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All, I'm downsizing my autograph collection and wanted to see if yinz might be interested. I'm selling this autograph of Tanger. The frame measures about 19x23. Obtained in-person December 2013. Asking $100 (the picture +frame was $50 alone) OBO. Prefer local pickup in PA but can probably figure out how to ship.
Okay, I’ve read Joe Biden’s plans.
I’ve just sat down and spent several hours actually reading all the damn plans on his website, the whole thing, so you don’t have to. And here’s the conclusion:
They’re pretty good.
Are they absolutely everything we want immediately? Maybe not. Are they a solid Democratic agenda anyway? Yes they are. Are they better than Trump?
Light years!
His Violence Against Women plan is lengthy, detailed, and pays specific attention to violence against Native, lesbian and bisexual, low-income, disabled, rural, transgender (especially trans women of color) immigrant, domestic abuse victims, and other vulnerable women. He calls for replacing and expanding Obama-era policies and funding for campus sexual assault programs that DeVos trashed, and for providing money for culturally specific services that are sensitive to the diverse backgrounds of survivors. He also notes that sexual assault, while it predominantly affects women and girls, needs to be taken seriously and addressed for people of all gender identities.
His gun safety plan is forceful and lays out several steps for banning assault weapons, taking existing weapons from offenders, closing gun purchase background check and other legal loopholes, addressing the intersection between domestic violence and weapons ownership, and reducing or eliminating weapons and ammunition stockpiling.
His plan for tackling climate change and creating green jobs is also lengthy. He makes the connection between economic, environmental, and racial justice. He pledges to immediately rejoin the Paris Agreement and restore American leadership on the issue in pushing for even stronger climate standards, make climate change a central part of our trade, international, and justice goals, demand a worldwide ban on fossil fuel subsidies and tax breaks (!!!) and if the Green New Deal is passed, to sign it, as well as for the U.S. to achieve 100% clean energy and zero percent net emissions by 2050.
His healthcare plan is decent. It offers an immediate public option for all Americans regardless of private, employer, or no coverage, and generous new tax credits to put toward the cost of coverage. It strongly protects abortion rights and federal funding for Planned Parenthood, as well as rescinding the “gag rule” that prevents U.S. federal aid money from being used to provide or even talk about abortions in NGOs abroad. It attacks generic and drug price gouging. It calls for doubling the capital gains tax on the super-wealthy (from 20% to 39.5% paid on capital gains by anyone making over $1 million) to help fund healthcare reform. He also has a separate plan on the opioid crisis in America, and on older Americans and retirement, including the protection and re-funding of Medicare and Social Security.
His immigration plan is lengthy and detailed. He apologizes for and acknowledges the excessive deportation that occured during the Obama-Biden administrations, pledges to do better, and attacks Trump’s current inhumane acitivities on every front. The policy of children in cages, indefinite detention, the metered asylum system, and the Muslim Ban are gone on day one. In this and his LGBTQ plan, he notes the vulnerability of LGBTQ refugees, incuding LGBTQ refugees of color. He proposes streamlining of visa applications and prioritizing the immediate reunification of families. It also specifically states that ICE and CBP agents will be held directly accountable for inhumane treatment.
Speaking of which, his LGBTQ plan is comprehensive. It pays attention to multiple intersectional issues, down to the high rates of incarceration among trans people of color. (He also notes the rates of violence against trans women of color particularly.) He calls for a complete ban on conversion therapy and the discrimination against HIV-status individuals, as well as removing the ban on blood donation from gay and bisexual men. He will remove the transgender military ban immediately. He calls for funding for mental health and suicide prevention among LGBTQ populations.
His plan to empower workers calls for raising the federal minimum wage to $15, as well as indexing this to median hourly wages to ensure that working-class and middle-class wages grow closer to parity, and implementing strong legal protections for unions. He expresses support for striking workers and to empower the National Labor Relations Board in workplace advocacy. Farmworkers, domestic workers, gig economy workers, and other non-traditional labor groups are included in this. He will restore all Obama-Biden policies related to workplace safety and regulation.
His plan to restore American dignity and leadership in the world calls for immediately investing in election security and reform, restoration of the Voting Rights Act, immediately restoring White House press briefings and other Trump refusals of information, tackling criminal justice reform and systematic racial discrimination, calling for campaign finance reform, and basically blowing up all the stupid things the Trump administration does on a daily basis. It also calls for an end to all ongoing wars in the Middle East, restoring the Iran nuclear deal, and new arms control treaties with Russia, among general repairing of international alliances.
His plans for K-12 education and post-high school education call for greatly expanded funding across all levels of 2-year, 4-year, and other educational options. There will be no student loan payments for anyone making under $25,000 a year; everyone else will pay a capped amount and be completely forgiven after a certain period. Public servants qualify for up to $50,000 in loan forgiveness. This is not total loan forgiveness for everyone, which is obviously important for me and many of us, but it’s acceptable to start with. Additionally, his wife is a teacher and has a proven track record of calling for education investment and supporting public school funding.
His plan for housing addresses the needs of formerly incarcerated, LGBTQ, veteran, low-income, sexual assault survivor, black and Hispanic, and other vulnerable populations at risk of losing housing. It calls for a tax on companies and corporations with in excess of $50 billion in assets to fund comprehensive new housing initiatives, including $100 billion in accessible and low-income housing development. It includes extensive investment in public transportation and a high-speed rail system. This ties into his plan to repair infrastructure and invest in new technologies across the country.
His plan for criminal justice reform calls for the end of mass incarceration, the decriminalization of marijuana, the automatic expunging of all cannabis convictions, and an end on jail sentences for drug use. It highlights systematic institutional racism and the impact on black and brown people particularly. It calls for an end on all profiteering and private prisons. It focuses on reintegrating offenders into society and funding the needs of people released from prison. It proposes to “expand and use the power of the U.S. Justice Department to address systemic misconduct in police departments and prosecutors’ offices.” It broadens funding for social services and other programs for people who are otherwise placed into the prison pipeline.
There are more plans, which you can find here. These are the ones I read top to bottom. I am not by any means a Joe Biden fangirl; he was not my first choice, my second choice, or really anywhere on my list. However, having carefully read through his policy documents, I can say that:
He has at the least a good team of advisors who are keenly aware of the political climate, and is willing to both restore Obama-era standards and to improve on them where necessary. Obviously, all politicians’ promises are politicians’ promises, but this is a solid Democratic platform with obvious awareness of the progressive wing of the party.
If progressive legislation is passed in the House and Senate, he will sign it, including the Green New Deal.
He represents a clear and definite improvement over Donald Trump.
Is he everything we want? No. Are his policies better than I was expecting? Yes. I advise you to read through them for yourself. It has made me at least feel better about the likelihood of voting for him.
I realize it’s an unsexy position, especially on tumblr, to advocate for an old centrist white man. I’m not thrilled about having to do it. However, speaking as someone who was very resistant to Biden and still doesn’t agree with all of his previous legislative track record, that’s my consensus. He is a candidate who broadly aligns with values that I care about. His policies represent a concrete end to the damage of the Trump administration and gets us on the right track again.
Joe Biden, if he is the Democratic nominee, will receive my vote on November 3, 2020. I urge you to consider what I’ve laid out above and join me.
And remember to vote down the whole ballot - we need Mitch McConnell OUT. blue senate, blue congress, blue president means that when AOC & other progressives bring forward the legislation we need, it gets passed. That is the point of voting for biden.
Midge Maisel’s outfits in season 3 of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Trump’s unidentified secret police force was not prepared to meet this guy.
@machamp your tags are perfect
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Hi. It's July 4th. Let's talk about the Confederate flag for a second, especially since a whole lot of you in Pennsylvania like flying it despite PA BEING IN THE UNION AND KICKING CONFEDERATE BUTT IN 1865.
1. All of you that take issue with confederate monuments being ripped down are yelling about "BUt tHE HIstoRY." Do we have statues of Hitler? How about Stalin? Mouselinni? No. Have you still heard about them? Yes. Same thing with the flag. If no one ever put a Confederate flag sticker on their pick-up truck's back window ever again, it's not like the Civil War would just be erased from history. It's a thing that happened and 618,222 people died. Your kid will still learn about it almost every year at school.
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Furthermore, those statues you're so concerned about and the flag you love so much weren't actually up/in regular use till long after the Civil War. Of the 700-ish Confederate statues, most of them were built between 1920-1950. The Confederate flag had gone out of style after the big losers lost the war, but came back with a vengeance in the 50's. What else was gaining traction during 1920-50? I wonder.... OH, IT'S JIM CROW, LYNCHING AND THE KKK.
These monuments were erected to be a giant, racist billboard telling POC that they're still not equal citizens no matter what rights were given to them through the Bill of Rights. They also served to embolden white people in their constant pursuit of state-sponsored terrorism of Black communities. Remember when white dudes grabbed guns and torches and killed 300 people and burned every structure in the Black Wall Street of Tulsa? Guess how many went to jail, or even received a slap on the wrist. Zero. None. Remember in 1963 when four KKK members burned down a Baptist church with four Black girls inside? None of them were charged at the time. It wasn't until the 1970's till one of them was finally put on trial, and he was only charged with one count of murder, not four. Two of the others weren't put on trial TILL THE 2000'S. The two men that brutally murdered 14 year old Emmett Till based on a white woman's lie were taken to trial and acquitted by a jury full of white males. Let me say it again - STATE SPONSORED TERRORISM.
2. "BUt It'S ABouT STatES RigHTS"
Yes, A STATE'S RIGHT TO OWN SLAVES. SPECIFICALLY. It's about slavery. South Carolina was the first state to succeed from the union in 1852. Read the text. It IS ABOUT SLAVERY.
"The people of the State of South Carolina, in Convention assembled, on the 26th day of April, A.D., 1852, declared that the frequent violations of the Constitution of the United States, by the Federal Government, and its encroachments upon the reserved rights of the States, fully justified this State in then withdrawing from the Federal Union; but in deference to the opinions and wishes of the other slaveholding States, she forbore at that time to exercise this right. Since that time, these encroachments have continued to increase, and further forbearance ceases to be a virtue."
The document goes on to complain about Northern states passing laws to end slavery, failing to return people who escape from slavery and allowing people who were enslaved access to citizenship. One more time for the people in the back - IT'S ABOUT SLAVERY YOU DUM DUM. THE STATES SAID IT THEMSELVES.
3. Not only do I take issue with the loser flag because it's racist and stupid, but also because my great X4 relatives on both sides fought for the Union. I have relatives on both sides that fought in the Revolutionary War. My grandpa and his cousin (more like his brother) fought in WWII. Kicking fascist butt is what we do. Pennsylvania tends to be a state where people build deep roots. Chances are these people flying confederate flags in Union states had family members fight and die to defeat the Confederacy. You're dishonoring your family, you dunce. I hope your great x4 grandpa shows up in your bedroom tonight and punches you in the teeth.
STOP WAIVING THIS STUPID, RACIST, TRAITOR, LOSER FLAG
I'm going to attempt to explain police brutality to my fellow white people through the lens of something we might be more ingrained in...the Catholic Church.
Remember a couple years ago when there was an explosive report about abuse left and right in the Diocese of Pittsburgh over many decades that was being deliberately hidden by the powers that be? Remember how mad and hurt people were? My own extreme Catholic mother stopped going to church because, through the report, we found out a priest at our home church had abused a family friend of my mom and dad's in the 90s. You may have seen the movies Spotlight or Doubt, which are about the same thing.
In the Catholic Church, there is systematic, intentional, institutional sexual abuse. It happens all over the country and all over the world. Higher-ups knew about it. Instead of putting offenders in jail and removing them from the church, the church instead just covered it up and stuck them at a new church. When they didn't do that, they threw a bunch of money at the family who was torn apart and just called it a day. Crimes are being covered up by fellow priests, the church, the diocese. "Good" priests were not outing the bad ones. There is/was a culture of silence within the church. There is massive cognitive dissonance when you see someone that is supposed to be a representative of God committing a heinous act. Even those rare cases that do make it to trial rarely result in conviction.
The institution of policing is doing the same thing. There is systematic, intentional, institutional abuse of Black and Brown people stretching back over many decades in every corner of this country where POC exist. Instead of immediately removing bad cops, their crimes and brutality are covered up by the system-- coworkers, the station they work for, and if not those two, the Fraternal Order of Police. The "good" ones are not outing the bad ones. There is a culture of silence when you see someone in the same uniform as you brutalizing someone. There is massive cognitive dissonance when you see someone that is supposed to uphold the law and "serve and protect" committing a heinous act. Even those rare cases that do make it to trial rarely result in conviction.
Stop putting people above the law. No one is infallible because of their uniform, whether it's a long robe or a blue button-down. Are all priests and cops abusive? No. But does the silence of "good" cops and priests and the institutional infallibility of the church and police make it a breeding ground for abusers? Yes. Are those abusers ever made to answer for their crimes or dealt with according to the laws of this country? Rarely. MLK said, "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." It's the truth. That's why we're angry. That's why we march. I may not have ever had a run in with cops myself, but I have empathy in my heart for people brutalized by systems that protect abusers, and people that just want cops (and priests) to be held to the same standard as the rest of us.
You were mad when you found out that priests were assaulting kids with institutional support and getting away with it. Get mad that police are assaulting Black and Brown kids with institutional support and getting away with it.
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this still cracks me up like can you imagine you’re 130 years old and suddenly a gigantic alien baby starts following you around
funniest thing in the US is you can say “I want people to have access to basic necessities and live a happier, fulfilling life” and millions of people will be like “that is FUCKED UP I want the freedom to eat one meal a day so I can afford rent and medication, you can’t stop me commie”
classic and relevant post
This is so disgusting to watch. They are 12 year-old boys, who “matched the description” and had to experience this horror. A little boy crying scared to death and the other one telling him to stop , because he wants to stay alive is what makes me cry. Just try to understand this- they know the way cops treat black boys and trying to calm themselves down TO SURVIVE THIS. How horrifying is that?
This is why we take a knee in silent protest…but the Son’s, Brother’s and Nephews of veterans are told we hate the military. Wake the f@*k up people.
According to your logic it's ok to hope that the best team does not win because you personally dislike them for no reason! ok sure!
Yes, this is literally how being a fan of any sport ever works
Hey I know you did one Crosby one already but could you maybe do another one? It would cheer me up so much! :) thanks!
