Not if you’re a woman, a queer person, a member of the working class or poor, need health care, need higher education, or don’t want to be governed by people who use your tax money to help kill Palestinian kids, among other things.

But sure.

It wasn’t Trump doing those things, so I agree that it’s okay.

He did as much as a president could do in this position at the federal level.

Patently false.

He has the constitutional power to keep Congress in session if he wants to. He could have held military funding hostage. He could have used his position as the leader of the party to divert campaign funding away from the politicians who vote conservative.

Etc. Etc. Etc.

Respectfully, the excuses don’t matter. The Democrats are not powerless. They’re profiting off the issue, and I think that is why they do not act, and it doesn’t matter how you vote. We’re never getting nationwide legal abortion back.

I know.

But at the same time, we can’t really pretend we give a shit about genocide and then vote Democrat or Republican, both of whom are a-okay with sending more WMD’s to Israel while they’re committing one.

I think, as more and more information on US’ involvement in the Israeli genocide come to light, we have to face the fact that American voters simply don’t care. Both major parties enthusiastically participate in funneling US taxpayers’ money to Israel, and watching them bomb children, hospitals, and innocent people day after day for an entire year hasn’t changed public sentiment on that.

If anyone really cared about the genocide, they wouldn’t vote Democrat or Republican. On this issue the parties are in complete agreement.

No worries, my dude. It can be hard to tell online.

I don’t think it ever will be legal at the Federal level again.

Democrats raised $80,000,000 just off the Roe repeal leak alone. Why kill the golden goose when the people voting for you don’t care if you actually follow through with your promises or not?

As an aside, this is the same reason why we’ll never have a functional immigration system. The Republicans make too much money and political capital off of it to ever fix the problem.

TBH, that Idaho managed to criminalize abortion and get away with it while we had a Democratic president and Congress is, to me, one of the greatest political betrayals I’ve ever seen in my life. I have no faith whatsoever that electing Democrats is going to lead to anything positive on this issue, and it makes me hopeless when I see Democrats in power and then zero response when such an important right is repealed.

Well, zero response other than exploiting it for fundraising.

The minimum wage was always intended to be a living wage, and when I look at everything we’ve lost by electing people who coddle billionaires, it puts me in a blind rage.

Other countries have $25 billion dollar war budgets, universal health care, living wages, free college, and an actual social safety net.

We here in the US have 700 billionaires and an entire population of people who can’t endure any unexpected financial hardship without going further into debt.

It’s fascinating in a sad, depressing way, watching Harris promise to crack down on the border and, instead of touting various benefits for the people whose votes she’s courting, is instead promising tax cuts. She doesn’t seem to have an adequate understanding of what it means to be a working-class American, where a one-time tax cut cannot replace having a monthly or bi-weekly benefits check to help with the soaring cost of living. (A soaring cost that, coincidentally, the Biden Administration has kind of just ignored.)

Good for them.

The tenant union here in Kansas City is doing great work for local renters. I hope the same happens in Omaha, because we know damn well the government isn’t acting to protect local residents.

Rent control policies can lead to higher rents for uncontrolled units, reduce landlords’ incentive to maintain units, and dampen the creation of new rental housing — exacerbating affordable housing shortages.

This sounds like the same alarmist BS we hear any time a minimum wage increase is on the ballot, and once it’s passed, we find that it’s actually a really good thing. Does it not follow logically that rent control, by keeping more money in the hands of people who actually spend it, is a win for the economy as a whole?

I’m pretty sure Boss is being sarcastic.

It’s so maddening to me that part of Biden’s pitch four years ago was how electing him would mean a blow against fascism.

Yet here we are.

I gotta say, part of me kind of admired the chutzpah, pulling this junk out of his ass against a voting bloc they are going to badly need to win, but you’re not wrong. Harris built her career on the lost lives of non-violent drug users she put behind bars.

This article buries the money quote:

“We’re not a monolith,” Thompson said. “However, we are just like every other American in this country who wants a good paying job, that we can provide for our children and participate in their lives and the lives of our partner, that we can get them home safely, afford to go to the grocery store, save a little for retirement and have a vacation.”

Reminds me of the article yesterday calling out women for not having enough babies and blaming individualism and secularism instead of the fact that people can’t afford to procreate.

The simple fact is that it’s really hard to sell Biden 2.0 when Biden 1.0 failed people so spectacularly for people that are out there working to live. You just can’t hand someone a record of failure and expect that they’re going to enthusiastically support your candidacy.

Totally.

I was very impressed by Democrats’ reaction when the Roe repeal was leaked.

They used it to raise money.

That alone is indicative of the fact that they’re unsuited to govern.

Well, thank you for your perspective.

Have a nice weekend.

The Democrats here in America would love him.

I honestly think you and I are on pretty close to the same page as far as American politics are concerned

I really think we’re not.

But thanks for the discussion.

What’s amazing is seeing a president who isn’t content to make excuses.