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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsExcerpts released. Abrams to punch hard.
Just a few weeks ago, I joined volunteers to distribute meals to furloughed federal workers. They waited in line for a box of food and a sliver of hope since they hadnt received a paycheck in weeks.
Making their livelihoods a pawn for political games is a disgrace.
The shutdown was a stunt engineered by the President of the United States, one that defied every tenet of fairness and abandoned not just our people but our values.
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hlthe2b
(102,747 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)...in front of a few hundred thousand people. At 20 years old. She was great. I'm sure she'll do fine tonight, 35 years later. I can't wait.
Cha
(298,644 posts)Garrett78
(10,721 posts)As important an article as there's been since 2016 and the right wing/media-driven "white working class/economic anxiety" narrative that inflicted many on the left.
Cha
(298,644 posts)EveHammond13
(2,855 posts)Chichiri
(4,667 posts). . . it still smacks of "politics as usual," which I am absolutely sick of seeing from our party. For the first time in our nation's history, we have a chief executive who is an existential threat to the nation, and everyone is acting like it's just another opponent to deploy the speechwriters against.
Nobody is acknowledging the real crisis. Nobody is acknowledging the fact that we are one badly-timed mood swing away from nuclear armageddon.
Sigh.
volstork
(5,405 posts)AND I can't wait to see what amazing things she does next. She is a force to be reckoned with.
Gothmog
(146,501 posts)B Stieg
(2,410 posts)Folks like you really helped your fellow Americans screwed over by a child-prezident.