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This was probably for the Uighurs comment, but there is so much more it should have been for.
Nah....they've all been a massive thorn in China's side since Trump took office. Bannon was a major instigator and Pompeo bought into it as well.
 

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez walks picket line with striking NY workers

NEW YORK – Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., skipped the glitz of President Joe Biden’s inaugural ball Wednesday to walk on a chilly picket line with striking workers at the Hunts Point Food Market in her home borough of the Bronx.

“We have to support them in their demands for a better life,” Ocasio-Cortez said.

The firebrand lawmaker used a bullhorn to rile up the crowd of workers rallying for a $1 an hour wage hike and better health benefits.

Earlier in the day, AOC headed to the sprawling Costco supermarket to buy hot chocolate and Bustelo coffee to help keep the members of the Teamsters union warm as they walk the picket line.

More than 1,400 union workers started picketing Tuesday after voting Sunday to go on strike at the sprawling Bronx market, which supplies about half of the city’s produce.

Chanting workers tried to block trucks and cars from getting into the market early Thursday morning.

Even before AOC showed up, the strike had already attracted the support of Rep. Ritchie Torres, D-N.Y., and mayoral wannabes Maya Wiley and Andrew Yang.

It’s the first strike in 35 years at the lucrative fresh fruit and vegetable hub and if the walkout continues for long, it could have a serious impact on produce supplies in the five boroughs.

Workers make between $18 and $21 an hour. Management is offering a 33 cent an hour pay hike.
 

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Bernie has this capacity to drive some people insane without doing anything. it would be funny if it wasn't sad.
tend to see it in the liberals that despise his openly welfare-centric policy, yet realise their personal identity is built around being a "compassionate centist" so the attack angle is "misogyny bernie".
 

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tend to see it in the liberals that despise his openly welfare-centric policy, yet realise their personal identity is built around being a "compassionate centist" so the attack angle is "misogyny bernie".
I think it is more the establishment and the centrist Dems who go mad at him for nothing.
 

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I think it is more the establishment and the centrist Dems who go mad at him for nothing.
kind of think we're both almost on the same wavelength with our descriptions. :lol:

also, you if go down the timeline, there's more posts against Bernie from a "feminist" decrying being called a TERF because "that's a slur used to silence actual women"....so yeah scratch a liberal yada yada
 

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Yep. Don’t try to go out & win back lost voters, just double down on your dwindling minority.
From the article, these are the other things they voted on:


"The party also approved resolutions staking out hard-right positions such as calls for revoking birthright citizenship, ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program, ceasing to provide translations for official government services to non-English speakers and one that “stands firm on the principles of only two genders.”
Good luck keeping your Hispanic support, in AZ, with those policies. I'm surprised they didn't vote to also reinstate the 3/5's policy and expand it to include Central/South Americans.
 

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From the article, these are the other things they voted on:
Not that their true intentions aren’t obvious, but the one denying translations to non-English speaking citizens is quite rich.

It smacks of someone realizing inside the state party that their cause is lost, so why not just brazenly do all the abjectly racist & xenophobic shit possible? What a release this must have felt like for them after all their edging for the past few weeks.
 

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It will be interesting to see who primaries for that Senate seat. If someone from the Q Squad tries to primary Gym, will he go even further right into cuckoo territory? The further right they go, especially with Trump not on the ballot, the more difficult it may become as moderate R's stay home or vote dem/3rd party. Then they become VERY dependent on getting out the MAGA base, without Trump on the ballot. That did not work in GA.
 

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She's saying they won't help homeless people who have lived in San Fransisco since May. That's not a very progressive message.

Well I don't know what the poster is thinking do I? He just did a post and run to feel smug about something that he saw on Twitter.

SF is one of the most progressive cities for helping homeless but it's getting ridiculous there. Have you been? They have to stop making it a fecking holiday destination for homeless. Besides, if they've lived in SF since last year then they aren't homeless.
 

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I see Sarah is going to run for governor in Arkansas. Can she use her name and time with Trump to swoon imbeciles people to voting her in?
Sarah was the most skilled liar in the Trump team. She is so good at lying with a hint of truth mixed in.
 

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She's claiming she was "hacked" but even so, she had a picture, on HER phone, she took of her daughters phone displaying the photo.

She is crazy.

@Dwazza Gunnar Solskjær you might want to have a think.
 

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She's claiming she was "hacked" but even so, she had a picture, on HER phone, she took of her daughters phone displaying the photo.

She is crazy.

@Dwazza Gunnar Solskjær you might want to have a think.

Isn't that a pretty serious charge potentially? Distributing child porn or something.
 

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Well I don't know what the poster is thinking do I? He just did a post and run to feel smug about something that he saw on Twitter.

SF is one of the most progressive cities for helping homeless but it's getting ridiculous there. Have you been? They have to stop making it a fecking holiday destination for homeless. Besides, if they've lived in SF since last year then they aren't homeless.
Why isn't there a ignore button for mods ?
 

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She's saying they won't help homeless people who have lived in San Fransisco since May. That's not a very progressive message.
The reality is most of those rendered homeless are actually from SF. But she is taking a page out of trump’s playbook to paint them as outsiders who are only coming into SF because she thinks “the homeless have it good here”
 

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Isn't that a pretty serious charge potentially? Distributing child porn or something.
One would think so, but considering her role in the Trump admin, and the detachment from reality needed to spend 4 years in it, she may not be completely sane. The fact that she is still involved with advising/advocating for Trump is fitting but also scary. That family is so messed up.
 

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One would think so, but considering her role in the Trump admin, and the detachment from reality needed to spend 4 years in it, she may not be completely sane. The fact that she is still involved with advising/advocating for Trump is fitting but also scary. That family is so messed up.

I don't know, child porn is an issue that prosecutors tend to be zero-tolerance with.