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Chris Ortolano's avatar

Sorry to say this Adam, but democrats are splitting; the AOC vote is just another step towards it. Nancy Pelosi still thinks she is the only one that knows what is best for democrats; she's now becoming the problem. And minority "leader" Jefferies is failing us as well. Then you have Ro Khanna (C-DOGE) legitimatizing Musk and DOGE. Don't even get me started on Fetterman. If we don't right this ship we are going to lose in 2026 and beyond.

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Molly Marchese's avatar

Connolly violated insider trading laws and has throat cancer. Pelosi has got to sit down and shut up.

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Cyn B's avatar

Greedy for money and power. That, in a nutshell, is what is destroying democracy and yes, it is happening on both sides.

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Heather.B's avatar

What the country needed right after Joe Biden was elected were tribunals that punished ALL of the MAGA coup actors with either prison, fines and expulsion from politics. That would have set the necessary precedent about what political behavior was acceptable and what wasn’t. But that’s not Joe. Biden believed in the goodness of Americans. He bet on the love of goodness and fairness to beat MAGA at the ballot box. But the plan did not work and now we are facing the consequences!

I will be wearing this "Totally Unhinged Radical Liberal" t-shirt the next four years 👇

https://libtees-2.creator-spring.com/listing/radlib

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Suellen Zimet Klein's avatar

This Country has become a nightmare- we just permit average citizens to purchase firearms, strong enough to kill an entire platoon of soldiers. People with grievances, people who are cruel, people who are stupid, people who don’t care about others (whether we live or die).

We have a SCREAMING CRIMINAL as President of the United States! How in the world can we exist like that?

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Cyn B's avatar

Only greedy white people allowed.

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io bonini's avatar

Dear Sam & Adam, Thanks for bringing yet another Disney Villain back into our collective consciousness...No I take that back, she's a nightmare out of "A Black Mirror episode".

May Musk.

Let's all have some fun and play who this evil cow reminds us of...Cruella De Vil, Typhoid Mary, Annie Wilkes, Bloody Mary, Leni Riefenstahl.....

Pick and post your favorite villainess.

We might as well have some fun, while our Democracy is shredded before our eyes.

Shrieking from the bunker....thanks Sam, Thanks Adam

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Randall Livingston's avatar

POTUS instigated January 6, abetted by at least half the Republican caucus and members of the Justice Department. What’s your definition of an inside job?

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Sal Teodoro's avatar

If Jared Moskowitz accepts the position, yes, we’d get a good FEMA director but I think the orange shit stains object is to pluck him from Florida so Dicksantis takes months and months to fill that seat.

RFK JR IS FUCKING UNFIT TO RUN A PHOTOMAT. Remember those? MTG is a fucking moron. Period.

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Carmen Denise Upton King, M.S.'s avatar

My husband, from New York/Jersey , said to remind you of this...

https://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/2749

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Rain Robinson's avatar

Thank you, this was a cool reference.

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JJ's avatar

As to Note 15 today... Sorry Secretary Pete, but remember that War of the Worlds was set in NJ!

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Ava's avatar

...and that was a fake also.

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Susan Linehan's avatar

and that was before there was a vaccine for chicken pox, which is what wiped them out. I guess they must have known this, or else they figure that RFKJr has the right idea???

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Lucy Guerlac's avatar

I love your succinct lists, with links!

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Bill Ejzak's avatar

Caesar has crossed the Rubicon. Democracy, the rule of law and the social safety net are going to be the victims. We won’t get them back anytime soon because of the ascendency of a sociopathic demogogue and an oligarchy determinated to reverse over a century of progress against laissez faire government of the rich, by the rich, for the rich. What to do?

1. Democrats must adopt the polices of European social democracy, especially Medicare for all, and make the rich pay their fair share of taxes, if they want to benefit the middle and working classes and the poor and do something about increasing income and wealth inequality.

2. Democrats should not shy away from using the language of European social democracy just because decades of right-wing propaganda (which has also substantially infected the supposed mainstream media) have placed a distorted, negative meaning on that language.

3. FDR didn't conduct a poll before introducing the New Deal. He saw the need in the people and he vigorously promoted the New Deal.

4. How will Democrats’ messaging break through the right wing media lock on so much of the information space on national cable, in print and broadcast at the local level, and on internet media, which unleashed a torrent of right wing propaganda 24/7? Even Et tu, WaPo and LA Times.

5. How do Democrats foster trusted leaders to break through misplaced trust in those who lie and mislead? I don't think any of the national Democratic leaders are particularly charismatic speakers.

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Rain Robinson's avatar

All of this, thank you. Democrats need to stop being sidelined and appeasing, and fight for the people's well being just as FDR did.

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John Kierig's avatar

Not at all surprising. Steve A. Smith has built his career on being a loudmouth asshole.

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Suellen Zimet Klein's avatar

Whether we recognize it or not, we are TRAPPED!!!

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Cyn B's avatar

Haven’t seen the news about ESPN asshole but, technically, Jan 6 was an inside job, right? Trump initiated it and we know at least a couple congress critters provided maps and opened doors so...would be nice to see them charged for their part in it.

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Scott Elrod's avatar

In EMS, there is a saying: "All bleeding stops.. eventually."

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Jane Lockhart's avatar

His preferred choices are 13 year old girls. What a guy.

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Ava's avatar
Dec 17Edited

You do know Rep. Jasmine Crockett has also signed on to the J6 committee also? Friends in FL are delighted: they feel he's doing this so he can be a watchdog and give them the same treatment he gave Comer.

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