Bob Graham, longtime US senator and 2-term Florida governor, dies at 87
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/16/politics/bob-graham-dies/index.html
#democrats
Anger, not laziness or apathy.
Please acknowledge that. Acknowledge it by giving me different parties and candidates and policies, and not the same old shit, time after time. Speaking of old shit, have you seen the candidates for President?
#election #politics #president #elections #democrats #republicans #biden #trump #vote #voting #kennedy
Hey #Democrats --the TWO important lesson for you from the SC primary vote is that THE AGE ARGUMENT DOES NOT WORK. and AL GORE NEEDED TO WIN HIS HOME STATE, NOT NECESSARILY FLORIDA.
The morons who keep blaming Ralph Nader for Al Gore's failure to win his home state are a fatal hazard to the Dem Party. Kick 'em to the curb.
#Democrats are beginning to make me understand how #Gaza voted for #Hamas in 2007. Best of the bad choices. #Democrats
Half of me is begging people to please go #vote especially in swing states if nothing more than for self preservation especially in terms of the climate, and the other half is like OMFG WHY ARE #DEMOCRATS ACTIVELY MAKING THIS HARDER AND HARDER FOR ME TO DEFEND THEM UNFORCED????
Will enjoy helping him get primaried.
♲ micchiato - 2024-01-28 05:32:12 GMT
WTF Fetterman“John Fetterman spent the night standing on a rooftop waving an Israeli flag at protestors in #Pennsylvania. Just an unbelievable sight to see.”
#Democratshttps://x.com/goodvibepolitik/status/1751064079286878248?s=46&t=521hINbbUzSBIUxrCF_rbg
Poll: #Democrats Would Rather See #MichelleObama in the White House than Biden
by Brett Rowland
If Democrats had a magic wand, they’d put Michelle Obama in the White House.
The former first lady has more political star power than incumbent #President Joe Biden and other famous and not-so-famous Democrats ahead of the November election, according to The Center Square Voters’ Voice Poll, conducted Jan. 2-4.
The poll, conducted with Noble Predictive Insights, found that if Democrats and Democrat-leaning likely voters could wave a magic wand, 24% would pick Michelle Obama. The former first lady was followed by Biden (20%), U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (12%), someone else (9%), U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg (9%), former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (8%), Vice President Kamala Harris (7%), and U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (5%)."...
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/whats-the-matter-with-west-virginia-culture-war-or-class-war
What’s the Matter with West Virginia: #Culture War or #Class War?
LES LEOPOLD
Jan 09, 2024
..."If the #Democrats had taken a real interest in the plight of coal country, it would have been relatively easy to work out a New Deal-like plan for redevelopment. The region needs improved physical infrastructure, stronger schools, and better healthcare facilities. The area could truly benefit from an increase in environmental reclamation jobs funded by the federal government. West Virginians care about the rivers, streams, and forests in which they hunt, fish, and hike. The reclamation of the local environment should have created strong connections between the local population and national Democratic environmentalists. But it didn’t happen. Instead, the Democrats wrote off the state. Good riddance.
As the Republicans continue to press cultural issues, as Tom Frank described, they leave the door open for Democratic solutions that could stop mass layoffs and create sustainable jobs from the millions who have been left behind. The Biden Administration’s bipartisan infrastructure program and green-energy Inflation Reduction Act, as currently conceived, won’t put the people of Mingo County back to work. Furthermore, these voters remember that Frank’s list of anti-working-class economic policies—deregulation, cuts in capital gains taxes, monopolization, and runaway inequality—all had the strong backing of the Democratic Party leadership.
It turns out that what’s the matter with Kansas or West Virginia is the wrong question. What’s the matter with the Democrats is what we should be asking.
#ZachShrewsbury in #WestVirginia and #DanOsborne in #Nebraska are answering that question as they run for the U.S. #Senate as unabashed working-class #candidates. (See Steve Early’s excellent reporting.)
Osborne, a former local union president who led a successful strike against the WK Kellogg Company in 2021, actually is leading in the polls against three-term Republican Senator Deb Fischer. For the first time in decades, the voters in these two states are hearing a progressive populist message from senatorial candidates, and it is ringing true.
The Democratic Party should listen carefully to what Shrewsbury says West Virginia needs.
“We need leaders that are cut from the working-class cloth," he says. "We need representation that will go toe to toe with corporate parasites and their bought politicians. We need a leader who will not waver in the face of these powers that keep the boot on our neck.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/social-security-fiscal-commission-2666942470
Protect #SocialSecurity by Dumping #GOP 'Death Panel,' Say 116 House Dems
BRETT WILKINS
Jan 12, 2024
..."While House #Republicans claim the purpose of the proposed #fiscal commission is to control the $34 trillion national debt, #Democrats have expressed skepticism regarding their true intentions, noting that GOP lawmakers have dramatically increased the debt via tax cuts for #corporations and rich #Americans in recent years.
In November, House Republicans proposed cuts to Internal Revenue Service funding that would slash federal revenue by $27 billion, according to the Congressional Budget Office. A 2023 analysis by the Center for American Progress found that tax cuts approved during the George W. Bush and Trump administration have added $10 trillion to the national debt this century.
Social Security, meanwhile, does not add to the long-term federal deficit because the program is required by law to pay benefits from an internal trust fund and is prohibited from borrowing.
"Republicans are not serious about the deficit. They are not even serious about governing. They are serious about only one thing, and that is ripping away Social Security from seniors behind closed doors," said Schakowsky. "A so-called fiscal commission would fast-track cuts to vital benefits Americans rely on."
"Social Security benefits are already modest—only about $21,384 a year, yet Republicans want to put these hard-earned benefits at risk," she added. "We must expand Social Security benefits, not cut them."
...
"Democratic leaders in both the House and Senate should make it clear that a commission is a poison pill, something they will never accept under any circumstances," Altman continued. "Social Security and Medicare are earned benefits. They should never be negotiating chips."
"Instead of a closed door commission, the House should hold an up or down vote on the Social Security 2100 Act," she added. "This legislation increases Social Security's modest benefits and ensures the expanded benefits can be paid in full and on time for decades to come."...
Reading "public activity" on Diaspora, I get a big sense of
How things have changed, and so quickly!
The #Republicans fought a war to end #slavery, but now they're the Bad Guys.
The #Democrats founded the #KKK and battled against #civil-rights, but now they're The Good Guys.
It went from right-vs-wrong to us-vs-them.
Way too much about politics on this Diaspora. I know everything is political for some reason, but it shouldn't be that way.
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/democracy-movement-to-defeat-trump-fascism
We Need a #Progressive #Democracy #Movement to Defeat #Fascism—Now!
THOM HARTMANN
Dec 16, 2023
..."People, not institutions, generally create and populate movements. And, as Joe Madison says, doing so requires effort, persistence, passion, evangelism, and, yes, sacrifice.
While #Democrats decry “the cult of Trump” and the media often ridicules Trump’s “personality cult,” the reality is that there’s never been a successful movement in history that didn’t have a charismatic leader. The movement may have preceded the leader, but the leader and his or her charisma is what makes it so potent.
...
Movement leaders — like true movements themselves — are disruptive. They lay down in the street, stand before lines of police, let themselves get beaten and arrested for a greater cause. They sacrifice.
The successful ones are almost always talented in the arts of mass communication, in public speaking, in organizing political and guerrilla theater.
...
Will a progressive democracy movement leader emerge to take on the growing forces of fascism represented by the Trump and Qanon cults — and the handful of third-party wannabee movement leaders — in America?
Are there people with talent and charisma willing to risk the fate of JFK and MLK to take head-on the armed militias and algorithm-fueled haters who’ve sworn their lives and allegiance to Trump and his ideal of a Christian-only white supremacist nation?
And, if one or more does, will the institutional Democratic Party treat them as a threat, the way they did Bernie and Howard Dean before him? Or will they recognize that the only way to defeat a movement like Trump now commands is with another movement of equal passion and fervor — and to get behind it, collaborate, and use its force and energy to change policy and politics, the way LBJ did when he saw that MLK would never give up?"...
DEMOCRATS
Governor Josh Shapiro. I would vote for this man if he decided to run for President.
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Governor of Pennsylvania ~ Josh Shapiro
Born: 1973 (age 50 years), Kansas City, MO
Spouse: Lori Shapiro (m. 1997)
Previous offices: Attorney General of Pennsylvania (2017–2023), Pennsylvania State Representative (2004–2012)
Party: Democratic Party
Office: Governor of Pennsylvania since 2023
Education: Georgetown University Law Center (2002), University of Rochester (1995), Georgetown University
#democrats #usa
Governor Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvanian speaking truth and fighting for Pennsylvanians – without fear or favor.
Josh continues to fight against extremist Republicans who undermine our democracy by pushing lies and trying to restrict voting rights. He’s standing up to protect a woman’s right to choose, working to keep our communities safe, and defending our civil rights. Josh remains committed to taking on the big fights and delivering results to Pennsylvanians — just like he always has.
#democrats #usa
JOSH SHAPIRO ~ Present:Governor of Pennsylvania
Previous
Josh was elected as the first Democrat to lead Montgomery County (Pennsylvania’s third largest county) since the Civil War. He inherited a financial mess and a $10 million budget shortfall — but got to work, and led a fiscal and ethical turnaround. He took early steps to combat the opioid and heroin epidemic, helped the first LGBTQ+ couples in Pennsylvania marry, eliminated veteran homelessness, and invested in the county’s bridges, roads, and trails. He reformed the county’s pension system and fired the Wall Street money managers to save millions and protect seniors’ retirement. By the end of Josh’s tenure, he had replenished the county’s lacking reserve funds, decreased the size of the county’s budget, and put the County on a path back to a AAA bond rating.
Das ist einer der ersten Beiträge hier im Fediveree der extrem propagandistisch gegen Israel und USA argumentiert, der mich erreicht. Allerdings über einen Hashtag.
Auf Twitter ist meine Timeline voll von sowas, ich nutze Twitter eigentlich nicht mehr, aber gestern hab ich mal wieder reingeschaut.
Da wird mir der Rotz von einer Person reingespühlt die mal im Isländischen Parlament saß und glaube ich jetzt für einen MEP arbeitet. (Aus dem Kopf, nicht sicher ob das so ist.)
Die Person teilt jedenfalls Propaganda Tweets ohne Ende.
Beeindruckend was da los ist, das hat das Potential noch mehr zu eskalieren und ich könnte mir vorstellen, dass es dadurch auch anderswo Probleme geben könnte.
♲ Heretical_i - 2023-11-03 19:47:12 GMT
"In what is arguably the most #liberals thing ever to have happened in all of human history, the #Biden administration has announced its plans to develop a US National Strategy to Counter #Islamophobia even as it helps #Israel #massacre Muslims by the thousands in #Gaza.""Biden ‘Countering Islamophobia’ While Incinerating Gaza Is The Most #Democrats Thing Ever"
#Muslim #Democrats in the #US have given #Biden an ultimatum
If the president does not achieve a ceasefire in Gaza by 5pm Washington time, Muslims will work against raising funds and votes for his re-election in 2024.
The National Muslim Democratic Council issued a statement saying:
"Your administration's unconditional support, including funding and weapons, has played a significant role in perpetuating the violence that is causing civilian casualties and undermining the confidence of voters who previously trusted you."
Yet the #US administration currently opposes a #ceasefire in #Gaza, as it does in #Ukraine.
PS. This is a really terrible situation, because who ever the republican candidate is, he will be the same, if not worse than Biden./Farhad
#SaveGaza #StopIsrael
#palestine #Israel #Occupation #Apartheid #Politics #PeaceNow #StopTheWar #CeasefireNow