Ffs people are allowed to make some noise when they are upset about something. Trying to silence them immediately makes it about how to argue instead of the argument itself which makes it impossible to convince anyone to your pov.
What is the end game here? Continue to trash gop as chaos party as long as possible and then get Jeffries in as minority speaker? Not sure how they will accomplish that…
I think it's mostly to not have Jordan as speaker, since he's a pretty hardcore extremist, and then to make the Republicans look incompetent, at least until they can find another moderate, fail to elect them, find another moderate, fail to elect them, and then make small concessions to elect the first moderate with the help of a few moderate democrats who just want x y z.
What's the alternative? Do nothing and let another bugfuck crazy GQP nutbag run the Senate House?
I'm ok with the Democrats finally finding a spine and making the party of traitors squirm while the whole world sees how fucking stupid and disorganized they are. They made their bed cozying up to the lunatic fringe, and now we get to watch them have some sleepless nights until the donor class lands on them again like they did to McCarthy for the last budget negotiations.
I mean in a less dark timeline the republicans would reject extremism and get their shit together around a normal human being for speaker. That they won’t is neither the democrats’ fault nor the democrats’ job to save them from.
Democrat reps do not exist to elect a Republican speaker.
The GOP has been dancing with the devil since the 2009+ Tea Party fiasco. The only thing that’s changed is the faces and the lengths they’ve gone to win.
There is no majority party in the House. It might look that way at a glance, since two of the parties operate under the same name, but there are actually three parties in the House right now and none of them have a majority.
The only way to govern in this kind of situation is via a coalition, and as the largest unified party in the House the Democrats should lead that coalition.
If that were true then the centrist Republicans would help the Democrats elect a Democratic speaker. But they want to pretend their party is two parties when it’s convenient and one party when it’s convenient.
The Democrats end game is to vote for their preferred candidate. The real question is “what is the GOP’s end game?” Continue nominating white supremacists and insurrectionists to kowtow to the most extremist bloc of their party, then whining when Democrats don’t make up for their inability to whip the necessary votes?
The end game is when Republicans realize they cannot elect a Speaker without Democratic votes and offer something meaningful to Democrats in exchange for those votes.
Agreed. Before I found medication that worked, I basically sat around all day miserable. I was just sitting around in pain, doing nothing. No work, no hobbies, nothing. Because it was too much to handle along with pain that would make me scream if it got too bad. So thank whatever gods you feel like believing in for the pharmaceuticals that made the pain mostly go away.
This title makes it sound like a bad thing. Keep in mind that before the past century, most didn’t live much past 60, and when older, you had a lot more health problems.
Some long term drugs are quite useful and shouldn’t be considered at all as unnecessary or detrimental. This includes things like insulin or blood pressure medicine.
I have a rare nerve disorder, bipolar disorder and high blood pressure. Pharmaceuticals are keeping me alive. Like you said, the prices are ridiculous, but the actual science is usually sound.
People say pharmaceutical companies aren’t interested in keeping you alive. Fine. Doctors usually are and they generally want to write prescriptions that help you.
Yeah I needed certain drugs from a young age. Does it suck? Sure. Are the anxiety meds needed in part due to environmental factors? Probably but also genes say I’d still need them. Would I much rather live now than a hundred years ago when one of these drugs I need was available and the condition it treats was treated with hitting children until they were too traumatized to disobey authority? No no I wouldn’t.
When I worked at Amazon Cory Doctorow came to my office (we shared it with Audible) to give a talk about his book, and host a Q&A. He said that he publishes his audiobooks as albums on Amazon Music because that supported DRM-free playback when Audible didn’t.
He signed my Kindle with the phrase “If you can’t open it, you don’t own it” and drew a skull and crossbones.
Hard to argue with him. Glad I don’t work for Amazon any more.
I mean I have issues with TikTok but parents could also just like not let their kids use it. Parental controls are a thing. I don’t understand why people get so upset at social media companies for trying to get everyone they possibly can to use their apps as much as they can since it’s how they make their money lol. They’re corporations, not charities - don’t expect them to do the right thing.
I just listened to a podcast about that case from people who knew her and her family. It’s horrible what they went through, especially the mom.
She fought so hard for years to get the authorities to do something, only to be met by complete incompetence from the head of police there. And found out years later that he was Joran’s godfather.
I hope when he confesses this time he at least tells the truth. He’s lied and trolled the family before.
Podcast is called ‘People are the Worst’ and I think it’s 3 or 4 episodes.
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