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I’m literally blown away by the amount of people that fell for the total garbage that they got fed at that press conference yesterday.
If you’re an American, we as a country are in over $40 trillion in debt, have spent approximately $15 trillion in foreign countries and foreign wars over the past 25 years, and yet they have done shit updating our infrastructure that is literally falling apart.
And then they force all airplanes to stop yesterday creating chaos all over the country and fear among the American people sending them to the grocery stores buying emergency supplies and then they turn around and demand more money, $50 billion, and then lie at a press conference about what happened.
I don’t care who they are. I don’t care who you voted for, if you’re not pissed off then there is absolutely no help for you.
Yes, duh, we need to update our systems.
Yes, duh, it takes money to do that.
We, as Americans, pay $5.7 trillion a year in taxes, they have plenty of money to update all of our infrastructure all over the country if they actually gave a damn, they would do it.
But they don’t give a damn.
And if you’re living under some delusion that they do, then you’re beyond help.
Washington DC doesn’t work for you the American people no matter which party is in control.
They work for the big corporations and lobbyist, the big donors that fund their campaigns, and even foreign nations for foreign causes.
Wake up!
The American people are basically raped, robbed, and pillaged over and over again and if you continue to stay loyal to a political party like you are for your favorite sports team and excuse every single failure just because that’s your party, then you are not able to face truth and reality and nothing will ever change.
You get treated like crap because you take it and you continue to vote for it.
I’ve been to Washington. I know how it works.
The bullshit ends when you finally stand up for yourself and realize they’ve been lying to you all along and using you like a dirty rag and they have no intention of changing anything.
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Most of you know that I oversaw the "aging, outdated system" at SSA for six years.
We made almost daily updates each night at 8pm and tested like crazy all night because even small changes would create problems in seemingly unrelated legacy software.
This risk is greater when the changes are infused with AI.
What you have here are inexperienced administrators who didn't understand their old technology & had too much confidence in their sexy new technology.
Their rollout last week was premature, and the country paid a horrible price for it.
I’m no IT expert, but how was this not anticipated? If the FAA is “patchworking” an aging, outdated system, identifying and preventing potential failures should be the bare minimum.
We’re talking about aviation safety and human lives, not some random project where you can afford to figure things out as you go.
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WHAT THE CHOICE BETWEEN CHUCK SCHUMER AND CHRIS VAN HOLLEN FOR SENATE LEADER IS ALL ABOUT
The election for Democratic Senate Leader between Chuck Schumer and Chris Van Hollen must be understood for what it is. This is not a personality contest. This is a debate about the future of the Democratic Party. It is a debate about whether the Democratic Party remains a top-down party dominated by billionaire campaign contributors, inside-the-beltway consultants and 30-second TV ads, or whether we can transform it into a grassroots party of, by and for the working families of our country.
The election for Democratic Senate Leader will determine whether or not we continue to tinker around the edges and maintain status quo policies, or whether we finally have the courage to take on enormously powerful special interests and address the unprecedented crises that we face. For example:
Do we address the issue of oligarchy, obscene income and wealth inequality, and the reality that never before in the history of our country have so few people held so much wealth and so much power?
Do we address the issue of a corrupt campaign finance system and their super PACs, which enables billionaires to buy elections and undermine our democracy?
Do we address the issue that, in the wealthiest country in the history of the world, 60% of our people live paycheck to paycheck, we have the highest rate of childhood poverty of any major country and millions of seniors are unable to retire with dignity?
Do we address the reality that our current healthcare system is dysfunctional, wildly expensive and that we are the only major country on Earth that does not guarantee healthcare for all as a human right?
Do we address the reality that Artificial Intelligence, the most transformative technology in history, is being pushed down our throats by a handful of Big Tech billionaires who could care less about the well-being of ordinary Americans?
Do we address the reality that climate change is causing deadly heat waves, massive forest fires, drought and extreme weather disturbances and will only get worse if don’t transform our energy systems away from fossil fuels and into energy efficiency and sustainable energy?
Do we address the reality that our immigration system is broken and that we have, with ICE, a domestic army that has killed Americans in cold blood and has acted in cruel, illegal and unconstitutional ways?
Do we address the reality that the wars in Vietnam, Iraq and the current war in Iran were based on lies and that we need to fundamentally rethink our foreign policy including continued military funding to the extremist government in Israel?
Bottom line: Whether we like it or not our country faces some extraordinary and unprecedented crises. Do we seriously address these difficult challenges, and restore the faith of the American people that their government can improve their lives, or do we continue the same old, same old politics.
In large measure, that is what this Senate Democratic Leadership election is all about.
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Americans are asking people on Threads from other countries how their media is covering the US airline incidents, because they no longer trust their own media to tell them the truth. Some are literally saying they’d rather hear it from outside sources. And the responses are ABSOLUTELY fascinating.
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Reporters are poking holes in Duffy’s story. The upgrade error happened on their watch. Reporter just asked “why today.” The upgrade is on their watch.
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Flashback: Trump's New Transportation Secretary Voted Against FAA Funding in 2019
During his last term in Congress, Sean Duffy voted to defund the agency that provides air safety
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What if putting reality television actors in charge of the federal government was a mistake?
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The most tragic thing about the aircraft grounding is that we cannot trust that this administration will communicate effectively and tell us the truth.
That's not partisan. That's documented historical data.
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I have watched this more times than I can count. FINALLY. The degree of validation and just, a sense of GAAAAHHHHH FINALLY I have with this speech is just indescribable. It feels so so so so good. It’s like getting oxygen after being underwater for so long.
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So let me get this straight:
1. Huang donated $25m for Trump's ballroom
2. So Trump let Huang sell AI chips to China
3. Trump knew Huang was sleeping with a Chinese spy
4. So Trump sold ~$1m of his Nvidia stock
5. Huang fessed up, Nvidia stock crashed 29%
What corruption?
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Listen, man. I know I'm only one person, and people are going to feel the way they feel ultimately about Stephen A. Smith doing this interview. He's going to be a rich, powerful, and wealthy man regardless, but I've made HBCU advocacy and being a part of HBCU media my literal job.
Seeing these lies propagated without any pushback is enraging me.
1) He did not provide a record amount of funding for HBCUs. Both Barack Obama and Joe Biden provided more money to HBCUs.
He did not provide a record level of funding for HBCUs (both Obama and Biden allocated more). Trump's claim relies on the FUTURE Act of 2019, but that law just permanently renewed existing funding that had briefly lapsed—it didn't create a new, record-setting pot of money.
2) HBCUs were not failing before Donald Trump got into office and set aside that money. That's flagrantly false and disrespectful to HBCUs. Yes, HBCUs are under-resourced because many have been underfunded by state and local governments for decades, but HBCUs, as institutions across the nation, were not about to go bankrupt.
Especially given the fact that Trump's administration followed the Barack Obama administration, and then this second one followed record investment by the Biden administration
3) In February 2017, Donald Trump signed an executive order to move the White House Initiative of HBCUs from under the Department of Education to directly under the White House. I know this for a fact because months later, I was a White House HBCU All Star in the 2017-2018 school year (now called White House Scholars).
President Biden did move it back under the Department of Education, but it doesn't really matter what it is under if Trump isn't doing anything remotely meaningful with said initiative (outside of using it as his get-out-of-jail-free card when talking about these supposed things he's done for the Black community).
4) President Joe Biden had a board of advisors for HBCUs that featured Delaware State president Dr. Tony Allen as the leader of that board. They convened regularly. President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris also invited HBCU presidents to the White House during this same time.
So saying Democrats didn't do that is patently false, but again, Stephen A. Smith isn't providing pushback.
I know this will be the one tweet that doesn't go viral or get anybody to like or retweet it, and I don't really care because I'm going to say what I have to say.
But I'm going to address this on my show next week. HBCU Pulse Radio. Don't worry about it.
jules retweeted
This is the first player in NBA history with 50 points, 10 assists and 0 turnovers in a game since individual turnovers were first tracked in 1977-78 btw
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Tonight let's please honor the memory of Medgar Evers, World War II veteran and NAACP field secretary in Mississippi, who was murdered at the age of 37 outside his home in June 1963 and gave his life for civil and voting rights in Mississippi:
Yes! Michigan!
Scenes straight out of a SNOW GLOBE near Ishpeming, Michigan this afternoon! Heavy lake-effect snow bands have transformed the landscape, blanketing roads, rooftops, and trees in fresh snow. Winter has officially arrived to the UP! Close to a foot of total accumulation still expected across the higher terrain through Saturday ❄️ @ryanhallyall @WxWiseApp
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Ossoff: "Here's what's going to happen tonight: the world's most famous sore loser will deliver a prime-time presidential sour grapes address to pursue his 6-year-old grievances about the 2020 election, while his war in the Middle East spirals out of control and the cost of living continues to rise for Americans across the country. I expect the president to reheat debunked conspiracy theories about the repeatedly litigated and audited and confirmed 2020 presidential election in Georgia, an election that Donald Trump lost. And let me be very clear about this: if the President declares Georgia's election illegitimate, or if the President declares Georgia's sitting United States Senators illegitimate, he is declaring Georgia voters illegitimate. It's Donald Trump who tried to defraud Georgia voters in that election, Donald Trump who tried to commit election fraud when he called Georgia's Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger -- and it was caught on tape, and you should play the tape to your viewers today -- and badgered and bullied Georgia's top election official to 'find him' the votes that he needed to win in a state where he had lost."
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He is just so simply honest and this is so refreshing. He is an American. Born and raised in Michigan.
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The American people voted for change. They want a Democratic Party that will stand up to powerful special interests, take on the billionaire class and fight for working families.
That is why I am supporting Senator Chris Van Hollen to lead Senate Democrats.
