You’re NOT going to get me to defend Barry Bonds, because 1.) He was a San Francisco Giant; and 2.) his namesake hit a grand slam against my Dodgers in his first at-bat against them. Say what you will about corruption of blood, there are some lines that may not be crossed.
My Wife are kind of “Damn the torpedoes” people. We saw bad things coming with Trump. But we sold/bought a new house anyway. We had been working on this for three years. Found the perfect place for us and our dogs.
I’m not gonna let that piece of utter shit direct my life.
Can anyone explain to me why the hell this is the case? Why aren’t the Democrats in both houses of Congress speaking out, going on every interview show, tweeting and xhitting, and otherwise making noise?
What are they afraid of?
Trump is pushing the boundaries farther and farther out each day and committing one atrocity after another. Where are the Democrats? (Not a rhetorical question.)
A US senator earns $174,000 per year. Sure, there are some extra perks with that, but that’s the base salary.
The average cost of running for the US Senate is $28,500,000
So tell me - who spends $28.5 million to get a job for six years that pays $174,000/year or $1,044,000 for those six years? Where do you get the money to do that?
The Democrats are beholden to the people who paid for their campaigns that got them the job. They are not beholden to you or me unless some coalition of us passed a big enough hat to be their backer. Who has the necessary money? The 1% of the 1%. The 0.01%. And they think they’ll be fine regardless of who is in office at any level of government, as long as those elected officials are beholden to them. By and large the 0.01% lean conservative (which is another reason the Overton window is going that way), they don’t want disruption, they just want to make more money and pay fewer taxes.
So where is the motivation for Democrats to rock the boat?
You hope a former senator, twice former president, born 1961, is going to save you? The way the momentum is going you’ll need something better; I’m afraid. What can he do?
Bernie Sanders raised $35,728,404 for the 2024 election. 63.62% ($22,732,498) was from donations less than $200. Only 0.26% came from political action committees (PAC’s)
Democrats are forever paralyzed by the possibility that they may break the Marquess of Queensbury boxing rules as they get their brains bashed in by a folding chair.
The infighting is still going on over “blue slips”. It looks like Trump is on the side of the “radical liberal groups”.
Getting rid of the blue slip is a terrible, short-sighted ploy that paves the path for Democrats to ram through extremist liberal judges in red states over the long-term,” said Tillis. “It’s why radical liberal groups have been pushing to get rid of the blue slip for years — Republicans shouldn’t fall for it.
8 year old girl charged with domestic terrorism and assault with a lollipop. Suspect was found with chalk dust and armed with a sub sandwich. SWAT and ICE responded. Details at eleven.