Depending on how they are used, true.

The murder of Alex Pretti has dominated the media but no one is talking about the real root cause of the shooting.

It wasn't his decision to bring a gun to a protest. That's legal.

It was the officer's decision to escalate to the use of force and physically assault protesters.

Shortly after Trump's surrogates took over tick tock, the app now censors any private messages with the word "Epstein" in them.
I shit you not.

That ICE agent had no right to get violent in the first place.

His behavior is exactly the reason for the second amendment.

Every protester should be armed. You will find ICE learning how to de-escalate real quick.

Perhaps he did, but I've heard a lot of people say exactly the same shit he said after a big enough dose of LSD.

The plan is to win the midterms.
They can do basically fuck all until then.

There's a very decent chance Democrats win both house and Senate this year. If they do, the first priority is to end the filibuster and shut Trump's administration down.

Man it's really cool to watch you cope with all that cognitive dissonance in real time like that.

Are they really this stupid or are they just fuckin with us?

Tough pill to swallow.

They never had any real principles... They merely held democratic principles hostage till they obtained the power and position to be able to meaningfully disregard them.

It's just facts.

In other words, "the free market" will always fail to create sensible pricing for housing, transportation, and education while they are primarily financed.

Healthcare is even worse, because insurance is essentially financing costs before they are even incurred.

The affordability crisis is caused by excessively available financing.

Financing allows the demand for something to rise independently from wages.

The purchases which are the most dominated by financing, have seen the greatest rises in price vs median income.

Something about history repeating itself.

Let me get this straight...

You don't trust the government with your tax money...

You don't trust them to administer welfare or healthcare...

But you trust them with the power to execute their own citizens?

Maybe try eating a damn vegetable?

Conservatism = Ignorance + Audacity

You want to require ID to vote?

Fine, but then the accepted forms of ID must be free to obtain or it's a poll tax and you're violating the 24th amendment.

A true American patriot who reveres the foundational principles of liberty enshrined in the constitution should become nauseated by the mere appearance of an executive branch that moves to punish dissent, disrespect, or disloyalty to itself.

Did anyone ever consider that perhaps congress should hold the authority to institute tariffs and not the president?

This could be a winning issue in future congressional elections.

Most corporate oligarchs would support that agenda like their lives depended on it.

"Due process" means that the government must take fair and objective efforts to find if someone is guilty, and give them a chance to defend themselves before you punish them on mere suspicion.

If you don't understand why that's vitally important...
Let's begin by teaching you how to tie your shoes.

Musk's DOGE reportedly deploys AI to monitor federal workers for anti-Trump sentiment 'The willingness to skirt laws is brazen'.

If this doesn't scare the absolute shit out of you, you haven't thought it through...

A totalitarian regime that can monitor every single person for ideological views using AI...

Imagine if Hitler had that capability.

fortune.com/2025/04/09/m...

The democratic party has become too reactionary and needs to refocus around solid principles to be the foundation for our politics.

Only having empathy for people who are the same nationality as you is the definition of inhumane, actually.

It's really something.

Here's a list of the ACTUAL tariff rates other countriea have charged the US vs what Trump claimed.

The only reason markets aren't down more than 15% right now is that some investors are still clinging to hope that Trump will reverse course on these tariffs before they are implemented.

If he doesn't, the market has a long way to drop ahead.

LIVE: Cory Booker speaks on the Senate floor YouTube video by Associated Press

Senator Cory Booker is filibustering the Senate. Looks like he will attempt to break the record.
Support this. If you are able, open this live coverage up on as many screens as you can and leave it up.

www.youtube.com/live/rCUK2Vb...

Oh for fuck's sake.