first of all biden may well not run or may not live to see the next election and second of all if anything was going to turn our politics upside down and inside out it is the last couple of years that we have just lived through we dealt with a once in a century pandemic in which trillions of dollars of wealth were funneled to the top of society while the working class was given a little pat on the head told they were special essential workers and sent back out there to generate more profits for mr bezos and what's more we face a dire reality right now the country desperately needs to be rescued it needs to be rescued from the trump republicans but it needs almost as urgently to be rescued from the biden pelosi democrats i am NUMBER_TOKEN behind any effort with even a tiny minuscule chance of accomplishing that goal obviously a rising labor movement is one really critical part of that but electoral politics that's another critical piece because it sure seems like we are at a tipping point of catastrophe on basically every front you might say we're at a breaking point destabilizing inequality has accelerated dramatically as well by the trillions poured into the bank accounts of the wealthiest among us while congress handed out comparative pennies to the broader public whatever you think about the fairness of the situation history is littered with examples of societies which collapse and revolutions that are sparked when the public rejects the basic distribution of wealth and sees through whatever rationalizations the ruling class dreams up to justify their grotesque largesse government capture by moneyed interest has reached extreme levels as well as evidenced by the fact that the one really transformative bill that has passed under trump or biden was a giant corporate tax cut in the biden era corporate america has been able to absolutely run the table they cherry-picked only the business-friendly infrastructure deal and killed off the broader social and climate agenda altogether meanwhile many of our legislators are brazenly on the take pelosi recently scoffed at the idea that they should not be gambling in the stock market while also legislating with access to inside information she then proceeded to make some big trades over the holiday break buying millions in call options in companies like google roblox and disney thanks to our friends friend unusual whales for tracking that one of course the climate crisis continues unabated this holiday season brought with it more horrifying records and shocking weather extremes tornadoes ripped across the midway west in a way that has literally never happened before in december the previous record high number of tornadoes for the month was shattered by the NUMBER_TOKEN tracked in december this year suburban colorado faced down an urban firestorm that forced shoppers to flee a costco under apocalyptic skies of gusting winds and swirling embers let's look at that it's insane here in dc we were setting records that were actually kind of nice if they were a bit unsettling we had a bunch of NUMBER_TOKEN degree days as we passed the second warmest december ever recorded and then the temperature abruptly dropped NUMBER_TOKEN degrees in one day and this morning it snowed and look with the anniversary of january NUMBER_TOKEN looming we got to admit the whole democratic experiment we're engaged in here it's kind of on life support folks increasing numbers of people trust no
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