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ultimately it's shit like this that makes the decline of birth rates and resulting demographic skewing towards old people self-reinforcing. Greedy, wealthy retired people voting to destroy the funding for public services they relied on throughout their life now that they no longer need them
“I’m old. I’ve paid my home off,” said Ray Warner, a 72-year-old Akron resident. “Why would I pay property tax?” Across the country, homeowners are asking the same question and revolting against property taxes at a scale not seen in a half century.
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ICYMI — Globally Israel is now the worst-perceived country in the world, and 🇺🇸 is now 5th worst (behind even Russia and Iraq and Syria) The Trump and Netanyahu effect in number form 😕🤷🏼 146165116.fs1.hubspotusercontent-eu1.net/hubfs/146165...
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you don’t have to have the conversation on their terms and in fact you shouldn’t have the conversation on their terms more democrats should follow this playbook instead of existing in a constant defensive crouch
Abdul El-Sayed: "Weijia, with all due respect, this is the third time you've asked about a Twitch streamer ... their whole game is to make us fight culture wars so that we don't pay attention to the fact the president has made $2.2 billion ... "
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Replying to @doctorow.pluralistic.net
The Death of the Good Old Man (1813) by the poet, painter, printmaker, and visionary William Blake, who himself passed away #onthisday in 1827. www.tumblr.com/publicdomain...
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he is not being covered as if he is a terminally unpopular lame duck because the media sees him attempting a coup and attempting to rig elections and think it would be more fun to help him do that than it would be to help stop him
President Trump's net job approval of -25 is lower than Joe Biden's net approval at this stage of his presidency, and lower than Biden ever reached. (@dhmontgomery.com @today.yougov.com) More, via Opinion Today: opiniontoday.substack.com/p/260708-top...
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