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I see a lot of leftists on Twitter basically already accepting it as fate that this is going to be an exact repeat of 2008-2010, and that a GOP resurgence is inevitable. And when you look at how much gerrymandering and population distribution favors Republicans, and how tenuous the congressional majorities are, it's easy to feel that way. But the fact that Biden was up at the podium yesterday saying, correctly, that because interest rates on debt are so low that they can continue to deficit spend to address the crisis is seemingly a signal that at there are at least some voices around Biden who are determined not to repeat Obama's first term.

I think the single biggest thing is just finding a way to get the vaccine rollout stepped up. If people's social lives start feeling more normal again, I think that's a huge psychological effect that could overcome what might still be weak economic numbers that would usually be bad for incumbents.

There's another part of me, though, that looks at the stock market every once in a while and sees that seemingly every day Tesla stock is up like 5% again for seemingly no reason whatsoever, and thinks that a 2008-ish bubble bursting is absolutely inevitable, and that Biden's gonna get 100% blamed for it.

The fact that a lot of the people in the capital were age 50+ is one thing that's keeping me from being completely despondent about the future. I think that generation was completely brain-poisoned by decades of right-wing propaganda, and that at, in spite of all the awful shit there is online, young people by and large haven't been dosed with it in the same way.

They got the Shaman

OH COME ON

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But many others are keeping their heads down and keeping their jobs, citing, among other self-serving interests, a desire to remain on their health care plans, according to my interviews with staffers. Others justify their continued employment by citing the demands of the continuity of government.

People are still serving a wannabe dictator in part because of our lack of universal health-care

Senior Trump Official: We Were Wrong, He’s a ‘Fascist’

NYMAG.COM

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“The legacy of the Trump administration is going to be that the president sparked an insurrection and people died.”

oh my god

The best part about this is that the right is going to talk this up like it's one of Stalin's purges, but most normal John Q. Publics are absolutely not spending all day on Twitter and absolutely are not gonna care about this at all.

2 minutes ago, Littleronin said:

The AZ one is run by a literal crazy cat lady, correct? So hard to keep up with which batshit republican is which.

I have no idea who it's run by, but it's the same account that said they were going to block every account with anime avatars like a week ago.

Trump may systematically get all of MAGA America suspended from Twitter through trying to borrow people's accounts one by one. Incredible.

It's become clear in recent days that Arizona Republicans are the most brain-poisoned party at the state level. I thought it was Wisconsin, but apparently not.

LMAOOOOOOOOOOOO

He couldn't not post for 2 hours

Seems like this is now a coordinated effort by tech sites to get rid of as much right-wing brain poison as they can. Better late than never, I guess!

Google too

I think he means like the general "they"

Thaaaaaaaaank God

Stephen Miller, absolutely evil till the end

Trump's true base was never economically disadvantaged people. It was wealthy white dopes with too much time on their hands.

15 minutes ago, 5timechamp said:

any noise from PA about that democratic senator that wasnt allowed to swear in cause the republican majority took over?

That feels like a million years ago now. I have no idea.

The purge had a purpose

I gotta say, Kimberly Guilfoyle being pardoned but not Don Jr. would be EXTREMELY funny

1 minute ago, thewhyteboar said:

Now this is hot:

 

3 minutes ago, Air_Delivery said:

AOC is far hotter

100%

Impeach him anyway then before he backtracks like he does every time