Five House Democrats led by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York wrote to the US attorney general, Merrick Garland, to demand a federal investigation of the conservative supreme court justice Clarence Thomas, over his acceptance of undeclared gifts from billionaire rightwing donors.

“We write to urge the Department of Justice to launch an investigation into … Clarence Thomas for consistently failing to report significant gifts he received from Harlan Crow and other billionaires for nearly two decades in defiance of his duty under federal law,” the Democrats said.

  • duderium [he/him]
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    11 months ago

    Kennedy died in August of 2009, in those 8 months they (and Obama) kind of saved the American economy?

    “The economy” meaning rich people’s yacht money?

    Which enabled the Tea Party movement and set the stage for the losses in 2010.

    You can tell that the Democrats made a massive positive difference in the way that voters threw their asses out of power within two years of Obama’s inauguration, replacing him six years later with a game show host. If that isn’t victory, I don’t know what is!

    Can you name a bill the Democrats have passed within the last fifty years that has made a positive difference in your material life as well as the material lives of the people around you? Without doing research?

    Why has Biden refused to use the defense production act to pass universal health care? Why hasn’t he packed the courts? Why is it so hard for him to do these things but so easy for him to send tens of billions of dollars to Nazis in Ukraine?

    • Jordan Lund@lemmy.one
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      11 months ago

      "The Economy" being the 700,000 people a month losing their jobs under Bush.

      Jobs:

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Job_losses_caused_by_the_Great_Recession

      January 2009 – 818,000 jobs lost
      February 2009 – 724,000 jobs lost
      March 2009 – 799,000 jobs lost
      April 2009 – 692,000 jobs lost
      May 2009 – 361,000 jobs lost
      June 2009 – 482,000 jobs lost
      July 2009 – 339,000 jobs lost
      August 2009 – 222,000 jobs lost
      September 2009 – 199,000 jobs lost
      October 2009 – 202,000 jobs lost[3]
      November 2009 - 64,000 jobs created[4]
      December 2009 - 109,000 jobs lost[4]

      Vs Economy:

      https://www.cbpp.org/sites/default/files/styles/report_580_high_dpi/public/atoms/files/6-6-19budf1.png?itok=XgpYU0CF

      • duderium [he/him]
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        11 months ago

        If the Democrats were actually making things better, why did voters throw them out of congress within two years?