Believers gonna believe.

Clarification I think is needed. This was only a vote to move the bill forward, it has not been voted on to pass. This is the time to put the pressure on to Democrats to push for the items that the American people want, and push back on special interests (specifically oil companies).

Getting this through cloture allows Democrats to publically debate and fight. Not doing so leaves it in the back room and obfuscates the Trump/MAGA agenda. The next hurdle is to get this out of debate - Senate procedure typically requires a 60-vote cloture vote to end debate on the bill itself before the final passage vote. The fillabuster gives Democrats a mechanism to keep this from going to vote that only needs a simple majority.

Okay, so if or when Megan’s daughter Yardly hits puberty (she’s 14), she’s fair game for men? That’s not pedophilia? That isn’t statutory rape? Really??? And with more and more girls having their first period as early as 9, that wouldn’t be pedophilia to pursue and have sex with them? What a piece of shit for a woman and mother.

Bad choices of those on SNAP…

1. Joined military to serve my country and this is how they treat me!
2. Worked for government, got DOGE’d, and no one is hiring!
3. Picked the wrong birth parents and at 6 no one will hire me!
4. Lost job over 50 and those kids won’t hire me!
5. Lost job to AI and I went to Standford!
6. Pro-life and kept my baby! 7)…fill in the blank

How incredible to see the effect of political messaging on citizen/voter perception. It is that the exaggerations, lies, and outrage marketing clearly have an outsized effect. I wouldn’t say the US population is dumb. But I would say the manipulation of perception is too much for the average person to do their own research and come up with unbiased facts.

***To those dismissing this based on inconsistencies between topics, you can’t make those comparisons. There is some blending of data in the methodology that is appropriate in order to look at the range. This is only about the gap between perception and reality, and a stack rank.

Here is GenX

41% make up the US House of Representatives 28% make up the US Senate 42% of governors

Some GenXers: Elon Musk Jeff Bezos (squeaked in) Jack Dorsey (Formerly Twitter) Michael Dell (Dell CEO) Satya Nadella (MSFT CEO)

And in 2018, about 40% of F500/Inc500 CEOs were GenX.

So, not missing. We just don’t wear our generational name as a badge. What’s the point?