AOC doesn’t have the resources to run a national campaign.
The (narrow and probably impossible) path to actual change isnt an AOC presidency, it’s an apparently inoffensive centrist white guy president plus the house plus 50 senate votes for nuking the filibuster, packing the court and passing durable voting rights laws. Lol that has like literally a 5% or less chance of happening, we are so fucking fucked.
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The left is better off winning small-ball races like governorships and house/senate instead of shooting for the moon with long-shot presidential campaigns. Stuff the national party abandoned 8-10 years ago.
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When actual fascism happens it’s going to be lightning fast. So many people are going to have a “what the fuck is happening” reaction to something that is almost unbelievably predictable. I forget who said it about bankruptcy, but the principle is the same: slowly, then suddenly.
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Sounds like divorce, too.
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If only they had months in advance to know this was coming maybe congress could have done something
https://twitter.com/SpeakerPelosi/status/1422232418946330630
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They’re so fucking pathetic. I’m getting increasingly serious about leaving the country in 2023.
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I got serious about it before it was cool to threaten to leave and then not do it.
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Just pass it in the house and hang it around the neck of any senator who doesn’t vote for it.
Although at this rate voter suppression laws will require a current provable address and since you’re homeless…
We need a “places to move to thread”. Scandinavia, Finland, Switzerland, Holland, New Zealand and Costa Rica would start my first investigation list of places that are free, uncorrupt, relatively safe from foreign intervention and liable to be fucked by mother nature later than other places.
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I think there already is one. Can’t remember the name.
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lol, I knew I probably should have looked for one first.
It might be called Moving Abroad?
I think JT made it when he moved to Canada. I’ll find it.
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what’s worse, being in on it or simply just being incompetent? being in on it is much, much worse because that’s something that can’t be fixed by a blue wave, it doesnt matter how many D house or senators we get if Biden or Pelosi don’t actually want legislation that helps ordinary people to pass.
they are going to run the exact same playbook when the student loan forbearance deadline comes next month. Pelosi throws it over to Biden, Biden says he doesn’t want to overextend his powers, oops 50M people now have less expendable income than they did under Trump.
Most of the Netherlands is several meters below sea level. Definitely not a place to have on your list if sea levels start to rise and weather patterns change causing the main rivers to carry more water in spring.
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True, but If there is anyone in the world who knows how to deal with rising waters it’s them. They’re contracted all over the world to build dams etc
The good news is that the government in Holland has had a flood water program for decades, long before climate change was a risk. Their Delta Programme lays an administrative infrastructure for dealing with rising sea levels, so that’s good. They’re in much better shape than, say, Florida which will depend on condo boards to manage climate change instead. I wish I was joking.
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The majority report had a good episode on the eviction disaster. Apparently when the admin extended it this last time for a month they made it clear this was the last time. At the last minute due to realizing how bad this was going to play kicked it to congress. Congress didn’t have enough time to persuade the moderates so said fuck it let’s go on vacation.
The failure to get money out is equally incompetent. The system was just to kick the responsibility to local non profits lmao. Also they gave the landlords the option to turn down the money, and it turns out most of them would rather evict old tenants paying say 1k a month because they can get new ones paying 2k a month in this Market.
Just insane incompetence from democrats all around. Absolutely pathetic
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Likely not incompetence. More likely to be exactly how the dems wanted this to go. People renting for $1,000/mo aren’t the constituents the dems care about.
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