I’m angry the Build Back Better Act is getting pared back.
But, in the alternative universe where a Republican holds Manchin’s seat, we’re in week 3 of a government shutdown and Ted Cruz vows to filibuster the bill reopening the government until Biden agrees to slash Medicaid.
— Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser) October 27, 2021
Alternative Universe McConnell just offered to confirm Biden’s first judge, but only if Biden agrees to nominate three Federalist Society lawyers to federal appeals courts. One of those lawyers wrote a law review article called “The Homosexual Plague.”
— Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser) October 27, 2021
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The other problem is with the American voters, who generally want leftie policies but keep voting for right-wing politicians.
The reason being, of course, is that leftie politicians tend to be women, minorities and educated types.
The three kinds of people Americans hate the most— Slava Malamud (@SlavaMalamud) October 27, 2021
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Mike & I are both old enough to remember the last time the GOP was supposedly gonna rule for a generation.
it was 2005. pic.twitter.com/yNodixX1HV
— Lawyering for Bigfoot ? ?? ?? (@noboa) October 28, 2021
and then a black dude with a funny name got elected President, followed by a failed game show host. none of which ANYONE could’ve predicted between 2003-05.
— Lawyering for Bigfoot ? ?? ?? (@noboa) October 28, 2021
like, if you’d told any reasonably savvy political observer that an obscure Illinois state senator would be president inside of a decade, they’d have thought you were bonkers.
so maybe let’s slow the roll with how shit’s gonna go.
— Lawyering for Bigfoot ? ?? ?? (@noboa) October 28, 2021
yeah I think I’ve lived through 3 or 4 proclamations of permanent political death in my lifetime, it tends to not last as long as scribblers think; however, the resurrections are often paid for in blood and that’s the part I truly regret
— Jason Linkins (@dceiver) October 28, 2021
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every fortysomething i know understands that “normie” is a very relative thing and that younger people will think about issues and express themselves in ways that are different than fortysomethings would. https://t.co/7x8TPe1xkV
— ? ? GHOSTLIKEHELLMACHINE ? ?⬛ (@golikehellmachi) October 26, 2021
if the normie libs in their 40s from oklahoma that i know can learn to use inclusive language and work hard to understand and make space for people whose lives are different than their own, then journalists and commenters from new york and DC can work harder at it.
— ? ? GHOSTLIKEHELLMACHINE ? ?⬛ (@golikehellmachi) October 26, 2021
also, there aren’t really “moderate republicans” at this point. both lisa murkowski and mitt romney voted against raising the debt ceiling in the last 30 days.
— ? ? GHOSTLIKEHELLMACHINE ? ?⬛ (@golikehellmachi) October 26, 2021
honestly, the fact that the democratic party hasn’t become equally extremist and hostile in response is something worth thinking about on it’s own, but that’s not really something any journalists seem to think very much about.
— ? ? GHOSTLIKEHELLMACHINE ? ?⬛ (@golikehellmachi) October 26, 2021
A Good Woman
I want to believe we can get through this and have a better country in the end, but the skepticism is strong.
frosty
All of those are right on the money. “Obscure Illinois state senator” especially. Thanks AL!!
Baud
I have long been averse to political predictions.
Jeffro
That last tweet is the real story of the past 10/20/40 years: can ya believe how crazy the Republican Party has become? (as illustrated by the 3rd-last tweet re: Murkowski and Romney)
And it’s all by choice, too. They’ll fight to the death about anything and everything…even something as (formerly) mundane as raising the debt ceiling…because they have nothing to offer 99% of Americans.
It’s like several of you have said: what’s their plan for anything? What’s their plan for mitigating (or heaven forbid, reversing) climate change? Shouldn’t there be a ‘conservative’ solution for that, other than putting their fingers in their ears and burning even more fossil fuels? There used to be a conservative plan for climate change – it was called a carbon tax. Why’d they run away from that?
What’s the GQP plan for immigration reform? Just “seal the borders”??? How do their corporate donors feel about that? What do you say, farmers? Small business owners, ‘zat good with you?
They have No. Plans. Whatsoever. Maybe that can be the story now.
New Deal democrat
Alternate universe Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell handed Biden a list of GOPers that would be acceptable to him to appoint to cabinet positions. Ten months later, half of Biden’s cabinet is still empty.
Democrats simply have to get a couple more Senate seats in 2022, to make Manchin and Sinema irrelevant. Then they can do BBB v.2.0.
And I do not buy the conventional wisdom that Dems will lose Congress next year. Sometime between now and the next 4th of July, abortion rights are going to be outlawed by the Supreme Court, unleashing a level of fury and backlash that hasn’t been seen in decades in the US. People react *much* more strongly when something they already have is taken away, than if something they don’t have now isn’t given to them.
OzarkHillbilly
Liar. Not being in favor of cops shooting whoever they feel like with no questions asked is about as radical as it gets.
burnspbesq
Nobody knows anything, and those who think they know the most actually know the least.
Baud
That’s why you stick with people your own age on online dating sites.
Barbara
Matt should at least have the integrity to preface “Every twenty something I know,” with “having grown up in NYC the child of wealthy and successful writers (natch: two generations of wealthy and successful writers!) and gone to exclusive private schools my whole life, and then graduated into being a writer for major publications who screen for people like me . . .” Which is to say — a rather limited pool of people.
Maybe because even from an early age I understood I was the outlier child of outlier parents, I am always amazed that someone like Matt Yglesias thinks that his personal experience can be generalized at all, to anyone, much less his entire generation.
Maybe it’s the Harvard effect. My co-clerk was a Harvard law graduate who informed me in 1988 that South African divestiture would be a major presidential issue. And when I gently deflected that having lived in North Carolina for the last four years I had difficulty seeing it — she responded — “that’s your problem. I have lived in Cambridge Massachusetts for the last 8 years and I am sure I am right.” Yeah, no. Not that didn’t agree with her on nearly ever political and social issue substantively, but she was blinkered.
schrodingers_cat
@Baud: Same here.
I have also seen zero evidence for Americans wanting left wing policies. That’s not how they vote, that’s the only poll that matters.
For most white people (or those considered the default in a particular polity. In India for example these would be upper caste people)
Preserving their privilege >> Economic benefit
Economics is important but it is not the biggest driver of how people vote.
Woodrow/asim
Well, for starters, that’s clearly what countless people who claim a Progressive, or related, mantle say they want. How many commentors here get angry at “Democrats,” playing into the “they’re spinless!” media (and GOP-driven) mode of thought?
I get the need to vent, yet sometimes I feel it’s all that happens, is waves of anger that re-enforce a view that all is hopeless, and we lost. And that way, does lie madness.
Baud
It seems our theme for the midterms will be “We’re just getting started.” We’ll see if that’ll be enough.
Baud
@schrodingers_cat:
It’s hard to think of a counterexample. Maybe the 1964 election.
schrodingers_cat
@Woodrow/asim: Is it a coincidence that many of the people you describe are very privileged (mostly white but not all).
Leto
Here, we’ll play Politico Pinocchio: this is mostly true. From 1995 to 2021, Republicans have controlled the US House of Reps for 20 years, Dems for 8. For the Senate, Republicans 16 years v Dems 12. What has helped Republicans is that their long stretches have occurred during Republican presidents, whereas for Dems we’ve only had slivers of the trifecta.
Baud
@OzarkHillbilly:
Commie.
nevsky42
I just cast my vote for the VA ticket at our county office; since we live in a bluish county (60-40 Biden in 2020) and there was a good churn coming in and out, I left feeling cautiously optimistic about McAuliffe’s chances.
schrodingers_cat
@Baud: That was before the passage of Civil Rights Bills. So their privilege was intact then.
We could have Sweden like policies if we had Sweden like demographics.
Almost Retired
@Baud: Yeah, but I think it’s being heard as “maybe we’ll get there eventually….”
Ceci n est pas mon nym
About the mention of Obama’s career arc: We’re listening to the audio version of A Promised Land, and it’s really quite startling to review how fast that arc was. He climbs each tier of government and then each time feels frustrated at how he isn’t in a position to make meaningful changes, and then he runs for the next office.
As Michelle gets more and more pissed off.
I haven’t listened for a few weeks. Need to go back and hear more of that book. Listening to either of the Obamas’ voices (I’ve got the audiobook of Michelle’s memoir as well) is remarkably calming when politics starts to make me anxious.
Baud
@Almost Retired:
And that would be true if people stopped giving up after one election cycle.
Waiting for the revolution is like waiting for the second coming of Jesus. A waste of time.
Nicole
No, Pooky, what being a “normie lib” is has changed to include people who aren’t white men, also. These whippersnappers in their 20s aren’t “super woke”; they just understand that sharing the playground means sharing with everyone. For real sharing, not just talking about it while hogging the top spot on the jungle gym for yourself.
(Yglesias really grates on me)
oldster
@Barbara:
What you are saying is exactly the joke that Yglesias is making.
He is writing a parody of what a blinkered progressive activist would say, i.e. someone who foolishly infers the composition of the electorate from their own narrow social circle.
In other words, he is making the Pauline Kael joke about not knowing anyone who voted for Nixon.
How do I know that Yglesias is ridiculing this kind of myopia, rather than exemplifying it?
Because he spends a lot of time reminding his readers that most Democrats are not 20-somethings, not woke, not college-educated, and not online. The median Dem voter is a non-college educated 50 year old who is generally supportive of the rights of women and minorities, but suspicious of the latest left-wing pieties.
He is constantly hammering on how the progressive left screws up by trying to appeal to other wokists, instead of selling Democratic plans to Democratic voters, i.e. ordinary working class people of all races.
Yglesias really does know this stuff. His only mistake here is writing humor so dead-pan that only people who read him often will get the joke.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
We just cast our absentee ballots for the off-year election in PA. That ballot gives me some reason to be hopeful about 2022. At the local level, it was just overwhelmingly dominated by Democrats, many of them running unopposed. For instance, the four open seats on the county council only had Democratic candidates. Until a few years ago, the county council was 100% Republican and had been that way for over a century.
Our local borough government also featured an unopposed Democratic mayoral candidate and council candidates. It didn’t have quite as dominant a Republican history as the county council, but Democrats were a small minority here till perhaps the last decade.
Our US Senators are Bob Casey (D) and The Execrable Pat Toomey, and Toomey has said he’s retiring from his seat in 2022. That is absolutely a gettable seat.
Baud
@oldster:
Twitter comes from the Latin term twittum, which means “out of context.”
Omnes Omnibus
@Baud: I think that is a great theme.* It comes with an implied expectation of the victory, and there are swing voters who like to pick the winning side (morons, I know, but I’ll take their votes). It also tells people who didn’t get what they wanted out the bills that they haven’t been forgotten. And, just for giggles, it should piss off the Hawleys and Cottons of this world.
*This may be proof of horribleness of the theme, but fuck it.
Sure Lurkalot
Here’s a good thread about what happens when women do their jobs too well and related horrors.
Almost Retired
@Baud: I guess my preferred message to swing voters and discouraged Democrats would be something to the effect of:
“what the fuck is wrong with you, you ungrateful half-witted morons! We’re trying to bring you healthcare, child and elder care, paid parental leave, a cleaner climate, and we’re getting someone else to pay for it. How fucking stupid and racist can you possibly be?!?”
But I can see how some voters might find that off-putting, so I’ll stick with lawyering.
Leto
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: next door in Berks, we have a mixed slate. 2 Dems running unopposed for county spots, 3 Repubs doing the same. A good number of just blank positions with no candidate running for it (for example Tax Collector, and Auditor). We just moved to this county from MontCo last month.
Baud
@Almost Retired:
Good choice. Lawyers aren’t the least bit off-putting.
Barbara
@oldster: Thanks for the correction. I never know whether to love Matt or to hate him. I think he is sincere but still, blinkered often enough that I genuinely don’t know what to make of content like this. But I accept that he is making a joke here.
James E Powell
@A Good Woman:
I don’t understand why the fact that the only alternative to what we have now is total obstruction of everything. I don’t understand why the experience of the Obama administration hasn’t sunk into the political brain of every living Democrat.
Murc’s Law – that only Democrats have agency – is bitter humor, but let’s not forget that Democrats do have agency. We have an election coming up in about a year and we can win that election. Republicans have vulnerable seats and we can take all of them. There are congressional districts that can be regained.
I am not an optimistic person, but I know that elections can be won with work, hard & focused work.
oldster
@Baud:
Agreed. There are many reasons why Twitter is a read-only medium for me, and that’s a big one.
It may not have been designed as a machine for creating disagreement via context-stripping, but it certainly functions as a machine for creating disagreement via context-stripping.
oldster
@Barbara:
Happy to help. And I agree that he can be an annoying twerp. Hell, he should know better than to write this sort of deadpan stuff that facilitates confusion — this is not the first time it has backfired on him.
Kay
Predicting not only what women will do a year out but also how she plans to cover the midterms.
If it isn’t happening Kasie plans to do her best to make it happen. I mean, come on. Make SOME attempt to cover the news rather than manufacture a narrative. Couldn’t she wait until someone, somewhere said this to her?
Now in order for this not to be true her prediction has to be wrong. Fat fucking chance that’s happening.
Woodrow/asim
It is interesting to see how people, who haven’t had generations of family and friends being mistreated, react when the leopard comes to eat their faces.
It’s depressing when their reactions are not to align with and learn from those who have experience fighting these forces, but to opine on how to “fight back” without any knowledge, save their own myopic vision.
And it’s horrific when people who come from a historical lack of privilege, but have gained some small amount, waste it on chasing after those who’ll cut their throats the moment they are no longer useful.
Nicole
@oldster: I also appreciate the clarification, although the end result is that I continue to not think much of Y’s skills as a satirist.
Mike in NC
In the mid 90s I worked on K Street and there was an awful lot of talk about a “Permanent Republican Majority” in DC. Big names included Newt Gingrich, Tom DeLay, and Phil Gramm. Today they’d all qualify as RINOs. (Well, maybe not Newtie.)
James E Powell
@Leto:
What has also helped Republicans is the emergence, then the domination, of FOX – along with the CNN & the NYT becoming essentially Republican-lite propagandists.
What has also helped Republicans is that they unified voters who are ignorant hateful bigots with the policies of the worst of America’s rich people. They have been almost 100% unified on every issue since Specter quit the party.
In contrast, we Democrats are still a diverse and disparate group of often competing interests that remain committed to the notion that it is possible to govern the United States.
Kropacetic
There needs to be some clarification on what is viewed as extremist. “Has ambitious goals” and “willing to go to extreme measures to reach those goals” tend to get conflated under the term extremist.
There’s nothing with the former and the latter is definitely a problem across people with all different types of political goals.
This is why Dems are judged by the standard of their weirdest activist and Repubs get judged by their highest supposed ideals, no katter their actions. We’re “radical” and they’re “conservative,” even though the opposite is more like the truth.
geg6
@Barbara:
OMG, yes this. The cluelessness of so many of these “pundits” never fails to astonish me.
oldster
@Nicole:
Yup. I can’t pretend he isn’t irritating, I can only suggest why you should find him irritating for *these* reasons, not irritating for *those* reasons.
Kay
The My Pillow Guy. Just another group of concerned parents from the district – oh, and the My Pillow guy.
This is NOT AT ALL a coordinated GOP political campaign. Nope.
Baud
@Kay:
She was probably going to do that anyway.
geg6
@oldster:
To be fair, I quit reading Yglesias after one of his many rants about not licensing barbers, nail techs and hair dressers because, really, what harm can they actually cause?
He’s an idiot and I don’t regret giving up on him completely.
Kay
If you’re a journalist and you publicly commit to a set of specific political results from this bill, is it fair to question your objectivity in covering the bill and covering the effect of the bill?
Of course it is. They’re telling us how they plan to cover it- personally and publicly committing to what will happen. If that then doesn’t happen they were wrong and it will involve an admission of error. They’re going to bend over backward to avoid that.
I don’t know what that is but it isn’t reporting. It can’t be. None of it has happened yet.
geg6
@Ceci n est pas mon nym:
Same here in overwhelmingly Trump-centric Beaver County. Our municipal slate was nothing but Dems. Voted for the Dems running for Supreme Court and Commonwealth Court. And “No” on retention of all the judges because they are slimy Republicans.
Kay
@Baud:
She knew this would happen. And, it did! Another correct call!
I don’t know- maybe resist publicly announcing your intentions regarding the bill that hasn’t passed and what the “women” (all of them) will say or do? Retain some shred of credibility?
Baud
@Kay:
I don’t understand why suburban women don’t care about pre-K and the child tax credit and child care benefits.
Peale
@Kay: Anti-mask campaign or ban black teachers campaign. Or both?
Kropacetic
@Baud: Maybe they already got theirs, so fuck everyone else?
Just a hunch.
Kay
@Peale:
They just want the my pillow guy to have “input” into that Colorado public school. As is his RIGHT.
As a parent, or…national paid Right wing activist. Whichever.
Kay
She has to say “good faith” because it wasn’t. With a Democrat negotiating with fellow Democrats good faith would be assumed. She no longer gets that assumption. Rightly- it’s bullshit.
slybrarian
I’ve been impressed at Jayapal’s response so far, very even-keeled and supportive of the president while still not committing to anything. It looks like she was right to be a bit skeptical given that Manchin and Sinema keeps making vague noises instead of saying “yes we are good to go”.
Peale
@Kay: I would equally like you to have input into the Colorado school district, as I think you are thoughtful, prepared and care about education. Unfortunately, BJ even on its best days doesn’t have the funds to pay you to be our go to national local school board meeting attendee. So it’ll have to be gratis on your part.
Jeffro
Looks like trumpov won’t be coming to VA to campaign for/with Glenn Youngkin after all…Eric Swalwell is having a field day with it. =)
oldster
@geg6:
That *is* fair. He isn’t joking or being ironic about opposing the licensing of cosmetologists and the like, so those are good reasons to hate him and not read him. Or hate-read him, if you lean that way, but generally life is too short.
(I myself don’t know how I feel about that particular issue, though I am tempted to link to Fleabag’s “Hair. Is. Everything.” rant.)
frosty
We live in different parts of Pennsylvania!
Peale
I think what pisses me off about having to get rid of p-K support from the bill is that its been part of the platform since, IDK, my entire political life. Seriously, if you don’t support pre-K rolled out nationally, you probably would be better served not running. I bet we could find some statement from Manchin or an add from his run for governor where he promised it.
Baud
@Peale:
I thought pre-k was in.
Kay
Not a required reading or text- student took it out of the classroom library.
They’re banning books.
And I never want to hear another word about “cancel culture” – the anti- cancel culture warriors threw these teachers to the lions. They’re all frauds. If you’re pulling down a million a year on your substack moaning about how Harvard cancels conservative voices but not mentioning this book banning crusade you are a fraud.
An excellent public school teacher is worth 1000 NYTimes editorialists whining about cancel culture. They’re driving her out of the classroom. She won’t stay, and she shouldn’t.
Peale
@Kay: Yeah. Good. She’s floated up what kinds of public people she’s looking to interview. I’m sure her stories now will be full of “concerned moms who voted for Biden who just happen to be vice chairman of their county GOP party and have done nothing but post up anti-vaxx memes for the past 2 years.” Like always happens. I’m sure the Koch network now is sifting through its roladex to find examples for her.
Kay
@Peale:
They did the same thing with Afghanistan. They could not wait until Americans hated it. They announced Americans hated it and worked as hard as they could to prove themselves right.
They are out in front. They’re not supposed to be there. Whatever else is wrong with their coverage won’t be fixed until they recognize that. They’re in the wrong place.
Kay
@Peale:
Maybe Americans would have hated leaving Afghanistan, maybe they would have hated it as much as media hated it, but we’ll never know because media were out in front. It’s a kind of corruption. Taints the result.
Woodrow/asim
@Baud: Yeah, pre-K is literally the 1st item listed in the next post, here!
geg6
@Kay:
If you haven’t been to this site, you’re missing it. Their “Let Me Rewrite That For You” stuff is gold:
https://presswatchers.org/2021/10/failing-to-call-out-critical-race-theory-as-racist-dog-whistle-let-me-rewrite-that-for-you/
Kay
@Peale:
I’m always impressed when a judge reads the pleadings, goes thru all the pretrials, and it looks like it’s going one way and then there’s testimony or evidence at hearing and they fifind it persuasive and they go the other way. It really does add to credibility because it means this isn’t all a dog and pony show. What happens matters. That’s how people and institutions retain credibility. It’s an ACT, not a statement.
Betty
@Sure Lurkalot: We know this, but when we see it laid out !ime that, it is stunning.
Betty
@Kay: Kasie has proven multiple times what her bias is. Rob Portman is a totally reasonable guy despite blocking the very kinds of things she is putting on Democrats for not getting done.
Betty
@frosty: I believe you are home to Scott Perry, so yeah.
Kropacetic
The media hated it. They’re Americans. Passes the narrow plausibility threshold for media BS.
schrodingers_cat
@Kay: More white women voted for the Orange Buffoon after 4 years of his reign of error. IDK if the story is different for college educated women.
White women as a demographic vote Republican, that is hardly news, is it?
Betty
@Betty: Sorry I missed my typo while reading other comments. “laid out like that”.
The Moar You Know
@schrodingers_cat: that is so true. None of it would even be up for discussion.
catclub
I would say that ‘The kingdom of God is at hand’ is not a prediction but marching orders.
catclub
White people on average vote republican. White men overwhelmingly vote republican. White women somewhat less so.
schrodingers_cat
@The Moar You Know: “Progressives” of the BS variety get apoplectic if you point that out.
topclimber
@Baud:
If POC are okay with it, go with “Keep the Faith.”
PJ
@frosty: Nope. That’s one thing that guy got completely wrong. After Obama’s speech at the convention in 2004, a lot of people, myself included (and even including Neil Young!), were looking at him as a candidate for 2008.
schrodingers_cat
@catclub: I know that. However T lost ground with white men in 2020 and gained ground with white women compared to 2016.
Karen is not just a trope, it seems.
Kay
@schrodingers_cat:
I don’t know what this is supposed to mean. Because some white women voted for Donald Trump no white woman can ask for anything in legislation? It’s constantly used here as a kind of response – I’m not in charge of white women. I was speaking for myself.
PJ
@geg6: At heart, Yglesias is a libertarian who knows that he is smarter than everyone else. He doesn’t actually believe in “no government” (he supports vax mandates, etc.), but he seems to favor complete deregulation of most businesses, especially real estate/construction, and is in favor of rich people doing whatever the hell they please, no matter how it affects others.
schrodingers_cat
@Kay: Nope it doesn’t mean that. It means that there is slightly more than a 50% chance that a random white woman is not a reliable ally.
If this doesn’t apply to you, move on.
Kay
@schrodingers_cat:
If I was the only white woman who thought there should be paid leave I would still have this opinion and I would still ask for paid leave. It isn’t dependent on the support of “my group”.
schrodingers_cat
@Kay: I never said that it was. I take you at your word. You do not belong to that 53%
A Good Woman
@James E Powell:
I have been sparring with people on Twitter who have gone “all or nothing”. They appear uninterested in the facts on the ground, especially regarding the Senate. Biden is being compared to McConnell, and seen as weak. It’s Biden’s fault the package was scaled down so severely and that Manchinema was not brought to heel, so why vote for Democrats again? This kind of thinking is not going to help win the mid-terms.
Yes, we have a lot of work to do, but all that new voting legislation in the statehouses will have an impact, and we best be prepared to counter it. Starting with support for Marc Elias and his efforts.
@James E Powell:
Kay
@schrodingers_cat:
Well, then say that. “White women aren’t reliable allies”. You could say it in response to my post, to me personally. I still don’t know what to do with it in the context of my opinion that paid leave should be passed, but I’ll keep it in mind.
Nancy Pelosi is a white woman. Can I ask her to pass paid leave, or no?
marklar
@frosty: Ah, your part of PA must be overrun by a lot of nittany lions. What you need is to import some new black panthers!
Kay
@schrodingers_cat:
I don’t think white women consider themselves a coherent or predictable political group. That’s partly because they’ve always been the majority, so they consider themselves the “norm” by which other groups are measured, but that’s also true of white men. OTOH I think Democrats err on the wrong side of making assumptions about what constitutes a “political group” frequently, hence their completely misreading the Latino electorate.
I don’t think Democrats make too few assumptions- I think they make too many. There is no real white female vote or “issue”, but we insist on saying there is. I’ve never believed there was. I’ve never seen it swing an election.
The Moar You Know
@Kay: that’s their intent. Purge the public schools of good teachers. Then privatize them.
Soprano2
My biggest gripe is with the people who think that if they don’t get everything they want in the BBB bill there is no reason to vote for Democrats, and no other reason to have a Democratic president. I heard it on the “On Point” program this morning about the VA governor’s race (it mostly seemed to be an ad for how smart and moderate-seeming Youngkin is, and how McAuliffe is in so much trouble), where they talked about how so many black voters are discouraged because they voted for Democrats in 2020 and feel like they haven’t gotten anything back for that. I want to yell at them “Are you kidding me? We got the 3rd Covid relief bill, which we never would have gotten with Republicans. We’re getting good judges on the federal bench, which wouldn’t have happened if TFG had won, and which is actually important to everyone. Federal agencies are working better and actually doing what they’re supposed to be doing. The whole world isn’t laughing at our president anymore. Biden is systematically rolling back a lot of Trump policies – sorry that he couldn’t do all of it on the first day. What did you think was going to happen – did you think you’d get everything you want immediately?” I swear, it’s so frustrating to hear stuff like “why vote for Democrats, see what a mess this bill is?”. It’s to have better governance, you morons!!! Aaarrrgghhhh……
rikyrah
good tweets
JML
I would refuse to follow an order like that from a school board, were I an administrator. School boards should never be getting into the weeds like that. the superintendent you tell them to jump off a cliff, order they’ll never be able to run their district again. The principal should stand up for their teachers and refuse any order for the letter too.
Do the right thing.