Jason Garrett

LGBTQIA plus Ally who believes in equality for all and who is a
korean american.🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇰🇷🌊

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Unfortunately, we have a president who does not believe in democracy.

Rather than trying to defend his dismal record in the coming election, he wants to change the rules & make it harder for people to vote.

NO, we will not allow an authoritarian to undermine American democracy.

[DSA @DemSocialists]

13 Democrats in Congress signed onto a pledge to “reject socialism” today. Combined, they’ve raked in a whopping $10,088,996 from the Israel lobby. Nothing moderate about that. Should we tally up their Big Tech donations next?

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

THE POLITICAL ESTABLISHMENT IS GETTING NERVOUS 

The political establishment — Democratic and Republican — is getting nervous. So are the Oligarchs and the corporate media they own.  

The world they dominate is beginning to shake beneath them. Change is coming.  And they don’t like it.

What we saw on Tuesday in New York, what we are seeing all across the country, is that ordinary people are getting involved in the political process, are taking on establishment candidates, and are winning. What is particularly frightening to the establishment is that many of the candidates, and their supporters, are young. The future belongs to them and they want that future to look very different from what it is today.

It’s not complicated. Progressives and democratic socialists are winning elections because the vast majority of the American people understand that status quo politics and policies are not working.  You don’t have to be a PhD in economics to know that in America today the very rich are getting much richer while the vast majority of our people are struggling to pay for the basic necessities — healthcare, housing, food, education and utilities. You don’t have to be a sociologist to realize that the younger generation will likely have a lower standard of living than their parents.  You don’t need to be a political scientist to understand that we have a corrupt campaign finance system that allows billionaires and their super PACS to buy elections, undermine democracy, and protect their privileged positions. 

The American people, across the political spectrum, are rejecting the establishment’s  uber-capitalist ideology, value system and priorities.  They want an economy and a government that works for all, not just wealthy campaign contributors. 

More and more Americans refuse to accept the current reality that:

One man, Mr. Musk, owns more than three times as much wealth as the bottom half of our society.  That billionaires and large profitable corporations often pay an effective tax rate lower than truck drivers or nurses. They are demanding that the billionaire class starts paying their fair share of taxes.

We are the only major country not to guarantee health care to all as a human right. They want Medicare for All.  

Tens of millions of workers are earning starvation wages. They want to raise the minimum wage to a living wage and make it easier for workers to join unions.

Big Tech and the wealthiest people on earth are aggressively pushing AI and robotics, the most transformative technologies in history, without public input. They want these technologies to benefit all, not just the handful of billionaires who own the industry.  

Nearly 800,000 Americans are homeless, and more than 20 million households are spending 50% or more of their limited incomes on housing. They want a freeze on rent and the construction of millions of units of low income and affordable housing.

[DSA @DemSocialists]

Bernie’s right — it’s not complicated, it’s Democratic Socialism.

Together, we can fight for a true democracy where working people have control over their own lives, their government, and the economy. Workers deserve more than crumbs. We deserve a better world.

[Jon Cooper 🇺🇸 @joncoopertweets]

Man, @ossoff is on fire here!🔥

Trump was so humiliated in Hormuz he threw his toys out the stroller & blocked affordable housing. That’s after he gave a felon donor a no-bid contract for the reflecting pool, which filled with algae & for some reason required the National Guard.

[Dash Dobrofsky @DashDobrofsky]

Love this dude. All he wants is for America to succeed. Great President.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Biden: There's nothing, there's literally nothing, nothing, beyond our capacity if we act together. Let's get up and fight back, god -- darn it

[Chris D. Jackson @ChrisDJackson]

It's true.

[💙Brittney💙 @AZ_Brittney]

Listen to President Biden absolutely torch Donald Trump!

Let’s go Joe! 🔥

[Acyn @Acyn]

Biden: Putting his name on the Kennedy Center. Building an arch in his own honor. Even hiring his own pool guy to fix the reflecting pool.

Whoa. What a loser.

[Ted Lieu @tedlieu]

One way to push back against an authoritarian is to mock him.

trump is so weak and insecure he is now demanding our respect.

So I’m sending him my favorite picture below.

Feel free to retweet and send your favorite picture or video to @realDonaldTrump.

[Pete Buttigieg @PeteButtigieg]

This week someone targeted my family for harm with a false report. We’re physically OK, but that doesn’t mean we weren’t harmed. I am beyond furious.

Whatever your politics, this is awful, wrong, and can never become normal. https://t.co/72wxaVLzVT

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

This is horrific. 😞

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: HELL YES! Governor Gavin Newsom proposes a federal billionaire tax in a bold new announcement — sending the MAGA oligarchs into a tailspin.

And it gets even better...

"It's time for a national billionaire's tax and a new social contract. Think about this, just 10% of people, 10% of people in this country own two-thirds of the wealth," Newsom said in a video posted to X. "A 30-year-old, for the first time in American history, is not doing better than his or her parents. That's a five-alarm fire."

The governor is planting his flag on this issue as the Democratic Party convulses to redefine itself. Left-wing candidates are ascendant because the base is clamoring for genuinely progressive policies. Zohran Mamdani is leading the charge on this leftward shift and the recent successes of his endorsed candidates in the New York primaries is proof positive that voters are responding. Democratic Socialism is no longer a scary phrase.

We can either retreat into the same centrist ideology that allowed Trump to seize the White House not only once but twice, or we can embrace a more equitable vision of the future and start fighting for the working class. Republicans will call us "communists" but they do that anyway. Ignore the labels they sling and focus on winning elections with populist policy proposals.

“The system America’s founders built was designed to prevent the concentration of power in a few hands, but we have allowed that concentration to happen anyway, slowly, in plain sight, over decades,” Newsom stated. “We can reverse it together, as a country.”

He's calling for an "economic reset for America," demonstrating that he's willing to listen to voters clamoring for change as he considers a 2028 presidential campaign.

And the he American people are clearly furious with the status quo...

We are being forced to watch as sociopaths like Elon Musk (who is a trillionaire now) gobble up more and more wealth while working class families struggle to afford rent, basic groceries, and healthcare. Income inequality at these extreme levels is unsustainable.

Newsom's proposal would institute a minimum tax on anyone with a net worth above $100 million so that they pay, at the very least, the same rate as an average American worker. Under our current skewed tax system, some of them pay lower rates than people far poorer than them.

The governor also warned that the plutocratic inheritance laws currently on the books could "lock in a permanent American aristocracy of inherited wealth" if nothing is done.

The governor pointed specifically to the rise of artificial intelligence to bolster his proposal. He said that the new technology will dramatically reshape our economic system and so a “national public equity fund” should be distributed to every American, rather than simply allowing the tech lords and corporations to hoard even more wealth and power. That money could be used to help displaced workers, provide childcare, education, and healthcare.

"We're nearing the 250th anniversary of this country's revolution. The system the American founders built, well, was designed to prevent the concentration of power in a few hands," said Newsom. "But we've allowed that concentration to happen anyway, slowly and in plain sight over the course of decades and decades. But we can reverse it. We can reverse it together."

"It's time to democratize the American economy, to save our democracy," he concluded.

Newsom's support for this federal billionaire tax comes after he vowed to veto a California ballot proposal to institute a one-time tax on residents with a net worth above $1 billion. He explained that such a tax would just prompt those billionaires to flee to other states. The only real solution, as he sees is it, is to tax them at the federal level so that they can't simply jump over the border to a neighborring state.

“We’re competing with 50 states. Capital flows and move(s). That’s real. It’s not imagined. It’s very, very real," he previously said at the World Economic Forum.

What do you think? Is it time to fight back against the billionaires?

Please ❤️ and share if you support Newsom's proposal!

[Jason Garrett @JasonG1986]

Hey! I've been using the OnePulse app to earn rewards. Go to https://t.co/7nkOjWKYur to download the app and use my code IZZCPU to sign up, earn a cash reward and start earning too!

[Jason Garrett @JasonG1986]

Hey there! I’ve been using PaidViewpoint to take quick surveys and make a little extra money by sharing my thoughts and opinions about brands, products, and more. You should try it! Join me here: https://t.co/TllQIgqQAB

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: In a stunning moment, CNBC just admitted that the Strait of Hormuz has not been opened as much as Donald Trump has told us it is. Another Trump lie exposed.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Rep. Ted Lieu humiliates MAGA U.S. Attorney Judge Jeanine for threatening to charge the nonexistent “vandals” dumping imaginary chemicals into the Reflecting Pool.

This is EXACTLY how you handle these lying lunatics…

“I guarantee that @JudgeJeanine will not charge anyone for dumping chemicals into the reflecting pool. Because if they had any evidence they would be parading it around 24/7,” Lieu wrote on X in response to a clip of Pirro ranting on Fox News.

“The reality is Trump screwed up the reflecting pool by overpaying on a no bid contract to an amateur,” he added.

The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has become a defining debacle for the Trump administration in recent weeks. The President boasted that he was going to beautify the pool while slamming Obama for failing to do so. Trump poured $14.7 million of your tax dollars into the project, only for the algae to bloom more vividly than ever before. The entire pool turned a sickly green color, at which point Trump’s minions began dumping hydrogen peroxide into the water, exacerbating the discoloration. Soon after, strips of blue lining began to flake and dislodge from the pool’s lining.

Rather than admit that he made a mistake by handing the renovation contracts to shady, incompetent firms — including one operated by a convicted felon — Trump has begun insisting that "sick" and "deranged" vandals are to blame. Pirro has eagerly embraced the insane narrative.

"Anyone who is in a position of vandalizing or attempting to vandalize will face the criminal justice system in D.C.," she said. “Look, the president has made it a priority to make D.C. not only safe, but beautiful.”

Obviously, nobody is vandalizing the pool. Trump and Pirro know that, but they also know that the Republican base is gullible enough to believe anything that Trump says. They bought his lies about the 2020 election without a shred of evidence and now they’re eagerly gobbling up this Reflecting Pool propaganda.

Our best recourse is do what Congressman Lieu is doing: call them out at every turn. Republicans won’t listen to us, but the Independents who decide elections will!

Please ❤️ and share if you’re loving this Reflecting Pool saga!

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

A dead duck was found floating in the Reflecting Pool on Sunday, days after workers were seen dumping hydrogen peroxide into the water.

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

Trump vandalized the Reflecting Pool.

Trump vandalized the Rose Garden.

Trump vandalized the Kennedy Center.

Trump vandalized the East Wing.

Trump vandalized the South Lawn.