Shit, at the rate she’s going she’ll be lucky to get to run for reelection instead of sitting on the sidelines as a primary challenger takes her place.

Exactly; this is not as complicated as critics want to believe. Just cut checks, give housing, whatever, black people know what to do with it

We should do the latter with Ron

Johnson lives his entire life in fear of being lanced because he thinks everything is about revenge.

There’s already an example: look at Germany’s reparations for Holocaust survivors, 400,000 are still receiving them to this day. So miss me with pedantry

It’s their last chance at power; too many of them and their voters are dying off

It’s because a lot of voting registration has become extremely byzantine with either slashing budgets, rolling back places where you can register, forcing voter ID measures, and others. Basically if a purge happens, getting reregistered becomes an uphill battle.

It has some upsides

Henry Kissinger has been a pile of cartilage for decades now.

Shit, that same Twitter account retweeted this:

Pretty much. A little treat isn’t enough

Pretty much; making Juneteenth a holiday is, however well-intentioned, is mostly performative and a way for white people to say “I’m not racist! I celebrate Juneteenth!” Symbols have their place, but action and substantial legislation is what really matters

Now get back to voting rights. Chop, chop

They’ll make up some shit about how celebrating it means they’re totally not racist.

Meanwhile Senate Dems are wringing their hands over voting rights and offering little to rebuke the GOP because it’s clear a wing of conservative Dems don’t give a shit about voting rights and just want to get back to treating Congress like it’s a clubhouse.

We got a bunch of GOP passing voter suppression across the country while a bunch of Senate Dems have made it clear they don’t give a shit and just want to get back to brunch. Juneteenth should have been a holiday decades if not 150 years ago. Anyone can be performative; it takes guts to get some actual substance made.

From what I understand, it’s worse than that: he’s genuinely convinced that bipartisanship is the most important thing in the Senate and that not having it is worth tanking a bill over. He’s an earnest buffoon, convinced he’s on some righteous crusade to bring sanity back to politics. And if the votes this past month…

He’s finding himself increasingly alone in the party. If this keeps up, he’s going to spend retirement wondering why none of his old friends want to talk to him anymore

I’m to the point where come 2024 Manchin should just be abandoned. No money, no endorsements, leave him to the wolves. Let him rot in retirement utterly alone and cut off from the Democratic network, surrounded by people who don’t care about him

And now it’s gotten to the point where a major coal miners union has told Manchin to stop being an idiot: