March 31, 2021

Ask an anti-vaxxer, where are the dead bodies from the covid vaccine or really any vaccine?

10's of millions of people in the US have already been vaccinated against covid with the latest figures approaching 100 million. I've done my own extensive research and deaths due to side effects or possible reaction from covid vaccines are extremely rare. Almost non-existent compared to the near 100 million vaccinated.

So, to anti-vaxxer neighbors, coworkers, maybe even family members..

Where are they hiding all the dead killed by covid vaccines and Bill Gates micro-chipping us?

Where the fuck are the dead bodies?

Because there ARE 500,000 dead bodies from Trump's failure to respond to the global pandemic. He called it a hoax for the first 2 months when we instead could have responded early and saved hundreds of thousands of deaths by taking it seriously. Mask mandates, distancing, more available testing, stay at home etc..

500,000 dead from covid and these antivax assholes still question science with ZERO evidence to back up their stupidity.

If the covid vaccine were deadly it would have killed 10's of thousands of people by now.

Trump's covid is deadly.

Our vaccines are safe.

Ask the anti-covid-vaxxer..
Where are all the dead bodies? Hiding in some Bill Gates bunker somewhere?

Bonus question..
Ask them, why is science never on your side in any argument? Where is your anti-vax science? What's your highest level of science education?

March 28, 2021

Why doesn't Norway, Sweden, the UK have daily gun/shooting deaths?

They all have smart gun control. Gun control works.

The US is the epicenter of the gun death epidemic.

Because we lack the same sensible gun-control laws that work in every other nation that has implemented them.

Democrats, ask the GOP why does gun control work so well every where it is enacted. It can work here at home with the same effective results.

Gun control works. That's why it scares the GOP so bad.

See the UK, Norway, Sweden, Canada, Japan...

Then see the daily mass shootings in the US.

The proof is eye-opening.

March 28, 2021

Once per congressional term, require an 8th grade science test for every federal office-holder.

With questions regarding human evolution from lower life-forms to the science behind man-made global warming to the science behind vaccine effectiveness. More topics would also need to be added but this is just a baseline suggestion.

This puts congress-critters views on paper, front and center. Make every elected politicians political "beliefs" regarding science a clear issue by making these test results public.

When the GOP idiots deny global warming, these test results show the US citizens the kind of ignorance that the GOP represents, and why they should be removed from power.

When the GOP denies evolution, they deny one of the most important parts of modern human physiology and health. We evolved to be healthy from certain foods and we get sick from eating bad diets. Science explains this. The GOP denies it. Its all in God's hands, according to them. Live for today and not tomorrow.

When the GOP denies vaccine efforts, they prove themselves unfit for any elected office. They are a dangerous lot. Vaccine denial should become a federal crime.

When global warming creates the next super-pandemic bug, science will be our saviour, not the GOP's ignorant denial and prayers.

Science will save us from covid, GOP prayers won't.

Put their scientific views on paper so we can show their stupidity to the world.

Almost the entire GOP is made up of 8th grade science flunkouts.

Once every 2 years, every elected officeholder should take an 8th grade science test. One day, 4 hours to complete it.

Put their scientific knowledge or lack thereof on paper, for all the world to see.

March 27, 2021

To Sen Joe Manchin, please join the rest of the party.

Or you sadly might find your party in the minority after 2022.

Democrats are fighting the good fight and need you. Filibuster reform. Protection of voting rights. Minimum wage reforms..

The protection of voting rights may very well decide elections in 2022.

To Sen Joe, we need you. Again, you may find yourself in the minority party after 2022 if things don't change at the federal level.

Sen Joe, join us. The other 99.99999% of us Democrats who want to inch the US forward. Protect voting rights and democracy.

To Sen Manchin, you have a chance to build the legacy of a senate hero if you would just get behind our president and support a Democratic agenda.

To Sen Manchin, join us. You won't regret it.

March 26, 2021

Why do Dems seem a bit afraid of tackling a subject with 60%+ approval from the general population?

I don't want to frame this as a criticism of Dems. This is pretty much based on my own curiosity.

Do Dems realize how much weed is traded on the black market, on a daily basis. In other words, do we understand how much non-taxed/untaxed weed is bought and sold. Some states have taken their own initiative and legalized rec pot. Some states only allow medicinal pot, requiring a doctor prescription and other often very difficult hoops to jump through.

Those states are seeing economic growth as the pot industry provides so many jobs. Legal pot is a tax revenue generator and these states are seeing benefits.

Legal pot at the federal level could create a national industry, with perhaps millions of jobs. The tax revenue is a necessity to help our country get through this tough time. Again, do we realize how much untaxed pot is bought and sold each day in the US?

President Biden's infrastructure plan is giving me some New Deal vibes. I support it 100%. Our country needs it. Legal pot can help pay for it.

Regarding human rights, it's the right thing to do. Stop caging people in prisons for non-violent pot offenses. Pardon them.

In poll after poll, I keep reading that support for legal weed from the general population is almost always in the mid 60% approval. Legal weed is politically popular.

We tax liquor.

Do we realize how much revenue is lost on a daily basis by keeping pot illegal?

Please Democrats, start talking about it.

March 25, 2021

While I dislike grading Democrats, Biden is giving me FDR-like vibes and has earned a straight A.

The reason I don't like grading Democrats is simple. They are handed shit-show after shit-show. They are forced to attempt to the best of their abilities, to work with the fucking imbeciles known as the entire GOP, accept for maybe, Romney, Collins. The only 2 GOPers that at least have a limited ability to be reasonable..

Democrats are often forced to compromise with a GOP party filled with MTG idiotic ideology.

Personally, I've learned a lesson in my 50 year old existence. Before I criticize an elected Dem I ask myself, could I do any better in their shoes? If I were an elected official in their shoes, could I gather the votes to get our bills passed?

I've finally learned in life to stop being critical and start being thankful. Thankful that we have Democrats willing to fight for us. Thankful that we have a Democratic Party that fights against a racist and authoritarian GOP. I'm very thankful to every Dem who fought the good fight for a $15 minimum wage in vain, keep fighting that good fight. Eventually, we will win that one.

I'm thankful that Dems are fighting to save our environment and planet from the planet-killing robber barons known as the GOP.

To every Democratic Party officeholder, thank you for fighting to preserve voting rights. Thank YOU! for fighting against the GOP's war on voting.

Global Warming is the #1 threat to our future. Warming hastens the evolution of microbial life. The same kinds of microbes that start global pandemics. Warming raises ocean levels, floods out entire regions, and contributes to every storm's severity.

Notice the increase in storm severity in the past 20 years?

Democrats do while Rethugs pray it away.

Notice the gun violence epidemic in the U.S. in the past X hundreds of years?

Where is the pro-life GOP on mass shootings and on the fact that 2020 was the US's deadliest year ever, regarding gun-related deaths?
Where are these so-called pro-lifers when another daily mass shooting kills another 10 and wounds 30? Or worse, even more dead and wounded..

Where are these GOP pro-lifers? Busy praying it away.

I'm thankful we have a Democratic Party that realizes that we need more than prayers, we need sensible gun regulations. Other nations do it with great results. The UK, Scandinavian nations, Australia, Japan do not have near-daily mass shootings because of strong gun regulations.

Gun regulations work.

I'm thankful that we have a Dem Party that stands up to the gun lobby/NRA etc.

President Biden has shown strong leadership and has fought for all of the above. Pres Biden's just released infrastructure plan is an economic re-builder, on par with FDR's New Deal.

If I could give any advice to a political veteran like Pres Joe,

Legalize Marijuana to pay for your New Deal 2 level infrastructure plan. Our county needs your infrastructure plan.

Frame your presidency as the New Deal 2. Pres Biden has shown some seriously great progressive chops early in his presidency. I'm a Bernie-bro that has long been a Biden political admirer.

Biden was a force in the Senate for those many years. To this day, he is still highly respected by the U.S. Senate. Another reason why Biden is a great fighter for us.

In closing, from an old yellow-dog, crusty curmudgeon, to Pres Biden...

I am thankful that you are my President!! Thank God!! Thank the stars!!

I'm just plain thankful that leaders like Joe exist.

Salute to Democrats.

March 25, 2021

New York Reaches a Deal to Legalize Recreational Marijuana

Source: NYT

New York State officials finalized a deal on Thursday to legalize recreational marijuana in the state, paving the way for a potential $4.2 billion industry that could create tens of thousands of jobs and become one of the largest markets in the country.

Following several failed attempts, lawmakers in Albany struck an agreement with Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo to legalize cannabis for adults 21 and older, a move that officials hope will help end years of racially disproportionate policing that saw Black and Hispanic people arrested on low-level marijuana charges far more frequently than white people.

The deal would allow delivery of the drug and permit club-like lounges or “consumption sites” where marijuana, but not alcohol, could be consumed, according to details obtained by The New York Times. It would also allow a person to cultivate up to six marijuana plants at home, indoors or outdoors, for personal use.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/new-york-reaches-a-deal-to-legalize-recreational-marijuana/ar-BB1eXBuk?li=BBnb7Kz

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Wow, this is big news. I think this makes NY the second state to legalize rec pot through their state legislature, rather than by ballot initiative.
(EDIT: Illinois was the first state to legalize through their state legislature, signed by Gov JB Pritzker)
That is what makes this such a big deal in the most positive way.

I hope national Dems follow suit.

March 12, 2021

Legal marijuana is PERMANENT economic stimulus.

Nationwide legal marijuana will create millions of jobs.

Federally tax it and it will create a tax base of its own. It will generate billions of dollars of revenue for the treasury. It could be used in part to pay down the debt and deficits. Part of it could be used to fund nationwide infrastructure projects.

Legal pot can be a revenue source that funds other revenue generating sources. The economic activity and growth generated by a massive national infrastructure re-building project would be a massive shot in the arm of our national economy but also a major revenue generator.

Legal pot can have that kind of positive domino effect. It can stimulate the economy in a positive ripple that creates opportunity all throughout our economy.

Legal pot can create economic growth in so many ways.

Legal pot is also very popular in polling nowadays.

It's time Democrats. Score major points with swing voters that we need in order to win elections by pushing to legalize pot. Rescue the economy in the process.
The people will love you for it.

March 10, 2021

The GOPs war on democracy is an attack on the United States itself.

When a peon has the power to remove an emperor, the authoritarians shit themselves.

Voting and democracy enable countless peons to remove emperors, like Agent Orange, err Trump.

And thus, the authoritarian GOP is shitting itself. We see it in the numerous GOP voter-suppression laws being passed in many statehouses across this great land.

Democrats, CALL THEM OUT in your TV ads and on social media platforms like youtube, FB, IG etc.

Challenge every potential voter by asking them,

Are you going to allow the GOP to prevent you from voting?

Your vote can remove the authoritarian class from power. Your vote can remove the voter-suppressing GOP from power.

Are you going to allow the GOP to suppress your voice and your vote?

Democrats, its time to wage a pro-democracy, pro-voting war of our own.

The GOP is trying to silence a majority of US citizens by suppressing their ability to vote.

The fascist fucks shit themselves by your power to remove them from power, simply by voting.

Challenge EVERY voter to overcome Rethug voter suppression by turning out and voting.

Ask voters,
Will YOU allow the GOP to stop you from casting a ballot?

Make it the theme for 2022 and 2024 election cycles.

February 17, 2021

"I'm On The Highway To Hell" by ACDC is weirdly stuck in my head today...

I once saw a bumper sticker that read..

"The highway to Hell is paved with Republicans."