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Culture wars are the oxygen of capitalists.

The root of our problems is corporate greed.

The most common comorbidity is poverty.

We need the language to deconstruct late stage capitalism. You can’t change what you can’t describe or understand.

https://twitter.com/crgulla/status/1482072525676892171?s=20

1000%. Republican rhetoric is useless. They will say/do anything to give themselves power.

Spare us the “bipartisan” hand-wringing.

Republicans are the party of theft. They all know voter suppression and gerrymandering are about stealing elections. They know the audits were about stealing elections. They know slowing the Post Office was about stealing elections.

The complicity and gaslighting, vis a vis, ‘stop the steal’, represent manifest diseased GOP morals/ethics.

Law and order is a white supremacist construct.

Notice it includes the wrong Douglass and the correct one is spelled with only on S.   Scottie

https://twitter.com/duffyink/status/1481323276462968834?s=20

‘Knowing you are the problem, then blaming others’ is the conservative mission statement.

The malfeasance is manifest.

Coming soon.   But what people forget is that those cases some are going to get really sick from Covid, they are going to incur large medical bills, and a lot of them will die.   Is that the future the anti-vax groups want?  Just a roll of the dice if you go bankrupt or die?   How many deaths will be enough when nearly 900,000 are not?   Scottie

*in order to protect our strong men- we must drink pee and show our indoctrination*

We should not be shrugging off long-term risks.

It’s a cult.

This tracks.

Aggressively wrong

The double standards are everywhere.

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History has shown that left to their desires the states will infringe on rights granted by the federal constitution. Yes the constitution is the founding document that provides the structure the US is built on. When rights that should be enjoyed by all are with held or restricted to some, the federal government must act to restore them. Plus some elections are federal elections and so should be standard across all states as with other interstate laws. Again that is provided for in the constitution. If you take out the right wing media attempts to stir up their base’s emotions you can see that this is something that has happened before and should happen again. The federal government is doing its job to address a problem across state lines and to ensure equal protection under the 14th amendment. Scottie

Have these people seen Biden’s 36 years in government service?   He is a center right leaning politician who has more than once advocated cutting social security payment, assistance to the poor, being tough on crime, in favor of keeping cannabis illegal, and refusing to eliminate student debt even though some of these things helps the economy immensely.   Biden is no lefty, no progressive, but he is a corporate democrat.   Biden is beholden to the wealthy corporations and is willing to do mostly as they wish as they wish.   The reason Biden has been pushing for policies that the right wing media call progressive is they help both the country and the wealthy / big businesses.  But the right has to be against anything that Biden is for so they create a false scare tactic against even stuff they supported just a few years ago, such as voting rights reform.    History and truth are pesky things the right wing media is trying to avoid.  Scottie

According to 2019 FBI data, seven out of ten states with the highest per-capita rates of violent crime voted Republican in the 2020 election. In contrast, seven out of ten states with the lowest rates voted Democrat. However, the District of Columbia had the highest rate despite voting blue.  Mississippi has the highest murder rate, I hear it is a deep red state.   Facts matter.   The cartoon is just an attempt to play on fear and keep outrage going in the right wing base.   Scottie

https://repustar.com/fact-briefs/do-red-states-rank-higher-in-violent-crime-rates-than-blue-states

CRT is simply a dog whistle for the right so I will ignore its use here.  MLK’s words are as appropriate for today as they were back when he issued them. What is discouraging is the US has regressed on the gains in civil rights that King fought for. The US has not only stopped moving forward to eliminate pervasive racism but again has one political wing actively trying to promote it. He was right about the lack of support and work needed by moderate white people to change the discriminatory nature of the country. Scottie

Youngkin is dividing Virginia by pushing the false idea that CRT is being taught in its schools.   Goodwyn prefers the old Texas schoolbooks which told that the slaves were happy being told what to do.   White people afraid of facing the truth will be the downfall of this country.   Not a joke. A Virginia Republican legislator introduced a bill requiring public schools to teach students about the Lincoln – Douglass debates. Frederick Douglass.  

Youngkin banned the teaching of Critical Race Theory (although it is not being taught).   Youngkin did not ban the teaching of Replacement Theory.  Make of it what you will.

Teachers now have to fear if they say anything critical about; slavery, Jim Crow, lynching they will be fired. If Little Johnny goes home and says Mr Jones said in history class that slaves were considered subhuman and often flogged and his Great, Great,Great, Great Grandfather got rich off their labor-Mr Jones is teaching CRT and should be fired.  Protecting our children from an imaginary CRT agenda, killing our children by lifting mask mandates during a lethal pandemic. Not the least bit divisive. Next we’ll have bodycams on teachers to prevent the spread of seditious knowledge.   Scottie

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Owning The Libs Equals Victory!

Price gouging and profit taking are a large cause of the current inflation.   Businesses are trying to make more money as they do at the cost of the people suffering.   This is win win for large or wealthy businesses.  While small businesses are going under more money for the large ones.   They get more money, more power, more help from the governments, the only ones getting less are the people.   Scottie

Businesses created the model that is the biggest contributor to this problem so they could make more profit.  In the old days where product and service meant more than profit manufacturers would have a supply of what they needed to make a product readily stored for use.   The makers of a item would stock the items parts in a warehouse.   the ones that make the parts would have a supply of their needs, all up and down the chain.   But in worshiping the god of more profit they got rid of the warehouses and extra inventory, instead going to a system of timed deliveries.   Works great if the deliveries are on time no delays.   But when there is a problem then the entire system shuts down.  Locally the grocery story nearest me me had empty shelves in some spots.  While other stores of their same company had those products with full shelves.   I checked.   Turned out the problem was a hold up in the shipments directed to their store and they had no back of the store storage to hold any amount of supply in.   That equaled empty shelves but more profit because when they built the store they did not need to add the cost of the storage area, nor the costs to maintain it, fill it, use it, so on.   The cult leader may be tRump but the long time god is profit at all costs.  

The American People are all in favor of Biden’s agenda but the rich business owners are not.

Misleading right wing media!  Plus notice they want her to wear really short skirts like the Fox News demanded of their female hosts.    Scottie

https://twitter.com/duffyink/status/1481323276462968834?s=20

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“The clogged polling locations in metro Atlanta reflect an underlying pattern: the number of places to vote has shrunk statewide, with little recourse. Although the reduction in polling places has taken place across racial lines, it has primarily caused long lines in nonwhite neighborhoods where voter registration has surged and more residents cast ballots in person on Election Day.”

For Republicans that’s not a bug, it’s a feature.

Why so much skepticism and/or opposition to the most fundamental right in our democracy — the Right to Vote!

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I love banjo music!   Scottie

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My blood sugar at 5 PM was 445.  Admittance to the ICU was automatic at 600.  Scary.   Scottie

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Ron just went and picked up his one month prescription of JARDIANCE .  It cost him $522.00 because our insurance has a 420 dollar co-pay before they kick in.   In two weeks I have to do the same.  another $522.00 for a 30 day supply of medications.   We can not afford a $1044.00 hit in one month just for one medication each on our fixed incomes.   The drug companies are making record profits, the insurance companies are making record profits, all the costs are going up while the incomes are stagnate or going down as inflation rises.   The people need help.   The country is run by the wealthy and large corporations and they are sucking the very life out of the public.  This is worse than any vampire movie.   They are draining the country of its vitality, and the people of any resources to live.   Scottie

The painful truth. Concentrated wealth and power are tremendously unhealthy.

Kill the filibuster. Kill the legacy of white supremacy.

Kill the filibuster.

Projection. Every GOP accusation is an admission of guilt.

“As Trump’s team pushed its discredited voter fraud narrative, the National Archives received forged certificates of ascertainment declaring him and then-Vice President Mike Pence the winners of both Michigan and Arizona and their electors after the 2020 election. Public records requests show the secretaries of state for those states sent those certificates to the Jan. 6 panel, along with correspondence between the National Archives and state officials about the documents.”

Get them all under oath. Then send them to prison for treason.

If you are a Republican who cares about the Constitution, you should be outraged. #Arizona

These are forged documents used by Trump cronies, yet they will lie and say Biden stole the election. This is just disgraceful.

Ted Cruz is trying to blame the FBI for J6 when Trump was President on Jan 6.

[Ray Epps is Arizona Oath Keeper chapter president and massive Trump supporter.]

the fakes make up news

FOX has ratings based on predetermined narratives. Their hosts do one thing and say another, just to create resentment and fear.

Republicans attack the messenger. They have no policy insights or actual ideas.

The GOPee

We have too many brutal, greedy people in our country. Their capitalism is killing for profit.

We also have too many people not aware that most of their problems are a result of capitalism.

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Although studies claim Omicron to be mild, there is no plausible reason to think that the highly-transmissible variant will not cause long Covid conditions among survivors. Though much remains unknown about omicron, experts say the variant could lead to long Covid, even with a mild case. Patients with long-term symptoms can experience crushing fatigue, irregular heart rhythms and other issues months after their initial Covid infection. The highly infectious Omicron coronavirus variant causes less severe disease than the Delta strain but it remains a “dangerous virus”, particularly for those who are unvaccinated, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday. Scottie

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