Disappointed Idealist
@kathymcconrad.bsky.social
Progressive 💙, lover of all animals not just the cute ones 🐕🐈, voracious reader, happily married. Fighting the pull of cynicism every damn day. No DMs!
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Hakeem Jeffries is so skilled at being a disappointment. The worst opposition leader possible. I am so sick of rank careerism and incompetence.
June 29, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Hakeem Jeffries is so skilled at being a disappointment. The worst opposition leader possible. I am so sick of rank careerism and incompetence.
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All we want is healthcare.
June 8, 2025 at 10:42 AM
All we want is healthcare.
Funny, isn't it? 😒
Funny the way the "bigger tent" always needs to include right wing grifters and not abolitionists and socialists.
Arizona Sen. Ruben Gallego defended his fundraiser with crypto investor and Trump ally Marc Andreessen during a town hall in Pennsylvania, arguing that Democrats have gotten too “pure” and need a bigger tent.
May 11, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Funny, isn't it? 😒
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Required reading for all democrats in office right now.
Weak won’t win.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Weak won’t win.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Adopting rightwing policies ‘does not help centre-left win votes’
Study of European electoral data suggests social democratic parties alienate supporters by moving towards the political centre
www.theguardian.com
May 3, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Required reading for all democrats in office right now.
Weak won’t win.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Weak won’t win.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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the american electoral system is basically 500,000 information-resistant people across a handful of states taking a guess and then going "haha! oops!" every two years. this process takes 18 months and costs four trillion dollars every time
April 17, 2025 at 2:16 PM
the american electoral system is basically 500,000 information-resistant people across a handful of states taking a guess and then going "haha! oops!" every two years. this process takes 18 months and costs four trillion dollars every time
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if we want to rebuild american institutions and earn back the world’s trust after this we cannot settle for half-measures. lots of people need to go prison. lots more need to be permanently stripped of wealth and power.
April 7, 2025 at 1:33 PM
if we want to rebuild american institutions and earn back the world’s trust after this we cannot settle for half-measures. lots of people need to go prison. lots more need to be permanently stripped of wealth and power.
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If this doesn’t make you angry, I don’t know what will. 🤬
March 27, 2025 at 2:43 PM
If this doesn’t make you angry, I don’t know what will. 🤬
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If it happened under any other president, Fox News would air a special called "Treason in the White House: How Our Enemies Are Laughing at Us"
March 25, 2025 at 12:31 PM
If it happened under any other president, Fox News would air a special called "Treason in the White House: How Our Enemies Are Laughing at Us"
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You’re seeing 80 years of national security investments being obliterated in just two months.
March 22, 2025 at 11:49 PM
You’re seeing 80 years of national security investments being obliterated in just two months.
If this is what big tent means, I don't want it.
March 23, 2025 at 2:43 PM
If this is what big tent means, I don't want it.
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The funny part of this is that Republicans in Congress have been pleading for someone in the WH to get Musk to stop talking about Social Security, then Nutlick steps up to make the best ad for Dems yet.
March 22, 2025 at 1:55 AM
The funny part of this is that Republicans in Congress have been pleading for someone in the WH to get Musk to stop talking about Social Security, then Nutlick steps up to make the best ad for Dems yet.
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"My cars are wildly unpopular right now! What is the one spokesperson I could pick to make them look even less cool?"
March 22, 2025 at 2:14 AM
"My cars are wildly unpopular right now! What is the one spokesperson I could pick to make them look even less cool?"
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AOC = Anti Oligarchs Club
March 22, 2025 at 3:19 AM
AOC = Anti Oligarchs Club
This is my problem specifically with the Bulwark worship, have you forgotten who these people are? They still invoke his name with admiration.
once again I have to invoke the specter of Ronald Wilson Reagan, who is in Hell now. under Reagan, the term "government spending" was effectively demonized. fuck you, Reaganite ghouls! spending money, on its people and their needs, is the function of government! public works are good! say so!
March 9, 2025 at 6:24 PM
This is my problem specifically with the Bulwark worship, have you forgotten who these people are? They still invoke his name with admiration.
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I think Elon should be in charge of building a new Air Force One for Trump.
March 7, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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How does this even need pointing out??
“Memo to Dem: Ronald Reagan is Not Your Friend” - @premthakker.bsky.social
Memo to Dems: Ronald Reagan Is Not Your Friend
Why waste a second mentioning a man whose wildest dreams are being fulfilled by Trump and Musk today?
open.substack.com
March 6, 2025 at 4:02 AM
How does this even need pointing out??
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I'm not a messaging guy but I'm pretty sure Democrats can do better than "Ronald Reagan was amazing."
March 6, 2025 at 1:21 AM
I'm not a messaging guy but I'm pretty sure Democrats can do better than "Ronald Reagan was amazing."
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"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."
—FDR, 1937
—FDR, 1937
March 4, 2025 at 10:15 PM
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."
—FDR, 1937
—FDR, 1937
Duh
March 2, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Duh
Lol, brilliant! 😆
I TRULY LOVE AND RESPECT
@ericswalwell.bsky.social
Congressman Eric Swalwell tonight
Message to Little Marco Rubio
"Bro, did you write this?"
"Don't bullshit us.
Grow a pair "
@ericswalwell.bsky.social
Congressman Eric Swalwell tonight
Message to Little Marco Rubio
"Bro, did you write this?"
"Don't bullshit us.
Grow a pair "
March 1, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Lol, brilliant! 😆
This 👇
every day I spend time thinking about how stupid and unnecessary all of this is and I hate it
March 1, 2025 at 3:46 PM
This 👇
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Bernie is leading an anti-oligarchy tour.
Go Bernie!
Go Bernie!
February 25, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Bernie is leading an anti-oligarchy tour.
Go Bernie!
Go Bernie!
Serious question, assuming voting is still a thing. How do we vote for these people ever again? Knowing we have no choice is absolutely infuriating. Fascism or total utter incompetence, great choices.
If I were a Democrat, and I saw Trump do a purge of high-level generals who were women and people of color and wouldn't be "yes men," I wouldn't vote to advance JD Vance's college friend for Secretary of the Army.
And yet....16 Democrats just did so
And yet....16 Democrats just did so
February 25, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Serious question, assuming voting is still a thing. How do we vote for these people ever again? Knowing we have no choice is absolutely infuriating. Fascism or total utter incompetence, great choices.