#republicans
The@GOP is not scared of Trump or their #Qrazy voter base. This is who they are and what their party represents now. The #GQP is made of #Qrazies, racists, traitors, rapists, Nazis, religious zealots, sexists, fascists and unAmerican neoconfederate idiots! #GOPDomesticTerrorists
#QTards #QGreene #QMcCarthy #GOPExtinction
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Canada declares the Proud Boys a terrorist group
#MAGATerrorists #GOPBase #CapitolRiot #TrumpCoup #TraitorsWithin #LockThemUp
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May Day pro-immigration march in SF.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I ❤ my hometown.
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Previously, I’d only seen the first two panels and assumed it was the complete comic.
This version is much better.
omg it’s so much better with the conclusion
“The systemic barrier has been removed.”
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This isn’t because Burger King is nicer in Denmark. It’s the law, and the US is actually the only so-called “developed” country that doesn’t mandate jobs provide a minimum amount of paid vacation, sick leave, or both.
kinda debunks that claim that they can’t afford to pay their workers those sort of wages and still make a profit
Its corporate greed, plain and simple.
It is the same in Sweden. It is so funny every time an american company opens up offices here and then tries to do it the american way and all the unions go “I don’t think so”.
Like when Toys ‘r Us opened in sweden 1995.
They refused to sign on to the union deals that govern such things as pay/pension and vacation in Sweden. Most of our rights are not mandated by law (we don’t have a minimum wage for example) but are made in voluntary agreements between the unions and the companies.
But they refused, saying that they had never negotiated with any unions anywhere else in the world and weren’t planning to do it in Sweden either.
Of course a lot of people thought it was useless fighting against an international giant, but Handels (the store worker’s union) said that they could not budge, because that might mean that the whole Swedish model might crumble. So they went on strike in the three stores that the company had opened so far.
Cue a shitstorm from the press, and from right wing politicians. But the members were all for it, and other unions started doing sympathy actions. The teamsters refused to deliver goods to their stores, the financial unions blockaded all economical transactions regarding Toys ‘r Us and the strike got strong international support as well, especially in the US.
In the end, Toys ‘r Us caved in, signed the union deal, and thus their employees got the same treatment as Swedish store workers everywhere.
The right to be treated as bloody human beings and not disposable cogs in a machine.
and that story right there? is exactly why Republicans in the US work so hard to bust unions. it’s because unionizing WORKS and they’re terrified of workers actually having some power.
so this is how people in all those european countries can afford to be going on trips and shit
Trump-supporters voted for a privileged elitist who cares for them as much as the rich folks in dystopian sci-fi care about the lower classes. Full-blown Soylent Greenshit.
Remember that the next time he - or one of his rich, fast food pals like Papa John - tell us that raising minimum wage would be “devastating to the American economy”.
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So last night my mom and I were talking about the republicans still running and we knew there were 6 still in the race and could name 5 them but neither of us could remember the last one.
Can you guess whose name we forgot?
Jeb. It was Jeb.
I had to look up who was still running to remember that. Which is funny cause I was just telling my mom about the recent tweet Jeb put out of a gun with his name on it.
When you control almost every avenue of news and culture, you are not the resistance.
Nearly half of Republicans have yet to hold a public town hall since Donald Trump took office
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This trend is in stark contrast to data showing that the Republican Party is further away from the political center than the Democratic Party, leaving viewers misinformed about each party’s position by lending undue credibility to the right-wing talking point that Democrats are extreme.
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Democrat
Republican
✔Awake and done playing
“It pains me to say this, but I feel as though I must get something off my chest. Whatever is left of the Republican Party has become a haven for liars.”
There isn’t anything egregiously wrong with the philosophy of republicanism or conservatism, but the GOP has wholeheartedly abandoned these classical philosophies to make a new world of lords and peasants. - DW
Upon Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin’s inauguration, I made an observation about how wonderful it is to be Republican in purple-state America. Namely, that so long as you hold off on biting off a baby head during the campaign, the media will declare you the very essence of sobriety and moderation, and dismiss anyone who tries to tell otherwise. Then, once you enter office, you can bite as many baby heads as you want – shocking the professional punditocracy (and gullible “independent” voter) who was ever-so-sure you were actually quite reasonable!
I made that observation upon Youngkin’s opening gubernatorial salvo designed to help COVID be even more lethal. But it also applies to his latest round of petty partisan vindictiveness, vetoing widely popular bipartisan initiatives that passed the legislature by overwhelming margins for no other reason than that they were sponsored by Democrats. After “earning” the title of a moderate for, as best I can tell, no other reason other than that he wears fuzzy fabrics, Governor Youngkin has in his first few months been gorging himself on the baby heads that he temporarily deprived himself of on the campaign trail – governing as a virulent right-wing extremist in a state that remains purplish-blue. The best analogy I can think of is if a Democrat manages to sneak into the Missouri governor’s mansion in an off-year election and immediately abolishes the police. It’s simultaneously unfathomable and yet exactly what one gets from these so-called “moderates”.
The reality is that there are, functionally speaking, no more moderate Republicans – a fact which does not remotely seem to dampen the media’s willingness to be duped into believing that this Republican will be a moderate. We went through this a few years back with Cory Gardner – the Denver Post endorsed him in 2014 against then Senator Mark Udall, saying it was “unfair” to label Gardner an “extremist” and predicting he’d be a fresh and independent voice in the Senate, only to shame-facedly admit its mistake when it turned out he was an utterly bog-standard right-wing hack. Who could have predicted? Answer: everybody! And so it is too with Youngkin. But alas, we didn’t learn the lesson then and we certainly won’t learn it now. Instead, we’re doomed to repeat this dance every single election cycle it seems.
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Hawley introducing measure to strip Disney of copyright protections
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) introduced legislation on Tuesday that would strip “woke corporations like Disney” of special protections enabling companies to hold copyright material for decades.
The Copyright Clause Restoration Act would limit copyrighted material to 56 years and apply the new rule retroactively, meaning Disney and other companies could immediately lose some copyright protections if the law were passed.
The measure is the latest Republican attack on Disney, which last month was stripped of its self-governing status at its amusement park in Orlando, Fla., after Gov. Ron DeSantis took issue with the media company for speaking out against the state’s “Don’t Say Gay” law, which prohibits the discussion of sexual orientation and gender identity from kindergarten through third grade.
Hawley’s bill goes after Disney’s long-running list of iconic characters stretching from Mickey Mouse to Marvel superheroes.
Hawley said in a press release that “the age of Republican handouts to Big Business is over.”
All this, because Disney did the bare minimum of performative tolerance, after their previous republican support hurt the bottom line…
Okay so, is this a good thing, a bad thing, or some mix of the two?
Limiting copyrights held by corporations: Good. Unquestionably.
Limiting copyrights generally: Depends. The Tolkien and Doyle estates are pulling one sort of fuckery; the sheer volume of decades-old art that’s difficult to preserve and impossible to make publicly accessible on account of the copyright holder being unknown or uncontactable is itself another kind of fuckery; but making it so an individual creator who’s lucky enough to get consistent income from their work still can throughout their life, and their family still can after their death, is not itself fuckery, and changing that really could be.
Limiting copyrights to punish corporations generally: Um. On board with the concept, got some questions about mechanism.
Limiting copyrights to punish Disney specifically: There’s a reason the most recent copyright term extension is in law nicknamed the Mickey Mouse Copyright Act, and that reason is it was mostly pushed for by Disney, who is also one of the biggest beneficiaries. That extra twenty years of copyright protection certainly hasn’t been helping individual creators any.
Limiting copyrights to punish Disney specifically for pausing political donations to Florida legislators who support hideously bigoted legislation? Not even stopping, just pausing? Fuck off.
Admitting the reasoning is to end government handouts to Big Business? Raise your voice a little, Senator Hawley, I don’t think I quite heard the quiet part you’re shouting…
I heard from a colleague tonight who was in tears, because a patient she has had for the past 4 years is going to die of leukemia, since his only available marrow donor is his brother, who has a Syrian passport and therefore can’t enter the U.S. under the Republican travel ban, even for just the few days. Politics matter, people.
Look at this picture. Save it. Burn it into your brain and never fucking forget it.
Kansas elementary school student Fareed Jamal drew it for his dad, Dr. Syed Jamal, who is in jail and facing deportation to Bangladesh. His family watched ICE drag him away on his front lawn as he was taking his little girl to school in Lawrence. They wouldn’t let his wife and kids hug him goodbye.
Dr. Jamal has worked in the US for 30 years as a molecular biologist and has done research with the University of Kansas, Children’s Mercy, and Rockhurst University. He volunteers at his children’s schools. He is a leader within his faith community. He leaves behind his wife and three children. They are “devastated and fearful.” They have no other source of income.
We should remember President Donald J. Trumppromised us this. And our entire Kansas Congressional delegation ignored his racist, hate-filled rhetoric towards immigrants of color and gave him their full support to win the Presidency. All so they could get tax cuts for their campaign donors.
Senator Jerry Moran,Senator Pat Roberts,Congressman Kevin Yoder,Lynn Jenkins,Congressman Roger Marshall, M.D.,Congressman Ron Estes, and everyone else who supported Donald Trump’s candidacy: history will remember you for your complicity. It will remember all of us for failing to stop this racist assault on immigrant families.
There’s still a shred of hope for Dr. Jamal. The least you can do is share this petition:https://www.change.org/p/ice-help-to-stop-the-deportation-of-syed-jamal
And we still have a DACA fight to win. There are hundreds of thousands of people left to protect. Keep fighting.
I’ll leave you with what Dr. Jamal’s son wrote in a plea for support from Kansans:
“My name is Taseen Jamal, and my father has recently been arrested, taken to the Morgan County, MO, jail, and is being considered for deportation. My little brother cries every night, my sister can’t focus in school, and I cannot sleep at night. My mother is in trauma, and because she is a live organ donor, she only has one kidney, so the stress is very dangerous. She could die if he is deported. If my father is deported, my siblings and I may never get to see him again. He is an older man, and due to the conditions of his home country, he might not be able to survive.
My father called us, and he was crying like a little child because he was thinking about what would happen to us if he got deported. If he gets sent back to Bangladesh, his home country, he will be in grave danger, and people of his kind are persecuted there. My dad could likely would face persecution or even death at the hands of radical Islamist extremist gangs back in Bangladesh due to his liberal and secular writings and postings on social media platforms and publications. We are the children of Syed Ahmed Jamal, and we are requesting on behalf of our family for your kind help to get back our father. A home is not a home without a father.”
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Activism in action.
Yesterday on the Hill. We fill the halls. We show them what democracy looks like.
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Good times.
