Yea votes:

Blumenthal (D-CT)

Coons (D-DE)

Cortez Masto (D-NV)

Fetterman (D-PA)

Gallego (D-AZ)

Gillibrand (D-NY)

Heinrich (D-NM)

Hickenlooper (D-CO)

Kim (D-NJ)

Klobuchar (D-MN)

Ossoff (D-GA)

Peters (D-MI)

Reed (D-RI)

Rosen (D-NV)

Schatz (D-HI)

Schumer (D-NY)

Shaheen (D-NH)

Slotkin (D-MI)

Warner (D-VA)

Warnock (D-GA)

Whitehouse (D-RI)

Abstain:

Murphy (D-CT)

Me staring at the white Y at the end like

The ones most vulnerable to pressure could be those up for election in ’28 in states that flipped last week. Using that criteria, Ted Budd (NC), Chuck Grassley (Iowa), Tim Scott (SC) and Jerry Moran (Kansas) could be worth pressuring to cooperate now if they want to get reelected.

I appreciate people expanding their vocabulary and being supportive of trans people, but if I never see CIS because they think it means ‘comfortable in skin’ ever again it will be too soon 😭 I don’t blame them for it, someone (likely unknowingly) misled them. It’s just so nails on chalkboard for me!

I’ve given up on predicting anything after MTG turned back on them and quit (she was a Representative, but still). Hopefully at least a few of them see which way the wind is blowing and are more willing to do it against someone who isn’t Trump.

Impeachment is the first step of prosecution for elected officials, it goes to the Senate and if they’re found guilty they’ll be convicted. The Democrats will need to lure some Republicans onto their side for that though, since as impressive as their wins were they still can’t unilaterally get a 2/3rds majority vote.

The monkey’s paw curls: Fetterman is now the Senate Majority Leader.

There aren’t disabilities that require access to the plagiarism machine; it’s insulting to act like disabled people can’t write or make art.

Crab bucket crab bucket 🦀🦀🦀

You’re arguing? I was explaining what connotations words have and asking if that’s really what you meant.

It’s free to stop replying if you don’t care 🤷‍♂️

That’s sad, I hope someone else can help you with learning English!

Hope you learned something 😘

Is English your second language? When you use “bottom feeders” to refer to people that has a negative connotation:

bottom-feeder

noun

bot·​tom-feed·​er ˈbä-təm-ˌfē-dər

1: a fish that feeds at the bottom

2: one that is of the lowest status or rank

3: an opportunist who seeks quick profit usually at the expense of others or from their misfortune

1 clearly doesn’t apply, these are people. 2 doesn’t make sense as an objection against them doing it unless you hold lower ranking people in contempt, and 3 also shows a negative view of them. If you didn’t mean any of these things you should choose a different phrase. You can also explain what you actually meant, if you didn’t mean for what you said to have any negative connotations.

You called them “bottom feeders” twice and you believe that doesn’t have a negative connotation?

Why do you look down on people who touch garbage as they work? PPE and bathing exist. It doesn’t taint someone or make them immoral to look through discarded items to find a new use for them.

Would you feel this way if he was just looking through Goodwill? Picking up ‘curb alert’ items (things discarded on the curb for trash pickup)? Is it the contact with a dumpster?

He’s putting in the work for the “reuse” part of reduce, reuse, recycle. Calling that bottom feeding is pretty short sighted, there’s no reason to just throw away functional items.

Lol, never heard of buses? Maybe trains?

0 miles, you?

I think it’s mostly “I had an undiagnosed disability that I was expected to just get over because I was ‘smart’” but that’s my personal bias.

Speaking with AlterNet in August, University of Bristol cognitive scientist Dr. Stephan Lewandowksy argued that one can understand supporters of President Donald Trump by understanding their psychology as analogous to that of internet trolls.

“We know that trolls take pleasure in trolling, which means getting other people upset,” Lewandowsky told AlterNet. “And I think that’s what we’re observing here — this is basically trolling behavior. So would these people score high on the dark triad? I would think yes, but I don’t know of any data that’s done a personality profile specifically of MAGA voters. We do have it for trolls, though — I have data on that. People have published research on it, and the similarities are just overwhelming. So I’d be very surprised if these were well-adjusted, nice people.”

Absolutely bang on, and anyone that’s spent any amount of time with hardcore Trump supporters knows this.