@AGRobBonta The inability to speak to someone in person at the Office of @AGRobBonta is a public service failure. My online requests have gone unanswered...TWICE. There wastime when speaking face-to-face actually got things accomplished. Guess not at the Office of @AGRobBonta .
@GuntherEagleman It should scare the sh*t out of you that his doctors routinely schedule cognitive tests. That is not normal for people who are supposedly healthy.
@GuntherEagleman You know who can't vote under the Save America? Caitlin "Bruce" Jenner. Their birth certificate doesn't match their ID. Oh well. No great loss.
@wendyp4545@Pontifex So you're saying that ALL the Cardinals...from ALL OVER THE WORLD... chose to elect a politician from Chicago..of all places.
Sorry but a TRUE Catholic would rely on their FAITH, that will of GOD is what chooses the Pope.
Grab your Bible...time for reflection.
@LangmanVince You don't "fan-boy" the Pope. He's elected by fellow Cardinals to be the direct representative of Jesus and God on this planet. HINT: THE WHITE SMOKE FROM CHAPEL CHIMNEY SHOWED THAT. 🤦♂️
Me: "I never ever wanted to run for Congress or anything .... And I can't be a 30-year congressman. I'm not a career guy; it's not what I'm about.
"I want to get in and get out after a couple terms: one to get rid of the moth— ... guy, and the next term to … help with the legal reconstruction, basically a Second American Reconstruction, to make sure these abuses never happen again.
"I want to be Jamie Raskin's wingman, a guy I really, really admire. …"
Errol: "Got it, got it. Unusual times call for an unusual candidate."
Me: "Exactly!"
The most f*cked up aspect of this is the "DoorDash grandma" t-shirt she's wearing, and the implications of this: I checked and this is a pre-organized PR stunt between DoorDash and the White House (they boast about it on their website: https://t.co/AHDUwKQfgj).
The lady - Sharon Simmons, "a grandmother of ten" who has "completed more than 14,000 deliveries" - isn't even from DC, they brought her over from Arkansas as a prop for this.
Think about just how uniquely rotten things need to be in order for this to happen.
She is literally a grandmother relying on gig work because she can't afford healthcare for her husband's stage-3 cancer. She doesn't even get paid a living wage and needs to rely on tips. And as an "independent contractor," she gets no benefits, no healthcare, no retirement.
Which means she is an almost perfect illustration of the failure of the American social contract on almost every level: healthcare, labor rights, retirement, wages, etc. Any decent human being looking at her story - let alone policymakers - should feel only one thing: shame.
Yet DoorDash and the White House looked at this woman and saw a photo op. They flew her from Arkansas, branded her "DoorDash grandma" and used her as a mascot for a tax tweak - no tax on tips - that wouldn't even begin to cover her husband's chemo sessions.
Watching the actual video of her "delivery" to Trump (https://t.co/xzNDJq71Jx) is almost unreal. Trump opens up by saying, smiling at the camera, "who says it looks staged? It doesn't." They immediately proceed to do a joint press conference to a bunch of journalists who were conveniently standing right there.
None of the questions that follow during the next 15 minutes are related to Simmons' situation who just stands there. Journalists, the President, and cameras all obsessing over culture wars and the actual war in Iran, while the walking embodiment of the country's deepest structural failures - healthcare, labor, retirement - stands silently in a corporate t-shirt, unmentioned and too uncomfortable to confront.
@JoshShapiroPA It's time for you to ask John Fetterman to step down. He is no longer serving the citizens of PA. His deciding vote for Mullin should be the straw that has broke the camel's back.