we live in hell https://twitter.com/pareene/status/1365112233362137090?s=20

to simplify: If the vice president says, "parliamentarian is wrong," you need 60 votes to overrule her. So 40 votes to keep minimum wage increase in the bill and 50+1 to pass it. If Sinema or Manchin sink the whole thing over it there's literally no hope for passing anything.

:elmofire:

Finally got power back after three days without it in Texas :doomjak: at the very least i had semi running water and a gas stove but god damn the entire experience was surreal and i for some reason had more hope during/after a hurricane had hit the state. it had gotten to a point where my roommates and I had started contemplating on rationing water bottles and bread bc there were grocery lines in the morning that stretched across the parking lots (and maybe I was in a daze but I had genuinely forgotten a pandemic was still happening). The fucking ghouls blaming this on wind energy and then that fucking piece of slab Ted Cruz fucking off to Cancun not even a day after it was made sure the rich will be fine was a little too much to take in at once.

They really do not give a fuck about us.

God damn Abbott and his even more insane Lieutenant Governor are more focused on NBA teams not playing the anthem than providing more Covid relief or even dealing with this storm in an effective way like you said maybe shutting shit down so people don't die.

it so fucklng cold right now in Texas but me and my roommates have hot cocoa :meow-coffee: (although right now i am pushing aside the fact I have to drive to work in conditions that led to the death of a dozen people since we don't have salt trucks or any idea how to drive in the cold :doomjak: )

I hope you find peace and love. Solidarity.

lol and Israel doesn't even need the extra influx of money but fuck it why not.

https://twitter.com/PostingTankie/status/1341229770709770241?s=20

why why why :biden:

holy shit the new stimulus has me down more than I thought it would. I genuinely have lost count on how much it weighs me down that establishment dems and reps truly do not give a fuck about us and especially essential workers. "Do you want to risk your life for the stonk line? Here is $600 and only just once!"

https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1339375938417651714?s=19

22 Deaths

This makes me even more depressed after the number of cases reported in California and the shitheads can only muster up $600 in the next stimulus bill.

bad news: my mother had to undergo surgery for some lung complications.

semi-good news: surgery went well but now she is on a ventilator but showing good signs. please pray or send love for a full recovery. she is the nicest person I know and i don't what i will do if she is not here anymore. I hate the fact that i can't be beside her right now. fuck covid man.

but stonks go up so we must be right and the orange cheeto has been defeated :capitalist:

but honestly what bothers me a lot about them is their indifference to foreign policy and how badly it affects the country we are essentially terrorizing for resources or just a show of power. It's up there for me on how Biden tweets every other day that America is back and then you see the cabinet picks which takes me down a deep dark imperialistic hole on how libs will justify anything especially if the result is brown lives getting affected.

https://twitter.com/Politics_Polls/status/1333602690648186881?s=20 my money is still on mypillowguy rising from the ashes and beating Kamala/Pete

Neera Tanden in the cabinet :doomer:

True. I was the epitome of the enlightened centrist at that age (or I suppose the Jon Stewart type lib)

roommates family is doing a 40 person get together for thanksgiving in a separate state :doomer: at least got my roommate to come up with a work excuse so she wouldn't have to attend.

He won't do it till its very much obvious that he has to. He will focus primarily on debate lord shit against chuds and just cover what Cons are doing.

https://twitter.com/Redistrict/status/1331483636613459969?s=20 Dave Wasserman with a brain genius take on Omar's race. Notice how he didn't choose to include the third party candidate that got 10& (legal weed party) and not mention the year-long smear campaign that cost millions by both the establishment dems and Reps plus the President as well.

job hunting sucks and i hate living in the south sometimes. Yesterday I had to serve coffee to maskless chuds and my poor young coworker got chewed out by a boomer when she asked the individual that it was required. feels great man.

they do except some salty ass YouTubers that aren't getting AOC clout.

went for a bike ride instead and looking at the timeline it seems like a very good decision.