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She's out. Good riddance, and none too soon. Like the rest of "The Squad", she personified victimhood, the abdication of personal responsibility, the denial of fact in favor of the self serving narrative, an rich example of how poorly one can exercise the rights we enjoy. I am not optimistic her replacement will be any better; thankfully whoever it is is unlikely to be any worse.

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"she was reluctant to classify Hamas as a terrorist group given how little she knows about it."

Shouldn't people have a basic command of the facts before staking there political career on an issue?

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If she goes, good riddance. I'll never forget her hypocrisy in supporting the Defund and Abolish Police movement, yet spending tons of money on private security because she feared for her own safety (which she paid to her own goddamned husband)

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It is interesting to read how frantic everyone appears to be over the progressives taking over and yet "the squad" shrinks in size & power each cycle. Are they taking over politics or not? lol

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The squad is shrinking because people recognize that progressives and (fake) moderates who bend the knee to progressives make for terrible political leaders and have steered our nation in the wrong direction on many levels. They already took over and they're seeing their way out because of their terrible outcomes. Lol.

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Yeah not sure what you’re referencing but I certainly disagree that progressives “already took over” lol

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The Democrat party (as a whole and in its trajectory) is quite progressive now. Just curious, you disagree?

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I suppose in some respects, but not the ones I want them to be lol. Still no closer to improving minimum living wage, improving healthcare costs, public schools, affordable childcare, affordable higher ed etc. Just the things I don’t necessarily agree with like not telling parents if their child switches genders or giving repeat violent criminals bail. SMH…

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Gotcha, that's very fair and I agree. I really dislike the direction that many Democrats have been heading on issues like crime and education. This is partly why I am encouraged by what Vance has shared about promoting pro-family policies.

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Well, I can at the very least appreciate his sentiment, but I didn't find evidence that he practiced what he preached while in senate. On BillTrack50 not one bill Vance had involvement in was related to childcare. I know Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA) and Katie Britt (R-AL) just put forth a new proposed package that will enhance tax credits for families with children to assist with childcare costs. Also, the Child Care for Every Community Act put forth by Warren (D-MA) last winter would be very beneficial. If he has a differing philosophy for how to achieve improving childcare costs than these that is fine, but if so, he needs to put that philosophy into action.

For me, the most obvious ways to be 'pro-family' is lowering childcare costs, healthcare costs, improving public schools (where applicable like most inner cities), & lowering housing costs. Those are the 4 hurdles that prohibit most young people from wanting to have children. There are avenues to each of those out there.

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Public schools are only going to improve when we can hold teachers, students and parents all accountable for the results. Sadly, the victimhood mentality the Democrats preach - it's always someone else's fault with them, isn't it? - allows each of those three parties to point fingers at the others while pursuing their own interests - higher paychecks, less responsibility, more time on the Playstation. If you want to improve public schools, preach conservative values, not liberal ones.

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I agree in that all of those entities, including administration need to improve and be held accountable for public schools to be effective. I live in Philadelphia, and we have one of the worst public-school systems in the entire country. In our most recent mayoral election, I supported a candidate who was our former city controller and did audits into governmental departments spending. She found some unbelievable problems and I wanted so bad for her to become mayor to expand upon those audits & find real solutions. Too often the idea to 'help' is more funding more funding more funding, but in Philly we don't even know how the money is currently being spent. Unfortunately for us, she did not win in a crowded field. My point is though that to fix a public school system we first need to TRULY wrap our heads around its problems, usually financial based. Until that happens there is literally no possible way to improve a public school system. Even pumping in $5 billion doesn't guarantee anything because for all we know that money would syphon into some corrupt administrator's bank account as it currently does.

I also agree that the Democratcs have absolutely allowed for victimhood mentality & learned helplessness specifically with Black communities. I won't even call it 'minorities' in general because that is just not accurate. It is a specific problem for the Black community more than any other. But anyway, like I said there IS an avenue to improve those institutions. It isn't gonna be easy of course and for the public school issue it would entail each of those groups to play a part, but it is possible if someone could actually make an earnest attempt.

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I agree - so much money spent, so few results. Where is it going, and how do we staunch the flow? Charter schools and Catholic schools spend far less than the public school counterparts in their area, but their students achieve far better results than those in the public school, on average. What is different? Easy enough to see, many books written on the topics...but those to whom the public school dollars flow, and those who find it much easier not to do the work - neither the school work nor the parenting work - those books are practically offensive and are not to be discussed.

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Question is, now many like the Squad are in positions to influence, pressure?, the president, jill and hunter?

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Sorry are you saying how many can influence those three people or are you saying those three people are part of the Squad?

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I’m saying they have little actual power compared to those behind the curtain in the WH.

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Yes agreed, and power to media coverage wise the proportion is pretty out of whack lol. But the media knows how to induce clicks by posting about "the squad" because they get both the liberals and conservatives panties in a bunch.

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Let’s hope so. Dems have demonstrated enough antisemitism during the VP vetting (gutting?) process. Hit pieces and negativity disproportionately focused upon Josh Shapiro, arguably a generational political talent. Would be a good week if Bush loses her primary today and Omar loses hers next week.

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It is a pretty big flop of an answer to not label Hamas a terrorist group or not. At least she could've staked out a stance, but to dance around it claiming ignorance is lame. I mean, how can you claim ignorance at all when it dominates national discussion. Has she taken zero time at all to inform herself of the world's events? My thoughts are if someone didn't call Hamas a terrorist group before, there can be no debate anymore after the Re'im music festival attack.

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How did the war between Israel and radical Islamism become the most pressing issue for residents of Missouri. I hear that St. Louis is crime ridden and dangerous. The city my Mother grew up in, that I visited as a kid to meet family. I'm sorry to hear that E. St. Louis of my mother's family is also an absolute poverty, crime ridden disaster. How does this exist and happen in the United States. I look at photos of E. St. Louis on Google and it's a wasteland.....my family refused to take my mother to see her family home there....because it was dangerous in the fifties. So whoever is elected....don't you have better things to contend with than whether you are so gracious as to say that hamas is a terrorist group?

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It speaks to her credibility. She is a sitting U.S. Representative and is unable or unwilling to identify a known terrorist organizaton.

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because pro Palestinianism is the default "progressive" ideology she cannot call hamas terrorist....she plays dumb....rather than be an out and out Jew hating racist which clearly she is.

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The Squad needs to shrivel up into a dried out oblivion. Thanks for the hope!

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Hard to say, with a global war unfolding before us. I'd say candidate Harris snubbing Netanyahu will wind up being a huge asset- there's a whole lot of folks who resent feeling dragged into this

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We weren't dragged into anything. Had the president finished the peace accord between Israel and Saudi instead of freeing up billions up and chasing an old treaty that was terrible and stupid, Oct. 7 may have never happened. joe claims he has been the leader of the world and the USA is back on top since the day he was elected. The world is suffering mightily under joe.

Give joe his due for being the leader of the world. The world sucks even worse than ever.

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Hopefully, it won't take another Pearl Harbor to convince the Henry Ford crowd that it's not just about their protocols.

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"Hard to say, with a global war unfolding before us. I'd say candidate Harris snubbing Netanyahu will wind up being a huge asset"

How So?

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If Cori Bush loses, she will, no doubt, blame it on sexism.

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And racism, of course.

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