.

these folks, the base, offered us a glimmer of hope in dark times. And then these mandarins came along and pissed on it - by trying to be clever and manipulative and providing "cover" for each other. As you say, they didn't respect us.

Thank you for expressing what I've been thinking. The other thing that eats at me is all of us who showed up in different ways over the last 6 mos - no kings, town halls, indivisible, off-year elections, and especially those who put their bodies on the line for their neighbors...

I get it. The role of peasants is to shut up and keep giving you money. Has it ever occurred to you people that if you want us "united" you should stop dividing us with bait and switch?

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This whole thread makes sense to me. Especially the fact that it asks questions rather than make categorical predictions.

This says it all for me. I've been thinking about the scene in Trainspotting where someone says "I don't hate the English. They're just wankers. We on the other hand got colonized by wankers." We have an upper class that got colonized by wankers.

#bernie and #AOC today