#jon ossoff

Did you know that?

Probably not because people would rather talk about what they think Democrats aren’t doing than what they are.

Luckily, you have me and I made a YouTube video (with a transcript for those who don’t wanna watch) all about that and three other stories!

Wouldn't it make more sense to arrest Trump for destroying Government property than arresting people for just touching the water and trying to prosecute them for it?

How the Reflecting Pool Turned Green: Missing ‘Bubblers’ and a Rush Job

This tracks.

Trump Vandalizes Reflecting Pool, Arrests Olympic Athlete For Touching It

Investigating PragerU's Big Stupid Propaganda Truck

Maggie Haberman & Jonathan Swan - On “Regime Change” & Inside The Trump Presidency | The Daily Show

He’s the most vulnerable Democrat in the Senate. We will not be able to retake the Senate if he loses his race.

If we can win the midterms we can impeach Trump, the “Seditious Six” conservative members of the SCOTUS, and any of Trump’s henchmen that try to continue his legacy of evil. JD Vance will have his hands tied for the remaining two years and will be facing impeachment himself if he gets out of line.

Rep. Mike Collins has, among other social media posts, made jokes about killing immigrants in the same way Augusto Pinochet murdered his enemies.

by Layla A. Jones

Georgia’s Senate election will be a key race this November as Democrats aim to retake the chamber, and a runoff election Tuesday determined Sen. Jon Ossoff’s (D) challenger: Mike Collins (R), an extremely pro-Trump Republican whose office personnel issues are dwarfed only by the congressman’s own prolific social media presence, which is steeped in radical far-right rhetoric and violent anti-immigrant ideology.

Collins led the more moderate Derek Dooley (R) after the May primary and was expected to win the runoff. 

With roughly 52% of the vote counted, per the AP, Collins had 55% and Dooley had 45%.

Stop Acting Like This Is Normal

In a few weeks the government’s funding will run out. If Democrats vote for a new spending bill, they will be funding Trump’s autocratic takeover — and I don’t see how they can.

Ezra Klein makes some excellent points about why the Democrats should shut down the government in a few weeks by not voting to approve an upcoming spending bill. This is a gift🎁link, so there is no paywall Above is the video found in the article, which is worth watching. Below are some excerpts from the article, and GIFs from the video.*

In about three weeks, the government’s funding will run out. Democrats will face a choice: Join Republicans to fund a government that President Trump is turning into a tool of authoritarian takeover and vengeance or shut the government down. [...]

Not a single argument Schumer made [in March about not shutting down the government] is valid now.** [...]

But something else has changed, too. We are no longer in the muzzle velocity stage of this presidency. We are in the authoritarian consolidation stage of this presidency.

I want to be very clear about what I am saying here. Donald Trump is corrupting the government — he is using it to hound his enemies, to line his pockets and to entrench his own power. He is corrupting it the way the Mafia would corrupt the industries it controlled. You could still, under Mafia rule, get the trash picked up or buy construction materials. But the point of those industries had become the preservation and expansion of the Mafia’s power and wealth. This is what Trump is doing to the government. This is what Democrats cannot fund. This is what they have to try to stop. [...]

And there is the reality that Democrats’ best issue is health care, and Trump looting Medicaid to pay for tax cuts is the kind of thing they should never let voters forget. I don’t think it’s impossible to turn this into one message.

Senator Jon Ossoff of Georgia did a pretty good job of it back in July. “Corruption is why they just defunded nursing homes to cut taxes for the rich,” he told a crowd of his supporters. “Corruption is why you pay a fortune for prescriptions. Corruption is why your insurance claim keeps getting denied. [...]

“So Trump promised to attack a broken system,” Ossoff continued. “I get it. Ripe target. But here’s the thing. He’s a crook. And a con man. And he wants to be a king. Yes, the system really is rigged, but Trump’s not unrigging it. He’s re-rigging it for himself.”

But Democrats cannot pretend this is a normal Republican administration.

They cannot ignore masked agents in the streets, armed troops in the cities, billions of dollars of money going into the Trump family’s pockets, an administration that spins off several scandals in a week that would have consumed other presidencies for years. If Democrats cannot make an issue out of all that, then they are screwed and so are we. [...]

I’m not going to tell you I am absolutely sure Democrats should shut the government down. I’m not. At the same time, joining Republicans to fund this government is worse than failing at opposition. It’s complicity.

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