The midterms are this simple:
Biden and Democrats inherited a poorly managed pandemic, massive job loss, and a ruined economy from Trump in 2021.
They added jobs every month, the pandemic recovery went better than in peer nations, and by 2024 the US economy was dubbed the Envy of the World and was so strong it improved the entire global outlook.
That was what Republicans and Trump inherited.
Then, they slammed the brakes on the economy, killed job growth, drove up inflation, made healthcare far more expensive, kicked one million children off of food assistance, started an illegal war, angered our allies, and made the nation sick from cuts to health inspections and disease monitoring, not to mention the rampant corruption that has enriched the president and his family with billions of dollars.
The midterms are your chance to change this.
It is time to vote those who have failed us out of power.
Reporter: Isn’t there concern that this slippery slope to socialism inevitably ends up as full-blown communism?
AOC: I mean, no. I think that’s very silly. We can’t even raise the minimum wage. Do they really think communism is going to happen? No. They’re trying to scare people because they don’t want us talking about the fact that we all have a right to health care.
So they want to call everything they don’t like communist because if people actually wake up to the fact that their elected officials are screwing them over when they get here, they’re going to realize they deserve better and that health care as a right isn’t crazy. They want to call this stuff communist because they don’t want us to realize that the rest of the developed world has guaranteed health care. They want to call it communist because they don’t want you to know that Germany, Italy, the UK, Canada—everybody else—has it better than us, and we spend the most money for the worst care in the developed world.
I’ll get on board with Voter ID as long as (A) it’s free of charge, (B) is automatically issued to every citizen at the age of 18 and (C) is easily accessible to ALL people of voting age.
If someone doesn’t agree with that, it’s because it’s not really about voter ID. It’s about voter suppression.
The problem isn't the single mom getting $6 a day in food stamps.
The problem is Jeff Bezos, worth $269 billion, more than doubled his wealth since 2020 while paying wages so low the number of Amazon workers on food stamps & Medicaid nearly tripled.
Bezos is the welfare queen.
@ElectrifyAm your chargers in Cambridge, OH are AWFUL. They start, stop, and will not deliver a charge. I spent 20 minutes on the phone with customer service with no result. The Google reviews show this is a longstanding problem.
Need a charge in Cmbdg? Go to nearby Ionna.
@DougWahl1 In the year of our Lord 2026, can we please stop using "maiden" name?
She should run by the name she's legally used for the past 20 years, not her *original* name.
Thomas Massie on Trump’s speech to the nation tonight about election fraud:
“We control the House, Senate, White House, and Supreme Court, so I ask my Republican colleagues, why are you complaining about election fraud? We won all the elections!”
This is all a distraction from the fact that our elections actually are rigged, but not in the way Trump or even Democrats ever claim.
Our elections are rigged by corporations and billionaires who buy off and bribe both parties to tilt the economy in their favor, creating an unbalanced society that’s rigged for the rich.
Elections under capitalism are a sham, as they don’t produce democracy for the people. They only produce democracy for the rich.
Elections under capitalism are simply a mechanism of control for the ruling class to keep the masses divided and trapped in the very system that’s rigged against us.