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Agreed. Raise taxes on the wealthy and you largely fix inflation and the k-shaped economy--two sides of the same coin. Then pass #Medicare4All to rein in cost of healthcare and prescription drugs. Hell, let's give all public employees a raise too! We can do all this and prosecute ICE criminals.

Might call for hearings. Could issue a report. That would be huge.

even if it's very possible this ends with a Kelly or Newsom presidency where any meaningful anti-corruption rhetoric is immediately supplanted by platitudes about "moving forward" and "turning the page" toward a new era of status quo corporatocracy

It's a shitty word in general! Third-order sophistry.

Also no normal people are using the phrase affordability because it’s meaningless. Use words everyday folk use! Rent too high Income too low My boss is too rich The president is stealing our tax dollars in plain sight and no one does anything! Etc

been saying this a LONG time. Citizens United goes both ways. Many Dems have been bought AIPAC or others. Certainly Fetterman

bsky.app/profile/karl...

They won’t. It might implicate their donors… or israel

that would be assuming that dems actually want to take power. they do not. they want to be able to blame others and keep on collecting money and perqs.

need enough big insurgent election waves to be able to change party leadership. the party is currently run by an array of unprincipled career fundraisers who are backstopped by AIPAC and theyre never gonna lift a pinky to stop corruption & influence peddling OR improve material conditions

This is part of it. data4democracy.substack.com/p/hook-and-s...

Nobody cares about corruption when they're struggling to buy groceries and make rent. Americans know how corrupt Trump is. They don't give a shit.

You could even tie the corruption to affordability. Why is everything so expensive? because of this corruption and that corruption and this incompetence and that incompetence, etc...

The masses are hungry for justice!

A good reason not to have corrupt politicians like Schumer and Jeffries as top leaders in congress. They won’t fight strongly against the system they’re part of.

Dems can run on both by hammering them & their patrons on antitrust issues A smart dem campaign wld prioritize empowering voters by holding gov officials & ice accountable for abuses of power, expanding & reforming the corrupt Court & breaking up the price gouging mega corps

But Karl, Jeffries is already planning 5 working groups on affordability

And thanks to Kushner’s Saudi ties, you can tie Trump family corruption directly to high gas prices

They’re feckless incompetents

It's a 5-alarm fire and Dems are firing a squirt gun.

It is so exhausting that Dems' take is that everything Trump does is bad because it doesn't lower prices, and not BECAUSE IT IS BAD IN ITS OWN RIGHT. It's always "Trump's pocketing of billions doesn't lower prices," as if the pocketing would be okay if prices also went down.

They did both in Hungary

It doesn’t have to be one or the other. Hitting people in their wallets is a real thing they can relate to.

Spanberger and Sherrill won by even more in less Democratic electorates with the same basic message and different specifics.

NO! It means that *this* younger candidate put his foot in his mouth with regards to trans people, does not seem genuine to his constituents, and seems to be cozy with the establishment, among other things.

I am shocked (good) that so many Americans are aware of the corruption. Even Fox couldn’t block it out. I’m unsure how much they care. We have been very corrupt for years. But yeah, worth a shot

There is no reason to drop one in favor of the other because they're entirely compatible (and complementary). "You can't afford things because the corrupt assholes in power are enriching themselves at your expense" is a very potent message. It's basically what Ossoff is getting great results with.

Unfortunately half of the people who think the state is corrupt are the ones who voted for, and still support, Trump

Corruption Tax. How and why hundreds of billions of US citizen’s tax dollars are being used for the undemocratic and blatantly illegal enrichment and whims of GOP members.

it's the same discussion anyway. these guys are stealing the public wealth and yours as well

Tie the arguments together. Let these fucking idiots prove they can walk and chew gum at the same time…

And what caused Nixon's favorability to first crater wasn't Watergate, it's when it came out he was a tax cheat. That's what his "I'm not a crook" statement was about. We really don't like corruption.

I sure wish more of the populace could see the direct correlation without depending on a podcast bro to tell them about it.

The issues are RIGHT THERE! For them... corruption, war, data centers, tariffs, healthcare costs/rural hospitals... They're all RIGHT THERE! What are Dems doing?! They can hammer on these things and still avoid talking about Israel... Which they clearly don't want to talk about.

I think Mamdani was right to focus on such "platitudes." And that focus complements, rather than being at odds with, attacks on Trumper corruption.

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“What about MY insider trading!?”

Someone in this party should be able to walk and chew gun at the same time. It’s all connected. Our economy, the fraud and corruption and it’s all tied to this rotting orange clown.

They can tie them together. "You're paying more for gas and groceries while Trump is plastering gold leaf all over and building monuments to himself."

"affordability", like "access" is ambiguous on purpose

It is the one thing absolutely everybody agrees about. You are running against a party lined up behind a convicted felon who is behaving exactly like you would expect a convicted felon to behave if you gave him the national treasury.

Yep. So many brazen acts of corruption either committed by or abetted by Republicans at every level. The ‘affordability argument’ should be that things used to be until Republicans started stealing everything that isn’t bolted down (or is in some cases)

“they’re stealing our money” is a strong affordability argument in itself

A lot of dems don’t want to burn the bridge to corruption if/when they take over

and do it with just brutal relentless repetition