I’ll say this much for him: he somehow managed to overcome our nation’s prejudice against men with slicked-back hair in order to rise to become, well, the very model of that negative stereotype…
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The Crypto Sixteen are the following: Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), who co-sponsored the bill, Adam Schiff (D-CA), Angela Alsobrooks (D-MD), Mark Warner (D-VA), Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), John Fetterman (D-PA), Cory Booker (D-NJ), Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), Ben Ray Luján (D-NM), Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), Maggie Hassan (D-NH), Martin Heinrich (D-NM), Jon Ossoff (D-GA), Alex Padilla (D-CA), Jacky Rosen (D-NV), and Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE). Every one of them ought to be primaried in their next election.
I think it is all well and good to primary them actually (I don’t want to lose my retirement fund and be left homeless or dead because my country blew up its financial system any more than anyone else).
I just hope they can replace them with better candidates…
It is becoming very clear to many that the GOP has become a party of financial failure, grift, and a poor economy. This will probably only become more extreme as instability grows and more people find themselves in the lurch.
If the Dems would primary these fashionable idiots (and I think they should) then they should be pushing people who will fight for a better economy and know how to do so or else it’s all a loss.
I know that seeing smart people motivated to improve what they can with what they actually understand would be a lot more motivating for me me at least!
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With regards to Ossoff, I think it depends on who is doing the primarying. It’ll already be a delicate balancing act keeping that seat democratic. Ossoff is a white dude, but he’s also Jewish.
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I really wish the Dems could have worked out their divisions on triggering a crypto bomb in our bank accounts under Biden tbh. I guess it wasn’t possible but it would be comforting at this point to have ousted the fringe on this issue.
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That’s the other thing. Even if this bill isn’t good enough is it actually bad enough to destroy our economy and also pass the Senate? Because my understanding is that there is a reason to have a bill.
Like is it worth sacrificing seats to it? I don’t really know?
Do I trust this admin? No. No I do not.
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Yeah, me neither…
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The American Prospect article said this:
As Warren points out, we have seen in the past, with the financial derivatives that led to the 2008 crash, that a weak regulatory bill is worse than no bill at all.
OK… but they didn’t say why.
Went to Warren’s speech and she’s more specific as to why no bill is better than this bill, from 3:00-4:00, again after 4:24 or so, and again around 8:00. From what Warren is saying, it does a better/bigger job opening the can(s) of worms than it does closing them or keeping them shut.
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FTA:
That seems like a very important lesson for candidates.
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Woot! Lesson not learned. Party on!
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Is Jeffries joining the resistance finally? Fingers crossed.
“You know what’s interesting? Every time I come on this floor, I can use sharp language, [Scalise] can use sharp language, you choose to admonish me,” he added. “I don’t work for you, sir. I work for the American people.”
“Children will get hurt. Women will get hurt. Older Americans who rely on Medicaid for nursing home care and for home care will get hurt. People with disabilities who rely on Medicaid to survive will get hurt. Hospitals in your districts will close. Nursing homes will shut down. And people will die,” he said. “That’s not hype. That’s not hyperbole. That’s not a hypothetical.”
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/05/22/congress/hakeem-jeffries-gop-megabill-00364711
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Doesn’t matter to anyone but a few misguided Muricans of Italian descent that he was Italian. Others would feel the same about him now if he’d been Spanish, Dutch, English, whatever.
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Exactly so…
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Fuck the statues in general really. Italians can get over themselves.
I dreamed a dream that one day they will erect a statue to my ancestor Andrzejewski who came here seeking freedom from the Jewish Empire in the American west! 
Public art is obnoxious I think actually. A little bit. And I think that as some one who makes art. It’s not that I hate it, but I just don’t really like it and I really hate how it just ends up being an ugly thing in public discourse anyway.
In fact, as an artist I’d rather have usable space. Like space I could do things in with people. Like if the cost of a statue could instead go to the salary of some folks to clean the park and a few more grills I’d rather have that than the statue.
Hell, I’d rather the money go to a homeless shelter or something.
Public art is always just something expensive that is kind of foisted on the public. I think back in the day people use to call it “cannon in the park” art or something like that?
But careful road maintenance and some living shade trees and greenery are a lot more impactful on quality of life I think.
But bringing it back to the problem, this stupid symbolic noise from the democrats is really what is wrong with them at their core. “Let them eat cake” level bullshit really…
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Or just housing for all… let the public put up whatever art that they want to in a space set aside for it maybe… Leave walls free for muraling. Set aside a space in a public park for people to leave their own sculptures. That kind of thing… Maybe set aside public funds for people to take out small loans to go make their art that they then leave in that set aside public space. Seems much more democratic to me.
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