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"Democrats are backstabbing President Biden" is a RW talking point.
Newt Gingrich is making a lot of noise, as are other extreme conservatives.
Let's not help them.
Let's support Joe but also let the process play out and let's resist open condemnation of those with whom we disagree.
Support the Democrat nominee no matter who she or he turns out to be.
If we can do this we will win.
"I will vote for a piece of paper that has "Democrat" written on it."
https://x.com/Ashton7Sloan/status/1814017174207365534Whatever happens, we need to get out the vote and support our candidate.
Truthout: Trump's Alternative to Project 2025, "Agenda 47,"
TFG distanced himself from the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 but he can't deny his own "Agenda 47".
Agenda 47 can be found on his website but I won't post a link.
Instead, please enjoy this Truthout Article:
Last week Trump said he has “nothing to do” with the handbook, a claim that journalists quickly found to be full of holes. A video from 2022 shows Trump applauding a set of Heritage Foundation policies that would become Project 2025.
Trump may be attempting to distance himself from Project 2025, but his campaign’s own list of promises also veers sharply to the right of public opinion. Dubbed “Agenda 47,” Trump’s policy platform targets public school teachers thrust into the culture wars and would undo civil rights protections for LGBTQ people.
https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-alternative-to-project-2025-agenda-47-is-also-extreme-and-anti-lgbtq/
"Gross and Getting Worse", GOP frightened by a "DEI Hire" Kamala Harris Candidacy.
I am 100% with Joe Biden/Kamala Harris ticket.
And, if the President decides to have Harris become the candidate, I'll support that and watch with glee as Republicans turn themselves inside out over a smart black woman running for office as a Democrat.
I cannot find a PCP taking new Medicare patients unless they have Advantage plans.
My wife and I decided we want to go with a Medicare Supplement, not an Advantage plan.
The trouble is than in Santa Cruz County nobody seems to be taking new patients unless they have Advantage plans.
We've met with our local HICAP group, to no avail.
What happens when we go on Medicare this fall if we don't have a Primary Care Physician??
Thanks in advance for any suggestions for what to do or who to contact.
Mocking the terrible policy of adding lanes.
https://twitter.com/CoachBalto/status/1697471955845472583I just bought a 2023 Tesla Model 3 for less than $30K
With local, state, and federal incentives at $11,500, the Model 3 comes in under $20K.
I added Blue and 10-inch wheels and still came in under $20K, as it accepted a discounted demo.
The average private vehicle in America costs around $48K, so MSRP on a Model 3 is well below that.
I looked at and test drove a Chevy Bolt EUV and it was blah, not fun to drive, not at all quick.
I have owned a Volt for years and loved it but needed a replacement.
The Model 3 is perfect for me and affordable, I never thought I'd own one.
Looks like this:
America's Big Lie: 'This is not who we are'
Here's a great read:
by Vernon Williams
The first thing folk want to claim when we find ourselves in the throes of some unfathomable tragedy is, “This is not us. We are better than this.” Well, if Americans really want to ever get a grip on problems plaguing this nation, the first thing required would be to stop living a lie.
Eight senseless killings in three Atlanta spas were followed only four days later by the soulless slaughter of 10 innocent people at a grocery store in Boulder, Colorado. Horrendous as those two incidents were alone, the gruesome truth is that they were only two of at least seven mass murders in the U.S. over about a one-week stretch.In Indianapolis, there have been two mass murders since the start of 2021, including one quadruple deadly assault only days before the Atlanta tragedy. An argument over a stimulus check led a 25-year-old man to shoot the mother of his child and kill four of her relatives, the youngest victim being only seven years old.
In Chicago, during the second weekend of March, there were a total of 40 shootings reported and four killed—including 15 shot and two fatalities at one location in the aftermath of an early-morning party in the 6700 block of South Chicago Avenue. The deadly trend this month is nationwide.
https://newpittsburghcourier.com/2021/04/05/americas-big-lie-this-is-not-who-we-are/
Over and over again after a shooting, leads spokespersons proclaim "This is not who we are".
When you have a gun and gun violence problem, the worst thing to claim is that there is not a problem.
Go ahead and search for the phrase "This is not who we are" + shooting.
Who best to fill Dianne Feinstein's Senate Seat?
Who do DUers think makes for the strongest candidate?Barbara Lee just announced, third along with Katie Porter and Adam Schiff, so far.
Feinstein, 89, has been in the public eye for more than a half-century, notably since she became San Francisco’s leader after the 1978 assassinations of Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk. In recent years, she has faced mounting questions about her mental acuity and her old-school brand of bipartisanship that is viewed as outdated in today’s bitterly divided era. These factors led Democrats to leap into the race to replace her before she announced her intentions — a move that would previously have been considered impolitic.
Rep. Katie Porter, 49, Democrat
Resume:
The Iowa native is an attorney and a protégé of Sen. Elizabeth Warren, whom Porter met while taking Warren’s bankruptcy law class at Harvard Law School. In 2011, Porter moved to California when she became a law professor at UC Irvine. The following year, then-California Atty. Gen. Kamala Harris appointed Porter to be the state’s independent monitor overseeing the state’s share of a $25-billion mortgage settlement with banks.
Rep. Adam B. Schiff, 62, Democrat
Resume:
Schiff was born in Massachusetts and moved with his family to Arizona and then California. He was the valedictorian of his 1978 graduating class at Monte Vista High School in Danville high school, where his classmates voted him most likely to succeed. After attending Stanford University and Harvard Law School, Schiff became a federal prosecutor. Among his most prominent cases was prosecuting an FBI agent who became a Russian spy.
Rep. Barbara Lee, 76, Democrat
Resume:
Lee has a deep history of political activism, dating back to when she was a college student at Mills College. She worked on the 1972 presidential campaign of Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman to hold a seat in Congress, and on Black Panther Party co-founder Bobby Seale’s mayoral race in Oakland the following year.
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2023-02-14/california-senate-candidates-feinstein-porter-schiff-lee-khanna
Others are named in the article, and there's more in that article more about each of the three listed above.
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