dwightleeper

Visiting the planet

[dwightleeper @dwightleeper]

Twitter is my happy place: A great stage filled with political buffoons, talking heads, hustlers, charlatans, eccentrics, has-beens and the truly ignorant.

[dwightleeper @dwightleeper]

The 1st episode of Tom Hanks' WWII focuses on the German and Soviet destruction of Poland. Made me so angry about the ignorance everywhere today, not to mention the anti-semitism. "Those who do not learn from the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them" - Churchill

[dwightleeper @dwightleeper]

Paul Krugman is the mirror image of Robert Reich. The former is an economist who thinks he's a lawyer, while the latter is a lawyer who thinks he's an economist. Poster children for The Dunning-Kruger effect.

[Western Lensman @WesternLensman]

Paul Krugman: “We really need to do a thorough purging of the United States."

“We need a deMAGAfication…similar to de-Nazification."

This deranged lunatic was employed by NYT for 20+ years.

[Johnny Midnight ⚡️ @its_The_Dr]

She was asked how many genders there are!
She nailed it!

[Kevin Carpenter @kejca]

Warren Buffett: "The bottom 2% in terms of income in the United States, the bottom 5%, and for sure the top 1% all live better than John D. Rockefeller was living when I was six years old."

"John D. Rockefeller was the richest man in the world and, today, you can get better medicine, better education, better entertainment, better transportation. You can do everything better than he could."

"When I was born, the dentist didn't use novocaine!"

[dwightleeper @dwightleeper]

There are too many people who contribute little to our nation beyond self-aggrandizing promotion and criticism of, well, everything.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

Increasingly our culture and economy have become void of virtue. Profit obsession robs work of dignity. Consumerism replaces citizenship. Corruption becomes normal. That’s why I wrote Crisis of the Common Good - to explain that the solution is bigger than just beating Trump.

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

TV host on Muslim Brotherhood channel (affiliated with Hamas):

“All homosexuals, without exception, should be killed. Burn them alive, throw them off a high place, or stone them to death.”

Happy Pride Month!

[dwightleeper @dwightleeper]

When corporations follow the tax code written by Congress, it’s rigged?

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

This is what a rigged system looks like.

If you paid $1 in federal income taxes last year you paid more than Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, KFC, PayPal & Honeywell.

Trump enabled these corporate tax dodgers to shift their profits to offshore tax havens in Malta, Singapore & Switzerland.

[dwightleeper @dwightleeper]

If the system is rigged @RBReich , it was rigged by Congress. Wouldn’t it be a change to put the blame where it lies?

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Hourly wages are up 3% since 2019. Corporate profits are up 50%.

Labor’s piece of the economic pie is the smallest it’s been in over 75 years, while corporate profits’ share is the *biggest* it’s been since 1950.

This is what a rigged economy looks like.

[dwightleeper @dwightleeper]

I don’t think anyone is throwing immigrants under the bus @RoKhanna . Illegals are another matter, wouldn’t you agree?

[Ro Khanna @RoKhanna]

Voting for Laken Riley, which gave permission for Trump's mass deportation, is a disqualifying vote to lead our party.
As a son of immigrants, I have zero tolerance for throwing immigrants under the bus. https://t.co/mB0DrLwvA7

[dwightleeper @dwightleeper]

You cannot further the brotherhood of man by encouraging class hatred - Abraham Lincoln

[Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse]

It's not just about billionaires paying more in taxes.

It's about an America where the people who have the most leave everyone else to pick up their slack.

[dwightleeper @dwightleeper]

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." - George Santayana

[dwightleeper @dwightleeper]

It is past time that we begin to see that Government requires serious reform. In its present form, it attracts the most egregious, narcissistic, corrupt grifters imaginable and the damage to our once great country is tangible.

[dwightleeper @dwightleeper]

If Maine elects the LCD Platner, Maine will be lost to decades of blue state failure.

[The Hill @thehill]

Platner holds 9-point lead over Collins in new poll
https://t.co/1pdS813N5S

[dwightleeper @dwightleeper]

We do have a problem to solve. However, Medicare For All will be a Gov. monopoly, prone to every partisan hack and political bias we see in Congress today. It will be inefficient and deliver shortages and waste. Gov. bureaucracy with patronage and corruption will grow.

[Pramila Jayapal @PramilaJayapal]

People sometimes ask me why I focus so much on Medicare for All when there are so many other urgent fights. Here is my answer. The health care crisis is not separate from the economic justice crisis. They’re the same crisis. Workers stay in jobs they hate because they cannot afford to lose coverage. People don't start businesses because the insurance risk is too great. Families don't save because medical debt has consumed them. The broken health care system is an added weight to every decision working families make. Medicare for All lifts that weight. It is an economic justice policy as much as a health care one. And we are not stopping until it passes. 💜

[dwightleeper @dwightleeper]

Increase the minimum wage? The number of teens working summer jobs will sink to a 78-year low this year, the consulting firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas estimates.

[dwightleeper @dwightleeper]

"In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience." -- Oscar Wilde

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

AOC is wearing a hijab today for Eid

[dwightleeper @dwightleeper]

I can agree with this

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

I talked this morning about my new book, Crisis of the Common Good, on @Morning_Joe. I explained how we need a public/private strategy to rebuild the institutions where people find purpose and community - like social clubs, churches, unions and parent organizations.

[dwightleeper @dwightleeper]

Assertions with no support nor evidence.

[Popular Liberal 🇺🇸 @PopularLiberal]

DAMN, THIS HITS HARDER!

Graham Platner—Democrat running for U.S. Senate in Maine—isn't asking, he's telling. The Supreme Court is a corrupt, far-right partisan weapon, and both Alito and Thomas need to be impeached.

Real Republicans, Democrats, and independents who actually give a damn about democracy: you're either fighting this fascist takeover or you're on the wrong side of history.

The Trump party chose their side. We the people choose ours. Period.

[dwightleeper @dwightleeper]

Truth

[Anti Left Memes @AntiLeftMemes]

Name something or someone that upsets a Democrat