@RealMattKing An excellent day to surface, and here in Philadelphia, I thank you for it. Especially as I have just finished bingeing all of “Spirited” first perhaps the 5th time. 💙
I have a question I’d like to ask a whole bunch of elected officials in my own party right now.
Why are you crying uncle? Why are you rolling over? Why are you sitting down and folding your arms when you should be standing up and fighting?
Do you not understand what we are facing? Did you miss the memo on what’s at stake? When your kids are behind in a baseball or soccer game, do you tell them to pack it in? To look at the score and realize it can’t change, even though they alone have the power to change it?
Do you tell them to quit?
That the championship isn’t worth digging in and doing the work because it’s easier just to accept the loss and walk away?
To accept the numbers on the board as the outcome before the game has even ended?
Do you spend more time talking about how they’ll lose the game than you do firing them up to win?
Maybe you do, but the rest of us don’t. We don’t have that kind of luxury. We’re too busy worrying that our daughters might be jailed for miscarrying, that our sons will be handed guns and rewarded for cruelty, and that every freedom we have ever known will be taken from us, forever.
For us, quitting isn’t an option.
We know there’s a lot more game left to play.
And since we are the only ones with the power to determine the final score, we know that we have to keep going, that we have to push harder and play tougher.
This is the battle of our lifetimes.
We aren’t going to simply give up because we don’t Iike the score on the board right now.
So, my question is — why are you?
@7Veritas4 Yes! This, indeed. If you need to primal scream, then just do it. Then let’s speed away from this dangerous distraction and get on with the job of reelecting Joe.💙
@JoJoFromJerz@SarahLongwell25@jonfavs Exactly. All of this is a dangerous distraction and plays right into trump’s tiny hands. Now is not the time to sow seeds of doubt when we need everyone we can possibly reach to vote blue. And to actually vote. And for the record, he’s scared shitless of Joe.
@jrovner This travesty needs to be taken to full scale to make its lunacy crystal clear: parents with frozen embryos get to claim child tax credits, insist that they are counted in the census so community funding and zoning for school districts are affected, demand more pediatricians, etc
Perhaps hard to catch amid Jo Koy’s sexist and generally humor-free monologue, but saying that the prosthetic nose Bradley Cooper wore playing Leonard Bernstein was actually a misplaced penis is about as classic a piece of antisemitism as you can get. #GoldenGlobes2024#jokoy
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