If Democratic leadership is truly serious about a both approach, I think they should first start heavily and only with Epstein files and only branch out from there as things get major coverage for 2 major reasons:

First is that there's MAJOR bipartisan support for this and will ultimately lead to isolating certain officials and supporters, giving Democrats the moral high ground in other branching investigations IF they can land convictions and legislation. I'd like to hope that there are at least a few Republicans who are disgusted with their party as a whole (ie Thomas Massie) and are being backed into a corner with campaign finances, and this could free a few votes for later bills or a Senate convictions/removals.

Secondly, i have zero doubt those investigations will lead to certain billionaires being questioned and potentially lead to actual trials and accountability. And if progressives play their questions right, could lead to a public outcry for more campaign finance AND News coverage reform.

Meanwhile, they should pass single issue, high polling bills like tariff reform and ending the Iran conflict. Then once some dust settles a bit and there's the inevitable Epstein tie-in, publicly investigate corporate pricing/inflation.

It's not just those 2, it's any of the Rotating Villains. Here's a comment i made about Dem senators when they voted against the War Powers resolution ICE funding votes after the public executions in January https://lemmy.world/comment/22588355

To summarize, it's a failure on leadership, and the whip if any Democrats break ranks, then also those Democrats. Here's the list from that vote:

The Senate Democratic leader is Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) The Senate Democratic Whip is Sen. Richard Durbin (D-IL)

The Eight Senate Democrats/Independents who voted in favor were: Sen. Richard Durbin (D-IL) Sen. Angus King (I-ME) Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-NH) Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-NV) Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA)

The House did not have enough votes to defeat it, and all voted against but here are those leaders too. The House Democratic leader is Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) The House Democratic Minority Whip is Rep. Katherine Clark (D-MA) "

May their phone lines know no peace, as ours hadn't in the lead up to this election.

Yeah, last i checked on 270 to win, Dems would need to win some VERY improbable Senate races to pull off the 67 needed to convict and remove both. Possible, just improbable.

If they don't reach the 67 needed, they need to save any impeachment hearings because people are voting based on economy and having impeachment hearings will come off as out of touch, like the last time.

Instead they should focus on investigating and releasing the Epstein files, as there seems to be bipartisan support for that, and once fully released, test public sentiment on impeachment. That may be the only way to get enough votes, but the end result would be a Vance presidency, unless they can somehow tie him to it as well, which is unlikely.

Assuming all seats are filled and are present, 218 in the House to impeach, 67 in the Senate to convict and remove.

Venezuela could do the funniest thing right now.

Not entirely sure, but I'm pretty sure the park Rangers did a search on my license plate then looked up registration or personal property and found a phone number tied to something. I didn't have my voicemail setup for a very long time so never got their messages, lol.

My buddy and I would regularly backpack in state parks and just park the car in the lot. We only found out a few years later we had voicemails from the state telling us we were illegally camping overnight. It was around that time when talking to other enthusiasts that they called it bandit camping.

The way i look at it, is that Robert Kraft, by being a billionaire, already earned his status as one against the people, whether the people pay attention to it or not.

But this is how a movement can build by solidarity. We set our lines in the sand and if you cross it you're ousted like Sheeran, sending a message not to side with the likes of Kraft. I'm ok with the 10:1 posts because as soon as i heard Kraft was involved i immediately said, of course he fucking was he's on the other side of that line already.

Sheeran is now in a position where he has another choice to make, double down on being apolitical, or apologize and instead stand with Macklemore.

I'm sure he'll try and continue doing both though. It's always both.

Didn't they also just relocate because of this ruling? I could be mistaken.

promoting a specific social and aesthetic vision

And also

proposed by Donald Trump

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The first step in healing is recognizing you even have a wound i guess, but next is cleaning out the wound. Americans have typically just skipped this step in the past and gone straight to believing that recognition was the healing.