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[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Reminder that Breaking Bad was a TV show about the U.S. healthcare system.

[Willie Ross Jr. Knee Deep @RossKneeDeep]

You wanna hear a little story of how it all began? Once upon a time, there was a man named Ronald Reagan. He was known as the "Great Communicator" because he was good at spinning words.

He was a failing actor who decided to run for president. His campaign slogan in 1980 was "Let's Make America Great Again" and he won. Yeah, it was Reagan first.

Before Reagan was elected, the very wealthy paid 70% in taxes. He was so good at spinning words that he convinced the poor people of America that the rich needed to pay less in taxes. So he lowered it to 28%. He said this would create more jobs and opportunities for the poor - "Trickle Down."

Upon seeing his blunder in loss of tax revenues, in 1984, he decided to tax social security to make up some of the lossed tax revenue.

He wanted to end welfare and Medicare, saying, "Let's send those bums back to work (meaning blacks)." Americans (many) were like, hell yeah, I'm cool with that!!!

But, "Reaganomics" never worked. It didn't work then, and it doesn't work today. Oh, I forgot to mention how much he hated Unions and dismantled many of them.

His biggest achievement was separating the races and convincing poor people that the rich needed more. End of story?

[Policybae @policybae_]

Hopefully she has enough of a platform that this cant be ignored.

[aaron from queens 🇵🇸 @aaronnarraph]

AOC asked her followers who split their ballots either for Trump/her or Trump/downballot Dem to explain why and posted the replies:

[aaron from queens 🇵🇸 @aaronnarraph]

AOC asked her followers who split their ballots either for Trump/her or Trump/downballot Dem to explain why and posted the replies:

[Blavity @Blavity]

Black communities receive less support in disaster relief, studies show https://t.co/tTonMxRChk

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

this has 54k likes what the fuck is wrong with yall? how are you any different than the same people you claim to hate for even entertaining this nonsense. deportation is inhumane no matter if its happening to the relatives of a dem or republican. scratch a liberal my goddd.

[Policybae @policybae_]

@peterdaou The US will enable this through its foreign policy, but it only matters to liberals when the president is a Republican.

[Policybae @policybae_]

You have to admire the commitment to living in delusion. Democrats did better with white voters, specifically college educated ones, and did worse with ALL non-white voters this election. We need to be honest about who the party is responsive to now.

[Elie Mystal @ElieNYC]

The reality really looks like Trump just turned the fuck out of the white vote and there was nothing any coalition “of color” could stop them.

[Policybae @policybae_]

@mariacastillotx @tanzinavega This is perfect reminder that deportations only happen/matter for Democrats when the president is a Republican.

[Policybae @policybae_]

@PabloReports 👋🏽 we need to mobilize against this!!

[Policybae @policybae_]

@NobleQAli Elected official in Queens, NY

[Policybae @policybae_]

@NobleQAli Elected official in Queens, NY

[Policybae @policybae_]

@JohnFetterman Go ahead and keep blaming the voters. I’m sure that will work one of these days.

[Policybae @policybae_]

@yashar Somewhere along the way, Democrats stopped being being the party OF the poor/working/lower class and became the party FOR the marginalized. Politics ≠ charity.

[Policybae @policybae_]

@yashar Somewhere along the way, Democrats stopped being being the party OF the poor/working/lower class and became the party FOR the marginalized. Politics ≠ charity.

[Yashar Ali 🐘 @yashar]

“Why are we losing?”

“Haha, look at all these dumb hillbillies and rednecks.”

By the way, people with college degrees are a minority in the United States.

[Selina Wang @selinawangtv]

Nancy Pelosi to the NYT:  “had the president [Biden] gotten out sooner, there may have been other candidates in the race.”

“The anticipation was that, if the president were to step aside, that there would be an open primary. “

“And as I say, Kamala may have, I think she would have done well in that and been stronger going forward. But we don’t know that. That didn’t happen. We live with what happened. And because the president endorsed Kamala Harris immediately, that really made it almost impossible to have a primary at that time. If it had been much earlier, it would have been different”

[Policybae @policybae_]

@beatmastermatt If populism means repeating tired attacks on marginalized people then no. If it means every one of us needs to eat, a roof over their head, good schools and healthcare, and so on, then yes.

[Policybae @policybae_]

@beatmastermatt If populism means repeating tired attacks on marginalized people then no. If it means every one of us needs to eat, a roof over their head, good schools and healthcare, and so on, then yes.

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