US CE Spring 2022: I'm convinced it's useless which is why I argue about it all day every day

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Concerned Citizen posted:

obama could have codified roe, possibly without even needing to abolish the filibuster - there were at least 2 gop votes for it. i am unsure as to whether the decision was made not to do so because it was considered bad politics or if because they simply didn't feel it was a priority, but either way it was clearly the wrong decision. and incredibly short-sighted, as the dem party often is.

It would have hurt Democrat Fund Raising if they passed it.

I predict that by 2025 they will be screening women for pregnancies when they try to travel to Mexico and other nations, that have legal abortion.

Under His Eye.

# ¿ May 3, 2022 04:58

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# ¿ May 11, 2024 12:01

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And now let the fund raising begin!

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Emergency donation needed: Rush $35 to help elect pro-choice Democrats to the House and Senate in November who will codify Roe v Wade into national law! All donations QUADRUPLE MATCHED!

You didn�t do it when Obama could have. Biden promised this too but you didn�t end the filibuster.

# ¿ May 3, 2022 18:10

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https://twitter.com/nandoodles/status/1521581893438754817?s=20&t=bBkbcemiUDEsGEWEla9JdQ

# ¿ May 4, 2022 06:41

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theCalamity posted:

https://twitter.com/repswalwell/status/1521608281969422336?s=21&t=nLYhPiCKzgtpt7cSg2uv0Q

Lmao why is he bringing up Susan Sarandon? There�s so many more people with actual power that he could have words with but he�s irritated with Susan Sarandon? I do not have hope for the Democrats. This moment will probably be seen as the moment people stopped having faith in the democrats in the future.

If they do nothing for the next six months except tell people to vote, oh man. It�s gonna be bad.

I love this exchange:

https://twitter.com/40_Years/status/1521605496951783425

https://twitter.com/40_Years/status/1521606793251729409

https://twitter.com/AWKWORDrap/status/1521352055281049603

https://twitter.com/peterdaou/status/1521638812354596864

# ¿ May 4, 2022 16:08

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Have you seen all the Lincoln Project videos on the SCOTUS Abortion Thing?

No?

Neither have I.

# ¿ May 8, 2022 17:52

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StratGoatCom posted:

https://twitter.com/IwriteOK/status/1523926913806336000

Maybe they can get the level of federal protection the SCOTUS members get?

# ¿ May 10, 2022 18:06

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Nonsense posted:

I find it difficult to believe that Republicans will settle on it remaining a state issue.

Mitch and others are already on record calling for a national ban.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/05/mitch-mcconnell-acknowledges-a-national-abortion-ban-is-possible-if-roe-is-overturned

And a slew of GOP elected and candidates are calling for the birth control ruling to be overturned.

https://sports.yahoo.com/republican-senate-candidate-endorsed-peter-012001327.html

# ¿ May 10, 2022 18:10

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This is my SHOCKED face:

Elon Musk says he would reverse Twitter ban on Donald Trump

Musk, the Tesla CEO who is soon to own Twitter, said it was a mistake for the website to ban the former president.

https://s2.washingtonpost.com/36cdd44/627aa3ee61cc0f41faa04134/5a0d96f4ae7e8a2d8fca6c54/4/13/627aa3ee61cc0f41faa04134

# ¿ May 10, 2022 19:17

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theCalamity posted:

https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1524090721304776707?s=21&t=8hHCtleZ3Czg-nHHQ463WA

This is really disappointing, but expected. They can move heaven and earth for war but when it comes to anything else that actually helps people, there are so many roadblocks.

# ¿ May 10, 2022 20:06

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Mellow Seas posted:

Yeah. Donald Trump could literally be President right now. People pretend things can't be worse, despite the fact that we have been very aggressively reminded by Justice Alito that they very much can.

I mean I think the thing that makes a squish like Biden or other Democratic leaders a lot easier to take is accepting that not all political messaging is aimed at you. They are trying to mitigate a potentially historic election loss, and crime is of national concern. It's craven political messaging, and you all act like it's a serious policy pronouncement.

Ukraine would be in a very bad state if Trump had won in 2020

# ¿ May 13, 2022 17:39

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eXXon posted:

Did he give this speech yet? Maybe he'll surprise everyone by clarifying that crime prevention means poverty reduction, not more cops.

Well, it's a relief that American voters made the right choice for the people of Ukraine.

Yeah ...

# ¿ May 13, 2022 20:21

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https://twitter.com/MercurialMiss/status/1525198200054874114?s=20&t=AFnjl9XFWhMipK3oAm9PvA

# ¿ May 14, 2022 01:56

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Just the start of our transition to Gilead.

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# ¿ May 16, 2022 19:14

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Willa Rogers posted:

Is this because one of those "fetal protection laws" that 2/3 of states (including many blue ones) have?

Do you have a link to the actual story? Because I'm seeing a lot of people claim that women are being charged for miscarriages (or stillbirths) when it's almost certainly these lovely laws that Dems have helped pass holding women responsible for their drug use during pregnancy.

eta: Are you sure that's not the Oklahoma case of the woman who did meth-while-pregnant? Because she had a stillbirth, too.

It's Texas: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/10/texas-woman-murder-charges-dropped-self-induced-abortion

The woman who was thrown in jail on a murder charge in Texas for allegedly having caused the �death of an individual by self-induced abortion� has been released after the local district attorney dropped the case.

Lizelle Herrera, 26, was reported to be back with her family on Sunday after the district attorney in Rio Grande City, on the US-Mexico border, put out a statement saying he was immediately dismissing the case. Herrera had been arrested last Thursday and placed in the Starr county jail on the back of a grand jury indictment.

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Only The Beginning of all of this.

# ¿ May 16, 2022 19:31

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Am I the only one who sees where this trajectory takes us?

You're going to end up with cases like this happening often. This isn't about the embryos. This is about control of women.

# ¿ May 16, 2022 19:39

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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:

gently caress yeah fetterman

Establish Democrat Media (CNN) was already attacking him. Very disappointing as he looks like the strongest democrat politically in quite some time.

# ¿ May 18, 2022 17:16

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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:

What did they do? The only commentary from anchors I heard yesterday were them swooning over "tall and manly Democrat is what they need to win back the white working class! Not weak and nerdy looking like usual!"

Mostly about Fetterman's gun/jogger incident with a bit of "he's a Bernie guy" thrown in.

In my mind he's the closest to a LBJ in terms of FU attitude and wow, we need some of that.

# ¿ May 18, 2022 17:35

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marshmonkey posted:

Translation: "the dems refuse to slob my knob!"
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1526997132858822658

Yeah, abandon the party that gave you the $7500 federal EV rebate that made Tesla successful.

# ¿ May 18, 2022 22:01

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Kith posted:

beef is nowhere near the leading producer of greenhouse gases and scolding people for eating beef when "having enough food at all" is an unreached goal is pretty loving terrible of you. the world is not going to melt from cow farts, it's going to melt because of the overwhelming usage of fossil fuels and pollution

This is debatable. One needs to include deforestation in that calculation.

Animal Ag is on a par with transportation.

# ¿ May 19, 2022 16:09

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Great rant against the people complaining about pro-choice peacefully protesting at SCOTUS residences and elsewhere.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOb3opY6eHs

# ¿ May 19, 2022 16:16

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Heck Yes! Loam! posted:

That is not a great rant. it is a middle-aged white woman in her kitchen talking to her phone. it is the liberal equivalent of a guy wearing sunglasses while making a vertical video in his truck. Are the words accurate? sure. Is it useful, practical, or something anyone would spend time watching? nope. Honestly, who is that video for?

The immediate bipartisan action to prevent women from protesting at the homes of the justices just shows how much :decorum:

is valued by this admin over action. Sorry.

# ¿ May 19, 2022 16:32

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Jaxyon posted:

Great so regulate the cows out of existence, replace them with fake beef. I'm fine with that. Nationalize the industry and destroy it. I'm fine with that.

Saying "well you should know better" to poor americans(who are not the global poor) upset about rising grocery prices is pretty dumb.

We can raise beef in a manner that reduces the carbon/methane footprint but you�ll have less of to and a more expensive supply.

Basically grazing I�ve been told.

# ¿ May 19, 2022 17:53

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Jaxyon posted:

I'm sure also I barely eat beef and don't care.

I'm here about people upset that they can't grocery-scold people.

I haven't had beef since '86. I used to be ginormous.

# ¿ May 19, 2022 23:54

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Oracle posted:

You realize there are still three liberal justices on the Supreme Court that are a hell of a lot more likely to be gunned down by rightwing extremists, right. This isn't just about 'decorum' its about not wanting the first black female justice assassinated.

I'm not against the security, more amazed that Democrats would oppose people protesting at the justices' residences.

# ¿ May 19, 2022 23:55

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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:

The Onion finally found a way to take their infamous mass shooting article to the next level.

Scroll down the home page.

https://www.theonion.com/

Thank you TheOnion.

# ¿ May 26, 2022 06:11

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Dick Trauma posted:

Republicans don't have leaders; they have wranglers. They poke and prod their voters from one talking point to the next.

https://twitter.com/LeaderMcConnell/status/1529941346928279594?s=20&t=f2ez8AXJFKmCRfMD850cnw

Who said "It's the economy, stupid."

Oh yeah, Bill Clinton.

And he was right. And this will insure a massive GOP sweep in the fall.

So what I don't understand, using gasoline prices as an example, if the companies are enjoying record profits WHERE IS THE DOJ? why isn't there a investigation into price fixing etc?

# ¿ May 27, 2022 17:58

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Dallas Morning News:

I don't think the police are going to be able to talk there way out of this mess.

# ¿ May 31, 2022 07:30

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How do we even begin to fix this?

https://twitter.com/KateAronoff/status/1529449537848459264

# ¿ May 31, 2022 19:04

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Lib and let die posted:

JB: "I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land can never be purged away but with blood."

JWB: ight, imma head out

I won a 1800's Silver Dollar in Elementary School by knowing JWB was at the hanging of JB (this was in the 1960's).

# ¿ Jun 3, 2022 17:33

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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:

The Senate finally confirmed Biden's postal board of Governors nominees two weeks ago. There are technically a majority of the board appointed by Biden now, although one of them is a Republican because of a partisan balance requirement.

If all 5 of Biden's nominees (or his 4 non-Republican nominees and the Democrat nominated by Trump), decided to hold a no confidence vote, then they could do it now by one vote.

Related.

I did a cost analysis for a friend�s company that wanted to convert postal trucks (LLV�s) to electric and the cost would be less than $10k per given a decent number of conversions. They don�t go far or fast and they make a lot of stops and starts.

# ¿ Jun 10, 2022 23:13

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haveblue posted:

Mail trucks are the ideal case for electrification, they run predictable routes that begin and end at a fixed home base. I hope that lawsuit to block the gas fleet purchase succeeds

Conversion would have a way lower carbon impact than manufacturing new EV�s too., Also because of the use pattern you get away with less pricy, more durable, abet lower energy density batteries.

# ¿ Jun 10, 2022 23:29

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Yinlock posted:

The Black Panthers are one of the most tragic examples. The U.S went to loving war against them.

... and MOVE in Philly, Cops literally dropped a bomb on them.

# ¿ Jun 13, 2022 21:48

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Why I lose hope? This sort of stuff:

https://twitter.com/ryanobles/status/1536495438303485952

# ¿ Jun 14, 2022 06:11

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# ¿ May 11, 2024 12:01

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Lib and let die posted:

another absolute banger from Russian Asset Chris Hedges

Other than the Assange Fan Club stuff there was some decent points in this.

For one the DOJ is totally ignoring what amounts to price fixing in the oil biz.

And the climate stuff is on target.

# ¿ Jun 20, 2022 22:09

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