The Speaker’s fight is the debt ceiling fight is the budget fight is the Ukraine aid fight.
Meaning: 1/2 of the fed legislature will be mostly non-functional for the next two years.
And that’s why the Speaker stuff is so important—it's the template.
The NFL said Thursday it will not resume the Bills-Bengals game that was suspended Monday night after Buffalo safety Damar Hamlin collapsed and went into cardiac arrest on the field.
https://www.chron.com/sports/article/AP-sources-NFL-will-not-resume-Bills-Bengals-game-17698483.php
When an oligarch says "free speech," he means "my power to shut you up." When an oligarch says "free speech absolutism," he means "my absolute power to shut you up."
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/TimothyDSnyder/status/1604942176177233922
I made this chart in April.
In my opinion, the greatest challenge to civilization right now is not global warming, hunger or oppression, it’s psychopathic billionaires and chaos agents openly working to destroy society for their own power and profit.
This is an aggressive metastasis deep within the body politic wrapping its tentacles around our organs and strangling us from the inside.
We can’t really solve anything until we solve this. ⬇️
Fascism does not stop on its own. It must be defeated.