Consider this too…Q1 ended on March 31st. They are predicting that drop before all this tariff shit got started.

Hell, Biden was president for 20 of the 90 days in that quarter.

Well… I wouldn’t want to be labeled an insurrectionist and not actually have the fun of joining an armed rebellion…

Wouldn’t want to make a liar out of the dear government .

#colormatchyourbutthole

Her lips got me concerned. From the lies too.

Yep, the sounds like PA. Mostly Kentucky, with little bits of New York floating in it.

It will happen with the current administration. Red states are the most reliant on government “handouts”. Conservative voters are predominantly the least educated, least informed, and most economcially vulnerable people. They will be the most affected by trumps tariffs. They will be the most affected by his billionaire tax breaks. They will be the most affected by his cuts to social programs. I hate to see my fellow Americans fall on hard times, but despite all the history, expert opinions, and direct evidence that Trump is going to fuck them over, they keep voting for him. It’s going to be hard, but I’m not giving my conservative neighbors and family any direct support for the next 4 years. Thoughts and “prayers” are all that they will get from me. Let them suckle from the shriveled teat of their spray-tanned steer this time.

Some have said it was the most viewed political broadcast in history. People are saying it. Many people.

First of all, it delayed the vote to cut Medicaid. Even if just by a day, it means that someone’s grandma may get coverage for oxygen that would have been cut a day earlier. Second, it shows that Democrats are willing and able to fight. The Senate can’t vote until discussion ends. Cory wasn’t just delaying the Medicaid vote, he was delaying every single item on the agenda after that. It sends a strong signal; come back and work with us on legislation, or don’t come back at all. Another thing to remember is that it takes 3/5ths of the present members to break the filibuster. Cory being able to go that long without being procedurally cut short also sends a clear message of unity, republicans couldn’t break the filibuster.

Edit: oh, and to top it off, Trump’s public address for yesterday got like 20k views total. The single stream that I was in for Cory’s filibuster got over 150k peak views. Trump has got to be pissed about that.

I dunno if you’ve missed literally everything in the last 3 months, but I would kill to get back to “firmly right-wing”. You know what calling Democrats ‘zionists’ gets you? It gets you Donald Trump as President. How many times will you throw out good (or even just better) because it’s not perfect?

How about a new rule… You don’t get to call them young children if you think that they are old enough to work long hours at a hazardous job without breaks, or that they are old enough (by 2 or more years!) to be married to a 60+ year old pervert. You lose all moral standing to call them “young children” if you do.

Why do it at night when the innocent outside-contracted immigrant cleaning crew is in there making 7 bucks an hour?

Trump ignores the Constitution, what makes you think he cares (or even knows) what’s in the terms and conditions of his insurance contract?

Serrate it. Chaos is fair.

Well, that, and to act as a check/balance to the powers of the presidency and supreme court… Which they are also not doing.

Even if they agree with the insane shit that trump is doing, it is their job to legislate it, rather than sit on their thumbs and let him create law by executive policy.

Right. Point your finger at Cybertruck, highest government office in the land calls for your arrest. Run over protestors with your brodozer? Clear case of self defense.

Get the fuck out of here.

Multiple angles really.

Biggest one is that a child is both a financial and mental stress on a parent, and our society overwhelming believes that children are primarily the responsibility of the mother. By attacking abortion, they basically saying that every woman is just one sexual assault away from a lifetime of financial, emotional, mental and social duress.

The second reason is class stratification. The financial stresses impact less wealthy families or individuals disproportionately, and less wealthy people cannot afford to travel to areas where reproductive care is legal, nor can they afford the lawyers required to fight the potential criminal cases or just pay their fines. The rich conservatives bankrolling these anti-abortion groups aren’t threatened or beholden to the policy they create.

The third reason is racism. Black women are more likely to seek abortions, partly because they suffer a higher incidence of sexual assault, but also because they have less access to reproductive resources and education. Republicans have dog whistled this in the past by trying to say that abortions are racist because black women have a disporportionate number of abortions, even going so far as to call it a Democrat genocide on African-Americans. This dog whistle shows their true intentions; force financial, mental, and social stress in ways that are “equal” along racial lines, but not “equitable”.

You could say that religion is a 4th reason, but I don’t consider it a real reason, and they cherry-pick their religious convictions anyway. You see those motherfuckers eating shellfish and wearing blended fibers all the time.

Did you forget about the attempted nazi march in Cincinnati? The locals set fire to their shit and sent them scurrying back to their Uhaul.

“He who saves his country commits no crime.”

Clearly a false flag attack based on that spray paint alone.

Why would you bother burning the GOP HQ because of ICE? Not that I would condone it, but I’d probably write something like, “When fascism comes to America, it will be carrying a cross and wrapped in a flag”. Plus, ICE is operating more the the SS than the KKK. SS was a legal government organization that systematically persecuted the state’s enemies using brutal tactics and complete disregard of human rights to get results. KKK is just a bunch racist beerbellied ‘good ol boys’ who are worried that black men are going woo all their eligible sisters. Anyone actually frustrated enough with the situation to set fire to a building wouldn’t spray paint such a silly miscomparison.

It was probably started by someone’s cybertruck.

I meant that the people with guns and violent tendencies are getting pissed off. Republicans won’t show up in their own districts/townhall meetings anymore. Thomas Crooks took a shot at trump before all of the recent problems he’s caused. I can’t imagine him holding an open air rally anywhere in the US right now.

Yes, he is still popular among Republicans, but he only needs to be extremely unpopular with just one psychotic gun nut, and he’s pissed a lot of them off recently.