@J3ffMiller@DavidSHolz Daycare for two kids in New York costs me $2400 a month. I still need to the able to feed my family, keep clothes on our backs, and a roof over our heads. It’s not easy and it’s about more than just giving up material stuff!
It’s going to take time to sort through what happened Tuesday. But I've read a lot of takes the past few days (some good, many bad), and I've had a lot of people ask how I won one of the toughest districts in the country by over 13%.
Here are some thoughts: 🧵
It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them.
While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change.
And they’re right.
Watching Gen Z men veer right hits different for Millennials. We lived through Columbine, 9/11, the Iraq War, 2008 crash, 2016 election, covid, abortion bans, & now this. We watched institutions repeatedly fail us while older generations selfishly protected the status quo. 🧵1/
Yesterday Donald Trump did 15 minutes of work at McDonald’s, where tens of thousands of employees earn starvation wages.
But when asked whether we need to raise the $7.25 minimum wage, he refused to comment.
I will comment. We need to raise the federal minimum wage to $17/hr.
AOC just now (about Trump putting on a McDonalds costume and Elon’s million dollar contest):
“They’re not empathizing with us, they’re making fun of us.”
🔥
🧵I’ve read through the evidence section—the first 85 pages—of Jack Smith filing on Trump’s private criminal efforts to stay in power despite knowing that he’d lost the election.
The evidence is stunning. It’s clear why Trump did not want the public to see this testimony.
13 things jumped out to me on Trump’s attempt to defraud the American people and steal the 2020 election.
NEW: THREAD: A new ruling from Judge McBurney in Georgia overturning the abortion ban and allowing the procedure to continue has some REMARKABLE quotes. Let's take a look at just a few. 1/
Donald Trump left office with the lowest approval rating of any president ever. But some people now seem to be suffering from amnesia.
Let me jog your memory
Violence has no place in America. We beat Trump at the ballot box, and then through the fair and impartial administration of our justice system. Not any other way.
RETWEET if you agree. As Democrats we need to get the message out that we deplore political violence of *any* kind.
Walz: Kamala Harris was able to use this guy’s inflated ego and narcissism to bait him into melting down on a national stage in front of 60 million. You don’t think Vladimir Putin could do that? You don’t think Xi Jinping could do that?
@RpsAgainstTrump My grandfather was a staunch republican and he frequently spoke about how America is a great country and he wouldn’t rather live any where else. He passed away in 2012, I often think about what he would think of the current Republican Party 😳