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I went to the Joe Biden Rally and all I got were these cool aviators.

I went to the Trump Rally and they made me cut off my ear.

#BothPartiesAreNotTheSame

The PACT Act has provided more than 1 million veterans exposed to burn pits, Agent Orange, and toxic substances the healthcare benefits needed to live a life of dignity.

I also remember watching Republican lawmakers high-fiving one another for voting down this bill. #BothPartiesAreNotTheSame

Biden set to travel to New Hampshire to announce milestone in PACT Act:
https://www.msnbc.com/way-too-early/watch/biden-set-to-travel-to-new-hampshire-to-announce-milestone-in-pact-act-211295813938

@luckytran The "two party system" is the automatic result First-past-the-post voting that the USA uses. Fix that first, unless you enjoy being ruled by a party that won a plurality rather than an actual majority of votes.

Until then, the two parties are not even remotely the same, so I have no problem choosing.

#BothPartiesAreNotTheSame

I honestly feel terrible for Bubba, former pastor & mayor from Alabama. He was part of a hateful party that demonizes everything. If he was a Democrat he'd be alive today. We don't care if you like to put on makeup and dresses. It's called #drag and it's been around since before you were born. #DealWithIt #DemsAllTheWay #ProLife #NoH8 #FuckNazis #BothPartiesAreNotTheSame

The fascist extreme party wants a coup. The democrats want to give you healthcare and a raise. #BothPartiesAreNotTheSame

One doesn’t even need to know the two parties’ policy positions to know there is a world of difference in their vision and character. Poetry and grace on one side, thuggishness and fury on the other. Americans cannot say they lack a stark choice.

Jennifer Rubin nails it in this latest opinion piece on the contrasts between the Democratic and Republican parties.

#BothPartiesAreNotTheSame

Jeffries governs in poetry, Biden in grace — and the GOP in thuggishness
https://wapo.st/3XjMsQU

Violence is unacceptable whether from the left or right, period. But we can’t allow GOP leaders to get away with this false moral equivalency. They are evading their responsibility for their extremist rhetoric that all too often motivates extremist actions.

Republican leaders and talking heads have fanned the flames of violence with their rhetoric. Every verbal attack against Dem leaders is a dog whistle to the most extreme and violent members of their party.

#BothPartiesAreNotTheSame
Don’t blame ‘both sides.’ The right is driving political violence.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/30/paul-pelosi-attack-republican-bothsidesism-false-equivalence/

Thanks to the Biden administration, but no thanks to most of the press who devoted exactly zero stories to the terrible conditions under which freight railroad workers are compelled to operate.

Salary and health care are important. But railroad workers have also been subjected to an “on call” system that makes it impossible to have a normal life.

Try getting a doctor’s appointment that takes some time to set up or getting to your kid’s Open House under that system.

Corporate profits in the rail industry are through the roof. It's time for the people who are really responsible for these profits benefit from their sacrifices that have improved productivity.

Oh, and by the way, #BothPartiesAreNotTheSame.

Biden says a tentative railway labor deal has been reached, averting strike:
https://www.npr.org/2022/09/15/1123114110/biden-says-a-tentative-railway-labor-deal-has-been-reached-averting-a-strike

@AgentCarter_SSR
Polis is a good governor.

And in case anybody still doesn't get it,
#ElectDemocrats #ElectionsMatter and #BothPartiesAreNotTheSame

@TonyStark

#BothPartiesAreNotTheSame

Definitely not the same ...

Only one party wants to take away health care from millions of Americans.

Only one party wants to use every tool to stop the other side from voting.

Only one party stands against LBGTQ rights.

Only one party Stands against America's multicultural, multiracial National identity.

Only one party Threatens to shut down the government And default on our debt.

Only one party is anti-climate, anti-science, and anti-environment. (As I said before)

I think we all know which party that is ...

#ElectionsMatter

Get exhausted with doing everyone's homework for them, but here I go, again.

TFG rolled back tons of previous environmental legislation.

"Under Trump, the EPA has cut back on enforcement of clean water laws in the Great Lakes region-
Two months after President Donald Trump took office, U.S. Steel dumped a plume of cancer-causing metal into a Lake Michigan tributary 20 miles away from a Chicago drinking water intake."
https://phys.org/news/2020-04-trump-epa-laws-great-lakes.html

Biden is both restoring it and making progress on it.
https://environmentamerica.org/blogs/environment-america-blog/amc/progress-report-president-biden%E2%80%99s-first-100-days

It will take longer than 7 months to fix. Anyone paying any attention would know this. And if they weren't paying attention, maybe they should listen to people who are.
https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2020/06/most-trump-environmental-rollbacks-will-take-years-to-be-reversed/

#ElectionsMatter #BothPartiesAreNotTheSame

Yet another example of a Republican politician who is willing to cause suffering, create further stress and misery to already stretched thin medical staff and hospitals, and risk lives in an attempt to appeal more than the next guy to the base of a former president who lost his re-election.

How many children will get sick and die before these hypocritical and self-centered “leaders” back off from their positions, if they ever do? #VoteThemOut #BothPartiesAreNotTheSame

COVID-19 is exploding in Arizona schools. Gov. Ducey needs to act now:
https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/laurieroberts/2021/08/30/covid-explodes-arizona-schools-gov-ducey-needs-act-now/5655576001/

This repeats a trend: GOP mismanages and we get a deep recession. Dems clean up and things improve.

Here's an interesting observation from the article, though. New hires were down in April and May and there were wage increases as a result. Now in June, there are stronger new hire numbers. If you pay people more, they'll want to take the job.

Tax cuts to corporations don't do it. Paying people something closer to decent does. Which party wants to raise wages? Which party passed COVID relief by itself to get the economy where it is right now? The same party that knew how to manage a pandemic to start with.
#VoteBlue #BothPartiesAreNotTheSame

U.S. Adds 850,000 Jobs in June:
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/07/02/business/economy-stock-market-news/

@TonyStark Another big example of #BothPartiesAreNotTheSame

@TonyStark
Democrats: Send FEMA& aid to TX amidst a devastating storm that left so many without heat& power.
Republicans: Flee the disaster for a vacation or tell people that the govt doesn't owe them any help. 'the strong will survive'

#BothPartiesAreNotTheSame
#TedFled

@TonyStark I was concerned when Ducklo was only suspended for a week. I appreciate that 24 hours later, he turned in his resignation. Anyone who has worked in an office understands what it means when something like that comes out and then the person resigns the next day. I don't need to see something fired to be assured that #BothPartiesAreNotTheSame as long as they're no longer working in the Biden administration.

The right thing to do.

I'm grateful for an administration that will follow through on accountability, especially after today.

#BothPartiesAreNotTheSame

@MariaHill
I'm sorry she passed. It is very disappointing to keep seeing this party choose the wrong side of decency. And, since it came up again today, #BothPartiesAreNotTheSame

@TonyStark make a graphic for me on that, please.

@TonyStark
We needed the assistance Dems were proposing almost a year ago. We still ao because GOP is STILL dragging their heels, even though they no longer hold the majority. The whole lot can sod off, Dems will send it through without them. But I hope not a single Republican thinks that by election time we'll forget them doing their damnest to get in the way& prevent this relief aid from reaching the American people.
#BothPartiesAreNOTTheSame
#DemocratsWorkForThePeople

Taking profit and politics out of the prison system is just one of the many important steps in this EO.

#BothPartiesAreNotTheSame
Biden signs executive order ending new DOJ contracts with private prisons-
It's one of several racial equity orders serving as a down payment to immediately address systemic racism.
https://www.axios.com/biden-signs-racial-equity-executive-orders-private-prisons-98e094a4-b156-48c4-bac6-b359c29c0652.html

I can't even say how disappointing it is to know Republicans could have done something about this before and passed.

She had every opportunity.
#BothPartiesAreNotTheSame

Let's hope she sticks to this and leaves.

Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski calls on President Trump to resign, questions her future as a Republican - Anchorage Daily News-
https://www.adn.com/politics/2021/01/08/alaska-sen-lisa-murkowski-calls-on-president-trump-to-resign-questions-her-future-as-a-republican/

Always so telling that Republicans don't want votes to count and Democrats fight for them to. #BothPartiesAreNotTheSame

USA TODAY: Trump, some Republicans suspicious of low rejected ballot numbers:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2020/12/28/trump-and-others-not-happy-lower-2020-rejected-ballot-numbers/3964007001/

@NatashaRomanoff

Congratulations to Deb Haaland!

Almost every one of Biden's cabinet appointments has a direct connection, by experience but more so, by their own community, to the programs they are charged to run.  

And this is a wonderful thing. 

Oh, and #BothPartiesAreNotTheSame :voteblue:

Completely unqualified, preening, lightweight lobbyist who became "Acting" Secretary of Homeland Security.

The poster child for the last 4 years.
#BuildBackBetter #BothPartiesAreNotTheSame

Chad Wolf was not legally serving as acting Homeland Security secretary when he signed rules limiting applications and renewals for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, and those rules are now invalid, a federal judge ruled Saturday:
https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/14/politics/federal-judge-daca-rules-chad-wolf/index.html?utm_content=2020-11-15T16%3A29%3A05&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twCNNp&utm_term=link?iid=cnn-mobile-app&adobe_mc=TS%3D1605457961%7CMCMID%3D76294180342235594316584791977650793259%7CMCAID%3D2FD0D70605159864-60000A1C358D8B8F%7CMCORGID%3D7FF852E2556756057F000101%40AdobeOrg

#OverheardAtWork
Co-worker reading about the difference between the Dem& Repub plans for unemployment aid.
"I think $200/wk on top of unemployment is plenty. But man I sure loved MY extra $600/wk while I was offwork." Selfish old bat.

Typical conservative response. 'Who cares about anyone else as long as I got mine.' Democrats work for ALL the people. #BothPartiesAreNotTheSame #VoteBlue