The Sheriff in Kerr County was interviewed the day after the floods, and his first comment was about “when I woke up this morning, I could hardly believe it!…”

This fucking guy slept through the flooding all night as kids were drowning in his county he was elected to protect.

They could have helped us by including the public option in the bill, as it was originally designed to include by republican Mitt Romney. Instead, they simply used it as an opportunity to shovel 25 million Americans right into the pockets of insurance companies. Then-senator Biden dropped the public option before negotiations even began, as a “show of good faith to his esteemed Republican colleagues.” They left the insurance requirement in though, and even tried to add a system where we had to report it with taxes if we wanted refunds.

The part BBB is fucking up is honestly a travesty to begin with. It’s what allows Walmart to operate without insuring their employees, specifically training them to earn under certain amounts and work limited hours so that they can go on Medicare instead of the giant multinational corporation paying their fair share for their employees’ health.

Do you see the pattern here? Fuck these corporations for buying our government and using it against us to rob us blind. Both parties do help them with this, and it has got to stop because we’re at a breaking point.

Dems constantly let republicans get away with “causing more damage,” yet never seem capable of helping the working class when they get voted back into power. It’s so disingenuous, at least Republicans are honest about their evil intentions. But sure, vote harder next election sweetie, and if you vote hard enough the still not prosecuted Orange Traitor will just cancel the election altogether.

Swasticar, now with 50% more Nazi!

Gross, hate that my tax dollars get used for this crap.

Perhaps you shouldn’t. At this point, it’s likely the majority of users are bots.

Hey now don’t forget Nick Fuentes and Stephen Miller!

At least he didn’t say Mr Roboto ?..

That’s one way to dispose of all those bad apples

Yes, this is a problem much better solved on an institutional scale best served by government regulations, not by individuals doing their part. These companies you mention attempt to shift the burden of responsibility onto those with the least power to affect any real change. It’s diabolical.

It’s common sense, but obfuscated by those still spending millions to deny climate change while the world literally burns around us. Gaslighting is a hell of a propaganda technique.

Yep, do this every time. Unfortunately voter turnout in primaries is so abysmal that the ad spends seem to often work. By the numbers, the candidate who spends more money wins over 95% of the time. It’s a depressing reality that has led Dems down a very dark path of chasing donor money and abandoning their constituents in the process.

I’m apparently a freak of American politics and do basic due diligence to research beforehand if the primary is contested and find the most progressive contender possible, but I think most people just don’t give care enough to do this sort of thing and usually just vote for the name they see more on TV. So, I think increased civic engagement is another very important part of solving these issues.

We should invest in our electoral process and make it the envy of democracies around the globe, and as Americans, should be damn proud to do so.

We the people aren’t afraid of this, but if the establishment dems catch wind of a primary challenger who’s left of center, they will come down so hard on them with millions in DNC attic ads and literally try to cancel the primary if they have to to keep them out.

It’s much easier to stifle open revolt with sham elections. Putin has been doing this for decades now in Russia.

Weird, I seem to recall the senate parliamentarian pumping the brakes on much of the Dem agenda before reconciliation votes in Biden’s term. Just couldn’t pass 85% of his promised agenda because of that darn parliamentarian and “the rules.” All we heard from Dems then was how there was nothing they could do to counter the revered senate parliamentarian.

Last week, there were whispers about the parliamentarian pushing back on some of the massively problematic portions of this bill, and then whoosh, it was gone. Dems didn’t utter a word further. Media completely silent on the matter. What happened? Millionaire senators all want their tax cuts too huh?

All part of the plant

Good question, maybe FOIA requests but it will probably be all redacted for “national security concerns.” Congress should be able to get the info as well, and could release it at their discretion.

The $175 billion in new ICE funding that’s coming with this spending bill is what they’ll use to build it. Follow that money and you’ll find the mass extermination facilities.

I definitely agree with your last paragraph here. Try to vote in progressives in every primary we have access to in order to use voting to make a difference, yes.

However,

the donors want to win

You mean they want everything for themselves by buying politicians, right? Because often times Dem strategy is so incredibly tone deaf the only thing that’s clear about it is that they aren’t trying to win an election, they’re simply doing what the donors tell them to do. In this case, it’s the classic pretend fight, send strongly worded letters, and then let the republicans narrowly pass the massive tax break for the rich. Which is in fact a win for the donors, but nobody else.

Fight club style