Tony Stark @TonyStark@democracy.town

@TonyStark
You have my deepest, most sincere sympathies, Virginia residents.

Youngkin is probably not as mentally unstable as Florida Gov. DeSantis or Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, and he's nowhere near as insane as DJT.

But Youngkin very much remains a clear and present danger. Watch him like a hawk and call him out publicly on every single lies he speaks, because there will be many... so, SO many.

@AgentCarter_SSR
Trophies don't make a champion. Character does. He failed the test.

Thank goodness for some sensible people in Australia.
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Good. I'm tired of professional sports players acting like they're entitled to behave in such unsportsmanlike manner. Ignoring basic rules 'because I'm special and the rules don't apply to me'.
Go home & play with your balls alone. No one wants to play with you.

Yay, After a weekend of hurried court hearings, a panel of three Australian federal justices unanimously upheld the immigration minister’s decision to cancel the unvaccinated athlete’s visa on the grounds that his presence in the country might incite anti-vaccine sentiment and “civil unrest," clearing the way for the country to deport him.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/01/15/novak-djokovic-australia-visa/

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Sinema needs to listen to herself of a few years back who said the 60 vote threshold was wrong.

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There's a lot of great journalism going on in local publications and we should all support it.

Please get the best mask you can, especially if you're high risk. Nobody wants to control you. All we want is for COVID to be less of an issue.

CDC warns loosely woven cloth masks are 'least protective' against COVID -
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/cdc-warns-loosely-woven-cloth-masks-protective-covid/story?id=82274150

@MJ Or any VP in my lifetime. Nixon was president when I was born, but babies aren't aware of how the media is covering the VP so I can't speak to the contemporaneous treatment of Spiro Agnew, though I'm sure no one followed him like this even though (according to Rachel Maddow's book that came out last year) his crookedness was well-known by absolutely everyone in the great state of Maryland. Harris, a popular senator before she was offered the spot on Biden's ticket, deserves none of this negative coverage.

@TonyStark Mitch McConnell got rid of a filibuster to give us the SCOTUS we have today that just decided OSHA can't regulate worker safety anymore.

We can't hear her over the sound of her outfits. She can't hear us over the coins clinking from lobbyists.

@QueenRamonda @TonyStark
I completely agree. Racism is deeply ingrained into the establishment & their expectations of entitlement. There is a mindset that if you are white & rich you can get away with anything - it is valid because they protect each other. The same "boys club" mentality does not extend past the colour of their colonial skins.
I don't know the full truth of Meghan Markle's victimisation but I find her version of events & attitudes compelling.

We see so much negative press for Kamala Harris. I don’t recall seeing so much negative press for a year 1 VP who has at least a couple of years left before a possible Presidential run before.

I wonder what’s different. 🤷🏾‍♀️

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/01/14/harris-team-looks-for-reset/

@TonyStark @LearnTribe @GreenFire @AgentCarter_SSR I mentioned a while back that harmful and fraudulent remedies are nothing new. If you don't already know the story of how radon gas was once touted as a cure for all sorts of problems, this is worth five minutes:

https://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2004-08/healthy-glow-drink-radiation/

@LearnTribe @TonyStark I’d say a lot for a story outside of the US, which sometimes people have a really hard time thinking about. Of course you have morons defending them both, but neither are defendable.

@LearnTribe
John Adams, the second president of the USA, wrote in the Massachusetts constitution "a government of laws, not of men." Everyone should be subject to the same rules.

I don't really care about the royal family per se, though I've watched a wedding just to see the pageantry. I watch Olympic opening ceremonies too (but not watching Beijing). In the same vein of everyone being subject to the same laws, Andrew needs to stand trial. I don't really care about his Order of the Whatever. I can't decide if it's more offensive that women can't inherit peerages or that you have them at all, but you know, if your compatriots believe some people are more worthy to sit in your upper legislative body than others because of their birth, it would be ethnocentric of me to say otherwise. It's not like it's easy to run for US Senate if you're not from a rich family either, but you don't have to come from aristocratic blood.

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@LearnTribe
Let me add that from my perspective, there's a lot of racism involved in this in addition. No person of color would be skating away from any of this. Not that they should because obviously not but over here, there's a lot of white privilege involved.
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@LearnTribe @GreenFire @AgentCarter_SSR @TonyStark I can remember what passed for received wisdom fifty years ago, and it was woeful. People said things like "I needed to have that bad cold to clear my system out" — which (PSA) is gibberish. I remember being told by my grandfather than I should always wear shoes to avoid getting a cold in my feet. And he was serious.

All that's changed is that people have more reach now, and the Wakefields and Mercolas are making more money from it.

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