1) Yeah, Dems are bought by industry too. We're working on that problem, unlike the GOP
2) 12 years have gone by- as feckless as the Dems can be, it's unlikely that they will, as they did in 2009, assume that the GOP will act in good faith.
3) There was a bit of an economic crisis going on at the time, if you hadn't noticed. Sometimes you don't get to choose the priorities you inherit.
"We must make our choice. We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both."
-Louis Brandeis
Folly and fakery have always been with us... but it has never before been as dangerous as it is now, never in history have we been able to afford it less. - Isaac Asimov
Every damn thing you do in this life, you pay for. - Edith Piaf
The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. - Orwell
No amount of belief makes something a fact. - James Randi
i stand by my statement that when an angry mob used force against a vehicle, that it is in the best interests of those inside the vehicle to avoid harm by any means necessary, up to and including driving through the mob. Your political ideology does not grant one the right to illegally detain and assault those inside and there is historical evidence of what happens to those who have left their fate to the judgment of mobs. By all means, you are welcome to use the tactic of shutting down roadways in protest, but you best be ready to face the full mass of that which you try to intimidate with force.
[Infraction]
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"It doesn't matter if you believe me or not but common sense doesn't really work here. You're mad, I'm mad. We're all MAD here."
"We must make our choice. We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both."
-Louis Brandeis
The republican go-to for why their trickle down economic models don't work when they're given free reign to pursue them is always that somewhere, somehow, the democrats are actually screwing it up, and that it'd work perfectly fine if the insidious liberals weren't secretly undermining them.
It's sort of a catch-22; the problem with republicans holding total power is that, when things inevitably go to shit, it's far more difficult for them to blame the democrats for their conceptually-faulty republican economic and social models going south. They need someone to blame.
Hell, look at the Trump administration. He's not bandying about any of his "republican successes," despite the fact that for the first two years of his presidency republicans practically had total control. He's focusing on trying to demonize Biden as being some "radical left puppet" while simultaneously working to undermine the election in any way possible.
“Do not lose time on daily trivialities. Do not dwell on petty detail. For all of these things melt away and drift apart within the obscure traffic of time. Live well and live broadly. You are alive and living now. Now is the envy of all of the dead.” ~ Emily3, World of Tomorrow
Words to live by.
To paraphrase Stevie Wonder's thoughts on the matter, they're angry enough about the protests to complain about them, but not angry enough about them to actually try and fix the things people are protesting about.
As far as I'm concerned... if that's indeed their attitude they can stay inconvenienced.
“Do not lose time on daily trivialities. Do not dwell on petty detail. For all of these things melt away and drift apart within the obscure traffic of time. Live well and live broadly. You are alive and living now. Now is the envy of all of the dead.” ~ Emily3, World of Tomorrow
Words to live by.
Folly and fakery have always been with us... but it has never before been as dangerous as it is now, never in history have we been able to afford it less. - Isaac Asimov
Every damn thing you do in this life, you pay for. - Edith Piaf
The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. - Orwell
No amount of belief makes something a fact. - James Randi
Now would that be harm to their white fragility, or something even more ethereal like harm to the status quo?
You support James Alex Fields Jr.'s actions, don't you? Go ahead, get it off your chest and let the world see what's really motivating this trip into a hypothetical lala land of scary protestors with their giant penises threatening innocent motorists just trying to drive their beautiful white families to church!
List of people I don't care about, starting from bottom to top:
Kim Kardashian
Kanye West
Logan Paul
Jake Paul
Hol' up . . . got a few more to go through
Cardi B
Joe Rogan
Oh there he is
Mark Dice.
Not the bottom of the list, but definitely on it. There are more on the list, but I don't think I need to bore you with that.
Putin khuliyo
nah im fine. your advice ends like this.
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well that's lie since i already explained in this very thread that what james id was not fleeing for his life.. he was the instigator. strange that you would lie like that..no wait it isn't.. the authoritarian left wing does lies all the time.
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"It doesn't matter if you believe me or not but common sense doesn't really work here. You're mad, I'm mad. We're all MAD here."
Coming out with the tax returns a good month before the election makes me wonder wtf else is in store for Trump. I'd be very worried if I were him.
I'd actually say they're way more in tune. Most actors (unlike Wall Street bros, who usually come from monied families) are solidly middle class and struggling before they're discovered. Unless you're like, Meryl Streep or someone, who was born into Hollywood elite already.