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joeinwynnewood

@joeinwynnewood@mstdn.social

Union family raised Deaniac, former teacher/IT professional/IT strategic consultant, former candidate & county Party treasurer, local #Indivisible leader who understands politics from the inside and the outside.
Avatar is me doing a double back dismount from the still rings a long time ago.
Background is me & teammate doing a comedy pommel horse routine during fundraising exhibition, also a long time ago (other teammate rolling on the floor in laughter would indicate successful comedy!).

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luckytran, to random
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The US government is ending the program that provides free COVID vaccines to people who are uninsured and underinsured.

This is a public health failure that will further decrease already low vax rates, and puts marginalized communities at greater risk.

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/4670459-cdc-ending-free-covid-vaccines-uninsured/

joeinwynnewood,
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@noyes @mckra1g @luckytran

None of that is true.

Republicans forced clawing back the COVID funding that was paying for free vaccines for the uninsured. Democrats had little choice in order to keep the government open.

Biden has a large number of wins, from checks in people's pockets in early 2021 to huge investments in renewable deployment and research to canceling college debt for millions of Americans to capping out of pocket costs for prescriptions for seniors at $2k/year.

joeinwynnewood,
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@noyes @mckra1g @luckytran

If that's the mental model you have for a president trying to get things accomplished in the heavily antidemocratic system we are stuck in, then yes.

joeinwynnewood,
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@noyes @mckra1g @luckytran

The world is a difficult and unforgiving place.

Biden didn't help Hamas slaughter 1000+ people with both the knowledge and the intent of provoking a devastating Israeli response, that was Iran.

Netanyahu is the one responsible for both failing to prevent the attack and refusing to measure the IDF's response.

Biden miscalculated his ability to influence Netanyahu and he'll own that when the time comes.

Your 1st statement above is 100% false & we're done here.

joeinwynnewood, to random
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"The lawmakers made it clear that their determination to control the country has made them give up not only on the equality promised in the Declaration of Independence and defended by the Fourteenth Amendment, but also on democracy."

Tbe MAGA Republican Party is a revanchist, reactionary White Christian Nationalist led project determined to overturn the civil rights of people who are not like them.

(12) May 16, 2024 - by Heather Cox Richardson
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-16-2024

joeinwynnewood, to random
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"wealthy Trump donors aren’t worried about Wall Street, and they’re not worried about what’s best for the nation’s economy or even what drives the stock market. They’re facing a choice between a man who wants to give them trillions of dollars, and a man who wants them to pay their fair share.

What’s a little fascism next to an offer like that?"

Billionaires willing to kill democracy for trillions in tax breaks
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/5/16/2241045/-Billionaires-willing-to-kill-democracy-for-trillions-in-tax-breaks

davidaugust, to politics
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"The mere impression of political opinion can be a problem, the ethics experts said. 'It might be his spouse or someone else living in his home, but he shouldn’t have it in his yard as his message to the world,' said Amanda Frost, a law professor at the University of Virginia."

"This is 'the equivalent of putting a "Stop the Steal" sign in your yard, which is a problem if you’re deciding election-related cases,' she said."

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/16/us/justice-alito-upside-down-flag.html?unlocked_article_code=1.sU0.9ciT.j8PlAEj73Spe&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

joeinwynnewood,
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@davidaugust

"Asked if these rules also apply to justices, the court declined to respond."

The disdain Alito and Thomas (at least) show for basic judicial ethics is a siren screaming of the need rebalance and reform the Court.

joeinwynnewood, to random
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Is the New York Times intentionally helping the Trump campaign?

Results of new NYT poll being called into question
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQTcn5MyVSg

joeinwynnewood, to random
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That every voter does not know that no infrastructure investments were enacted between 2017 and 2020 and a huge investment in infrastructure was enacted between 2021 and 2024 is a massive failure of the US for-profit 4th estate.

Voters credit Biden and Trump equally on infrastructure. Only one got it done
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/5/9/2239668/-Voters-credit-Biden-and-Trump-equally-on-infrastructure-Only-one-got-it-done

joeinwynnewood, to random
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While most national TV news ignored Trump's bribery request (https://www.mediamatters.org/msnbc/national-tv-news-exception-msnbc-failed-cover-trumps-scandalous-big-oil-proposition), will they also ignore this from the CBO?

"For all households, adjusted market income also increased more than prices did; the average household in each income quintile could spend a smaller portion of its market income in 2023 than it did in 2019 to purchase the same consumption bundle."

https://www.cbo.gov/publication/60267

joeinwynnewood, to random
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Pretty well sums it up.

Cartoon: Michael Cohen
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/5/15/2240700/-Cartoon-Michael-Cohen

joeinwynnewood, to random
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"So if you’re in the top two tenths of 1% of American estates, then you benefited from the fact that the exemption for the estate tax increased to twice its value. So now there’s about $25 million you can pass on to your heirs if you’re a couple without any tax obligation, where it used to be half that."

There is no doubt which candidate is working hard for every day Americans and which has worked entirely for the interests of very wealthy regressive-right elites.

https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc-podcast/why-is-this-happening/stakes-tax-policy-kimberly-clausing-podcast-transcript-rcna150066

joeinwynnewood, to random
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"According to analysis of data from 208 million US citizens, which Meta allowed a team of academics to access, 97% of fake news is seen by right-wing users."

Social media may not be causing polarization, but it definitely is a, if not the vector for the spread of disinformation.

‘Right-wing bias’: A macro study confirms that Facebook disinformation is consumed by conservatives | Science | EL PAÍS English
https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2023-07-27/right-wing-bias-a-macro-study-confirms-that-facebook-disinformation-is-consumed-by-conservatives.html

joeinwynnewood, to random
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There is only one corrupt thing going on in NYC, and it is Johnson and other Republican elected officials doing this:

"turning the Republican Party against the federal and state legal systems that are foundational to the U.S. government and a cornerstone of democracy."

Why Speaker Johnson’s appearance at Trump’s trial is so remarkable | AP News
https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-speaker-mike-johnson-court-09aef3de395fa77843f2600f40da6ac3

joeinwynnewood, to random
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The campaign will do it's job. If we do ours, helping make sure that our family, friends and neighbors hear about all the good things Biden has done and will do and all the appalling things Trump would do, November is going to go pretty well.

The more voters know, the more they like Joe Biden
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/5/14/2240693/-The-more-voters-know-the-more-they-like-Joe-Biden

micchiato, to random
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This is a frankly dangerous and historically flat understanding of #genocide. Joe only permits judgments of genocide in hindsight. Yet, we know that 35,000 dead in Palestine is a conservative estimate. We haven’t accounted for the missing and disappeared. We know of badges of genocide: destruction of hospitals, libraries, mosques, and schools. Raphael Lemkin coined “genocide” thinking of 800,000 displaced Armenians in 1916; the 1948 Nakba displaced 750,000 Palestinians.
https://mstdn.social/@joeinwynnewood/112437683757450340

joeinwynnewood,
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@micchiato @bifouba

It's not about etiquette, Masto or otherwise, it's about open dialogue or sneak attacks claiming denial that was neither the intention nor the point.

I'll be blocking you now.

mekkaokereke, to random
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Is Trump ahead in the polls, because Biden is losing support amongst one of his key demographics: Black men? Or are the polls all a lie?

Trump ahead in polls?
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/13/us/politics/biden-trump-battleground-poll.html

Biden camp doesn't believe the polls?
https://www.axios.com/2024/05/14/biden-polls-denial-trump-2024-election

Either way, the most important thing to do, is to ignore, insult, argue with, and generally disrespect, Black men online! 🤡 Find a Black man, and yell "Trump is worse!" in his face as hard as you can! Swear at him, and threaten him with violence!

1/N

joeinwynnewood,
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@mekkaokereke
I'm equally tired of being told what not to do & that I'm not listening to black people. Except I do listen. I work to elect the most progressive people running in Democratic primaries; I help run phone banks calling Philly voters about mail voting to make sure their voices are heard; I post about systematic racism; I volunteer in a Philly school.
Is it impossible to earn an opportunity to offer a bit of feedback on the moral implications of runaway global warming?

joeinwynnewood,
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@mekkaokereke
Here's what I read:
"The problem isn't Black voters.

The problem isn't Trump.

The problem isn't even Biden.

The problem is you, the Dem voter. Yes, you.

Your willingness to ignore the suffering of Black people, and to expect us to continue to vote against our self-interest, has brought us to this point."

If the problem isn't Biden, the problem is me, I don't understand your reply.

How am I ignoring the suffering of Black people if I'm at the very least trying not to do that?

joeinwynnewood,
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@mekkaokereke

I send emails and call my senators & congresswoman on a regular basis and periodically talk with my state rep and senator as well as emailing them on multiple topics, issues of import to POC among them, so that's a definite yes.

I've been an active member of my local Indivisible group from the start and currently run it.

I also regularly disseminate race-class narrative messaging to PA group leaders, my group and my social media accounts (general links in my pined toots).

joeinwynnewood,
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@mekkaokereke

I will readily admit that I am no revolutionary. When the choice is between Biden and Elizabeth Warren in the primary, I pick Warren. When the choice in the general is between sanity and insanity, I'm for sure going to pick sanity.

So no, I've not lied when I've called/written the White House, Senators & Congresswoman. They know and I know there's no single issue that would have me serve insanity.

/1

joeinwynnewood,
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@mekkaokereke

Can you make the case that my lying would be more impactfull than telling them their position/proposal/vote is wrong, why it's wrong, and my values and their values require better?

What I see from Democrats (and the WFP) at the local, state and federal level, are multiple policies and programs being implemented that benefit marginalized people/communities. They're undoubtedly not everything that needs to be done, but infinitely more than what insanity would do.

/2

joeinwynnewood,
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@mekkaokereke

I'm not going to tell anyone they should quietly accept not good enough as if it were. At the same time, are you going to tell me I'm wrong for honestly promoting better over dishonestly fostering immeasurably worse?

/e

joeinwynnewood,
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@mekkaokereke

Your telling me I should write letters that would be a lie for me. I'm not OK with that.

You're also seem to be accusing me of telling Black men how to vote. I haven't and I won't.

Are you also telling me that I shouldn't offer why I think voting for Biden is a good thing for every voter to do no matter what they look like, who they love, or where they come from?

joeinwynnewood, to random
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"There was no way I could support the Democratic presidential nominee, Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey. Only years later did I realize that I was mistaken, and we missed an opportunity to have a president who might actually have made America great by championing racial justice, labor rights, and the war against poverty."

Abandoning Biden could repeat the 1968 mistakes that helped elect Nixon
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/5/12/2239229/-Abandoning-Biden-could-repeat-the-1968-mistakes-that-helped-elect-Nixon

joeinwynnewood,
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@zdl

That's 100% crap.

Biden has made a huge sea change in the economic model being applied to government action.

Biden and Democrats have made the largest direct investment in the world, ever, in renewable energy implementation and technology development.

His government has provided support for unions not seen since FDR.

No one can fix 40 years of neoliberal economic policy in 3 or 4 or 5 years, but Biden has set a course to fix it over time.

The GOP would undo all of it.

joeinwynnewood,
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@davbram

The key part of AOC's interview with Hasan is at 16:40 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBoqy5Tx6U8

joeinwynnewood,
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I'm muting this thread. Please feel free to respond to any new replies on why Gaza is the only thing that can ever matter in the world.

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