I’m glad the Mormon Church was able to help you, but the LGBTQIA+ community shouldn’t be thankful for their support nor should they feel forced to. It’s tepid support at best, because the bill allows them to discriminate against LGBTQIA+ all they want, and they will.

I, too, am a white woman hiding behind the words of a black man and a black woman to blame another black woman for capitalism. 

Taika is arguing in his statement that directors should not have the final say on their film’s cut because they, “Need to be controlled sometimes”. Disney regularly edits films to remove representational content for foreign markets. How else should we take his support for studio control over the editing process other…

@Parlimentarian.

That’s informative, but completely redundant because why you or Biden are “naive” (I’m trying to be nice) enough to believe McConnell is fucking mind blowing. We all know moderates are Republican bootlickers because y’all keep the status-quo for Democrats but come-the-fuck-on... the Supreme Court is in the mess it’s…

Is that because it’s wrong to do that before the midterms because it might unfairly cast a deleterious light on the Republican candidates, or because it would make more sense to do it after the midterms when there are no elections to have to deal with? The first is typical Democratic thinking (I know it well, as a…

They don’t want a blue wave. They prefer not being fully in power, since that means having to take actual responsibility. They do just fine for themselves when either congress or the presidency is under oppositional control.

They always have an excuse. They always need more seats, more power, more money. Some reason they can’t act or help even though they “so want to”. Avenues, ideas, and plans for what they could actually do *right now* are always waved away. 

I don’t want to elect Republicans.  I unfailingly vote for Democrats every chance I get.  But my assumption is that people are going to notice that the Democrats telling them they can only act if enough people vote to put them in power are going to notice that they just voted in an election a couple years ago, and…

Yep.  How dare we criticize powerful people for their refusal to use the power they have to help the people they could.

Gotta say, if only Republicans had this sort of “Well, it might be hard because the other side might not just LET us do it, so we shouldn’t even try,” we wouldn’t be in this mess right now.

Who is suggesting helping elect republicans?

Who’s helping to elect Republicans? Are you implying that anything less than uncritical enthusiasm is actually "helping Republicans"?

They don’t have enough control, yadda yadda, but weird that Republican “compromise” stuff can get through while actually Democratic agenda stuff can't.

Despite the fact that this strategy has never worked, it’s actually really problematic of you to suggest even minor changes to it. 

I’m saying this as someone who will vote 100% for Democratic candidates, but to the average voter, what the hell has the Democratic party done to convince them to come out in November? They have had complete control of the government for 2 years and in that time have passed the Republican infrastructure bill that…

It’s bizarre, because I’m being bombarded by texts and emails (including many “from” Ms. Harris!) demanding my money to combat this. All of us are being bombarded with the message that we bear responsibility for doing something about this (VOTE!!).  But the people in actual power won’t do what is within their power,…

This is a great point. Instead of powerful people trying things that might work, but might not, let’s put the onus on the not powerful to do a thing they were probably going to do anyway. Voting will solve this problem. Not the powerful people who get into office as a result of that voting. Perfectly coherent message.…

Because what’s the plan if we don’t flip enough seats? We have never in my life had enough votes for the Democrats to codify reproductive rights, so I would really like to have some sort of plan other than just “finally have enough votes for once”. Republicans have had a plan that they’ve been marching forward…

Talk about Manchin and Sinema all you want, but the fact is that if they weren’t blocking the filibuster change, another centrist senator would step up to do it. There may be individual politicians in the party who want to do their jobs, but it is absolutely a whole-party problem. There’s always another Democrat who…