It’s almost as if both parties have decided to fight every election almost exclusively over wedge issues, in order to avoid discussing real solutions to major problems that can only be solved by more spending funded via higher taxes on the wealthy and corporations (who fund both parties’ campaigns).

This is also an own-goal by Dems.

Trump ran Harris’s comments on providing gender affirming care for inmates on a loop.

You can’t protect minority groups if you don’t get elected.

And you can’t get elected if you focus too much on the 0.1% instead of the 50% who are drowning in the status quo.

America will exhaust every option before doing the right thing.

Medical debt is abhorrent and shouldn’t exist in a civilized society.

Removing medical debt from credit reports is helpful to those who have it. But it sweeps the problem under the rug.

It also makes credit reports less reliable. 🤦🤷

Check air quality regularly on weather apps oe other online sources.

Fortunately smoke is mostly blowing out to sea, even now. But that could change.

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The DNC would rather lose to Trump than win with these progressive policies.

The DNC’s treatment of Sanders, Turner, and other progressives show their hostility to progressives.

Democrats receive campaign cash from overlapping interests as the GOP. They are paid to to maintain the status quo.

Operating Systems, like computer games, should have skill settings.

The “Boomer” setting needs just 4 buttons:

“Google” to open the browser,
“Google” for web searches,
“Google” for email, and
“Word” for word processing.

Access to any other features results in hours of angry tech support calls

Wow! I’m curious how an artist in Pompeii would have seen the original painting, yet alone referenced it.

Guessing it references a high detail copy or sketch of the original.

That raises more questions about paintings: how common were they, how did they become famous and copied across the empire?

I’m partial to “Wank Panzer.”

Same. We should have had Senator Katie Porter, but Schiff deliberately knocked her out.

Sick of the DNC’s anti-progressive ‘faux fighters’.

Sad too that so many Democratic voters are fooled by them — or worse, knowingly an accept the corruption and neoliberalism.

Great rant. But almost all of Sorkin’s criticisms of Millennials are *more* true of Baby Boomers, *least* true of Millennials.

Millennials are the most liberal, diverse, educated, tolerant, and least religious and least likely to buy into ‘American exceptionalism’ in our nation’s history.

Why blame voters for DNC incompetence?

Biden was in failing mental and physical health. Should‘ve had a primary as promised in 2020.

Harris, who didn’t win a single state in 2020, was appointed.

She had 100% of Biden’s baggage, didn’t distinguish herself from it, ran on an uninspiring platform.

Same, in terms of reading printed books.

FWIW I’ve learned to be slightly smarter than my present (lazy) self and switched primarily to audiobooks.

I can listen to a book when I drive, do work around the house (dishes, taking out the trash) or do mindless computer stuff.

Finished about a dozen.

Alas, one dead CEO won’t change anything.

1. Like street drug dealers, there‘s always someone to take their place.

2. We’ve had 30 years of children being slaughtered in classrooms, and GOP congressmen prefer pocketing 8¢ for each gun death than undercutting the profits of gun manufacturers.

Sure, but only because you prioritize the health and well-being of your citizens over corporate profits.

We could improve the lives of 330 million Americans, but it would slightly disappoint the 400 families who contribute the majority of money to political campaigns.

So, it’s a tough choice.
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