We have to get Bernie to sit down and shut up. His is not the kind of resistance we need now, we need clear-eyed strategists that spend their time actually advancing democratic electoral goals rather than preaching to the choir about how the rich are too rich.

I think it would help to have a candidate or prominent party member speaking candidly and honestly about the importance (and likelihood) of this happening.

It is a common indicator of early onset Alzheimer’s when a person doesn’t remember what happened today, but say, remembers what happened 3 months ago, as if it was today. Later as the disease progresses, they may remember 20 years ago as if it was today. And so on. It’s a hell of a disease. I just can’t believe that…

• The State Department promoted Ivanka Trump’s new book on Twitter, a likely violation of a federal rule. [Huffington Post]

Is anybody else seriously starting to consider revolution? Because, God, I know I am. The system is broken, people are terrible, we need to burn this shit down and start from the ground up.

We have to get to work. We have to stop eating each other—not stop criticizing when appropriate, but going for the jugular when a simple “bad idea, do better” would work is uneeded on all sides of the liberal coin—and focus on the GOP. I know that seems harder but we need to do it. HAMMER THEM.

Here’s the thing...It’s all about the mid-term election in 2018, and that’s increasingly looking doable for Democrats to take over the House. If they do, Trump is doomed. Armed with subpoena powers, multiple committees will be investigating this administration, releasing his tax returns, and possibly preferring…

I’m really not doing very well with this y’all. I know it’s the first step in a long process. I know there is a decent chance it will die in the Senate...but it’s like it’s also yet another step towards Rome going down in flame. And considering I’ve spent a chunk of my week trying desperately to sort out health…

And if all you do is complain about what the Dems did, then that’s all that gets remembered. This “better than” crap is killing us. The Republicans were sitting there, drinking beer, playing the frickin’ Rocky theme, and partying about stripping millions of Americans of their healthcare.

Isn’t “being a boxer” a pre-existing condition? I mean, it’s a job that involves getting repeatedly punched. What insurance company wants to cover that? Balboa would be toast.

Something has to be done. They’ve run out of time and the rest of us are sick and tired of being held back.

Any man who speaks about abortion should have to provide at least 5 referral letters from real women who he has spent more than 20 minutes with and at least one romantic partner. Also they need to be able to point out he essential parts of lady anatomy otherwise SHUT UP

Leaders played the “Rocky” theme song as lawmakers walked into the meeting. Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) put an image of George S. Patton on the screen and read inspirational quotes from the general.

So fucking angry, I don’t even have the words right now. These people are celebrating fucking over millions of people’s health. These fucking people are drinking on the job because they have successfully passed a bill that will fuck over millions of people. And they passed the bill without so much as a CBO report,…

It’s not law yet. Still has to pass the Senate. If your Senator is a Republican, call their office and yell at them (if you give a shit).

The ONLY other purpose seems to be scoring cheap political points for 2018.

I don’t know! Dump and Putin can’t have video of them ALL fucking goats. What the hell is their motivation?

This is entirely the mindset of the people involved, and it’s a betrayal of what idealists have preferred to think of as American values since the middle of the 20th century, at least.

Yeah, everybody’s focused on all the bomb dropping and wars but what the US really makes a point of doing and for which people (used to) have enormous love for the US was our use of soft power and all the money and people we we’d send- sometimes without really any political benefit at all- to help places that needed…

The whole idea is based upon the ridiculous notion that over the past 8 yrs our economy has been a disaster/is swirling down the drain.