I've been disabled since 1991!! I'll be 70 years old this year. I see many doctors for treatments, allergies, heart, Osteoporosis and more. I see my Psychiatrist every 6 months as I am BiPolar and Borderline personality issues. I will sue Trump and Elon if this happens!!
I really enjoyed your discussion and the closing quotes offering hope and advice about leaning on each other and taking care of ourselves - and to not fear creating dragon slayers. :)
Qasim, It is lawyers like you and Salaam who work for people, not corporations, who give me hope. Your great quotes are just the icing on the cake. Thank you.
Not all of us on SS and Medicare are in nursing homes or disabled. And even if we were, we're Nam vets and protesters, etc. We've been here before. And we're more pissed than anyone. Eat the rich period!
Both of you, this was exactly what I needed today, including the Lord of the Rings quote, and the analogy of the choir holding a note. We are not alone doing this. Subscribed to Salaam, and added him to my ever growing list.
We don't have A Democratic party. We have at least two of them. We have the Manchin/ Sinema/Fetterman/and now Schumer "Democratic" party, and we have the Sanders/"squad" Democratic party. Schumer's taking a great deal of heat for his capitulation, including that Ocasio-Cortez is now thinking of running against him. Only Chris Bowers, to my knowledge, thinks Schumer did the right thing. '26 could be a massive year for Congress, and '28 and '30 could be nails in the coffin.
Mr Bhatti's recapitulation of what the person in PA told him about how SNAP benefits will actually go up after the budget is cut reminds me of the Cheney/W explanation of how you can cut taxes and start a war (which no country in the history of civilization has ever done) because the economics of warfare will somehow pay for the war all by themselves. Yes, of course we were left with a massive deficit, because it doesn't remotely work that way.
how about no parties on ballot. I live in washoe county nevada---parties are listed for state and fed. offices but there are no parties for local offices. if we don't need them for local why do we need them for state and fed.?
have multi-candidate ballots and no parties---people have to research who they're voting for.
two---no money, no commercials, research candidates . No money should be no money; can't have some, can't have limits, just no money, so Street bum has same chance as anyone to win.
No parties, no money...then maybe people have an opportunity to have a govt of the people.
But when Gouverneur Morris wrote those words he only meant of, for & by the landed gentry.
Australia has 3 major parties, obviously we don't have a president but my point is I fail to see why youd need a fourth party to have a third and I suspect its just that you're so used to two party politics that you cant imagine a party without a direct opposition to that party? 3rd parties can really put the brakes on the major parties bad behaviours.
I suspect they were thinking that the votes of the democratic party will get split into two parties and so will be outnumbered by the votes of the Republicans, unless they spit too. I think we need to overturn Citizens United and get corporate money out of elections.
Ah well I'm pretty sure an actual centrist party would shear votes off both sides - left of Maga and right of Bernie there's a whole rainbow of political beliefs just waiting to be acknowledged/harnessed
Yes to Working Families Party. Move this government back left and literally toward everyone else in the world ( see Jonathan's Last's piece from The Bulwark last week). We're getting dragged to the right under the guise of "procedure." No fear.
I've been disabled since 1991!! I'll be 70 years old this year. I see many doctors for treatments, allergies, heart, Osteoporosis and more. I see my Psychiatrist every 6 months as I am BiPolar and Borderline personality issues. I will sue Trump and Elon if this happens!!
"collapse of our republic"??
How do you know? What's a republic? This one is quite within it's design parameters.
You two are very complimentary of one another. I wish you had a regular podcast together.
I really enjoyed your discussion and the closing quotes offering hope and advice about leaning on each other and taking care of ourselves - and to not fear creating dragon slayers. :)
Qasim, It is lawyers like you and Salaam who work for people, not corporations, who give me hope. Your great quotes are just the icing on the cake. Thank you.
Not all of us on SS and Medicare are in nursing homes or disabled. And even if we were, we're Nam vets and protesters, etc. We've been here before. And we're more pissed than anyone. Eat the rich period!
Both of you, this was exactly what I needed today, including the Lord of the Rings quote, and the analogy of the choir holding a note. We are not alone doing this. Subscribed to Salaam, and added him to my ever growing list.
We don't have A Democratic party. We have at least two of them. We have the Manchin/ Sinema/Fetterman/and now Schumer "Democratic" party, and we have the Sanders/"squad" Democratic party. Schumer's taking a great deal of heat for his capitulation, including that Ocasio-Cortez is now thinking of running against him. Only Chris Bowers, to my knowledge, thinks Schumer did the right thing. '26 could be a massive year for Congress, and '28 and '30 could be nails in the coffin.
Mr Bhatti's recapitulation of what the person in PA told him about how SNAP benefits will actually go up after the budget is cut reminds me of the Cheney/W explanation of how you can cut taxes and start a war (which no country in the history of civilization has ever done) because the economics of warfare will somehow pay for the war all by themselves. Yes, of course we were left with a massive deficit, because it doesn't remotely work that way.
Thank you. This was somehow uplifting in spite of the terrible times we are experiencing.
how about no parties on ballot. I live in washoe county nevada---parties are listed for state and fed. offices but there are no parties for local offices. if we don't need them for local why do we need them for state and fed.?
have multi-candidate ballots and no parties---people have to research who they're voting for.
two---no money, no commercials, research candidates . No money should be no money; can't have some, can't have limits, just no money, so Street bum has same chance as anyone to win.
No parties, no money...then maybe people have an opportunity to have a govt of the people.
But when Gouverneur Morris wrote those words he only meant of, for & by the landed gentry.
Australia has 3 major parties, obviously we don't have a president but my point is I fail to see why youd need a fourth party to have a third and I suspect its just that you're so used to two party politics that you cant imagine a party without a direct opposition to that party? 3rd parties can really put the brakes on the major parties bad behaviours.
I suspect they were thinking that the votes of the democratic party will get split into two parties and so will be outnumbered by the votes of the Republicans, unless they spit too. I think we need to overturn Citizens United and get corporate money out of elections.
Ah well I'm pretty sure an actual centrist party would shear votes off both sides - left of Maga and right of Bernie there's a whole rainbow of political beliefs just waiting to be acknowledged/harnessed
Thank you.
A lot of older people are well armed and will be violent. Don’t underestimate them.
Yes to Working Families Party. Move this government back left and literally toward everyone else in the world ( see Jonathan's Last's piece from The Bulwark last week). We're getting dragged to the right under the guise of "procedure." No fear.
Wow I needed your conversation more than I knew. Mensches, both of you. Thank you so much!
You're the best, Sally. Thank you.