It's not a turning point. Senators are deflecting from this and walking off like questions weren't asked.
By cashman Go To Postlol it's amazing to watch tbh
along with the dems taking turns calling each other racist - then they're baffled when people stop giving a fuck
Dems would make terrible a "red rover" team. GOP would create a wall more impenetrable than any on the southern border after locking arms.
By Laboured Go To Post"reuniting them with their families - somewhere else" is pretty much the Dem policy on immigration anyways
Calling republicans facist instead of acknowledging hypocrisy is doing nothing but validating opposition and pushing more people away lol. I can't remember a time when the left looked this shaky.
By Fenderputty Go To PostDems would make terrible a "red rover" team. GOP would create a wall more impenetrable than any on the southern border after locking arms.True.
They'd need a war or something at this point
By Laboured Go To Post
Will some journalist ask this retired IBM programmer what she really thought of her Indian and Chinese coworkers?
By HasphatsAnts Go To PostThis is fire
That is not a given. In the face of a corrupt authoritarian president who believes that he and his allies are above the law, the American people are represented by two parties equally incapable of discharging their constitutional responsibilities. The Republican Party is incapable of fulfilling its constitutional responsibilities because it has become a cult of personality whose members cannot deviate from their sycophantic devotion to the president, lest they be ejected from office by Trump's fanatically loyal base. The Democratic Party cannot fulfill its constitutional responsibilities because its leadership lives in abject terror of being ejected from office by alienating the voters to whom Trump’s nationalism appeals. In effect, the majority of the American electorate, which voted against Trump in 2016 and then gave the Democrats a House majority in 2018, has no representation.
The leadership of the Democratic Party has shown more appetite for confronting and rebuking legislators representing the vulnerable communities Trump has targeted most often than it has for making the president mildly uncomfortable.What more can be said.
The great victory of the House Democrats has been to halt the Republican legislative effort to deprive millions of health care coverage, a feat they accomplished simply by being elected. But over the past seven months, Democrats have proved unable to complete a single significant investigation, hold many memorable hearings, or pass a single piece of meaningful legislation that curtails Trump’s abuses of authority. Instead, they held their breath waiting for Robert Mueller to save them, and when he did not they, like their Republican predecessors, took to issuing sternly worded statements, tepid pleas for civility, and concerned tweets as their primary methods of imposing accountability.
.... Okay that's rough. But surely it's not all bad. Let's try and keep things in perspective.
....Speaker Nancy Pelosi offered the gibberish analysis that the president was "self-impeaching,"so no actual impeachment was necessary. When confronted with yet another woman accusing the president of sexual assault, Pelosi said, "I haven't paid much attention to it." When the politically connected financier Jeffrey Epstein was indicted again on charges of sex-trafficking minors, and Pelosi was asked what she would do about now-ousted Labor Secretary Alex Acosta, who negotiated a previous sweetheart deal with Epstein, she said, “It’s up to the president. It’s his Cabinet,” a position indistinguishable from that of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who is a member of the president's party.
"If you start endangering children, I become a lioness," Pelosi declared, before caving on a funding bill for border security that will do nothing to relieve the systematic abuse of migrants at the border, and whose restrictions the Department of Homeland Security is already ignoring. Chuck Schumer, the Democratic minority leader in the Senate, took the occasion of federal prosecutors in New York mysteriously closing their investigation into the president’s hush-money payments to former girlfriends to ask the FBI to look into a popular app that ages pictures of people’s faces. The president’s racist attacks on Omar and her colleagues were precipitated by Democrats leaking a poll of “white, non-college voters” supposedly showing that they might cost the party the House and the presidency. Having publicly told the school bully where and how to take their lunch money, the Democrats were surprised when he showed up.
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"I would have appealed to the white working class Rust Belt worker" was always racist but nobody wanted to think it because a Socialist said it
It's not wholly fair to criticize a lack of legislation due to the senate and the POTUS, but everything else is spot on. Pelosi has been very disappointing.
It sucks the EC puts us in a position where most states don't matter and the ones that do are filled with the economically anxious.
By reilo Go To Post"I would have appealed to the white working class Rust Belt worker" was always racist but nobody wanted to think it because a Socialist said it
It sucks the EC puts us in a position where most states don't matter and the ones that do are filled with the economically anxious.
I'll also like to point out that this entire attack by Trump on the four congresswomen was only possible because Pelosi decided to open it up and attack them as well. She may not have thrown the punches but she sure as fuck was propping them up as a punching bag.
Is that clip of pelosi saying "even this cup could've won that election" in reference to AOC still up
good times
good times
By DY_nasty Go To PostIs that clip of pelosi saying "even this cup could've won that election" in reference to AOC still up
good times
By FortuneFaded Go To Post
Even Piers Morgan has had enough of Trump's shit. Is this a turning point?
a turning point? after ~5 years of this mess?
By FortuneFaded Go To PostThey'llstill vote/support him.
Even Piers Morgan has had enough of Trump's shit. Is this a turning point?
By DY_nasty Go To Post"reuniting them with their families - somewhere else" is pretty much the Dem policy on immigration anyways
Of all the galaxy brain dipshittery
By curlyfries Go To PostOf all the galaxy brain dipshitteryit aint hard to find these takes either ijs
I wish I could tell if this was the political equivalent of Ben Simmons 3 point hype videos or actual enthusiasm.
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By DY_nasty Go To Postit aint hard to find these takes either ijsThanks for reigniting my disdain for her.
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I wish I could tell if this was the political equivalent of Ben Simmons 3 point hype videos or actual enthusiasm.
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By Fenderputty Go To PostComrade Bernie said fuck it
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Do you believe in a $15 minimum wage or do you not. It's not that fucking hard. Bernie, bro, [get it? Bernie bros? heh heh yeah let's just...] do you believe in it.
By Pac-12 Go To PostDo you believe in a $15 minimum wage or do you not. It's not that fucking hard. Bernie, bro, [get it? Bernie bros? heh heh yeah let's just…] do you believe in it.
The bros are out in force on twitter right now. And yes, he did give them the ability to negotiate, but he also understands paying a low salary for a job that demands lots of hours prevents OT and brings down the labor rate. Which is a very corporate thing to do.
By blackace Go To PostIs Biden really the best candidate at this point?I mean he's still leading... But we gotta see how long that lasts between him sabotaging his own campaign and the rest of the field waiting for any opportunity to tear him apart.
By Pac-12 Go To PostDo you believe in a $15 minimum wage or do you not. It's not that fucking hard. Bernie, bro, [get it? Bernie bros? heh heh yeah let's just…] do you believe in it.
just call them Boes.
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By Pac-12 Go To PostThat last sentence definitely reads like it was their duty to cover up for Van Dyke, which, yeah...
All it took was five goddamn years
By DY_nasty Go To PostI mean he's still leading… But we gotta see how long that lasts between him sabotaging his own campaign and the rest of the field waiting for any opportunity to tear him apart.Yeah, I still don't think he'll be leading when it's all over because other candidates will continue to hammer home his voting record and past positions that he's never apologized for. He's also bad at debates and that's where people like Warren and Harris will continue to make up ground.
CNN putting Biden and Harris on the same debate is just asking for her to rip him up again.
By JesalR Go To PostThat last sentence definitely reads like it was their duty to cover up for Van Dyke, which, yeah…
haha, I really read it that way.
By Fenderputty Go To PostLol that guy worked for the Heritage Foundation, and the WP always has it out for Bernie. Might as well start posting Fox News on Bernie articles on here too.
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would you like to comment on the content of the article? Lol can I only link TYT when talking Bernie? Comparing wapo to fox is seriously lol worthy
Read up on it earlier today. The staffers are unionized and have a $17 an hour pay rate but are salaried and not compensated for overtime, which dragged down their per hour earnings below that $15 an hour mark.
Still shitty, but yeah.
Still shitty, but yeah.
By Fenderputty Go To PostThis is a silly attack on Bernie. You’re better than this.
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By Fenderputty Go To Postwould you like to comment on the content of the article? Lol can I only link TYT when talking Bernie? Comparing wapo to fox is seriously lol worthyI'm comparing the dude's twitter to Fox News, just look at his bio. Heritage Foundation and their ilk are responsible for pushing any draconian right wing bullshit we've been putting up with in this country. They would consider Joe Manchin a rabid liberal.
And when it comes to leftist politics or policies, WaPo is always ready on the attack.
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By Kibner Go To PostRead up on it earlier today. The staffers are unionized and have a $17 an hour pay rate but are salaried and not compensated for overtime, which dragged down their per hour earnings below that $15 an hour mark.
Still shitty, but yeah.
Which is what I said. I have a feeling that since this went public he'll end up paying them what he preaches and be like "LOOK UNIONS R GREEEAT!"
By Perfect Blue Go To PostThis is a silly attack on Bernie. You’re better than this.
Horseshit. Dude had BS graphs posted in here like he's some leftist savant and he intentionally works the lowest on his rung long hours without OT. I was fair too and gave him credit for allowing them to collectively bargain. I assume he'll make this right.
It's also equally fair to say that his lowest rung are probably still paid better comparatively, but that's besides the point. He's supposed to be the workers man and finds himself on the corporate side of a labor negotiation. I work labor with labor rates. Those conditions and expected hours are intentional.
That is all my point is too. All these assholes are hypocrites to some extent.
By Fenderputty Go To PostWhich is what I said. I have a feeling that since this went public he'll end up paying them what he preaches and be like "LOOK UNIONS R GREEEAT!"Unions negotiates with employers, that's what they do. If he responses positively, then that means it worked.
Horseshit. Dude had BS graphs posted in here like he's some leftist savant and he intentionally works the lowest on his rung long hours without OT. I was fair too and gave him credit for allowing them to collectively bargain. I assume he'll make this right.
It's also equally fair to say that his lowest rung are probably still paid better comparatively, but that's besides the point. He's supposed to be the workers man and finds himself on the corporate side of a labor negotiation. I work labor with labor rates. Those conditions and expected hours are intentional.
So in your eyes he's already damned if he does, damned if he doesn't.
I'd like to see how their pay compares to that of people who are employed by the other top running dems in the race.