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Do NOT give in to despair. Yes, the response isn’t always perfect. But the perfect is the enemy of the good.
People are standing up.
PEDRO PASCAL as REED RICHARDS | Official Teaser The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025) dir. Matt Shakman
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THE PITT 1.09 "3:00 P.M."
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THE PITT (2025-) | ER (1994-2009)
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Rest in Peace Michelle Trachtenberg (1985–2025)
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Salutations. This is your Uncle Sam. And this is the Great American Game.
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This actually was a thing that was codified into law, in 1972, by a Democratic-controlled congress, the Equal Employment Opportunity Act. The Democrats recognized that the original Executive Order could easily be repealed by a subsequent president's EO, so they spent the next decade pushing iterations of this act in order to make it federal law, which no president can override with an Executive Order-- by definition, an Executive Order applies only to the Executive Branch of the government, and has zero authority over the Legislative or Judicial branch
The anti-discrimination laws that Democrats created, passed, and codified into law are still in place! Trump's executive order is not able to repeal it, which is specifically why the Democrats got to work, after President Johnson's executive order, getting it passed as an actual law.
Trump's executive order is a piece of political theatre. It has no actual impact on the law, it's intended to signal that anyone who wants to break that law has the support of the Executive branch of the US Government.
But again, no big surprise that "Trump and his party try to do something evil, but are stopped because the Democrats did something right" is being spun as a failure on the part of Democrats by the smug white guy on the nazi-owned, nazi-operated social media platform for nazis, where he has a hammer-and-sickle in his display name! Good thing he proudly admits to being ignorant, because he clearly hasn't even reached "schoolhouse rock" levels of proficiency in History and Civics
I'm very tired of this response every time the Republicans or Trump does something. Democrats would have power if people voted for them in greater numbers. Wonder why those civil rights laws got into place? The Civil Rights Movement of the time engaged in strategic planning, using the power of television, connections to favorable politicians who supported the Movement, and continuous activism through marches, sit-ins and voting registration drives to get those laws passed. Why does it feel like we don't have that now? Well, a lot of things, but for the immediate discussion: Certain individuals did not vote Democratic in 2010 and 2014 mid-term elections. Why did a certain law get overturned? Certain individuals did not vote Democratic in 2016, letting their sexism and online leftism cloud what needed to be done. Why are things chaotic, prompting certain EO's to be signed, throwing over fifty years of progress into uncertainty? Certain individuals let their online leftism, sexism, and racism cloud what needed to be done, which was vote Democratic in 2025.
The Democratic Party in the US is a lot of things and by necessity is very often needed to represent an extremely large tent of individuals that very often can have very different and quite possibly conflicting needs. The current Republican party represents one demographic and as a result can speak with one band, one sound. That makes the Republican Party look strong and unified when it's nothing more than a group of cowards scared of their own shadow and anybody who looks and acts different from them. The Democratic Party has to fight on three fronts: the Republicans, the mainstream media that very often tips the scales both overt and covert towards the Republican Party line and the online left that is exemplified by that tweet at the very top of the original post that quite frankly hops from one cause to another twisting a very good cause on the outset into a cause that is used as a cudgel to bash the Democratic Party, driving down favorability leading to what happened last November. I'm incredibly tired of this and I can't help but wonder just what will happen in the run up to 2029, that will once again potentially derail a Democratic candidate for a Presidential election.
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Everyone deserves the chance to fly.
— WICKED (2024) dir. Jon M. Chu