Same asshole move we saw from way too many Dem leaders in 2020 when George Floyd protests were happening, and similar to asshole moves we saw from the same people in 2024 against anti-genocide protesters. Democratic party must do better on this.

People should be able to expect better from a Dem governor

Related opinion column,

Mikie Sherrill’s state police riot in Newark is a national disgrace - New Jersey state troopers meant to protect Newark protesters from ICE are violently shredding the First Amendment instead.

(arc)

Eh, serves me right for replying from my inbox instead of checking the thread first to see if someone else had said the exact same thing 15 minutes before I did

Could not agree more, we had an absolutely revolutionary moment where we could have locked a bunch of that stuff in place and started building an economy that actually works for people, but Biden and moderate Dems were all “We need to go back to ‘normal’! ‘Normal’ polls good!” because they have no fucking idea how politics works and spend time chasing trends instead of making them, and now we have no safety net and no Democratic president.

Yep, also California

Ah, so he’s not actually doing anything anyone else couldn’t do, he’s just asking other people to do something. That makes more sense but I would not have gotten that out of this headline.

Crazy their state constitution allows the governor to just unilaterally impose taxes like this, I would have thought that would be something their legislature has to do

In a $5 million dollar undisclosed location

Even republicans deserve credit if it was them

Absolutely fucking not in general because fuck the Republican party,

But also absolutely fucking not in this specific case - between them slashing government services and inflating the hell out of the economy the average person’s standard of living is down while the deficit is still up. That cut in income taxes is like giving someone a thimble of water after setting them on fire, but also they flooded the sink and made a mess in the kitchen doing it somehow.

By lying shamelessly

Seriously, normally we at least wait until they’re veterans

Incomprehensible amounts of corruption in the military industrial complex

Oh, but after their closed door meeting where they got to review grand jury transcripts that are still redacted for us plebs the prosecutor promised he only just found out about this jury tampering and that nobody in his office intended to break the law, so it’s totally fine! /s

If only Trump can show a little bit of restraint and resist his impulse to slap his name all over everything he can maybe that will work out for him

I’m talking about printing money and using it to pay bond holders.

I think that would do even more to devalue the dollar and inflate things than just cutting checks to households would, if only because bond holders are the types to watch everything the government does and try to get a step or two ahead with their trades and stuff. They’d see that and react like the CNBC hosts did when the GameStop guy said he was gonna buy eBay by just issuing a bunch of new stock.

Good, get that grip tight as you possibly can and drag the whole evil party down with you

“Popular culture that isn’t even popular” is crazy levels of capitalist innovation

I mean, money they’re spending in a primary is money they aren’t spending in a general, but there’s definitely way too much money in politics overall