More voters did not care or did not know what project 2025 was. People vote on emotion, not policy, the sooner we all realize Tik Tok can win you elections the sooner the fascists go away.
"restoring basic fairness and common sense to the everyday transactions that shape how Americans experience the economy."
🤮 Poll tested trash. "Basic fairness and common sense"? What is this, the 1980's? Democrats really are just absolutely hollowed out by consultant class bullshit.
Republicans turned into a hollow party and were taken over by Trumpism. Sarah has been saying, "if you don't offer ideas, socialists will".
Goddamn right we will. ✊🌹
And look at every change being made by these empty suit Dems to meet the moment. They all look familiar? It's because it's what socialists have been saying all along.
"We weren't ready for it!" BS, we were ready, the political class was just too scared of their own shadows to actually DO anything, because it's easier to hide behind the filibuster.
It took an absolute simpleton like Trump, incapable of understanding his view of the world is wrong and President is King because he's an 8 year old in an 80 year old Weekend at Bernies: DC Edition rotting corpse. And that's what it took to get Dems to START pulling their heads out of their asses.
Hopefully we don't have to go through another two and a half years before they stop talking like a bunch of lily-livered bitches, and lay down some straight talk.
remove the oligarchs from governing, remove dark money from politics, and pass a law to do away with gerrymandering. Doing anything else is addressing symptoms rather than the root causes of this country's current state.
I am underwhelmed. I just listened to Sarah chat with Mary McCord (a must listen). Where is the repair of DoJ???? Mary said judges no longer assume gov't prosecutors are following the rules ( the discussion of one case was eye-opening, aren't ethics taught in law school). Where are the discussions of improving healthcare/ paying for healthcare/ vaccines/ drug approval / healthcare research? Where are the discussions of helping farmers and their inputs into SNAP / school lunches/ foreign aid? And helping with renewable energy plus grid improvements. Where is the discussion of solutions for gerrymandering/ voting access/ encouraging people to vote? Where is the discussion of damage to National Parks, damage to clean air and water rules, regulation of PFAS and carcinogenic chemicals? And where is the discussion about changing the tax laws, some people (like top 10%) can pay more! I will continue to hope there are groups working on their areas of expertise.
3 quick suggestions for 2029, Lankford's thing should be embraced, (Everybody was for it but DJT) The Annoyance econ. thing is solid genius, Dynamite anything (except residential) with Trumps name on it or his imprimatur associated with it. Lets go nuts. Honest, I thought "except residential" showed restraint. OK, OK. use back hoes. The white feather awaits.
Not impressed by a quick skim of the policy proposals, but I just cannot get over the utter cluelessness of Democratic group calling anything Project 2029. Democrats have not "sharply criticized" Project 2025. They have condemned it as a playbook for establishing authoritarian rule — because that's what it is! No Democrat should be using that vile, hate-filled document as a reference point for anything, and they certainly shouldn't try to make some kind of cutesy branding out of it. WTAF? You couldn't ask for clearer proof that the allegedly smart people strategizing how to win back our government don't have the faintest idea what time it is.
I guess I'm in the minority because I like the name Project 2029! It will be all about reversing Project 2025. I looked at their website and they have a decent start with broad ideas, but like a lot of other people noted, how will we pay for everything they propose while protecting entitlement programs? Also seems like this should start with how to reverse all the things Russ Voight has broken, like restoring Medicaid, HHS funding, FEMA, free trade, and on and on. And I'm really skeptical they'll introduce any truly innovative ideas to make life more affordable, or fix our corrupt government and Supreme Court, or actually regulate big tech. And what will it say about Israel? I notice they have a way to submit suggestions, we should all submit ours, even if it's just to say "none of this will work unless you commit to raising taxes." I do want a section about how the public can help demolish the ballroom.
I am starting to think that my Democratic Party couldn’t pour piss out of a boot with the instructions printed on the heel. Project 2029! Are you kidding me? Who’s the genius that decided to copy the name of the most diabolical plan that any political party has ever unleashed on the American people? If they can’t even come up with their own name for this steaming-hot pile of policy gibberish, why would we expect any original or interesting ideas inside? Sigh.
Do note that President Biden had a very good project, but he failed to promote it effectively. "Build Back Better" was uninspiring, and the "Inflation Reduction Act" was misnamed to mollify Republican deficit hawks (who now have no problem with Trump's deficits). Slogans are important, and Republicans have come out with very good ones: MAGA is a great slogan, so is America First, Pro Life, All Life Matters--the problem is that Republicans just use them as propaganda points. When your rival gives you weapons use them! Dems must appropriate these slogans and turn them against Trump and his hypocritical allies.
Regulation of AI. Should those companies be broken up? (Yes they should) Then get it done.
Make the grid a priority. Update it. Est. Regulations so that data centers pay for their own energy expenses.
Congress-A code of ethics plus term limits for the SC.
Get our scientists back. Purge govt of all Trump loyalists. Get some retired FBI and Justice officials to volunteer to set those departments back on the right track. Same with Dept of Defense. And for heaven’s sake remove Trump’s name from the Kennedy Center and open it up.
Congress needs to investigate the Trump admin grift.
Simple, bold, and actionable with obvious benefits for the majority of Americans, should be the criteria to judge any item. Here's one - amend the Constitution to require campaign spending to be limited to individuals, transparent, and below a simple ceiling. I'm confident well over 80% of the public would support it and it could move quickly. Anyone in the way, would face real political risk of being against something everyone wants.
If you start off with a cringey, mockable name that immediately reminds you of the *Fascism 2025* debacle for Republicans, the content inside that plan immediately becomes suspect.
You could break up the power monopolies tomorrow, but unless you're willing to implement price controls the prices still won't come down. First, enshittification will ensue no matter how many companies pretend to jump into the now open game. Corporate America is addicted to treating customers as personal ATM machines. They'll promise lower prices but won't actually deliver them, or they'll tack on endless service fees and charges. I don't see lower prices realistically happening unless govt steps in. We tried out a new gas company back in the day when the area where we live allowed competition. The new company had lower rates to be sure, but the gas lines were still owned by the original company, which tacked on innumerable service fees and our bill ended up being prohibitively more expensive than just staying with our original provider. Same thing happened when they allowed electric competition. It got higher across the board.
Anyhoo, dumb title and remarkably lame goals, although the section on nuking annoyance fees and services out existence should be implemented immediately.
Price controls don't work. The issue with utilities is that infrastructure is expensive and that companies want a guaranteed ROI to put in that infrastructure. Otherwise, nobody would do it.
Is there any evidence that people are getting "ripped off" by utilities? What is the profit margin of publicly traded ones? A friend who works in distrubution for a utility says they have to go to the state rate board and ask for any increase in pricing already. It has to be justified somehow: an increase in raw material or labor costs, or CAPX expenses that if not done, would lead to greater risks such as outages or fires.
I'd say there are other spaces where competition is being eliminated and prices are going up (cell phones for example) but water and gas delivery is not one of them.
Utilities are one of those things where inserting competition won't actually work, and I know this because competition already exists and has not thus far worked. You have the right to choose an electricity or gas supplier other than your local one. The local one that owns the infrastructure charges you for delivery no matter what, but you can get your supplier from wherever. To have this work out in your favor, you have to be an extreme wizard with paperwork, and they often lie about what you're signing up for to get you to sign up for them and then make it very difficult to switch back to your local supplier once you realize you messed up. I do not want to see a world where these are *less* regulated; they cause enough problems as they are right now.
But unless you want to have every city with multiple parallel infrastructures for utilities, you will never be able to get away from the delivery charges. You can't insert more competition than there currently is.
The solution with utilities is to accept that this hybridization of public and private hasn't worked and switch over to treating them all like water and have the local government just *run* them directly.
The average voter couldn't care less about DC/PR statehood and probably can't tell you how many justices are on the SC or what it does. This is outreach to the average joe who is not happy with the way things are going.
More voters did not care or did not know what project 2025 was. People vote on emotion, not policy, the sooner we all realize Tik Tok can win you elections the sooner the fascists go away.
Heaven forbid they would mention the miserable state of our healthcare system.
"restoring basic fairness and common sense to the everyday transactions that shape how Americans experience the economy."
🤮 Poll tested trash. "Basic fairness and common sense"? What is this, the 1980's? Democrats really are just absolutely hollowed out by consultant class bullshit.
Republicans turned into a hollow party and were taken over by Trumpism. Sarah has been saying, "if you don't offer ideas, socialists will".
Goddamn right we will. ✊🌹
And look at every change being made by these empty suit Dems to meet the moment. They all look familiar? It's because it's what socialists have been saying all along.
"We weren't ready for it!" BS, we were ready, the political class was just too scared of their own shadows to actually DO anything, because it's easier to hide behind the filibuster.
It took an absolute simpleton like Trump, incapable of understanding his view of the world is wrong and President is King because he's an 8 year old in an 80 year old Weekend at Bernies: DC Edition rotting corpse. And that's what it took to get Dems to START pulling their heads out of their asses.
Hopefully we don't have to go through another two and a half years before they stop talking like a bunch of lily-livered bitches, and lay down some straight talk.
remove the oligarchs from governing, remove dark money from politics, and pass a law to do away with gerrymandering. Doing anything else is addressing symptoms rather than the root causes of this country's current state.
I am underwhelmed. I just listened to Sarah chat with Mary McCord (a must listen). Where is the repair of DoJ???? Mary said judges no longer assume gov't prosecutors are following the rules ( the discussion of one case was eye-opening, aren't ethics taught in law school). Where are the discussions of improving healthcare/ paying for healthcare/ vaccines/ drug approval / healthcare research? Where are the discussions of helping farmers and their inputs into SNAP / school lunches/ foreign aid? And helping with renewable energy plus grid improvements. Where is the discussion of solutions for gerrymandering/ voting access/ encouraging people to vote? Where is the discussion of damage to National Parks, damage to clean air and water rules, regulation of PFAS and carcinogenic chemicals? And where is the discussion about changing the tax laws, some people (like top 10%) can pay more! I will continue to hope there are groups working on their areas of expertise.
A good start.
3 quick suggestions for 2029, Lankford's thing should be embraced, (Everybody was for it but DJT) The Annoyance econ. thing is solid genius, Dynamite anything (except residential) with Trumps name on it or his imprimatur associated with it. Lets go nuts. Honest, I thought "except residential" showed restraint. OK, OK. use back hoes. The white feather awaits.
Not impressed by a quick skim of the policy proposals, but I just cannot get over the utter cluelessness of Democratic group calling anything Project 2029. Democrats have not "sharply criticized" Project 2025. They have condemned it as a playbook for establishing authoritarian rule — because that's what it is! No Democrat should be using that vile, hate-filled document as a reference point for anything, and they certainly shouldn't try to make some kind of cutesy branding out of it. WTAF? You couldn't ask for clearer proof that the allegedly smart people strategizing how to win back our government don't have the faintest idea what time it is.
I guess I'm in the minority because I like the name Project 2029! It will be all about reversing Project 2025. I looked at their website and they have a decent start with broad ideas, but like a lot of other people noted, how will we pay for everything they propose while protecting entitlement programs? Also seems like this should start with how to reverse all the things Russ Voight has broken, like restoring Medicaid, HHS funding, FEMA, free trade, and on and on. And I'm really skeptical they'll introduce any truly innovative ideas to make life more affordable, or fix our corrupt government and Supreme Court, or actually regulate big tech. And what will it say about Israel? I notice they have a way to submit suggestions, we should all submit ours, even if it's just to say "none of this will work unless you commit to raising taxes." I do want a section about how the public can help demolish the ballroom.
I am starting to think that my Democratic Party couldn’t pour piss out of a boot with the instructions printed on the heel. Project 2029! Are you kidding me? Who’s the genius that decided to copy the name of the most diabolical plan that any political party has ever unleashed on the American people? If they can’t even come up with their own name for this steaming-hot pile of policy gibberish, why would we expect any original or interesting ideas inside? Sigh.
Do note that President Biden had a very good project, but he failed to promote it effectively. "Build Back Better" was uninspiring, and the "Inflation Reduction Act" was misnamed to mollify Republican deficit hawks (who now have no problem with Trump's deficits). Slogans are important, and Republicans have come out with very good ones: MAGA is a great slogan, so is America First, Pro Life, All Life Matters--the problem is that Republicans just use them as propaganda points. When your rival gives you weapons use them! Dems must appropriate these slogans and turn them against Trump and his hypocritical allies.
Here is my list, fresh from my red home state:
Get rid of those ridiculous tariffs
Regulation of AI. Should those companies be broken up? (Yes they should) Then get it done.
Make the grid a priority. Update it. Est. Regulations so that data centers pay for their own energy expenses.
Congress-A code of ethics plus term limits for the SC.
Get our scientists back. Purge govt of all Trump loyalists. Get some retired FBI and Justice officials to volunteer to set those departments back on the right track. Same with Dept of Defense. And for heaven’s sake remove Trump’s name from the Kennedy Center and open it up.
Congress needs to investigate the Trump admin grift.
I’m sure that there is more, esp on healthcare.
Simple, bold, and actionable with obvious benefits for the majority of Americans, should be the criteria to judge any item. Here's one - amend the Constitution to require campaign spending to be limited to individuals, transparent, and below a simple ceiling. I'm confident well over 80% of the public would support it and it could move quickly. Anyone in the way, would face real political risk of being against something everyone wants.
If you start off with a cringey, mockable name that immediately reminds you of the *Fascism 2025* debacle for Republicans, the content inside that plan immediately becomes suspect.
You could break up the power monopolies tomorrow, but unless you're willing to implement price controls the prices still won't come down. First, enshittification will ensue no matter how many companies pretend to jump into the now open game. Corporate America is addicted to treating customers as personal ATM machines. They'll promise lower prices but won't actually deliver them, or they'll tack on endless service fees and charges. I don't see lower prices realistically happening unless govt steps in. We tried out a new gas company back in the day when the area where we live allowed competition. The new company had lower rates to be sure, but the gas lines were still owned by the original company, which tacked on innumerable service fees and our bill ended up being prohibitively more expensive than just staying with our original provider. Same thing happened when they allowed electric competition. It got higher across the board.
Anyhoo, dumb title and remarkably lame goals, although the section on nuking annoyance fees and services out existence should be implemented immediately.
Price controls don't work. The issue with utilities is that infrastructure is expensive and that companies want a guaranteed ROI to put in that infrastructure. Otherwise, nobody would do it.
Is there any evidence that people are getting "ripped off" by utilities? What is the profit margin of publicly traded ones? A friend who works in distrubution for a utility says they have to go to the state rate board and ask for any increase in pricing already. It has to be justified somehow: an increase in raw material or labor costs, or CAPX expenses that if not done, would lead to greater risks such as outages or fires.
I'd say there are other spaces where competition is being eliminated and prices are going up (cell phones for example) but water and gas delivery is not one of them.
Utilities are one of those things where inserting competition won't actually work, and I know this because competition already exists and has not thus far worked. You have the right to choose an electricity or gas supplier other than your local one. The local one that owns the infrastructure charges you for delivery no matter what, but you can get your supplier from wherever. To have this work out in your favor, you have to be an extreme wizard with paperwork, and they often lie about what you're signing up for to get you to sign up for them and then make it very difficult to switch back to your local supplier once you realize you messed up. I do not want to see a world where these are *less* regulated; they cause enough problems as they are right now.
But unless you want to have every city with multiple parallel infrastructures for utilities, you will never be able to get away from the delivery charges. You can't insert more competition than there currently is.
The solution with utilities is to accept that this hybridization of public and private hasn't worked and switch over to treating them all like water and have the local government just *run* them directly.
wow this is weak tea. if it doesn't start with statehood for peurto rico & DC, and a plan for the supreme court, it's a complete joke.
The average voter couldn't care less about DC/PR statehood and probably can't tell you how many justices are on the SC or what it does. This is outreach to the average joe who is not happy with the way things are going.