Sen. Kyrsten Sinema censured by Arizona Democratic Party executive board over filibuster vote
Kyrsten Sinema leaves Democratic Party, adding drama to tight Senate margin
Manchin not backing Dems’ $2T bill, potentially dooming it
Sen. Joe Manchin leaves the Democratic Party and registers as an independent
And more recently... Manchin, Sinema block Democratic control of NLRB
Just like what Democratic party leadership wanted...
Not that surprising given how big our aging boomer demographic is. This was my father two years ago who had fought a year long battle with cancer before deciding to go with MAID. He was already hospitalized in palliative care and it may have only saved him a day or two more of suffering. In fact after how rough his final night was, I wish he had been able to let go a day earlier.
"She can't even string a sentence together", said after her town hall late in the campaign.
It's like they never fucking listened to a single Trump rally.
Ah yes, the Senate, with a 53 seat Republican majority will surely keep Trump in line this time. Insert Susan Collins shocked Pikachu face.
According to AP VoteCast (who surveyed 110k voters), the top issue for voters was the economy, with 6 of 10 considering the economy to be not so good or poor, two-thirds were very concerned about the cost of food and groceries, 7 of 10 thinking the country is on the wrong track, and 8 of 10 looking for substantial change to how the country is run.
This is why the Democrat messaging about the inflation rate coming under control (true) or stronger post-pandemic recovery than most other comparable nations (also true) fell flat for most voters. If someone's real wages didn't match the price increases to food, rent, and everything else over the last four years, then how good the GDP is doesn't really matter to them.
Campaigning on "things will largely be the same", or saying you wouldn't have done anything differently over the last four years, is always going to be a real uphill battle against an overwhelming desire for significant change.
After hearing Democrats talk about how they were "too woke" on transgender issues, I don't blame anyone for feeling unwelcome.
My problem with that is, the only time I heard Harris say trans was when she was talking about prosecuting transnational gangs. Democrats didn't lose for being too woke, they lost cause they don't know how to talk about the economy to blue collar workers.
But with this Congress, this President, and this Supreme Court, including any additional conservatives judges Trump adds, no one in the crosshairs of Project 2025 should feel comfortable right now.
Lost the Senate and "maintaining the House balance" is a funny way to say "lost the House, again".
Just take your fucking licks Democrats and learn from it, rather than trying to reframe losing all branches of the Federal government as some sort of secret strategic long-term winning plan.
the government in Ottawa has warned it won't allow medicines to be exported if Canadians could experience shortages as a result.
The Canadian government looking out for Canadians. Maybe the American government should look closer at why drug prices are lower in Canada and rather than just try to buy Canadian? We've all got aging populations, this problem is only going to get worse, and any change won't be implemented overnight. Would have been a great campaign issue to run on, rather than small business tax cuts and building a border wall.
Trump's power comes directly from the people. In a democracy, ultimately the people get the last say.
Well it's a representative democracy, a republic. Americans had their say two weeks ago and decided the GOP deserved the Presidency, the Senate, and the House. When combined with conservative majority on the Supreme Court, they can literally run the table for at least the next two years, regardless of any buyer's remorse some American's may have. Buckle up for 4 more years of outrage bait headlines and toothless responses from Democrats.
I enjoyed the Vikings tv series, particularly the early seasons with Ragnar. I especially liked when they wove in religion and mysticism into the episodes. A lot of people enjoyed the series at the time, it was objectively popular. Having an interest in something well represented in popular culture does not make you a de facto racist bigot.
There's a more likely argument to make, that within the population of white nationalist racist bigots, there's an overrepresentation of interest/obsession with Vikings/Odinism.
I’m not sure I even prepared myself.
I don't understand this. Were these people not alive in 2016?
More and more I feel we are seeing the pendulum swing. Normally we see 5-10 year cycles of push and pull along the political spectrum, but I'm becoming increasingly convinced we're in a century long cycle too.
We no longer have those with living memory of the gilded age, losing those who remember the saving grace that was the New Deal, and fewer and fewer left who were sent to war to fight fascism. Meanwhile the wealth gap is worsening in developed nations across the world, democratic republics are electing more far right parties and authoritarian leaders with populist messages, and the incoming administration is floating the idea of scrapping the FDIC and deregulating anything else on his favorite billionaire's wishlist.
Seems like we're right on track for a repeat of the 1930s.