3 minutes ago, DramatistDreamer said:

And it’s looking increasingly likely that Republicans will be back in power in the fall. I still hope that won’t be the case.

I don't believe that's a forgone conclusion. A lot can change between now and the election.

44 minutes ago, marceline said:

I don't believe that's a forgone conclusion. A lot can change between now and the election.

I really hope so. It seems like so much of the news that I have read recently seems so focused on what the Biden. administration has not been able to accomplish without giving as much focus on what has been blocking the way.

Please let there be some good changes between now and the midterm elections.🙏🏾

For the "Sounds Like a Job For Someone Else" File:

 

Another mass shooting and somehow it's all about what Democrats need to do.

I'm so tired of this.

I'm taking aim at Manchin. The rest is simple reporting of what may or may not be on the docket this week for this, which I think is newsworthy. But no, on gun control I don't think it's a particularly harsh take to say no one in power is doing enough.

Chris Murphy, for example, is a good man and is very passionate about gun control. But tonight, as he talks about it, he claims he thinks he can get ten GOP votes for 'something about guns.' I think he's living a rich fantasy life. Because it doesn't matter what the 'sensible' Republicans tell their friends across the aisle in hushed tones in cloakrooms; it matters what they do on the record. I don't believe there will ever be ten Republican votes for any gun control before I'm 50, at the very least. Maybe not before I'm dead.

But regardless, that still doesn't leave the rest of us, elected or unelected, without a responsibility that goes beyond floor speeches and messaging votes. I've had enough of those. And I know we've all had enough, so I can sympathize with all of us.

In other, (relatively) better news:

Perdue was absolutely crushed numbers-wise, which may speak to a waning Trump wave in the fall.

 

3 hours ago, Vee said:

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43 minutes ago, Vee said:

Trump has never been as influential in primaries as he's made out to be. It's that the media obsesses over any endorsement he makes. 

Speaking of Georgia, Lucy McBath, who beat a truly brain dead Republican hack (Karen Handel) for a swing district in 2018, was put into another district and won her primary tonight against a fellow Congresswoman. She ran for office due to  losing her son to gun violence, so today must be all the bitter and none of the sweet. 

 

 

 

Aren’t these the same people who advocate for “Free Speech” when it involves the right to insult people? Now they want to tamp down someone who wants to say something?

Beto should take it to him. He can win there. And he's right to do this - the fact is he is in front of a mic, with cameras, preaching Democratic and liberal values, and there needs to be more of that all day, everyday in the current environment. Because if the vapid rich in cable news can't find a Dem to show out and get in front of a mic they will happily put on another ten Republicans, or guys like DeSantis, who has never met a podium he doesn't love to spew hate from. Often GOP rhetoric has no apparent news value but they still push it out daily, and they never stop. Media wants takes and drama and Republicans give it to them, so news producers feel no compunction in platforming their filth. Beto is doing the necessary in countering it. That's the ground war now, as much as organizing. 

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11 minutes ago, victoria foxton said:

 

  

The hypocrisy is so enormous it's not even funny.....