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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • On the other hand (arc),

    In a written statement later on Monday, Democratic House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said U.S. President Donald Trump had targeted Omar — a Minnesota congresswoman and the first Somali-American lawmaker in Congress — with “vile personal attacks” for years.

    “Now, less than 30 days until the midterm election, his violent mass deportation machine has descended upon the home of a duly elected Member of Congress and her family,” reads the statement.

    It was also signed by House minority whip Rep. Katherine Clark and Rep. Pete Aguilar, chair of the House Democratic Caucus.

    “The American people deserve transparency, and we will deliver full accountability for the rogue abuse of power from the Department of Homeland Security and Department of Justice,” they said.





  • Except that we have seen some of the biggest and most well organized protest movements in American history all happen within the last 25 years, so I’m not really seeing the apathy you’re talking about. What I have seen a ton of is leadership that’s unwilling to do what protesters from the Iraq War to Occupy Wall Street to Black Lives Matter were demanding and who put a lot of time and energy into shutting down all of those movements, and I think that explains a lot more about the conspiracy theory nonsense that is cropping up in some places. When someone who just got done telling you “actually, we had to bail out the banks and we couldn’t send any of their leadership to prison” goes on to talk about the moon landing, or the importance of getting vaccinated, or other things that aren’t total bullshit unfortunately people tend to just reject all of it.



  • I am really deeply convinced most of the people who make comments like that online are right wing trolls, because there’s pretty much no better advertisement for the Republican party at this point than pretending like there’s a sizable group of people who actually liked the Biden administration. Like even if you are a Joe Biden superfan, you’ve gotta understand he got rejected in 2024 and there’s zero point now in trying to rehabilitate his brand. Telling everyone how great Newsome is I would understand (though obviously disagree with), but simping for Biden at this point? Doesn’t make any sense unless you’re trying to piss off progressive voters.




  • Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries, who is in line to become House speaker if the party wins power,

    Well this agenda is off to a horrible start. Can’t they find anyone with a shred of credibility left instead?

    said the Democrats will be united “right out of the gate” on reinstating Affordable Care Act tax breaks,

    Fuck’s sake, could you at least pretend to be in favor of Medicare for All for just a little bit? Like even if it’s just a negotiating tactic to make these tax breaks happen

    reversing Republican Medicaid cuts,

    Y’know if we had Medicare for All we wouldn’t need to worry about Medicaid or all the bullshit red state governments pull with it

    holding votes against the Iran war and undoing President Donald Trump’s tariff regime.

    I actually have no problems with the substance or message here, but I hope they’re preparing to defund the military and customs enforcement respectively when Trump just ignores their votes and his supreme court Calvinballs an excuse for him, because otherwise those votes are just going to be for show