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A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall

@rollingnscratching.bsky.social

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I'm tired, boss.... I generally talk about politics and how dumb all the trump things are. A good drizzle of the aforementioned hard rain is starting.

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A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall @rollingnscratching.bsky.social · 26d

Remember, this is always the point of the right. To destroy all real conversation and devalue it.

They have established a reputation for not needing to be honest or factual.

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A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall @rollingnscratching.bsky.social · 9h

Drain the swamp... or actually drain all swamp investigators and claim then that there is no swamp.

A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall @rollingnscratching.bsky.social · 9h

This stock market is extemely dangerous as it's ignoring all the signs. That means when it hits, it will hit hard.

Get out of the market now. It will be too late by the time folks can react.

A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall @rollingnscratching.bsky.social · 11h

I remember when being ignorant of tons of current events was a sign you weren't fit for office.

It's a prerequisite for today's gop.

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A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall @rollingnscratching.bsky.social · 11h

Primaries will be in less than a year for midterms. Folks better get their ducks in a line to challenge.

A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall @rollingnscratching.bsky.social · 12h

Gop: Ok now, hold on... What if that citizen was brown?

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A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall @rollingnscratching.bsky.social · 12h

I've got a bad feeling that any radical plan to actually create change anytime soon probably wont be great for those kids/marginalized in red states you were originally dicusussing.

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A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall @rollingnscratching.bsky.social · 12h

Oh wow. We get to witness Rand doing his "no wait, Im actually a libertarian" dance thay he does for 5 minutes every four years. Lol

A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall @rollingnscratching.bsky.social · 12h

Said*

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A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall @rollingnscratching.bsky.social · 12h

You daid they were useless. Lol

We voted dems out of fed congress control.

Many states where dems still have control are fighting.

I just don't understand what realistic path you want?

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A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall @rollingnscratching.bsky.social · 12h

Dems aren't perfect but states with more dem leaders usually fare better in the poor having access to healthcare and better education levels. And more likely ranked choice which gives third parties a better chance.

And dems are very useless in states where they always lose by a lot.

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A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall @rollingnscratching.bsky.social · 12h

Then who is of use?

I have seen dems actually challenge voter systems in southern states. Dems fight to expand medicare to poor southerners. Vote to push ranked choice voting. Vote to expand and fund better education in the south.

Who in the world is more useful?

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A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall @rollingnscratching.bsky.social · 12h

Or at least a possible path to getting near those things.

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A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall @rollingnscratching.bsky.social · 13h

Feels like youre asking for a massive amount of good faith for southerners who overall hate those ideas... and you give zero good faith to dems who actualky support some of those things?

So how do we do this while hating the ONLY MAJOR PARTY that supports any of that?

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A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall @rollingnscratching.bsky.social · 13h

Lol, feels like we're moving towards old soviet ideas. Collectivization and virgin land schemes seem almost inevitable with dipshit.

When will the forced farm workcamps start?

A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall @rollingnscratching.bsky.social · 13h

But the states and local govs fight to limit and stall those ideas.

And the supreme court has dont some viting rules in the past. But many have been rolled back.

How I feel about it doesnt matter much.

Best thing to do is always vote dems who will generally try to help.

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A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall @rollingnscratching.bsky.social · 13h

I mean this is talking a lot about feelings when feelings don't matter much.

The facts are, the right works hard to keep the folks who are poverty, in poverty longer. And the elections are generally won in those states by gop folks.

When the dems win, we try to give them policies to help, 1/2

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A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall @rollingnscratching.bsky.social · 13h

I mean, that's the situation.

Do we fight back or roll over to "not give him visuals" and hope it blows over for the better?

You can't really fight back in a way that's invisible.

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A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall @rollingnscratching.bsky.social · 13h

You have to secure ground to defend from and support a push.

Set a standard to start from.

A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall @rollingnscratching.bsky.social · 13h

Ignorance is their MAIN weapon.

What they ignore and have no clue about doesn't exist to them.

A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall @rollingnscratching.bsky.social · 13h

Lol, literally just stealing it.

A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall @rollingnscratching.bsky.social · 1d

Argentina in trouble: Maybe we can get trump to give us all his busienss and a huge payout?

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A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall @rollingnscratching.bsky.social · 1d

Good news! They will surely do away with those dastardly tariffs where the gov is controlling things.

A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall @rollingnscratching.bsky.social · 1d

I mean youre not wrong, but her policies seem pretty solid. You gonna kick bernie out too?

A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall @rollingnscratching.bsky.social · 1d

Careful, I hear his stand is strong.

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A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall @rollingnscratching.bsky.social · 1d

"Here".. like this room, or "here" like the general state of the world?