I mean, he is a reality TV star. Isn’t this how he lives?

Imagine life was a game. You lived for 2025 years. You worked 260 days / year. You made the median US salary.

You would need to relive that process 3,145 times to match an Oligarch.

That amount of wealth is unethical while humanity suffers. No one can really fathom “1b dollars.”

Much more honest/fair take.

He was 94.

I don’t believe in conspiracy theories, but with the way right wing loves to talk about vampires & adrenochrome, could be more projection. /joking, of course

My state license allows an X marker. RealID doesn’t, since its contents are under the directive of the federal govt.

Also, X/trans folks are being denied passports.

Certainly seems like I’m not meant to live my life as I see fit.

Oh we’re just talking past each other. I agree it’s more-so “do both” but it felt like Dems really dropped the economic piece.

It’s not focused on the economics?

I think this is the same shift for Republicans post-Obama. Every Republican started saying, “I’m an independent.” and the Tea Party started. Back then, Trump’s claim to fame was the birther movement, which eventually became MAGA & the presidential run.

Nowadays, I have very little respect or identification with Democrats. It feels like a failed party. I think they’ll either transform more left (see Bernie & AOC’s shifts & populism) or die out to something else. I like the Working Families Party because it focuses on the economic disparities rather than identity politics.

I’m glad we found more freedom for more people, but I think the Left has lost cohesion in doing so. We don’t need to all be the same, but the message used to be “Working class vs. Rich” and the Right manipulated that into its current populism. Now there’s the “Liberal Elites” that are out of touch, and recent events make it feel that way, not just propaganda any longer.

It’s almost like reality has a liberal bias. 🙃

Because those groups were right wing and funded by political agitators, multiplied by manipulated media. The people on the ground did believe in the issues, but it was a concerted effort of political theater as a show of force.

Everyone else is now debilitated by wage theft that they can only care about the economy. When the market crashes harder and full recession hits, that’s when people will take to the streets because they’ll have lost jobs and freedoms. That’s when the martial law will start.

🥱

Controlled opposition. Fuck these people.

Being charitable, I assume he believes he has a moral / holy halo around him, that he’s doing “the right thing” and “they don’t understand.”

Being less charitable, he probably masturbates to it.

Check out the Working Families Party.

Netscape

It used to matter. 10 years ago, this would have been a non-starter for a political career. Now it’s, “Well, maybe he doesn’t know better. 🥺”

Take the article with the image and post it at your work. If you wouldn’t, do you think someone who did should get fired? I do.

It’s not a “misunderstanding.” He should take responsibility if he didn’t know better, but he won’t.

The dignity of that office has fallen so far. While the “lines went up” elsewhere in society, they went far down here.

I have a young child. I have absolutely ZERO interest in them being harmed by completely ignorant policy. Fuck this guy & fuck this regime.

People can’t be instructed to do something illegal. This is such bullshit.

Complaining about the federal govt while being employed by it is the classic Republican stance.