Ya’ll keep saying this but who is this person? America doesn’t have a left radical enough to carry out reprisals and the Blue Lives crowd loves this little shit. I guarantee you he has friendly cop watching his back all the time. Not a thing is happening to Kyle but a slap on the wrist and a guest spot at the next CPAC…

A better version of this bill could have passed. It’d be one thing if this was a hugely controversial bill, but it wasn’t. It’s just astonishing and frustrating that they pushed for these “minor” tweaks that did nothing to the overall cost of this bill, but nevertheless will have real, harmful consequences for people,…

Because in any part, in any country, a “centrist” is just a selfish person who doesn’t want to rock the boat. They don’t want to be progressive or regressive and simply want to reap the rewards of being in a high salary tax payer paid position as long as they can. So they are willing to work both sides and don’t care…

Democratic Party’s willingness to self-implode rather than cede any power to the left.

Oh, I know. But she was a female bisexual Democrat from Arizona, so a segment of Democrats had been fawning all over her, and was irate that she was not receiving as much attention as the ‘Squad’.

I have some shocking news for you: Capitalists are going to raise prices whether the wage goes up or not. The wage hasn’t been raised in for-fucking-ever and prices have still gone up. Prices for fast food in Europe (with a much higher minimum wage) are negligibly higher. Your plan just guarantees that fewer people…

But when you ask “Would you support this bill as backed exclusively by Democrats, with no Republican support”, the tribal nature wins out - they do not want Democrats to succeed.

I’m not sure how you posted that first tweet and your takeaway was “Vote blue anyway” because the whole purpose of that tweet was the opposite. The dems deserve to lose. They do not deserve to win just because they are Blue because as of now they are not proving to be better than the GOP at anything besides being mild…

*Standing ovation*

“But we also don’t want to be a caricature of US bad everyone else good”

A friend of mine was an elite athlete who competed in several Olympic Games, and they told me that according to policy, an agent could turn up unannounced at basically any time of the day or night to demand a urine sample for drug testing. Not only that, but the sample had to be produced in front of the agent: the…

I’m not against allowing trans athletes to compete. I’m not even against the idea of “compete in the gender that you identify with.” I’m not against have 1 open division. I am against “eh, it’s all unfair anyway so who really cares?” from people that don’t understand the effect that it will have on the athletes and…

You’d have to have non-sociopaths in charge for such a thing, and that would require an ethos that focuses on rehabilitation, rather than punishment. Basically, the cruelty is an intentional, fundamental part of the system.

It isn’t. Where did I say so? You said it was silly to imagine that the US isn’t the most progressive country in the world for trans rights, and that’s untrue, and that’s what I pointed out.

Well said.

So true. This move by Biden is a conservative move. Most of what he does is relatively conservative. Making sure that teachers have vaccines before going back to work...thats conservative.

And should be called out to their constituents via social and mass media.  Just toss out some ads to West Virginians saying that Joe Manchin wants them to have less money, let him worry about it come election time unless he wants to shape up and toe the line.  

I am politically Democrat and sorry progressive leaders like AOC and the squad and Sanders well but this isn't a political topic like who should fund Medicare.

Conservatives have like taken up this mantle because it’s just another thing to manufacture outrage.

I wish Jezebel would give intelligent women the benefit of the doubt and actually ask them why they’re concerned about the erosion of women’s rights - especially in the UK. Americans have no idea what’s happening there. Hers is not a statement against trans rights, (which she supports if you actually had read her words…