Investigate, use information collected to enact anti-corruption laws, send corruption information to states where it violates their laws, build communications to get citizens behing the bills. Behind closed doors investigation is fine, information is the goal. Changes the appearance of a witch hunt to what Americans really want, no corruption. Go after MAGA polititians criminally and you lost the people that don’t believe you are any less corrupt than the repubicans.

Believers gonna believe.

Clarification I think is needed. This was only a vote to move the bill forward, it has not been voted on to pass. This is the time to put the pressure on to Democrats to push for the items that the American people want, and push back on special interests (specifically oil companies).

Getting this through cloture allows Democrats to publically debate and fight. Not doing so leaves it in the back room and obfuscates the Trump/MAGA agenda. The next hurdle is to get this out of debate - Senate procedure typically requires a 60-vote cloture vote to end debate on the bill itself before the final passage vote. The fillabuster gives Democrats a mechanism to keep this from going to vote that only needs a simple majority.

Food assistance in the current state is problematic. It reinforces a tiered system for a basic right - sustanance. Better to transition farm subsidies and existing food subsidies so they are tied to an affordable, safe, nutritious, and responsible food system.

1. Cash cropping: minimize subsidies for production based on non-food manufactured goods to drive food incentives.
2. Food assistance: increase existing food subsidies and add in food assistance budget with targets on affordable crops to drive food prices down
3. Imports: increase tax credits for retailers that source target percentage of local products (within state/region) to reduce transport and tarrifs that increase food costs.
4. Packaged goods: extend tax credits to producters that source local, use renewable energy, and direct marketing dollars to healthy eating and purchases over branding spend on stadiums and entertainment.
5. Cross-border: strengthen food trades under an umbrella food program and policy to extend food security and affordability within the zone - e.g. US, Mexico, Canada - allowing for flattening of costs and pricing.
6. Regulations: enforce and improve consistent food safety that drives corporate behavior and investment to mitigate pathogens and promotes responsible farming and husbandry creating a single tier over typical commercial farming, organic, non-gmo systems.

Treat food like health care.

Frontier tech companies build algorithmic science experiments, release them to the public as real products that replace applications and people, which we find are not actually applications or effective trustworthy workers, then ask customers and consumers to build the applications tech firms used to create and sell, and now they want us to foot the bill on the infrastructure to let us use the dumb experiment. Tens of thousands of workers that used to transition tech R&D into real products are laid off. And politicians are bribed with billions of dollars to create or block legislation that would make tech firms responsible for and take the burden on of actually delivering a real solution to meet their hype. So what happens when people can’t make a living and recycle money back into a consumer oriented economy? A Great Depression. I guess the tech bros create their new society on the moon and Mars with the money they raided from the government coffers. What a $&!7 show.

Orangeman didn’t learn. NATO now knows the effectiveness of low cost strategic actions to bring a superpower to its knees. This is the rantings of a nihilist lunatic. I mourn for our country. We didn’t even make it to our 250 birthday.

Easy fix, republicans can grow some and vote with their constituent’s and the country’s interests. Tune out corporate and foreign interests. Support health care. Strengthen social security (a pension we pay for!). Break up monopolies. Put policies in place to improve cost of living and upward mobility. Shut down the culture wars that are distractions. Invest in education and science for our future. Repair the lost trust with our global allies through diplomacy, laws, and actions. Oh - and place consequences on our president and leaders that are pedophiles, corrupt, and war criminals. The answer is SO SIMPLE!

I prefer cake

so dems have a message for europe. where is the message for us citizens? who’s the priority - citizens or businesses worried about their wallets as europe turns away from us businesses (TECH)? i’m curious how they think they will repair our country and democracy.

“It has also been reported that engineering, a business master’s, counseling or therapy, and speech pathology will not be considered “professional” either.“

Well, AI can do the job of an engineer - they are just code monkeys. (sarcasm)

But the one I like the best - business masters. Stick it to the CEOs and corporate execs. According to Sundar Pichai, AI can do that job too! Karma.

When will we be able to exit the world of stupid?

Okay, so if or when Megan’s daughter Yardly hits puberty (she’s 14), she’s fair game for men? That’s not pedophilia? That isn’t statutory rape? Really??? And with more and more girls having their first period as early as 9, that wouldn’t be pedophilia to pursue and have sex with them? What a piece of shit for a woman and mother.

Bad choices of those on SNAP…

1. Joined military to serve my country and this is how they treat me!
2. Worked for government, got DOGE’d, and no one is hiring!
3. Picked the wrong birth parents and at 6 no one will hire me!
4. Lost job over 50 and those kids won’t hire me!
5. Lost job to AI and I went to Standford!
6. Pro-life and kept my baby! 7)…fill in the blank

How incredible to see the effect of political messaging on citizen/voter perception. It is that the exaggerations, lies, and outrage marketing clearly have an outsized effect. I wouldn’t say the US population is dumb. But I would say the manipulation of perception is too much for the average person to do their own research and come up with unbiased facts.

***To those dismissing this based on inconsistencies between topics, you can’t make those comparisons. There is some blending of data in the methodology that is appropriate in order to look at the range. This is only about the gap between perception and reality, and a stack rank.

Here is GenX

41% make up the US House of Representatives 28% make up the US Senate 42% of governors

Some GenXers: Elon Musk Jeff Bezos (squeaked in) Jack Dorsey (Formerly Twitter) Michael Dell (Dell CEO) Satya Nadella (MSFT CEO)

And in 2018, about 40% of F500/Inc500 CEOs were GenX.

So, not missing. We just don’t wear our generational name as a badge. What’s the point?