otisoperandi.bsky.social

otisoperandi.bsky.social

@otisoperandi.bsky.social

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If Democrats don’t get in front of a camera right now and say, “Why wait? let’s get the $5k per adult passed now. The people are hurting now.” They deserve to lose in November. If Dems commit to writing it up and ask the Republicans, who will write it with us, they win today.

MAGA is upset about Trump’s involvement in Iran v Israel & that seems confusing until you remember MAGA is not a coherent ideology but just a series of ideological adjacent platforms. Anti-forever war is a lazy way of gleaning several million 1 issue voters. Everything they stand for is like that.

I feel all this LGBT+ hate/fear comes from a combination of enforced otherness and knee jerk response that has been ingrained in the American mind by loud obstinate voices. There is a simple remedy. Meet these communities before taking action against them.

Civil servants are your employees not the President’s. They work for the people as a whole. They are your advocates for your rights. They manage and maintain your substantial public assets. When he abuses and debases them he abuses and debases your employees in your name. He weakens your rights.

Read an articles this morning before I got the kids up. A journalist from the Atlantic says we have a party deficit. It seems only 4% of Americans held a non-holiday dinner part in 2024. Strange. That seems to be the exact same percentage of people receiving a tax cut in trumps plan. So strange…

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