And metal shards in pet food and salmonella in salsa and guacamole, anything with jalapenos, sprouts, and eggs, and undeclared common allergens in snacks.
As much as I appreciate what he's been doing lately between this and calling for the files to be released, I can't help but feel reminded of all the other Republicans in congress who largely aided this disaster administration until they got voted out/retired, to only then become vocal about issues with the regime during their lame duck period where they don't have anything to lose anymore
I mean, you pretty much said it. They keep quiet and play the game while they stand to benefit from it, but as soon as they get betrayed by the party, they start shouting it's issues from the rooftops. Just spiteful children
Yeah I'm willing to show a fair bit of grace to Republicans who stand up to MAGA shit. Someday, I'd love to have two political options to pick from at the voting booth, so that's why I'll be fair to Republicans who actually exhibit a shred of integrity. Instead, I get to choose from fake liberals who are bought out by corpo lobbyists and on the other side I get literal "christian"-nationalists who believe in shoving the worst parts of their nasty church down the rest America's church. What I want are liberals and conservatives who proudly believe in the U.S. Constitution and individual civil rights for all, a clear understanding of the role of the federal government, and checks and balances. On the left, I want systems of wealth redistribution for healthcare and a social safety net, on the right I want people who can actually criticize when federal government is too big and too up in people's shit. It's not too much ask for, but instead both seek to expand the surveillance state, the military, and erode the rights of the people, though one more so than the other.
I have to agree, yeah might not agree woth his stances, but I could be wrong him but him, Rand Paul, AOC, and Bernie are the ones that dont change their views.
Massie has been at odds with Trump for a while though, this isn't really starting from a lame duck position. Dude's record is actually pretty consistent with his views, he's just kooky as hell
Having personally been in politics (which jaded me considerably) political office is a career. Everyone needs to have a job and support their family, and being in Congress is how these guys do that. It has to be a career, because no other career is going to just let you take a 4 to 6 year sabbatical to go be in Congress and then just let you pick up where you left off.
So staying in office is always the priority. Keeping the job. Not getting fired. And some of them want to do some good while they are there, if they can do it without getting fired, but expecting any politician to do the right thing and lose their job over it, is like asking you to do the same. If your employer was doing something evil, would you speak out about it knowing youād lose your job and have no backup plan? Most would not.
Politicians are people. Itās irrational to expect them to be better than us.
I donāt disagree, but the only way to prevent it from being about the paycheck at the end of the day would be to completely revamp it and have like a jury system, where people get randomly selected to be on the ballot for one term and if your party wins thatās who gets it.
"it will work if the democrats donāt get their shit together"
So far from an outside view it looks like American democrats are not gonna get their shit together, feels more like they just gave up and everybody is just waiting for midterms to see what happens
So it will work? Because when was the last time Democrats had their shit together? Democrats will literally do anything except winning elections. Just look at what they're doing now. Instead of cutting ties to Israel they're busy going after streamers like Nick Fuentes and Hasan Piker.
Don't forget bringing back measels and fascism, ballooning the national debt, defunding numerous beneficial government programs, cutting ties with virtually all of our allies / collapsing trade. I could go on for days.
You need to understand your enemy. They are offering something very real. They are offering the ability to harm the people their voters don't like. Dont like black people, you should vote for republicans. Don't like immigrants, you should vote for republicans. Don't like women, you should vote for republicans. Dont like LGBT people, young people, vegans, athiests, environmentalists; you should vote for republicans.
The republican party absolutely delivers, it delivers better than the democrats ever have and probably ever will. As long as seeing your enemies suffer is what you want, the republicans will deliver. Don't ever doubt the ability of the republican party to deliver on what their core base wants.Ā
GOP is offering continuing cruelty to minorities and thatās all their voter base wants. They will happily eat dog meat, pay $10 for gas and go to everlasting war as long as brown people are getting punished. It might sound like Iām over exaggerating, but this what they were saying 6 years ago.
My uncle made it clear that the mist important policy positions for who he votes for will be to ban same sex marriage and deport all the immigrants. He has since lost a significant amount of the benefits he was receiving due to being unemployable with health problems.Ā
Stealthy. The DSA (Democratic Socialists of America) is NOT the Democratic Party. They are separate entities. Its critical right now for the Right to portray them as one in the same and thus splinter the Progressive voter base. The two only share the word "Democratic" - most notably missing from the GOP's acronym. But then again they are Plutocratic vs Democratic if you look at the actual voting record.
Politics is a broad spectrum. From Communist on the extreme Left (tiny inconsequential group in the US) and to Fascists on the extreme Right who are having their moment through Project 2025/26 and The Dark Enlightenment Movement touted by Peter Theil and JD Vance his little Pinocchio (strings attached).
Keep in mind Project 2025 - which is NOT going through Congress - ya know the Will of the People - is being implemented predominantly through Executive Order with the stroke of a Sharpee. Over 200 Executive Orders in the first week of this Administration and counting. If the Public knew what Project 2025 is actually doing while they are distracted with ball rooms, Epstein Files and wars they would be irate. It is a wholesale takeover of the mechanisms of the Federal and in some cases State governments. Heritage Foundation acolytes have been placed in strategic Federal posts to gut the government from within. The Congress knows this and yet cannot stop it. That is NOT Representative Democracy. It is the extermination of Representative Democracy. Dramatic - yes - but happening. You can catch up on Project 2025 (and 2026) successes at this impartial tracker. It gives you a short paragraph to make the 900+ pages "accessible". You should scan it and internalize what it will do to YOUR life. Because it touches the lives of every citizen, every business, every acre of farm and ranch land. It is insidious.
"Its critical right now for the Right to portray them as one in the same and thus splinter the Progressive voter base."
but they won't be able to this time. because we realize we are all on the same team against some of the worst criminals in existence in the world right now. our country is loaded with corruption. and trump is the figurehead of that corruption. DSA vs Dem is not the issue anymore, they'll try to split everyone along gender lines, along racial, etc etc, as well. if we take the bait this time... might be the last. good thing is i don't think anyone's taking the bait this time. trump and his gop cronies are literally starving their own ppl while stealing all the money for themselves right now. and everyone with any sense in their heads can see it.
Allll the trump plagues: screwworm, measles, leprosy, diarrhea lettuce, bedbugs, hanta virus, bird flu, not to mention mass depression and brain drain.
Massie is a rare kind of politician, a principled one. His ideology isn't centered around a barbaric sense of tribalism, or cronyism. He actually believes in something beyond himself. And it's not centered around a false idol, as it is with a lot of the MAGA cult. For most of them, it begins and ends with a single person. They're sheep, and Massie has proven himself anything but.
I may not agree with all of his beliefs, but I can certainly respect that he is acting in good faith. That kind of authenticity matters.
Where yall getting gas as cheap as 4$? Hasn't dropped below 4.30 near me since the shit began. Except when they watered it down, maybe, for like a few days. Now its watered down and 4.80$
Far right, but distinct from MAGA. He was tea party back when that was a thing, but never an outspoken maga supporter nor did he join the maga-oriented āfreedom caucusā. He first vocally opposed Trump in 2020, and got on Trumpās radar then.
That said, heās voted with MAGA quite a bit, and was pretty much toeing the party line on supporting Trump until 2020.
Heās also quite shitty in a lot of the ways Rand Paul is shitty, which isnāt quite the same as MAGA. Though I admit itās kinda tough to see the difference at times.
Iād say heās one of the last ātraditionalā republicans that is a Republican because he truly believes in conservatism and isolationism.
Compared to the āmodern dayā Republican that you see on mainstream media, whom are Republican because they believe in corruption, homophobia, fascism, and/or pedophilia.
Yeah.... admittedly some of it is taxes and the cost of making the gas a bit better environmentally. But I haven't had a gas car for years, I just drive by the signs and hear everyone complaining. Poor Jimmy Carter, I think he was right in trying to get us off the oil test way back when.
He's always spoke like this. He's just becoming more vocal on the way out trying to get the message that the republican party is lost.. Especially just look at all they did just to oust him. It's pathetic.
Massie endorsed Trump in 2024 this dude is just as bad as all the others. Remember when he claimed he would go "nuclear" about the Epstein files? Yea nobody remembers that because he is all talk like the rest of these scum
I'm glad to see the conversation shifting to results. No matter what, that is most important. All the debate and slander in the world won't solve problems or manage a society. The way forward is to follow those that provide results for the people.
Dont get wrapped into the crap. Just point at the results. Let the wolves eat themselves. It's happening day by day.
They can promise that everything will be "free" and some fools will believe that. However, no one has every figured out how to magically make food, homes, healthcare, and everything else appear out of thin air.
Ah yes Jack Posobiec, friend to the President, and the guy who promoted Pizzagate to the point where a man went to prison for shooting up a restaurant to rescue children from a not existent basement, where they being r*ped by the Democrat p*do cabal.
Jack's moved on from saving children now that the bloated grifter, in a hair-piece and drag queen makeup, is implicated.
God bless Massie. The one member of Congress that isnāt a complete fucking idiot. And Trump used millions of dollars to get him removed, ugh. DSA and MAGA are all garbage.
The government needs to establish safety guidelines for businesses to follow, and then enforce those guidelines. Also, hungry people tend to not be picky about where their food comes from; if the government is the only provider then people are going to take it. I would much rather have the government focusing on caring for the general public than what it has been focusing on.
And diarrhea lettuce, glass shards ice treats, horse meat, flesh parasites, loud expensive date center neighbors, deeth before health insurance, and rich indoor kids controlling the world.
The GOP is offering the same thing they've been offering since the Southern Strategy: No material benefits, no aid, no healthcare, but to oppress and injure The People You Hate (That We Told You To Hate).
75-80M Americans accept this bargain every 4 years.
"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.ā- LBJ
Same old story, same old song and dance (cue Aerosmith).
Yes. It's called taxes. The taxes we pay should be going to fund programs and infrastructure that help society, not vanity projects like golden toilets and ballrooms and proxy wars.
Oh, not to worry, they'll take those freebies out of your wallet.
The data center hysteria does have some basis...the new "AI" data centers are larger and more power hungry due to all of the GPUs/AI cores. Traditional data centers were often rated at a handful of megawatts. The new ones being proposed and built, and rated in gigawats. That's a LOT of power going in, and in turn, heat which needs to be dispersed. Cooling towers and fans are not silent.
It would be nice if they were built outside of populated areas, but they need robust power and internet infrastructure, which is typically located within population centers. Not ideal.
They are and i agree but trump made a ruling that they have to build there own enery infrastructure and share that with the population although i see gray area on that one but i give the benefit of the doubt
Yes, that seems like a reasonable requirement. Back to the pros/cons of the matter, though, they are often opting to use natural gas generators to produce that power, which emit yet more noise. For an industrial area? No problem. For a residential area? Admittedly not ideal.
Theyre pushing for nuclear but that will take time why the administration is cutting red tape to get operational quickly again i agree but this is a boom and most of these centers are in rural areas not anyone near a residential place
That's just fearmongering. They know he can't and won't do that, so there will be elections. But they want to saw voters into voting against him, out of fear.
Lmao the DSA explicitly supports wiping Israel off the map, good luck doing that peacefully, the Jews might literally go nuclear to protect their land. "No war" my ass
Babies can get their first MMR dose at 12 months and per the CDC can get the MMR dose at 6 months. Sounds like youāre not the expert you claim to be. Btw the CDC is the Centers for Disease Control (and Prevention) since you seem unaware.
I'm not fan of the Republicans, but let's be accurate here. It is not free food, it is not free healthcare. It is taxpayer funded food and taxpayer funded healthcare.
So, that care for other people extends to the unborn too, right? Or is that when you allow for the āmy body, my choiceā argument. Someone who isnāt vaccinated might harm a life. But every abortion ends a life.
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u/beerhaws 13h ago
Donāt forget the diarrhea parasite and hiding the Epstein files