James Talarico is A LOT more likely to win a Senate seat in Texas than Jasmine Crockett. She has basically no chance.

I’m not even american and I know that.

Americans expect a lot from their Presidents. But the real problem is Congress.

• In the US, you need a super-majority in the Senate to pass any legislation.

• The Senate size is small. Combined with the super-majority requirement, it means that a single individual Senator has huge power. That create incentives for corruption.

Joe Biden tried to increase taxes on Wall Street. One single Senator, Kyrsten Sinema, sabotaged him.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/sinema-received-nearly-1-million-from-wall-street-while-killing-tax-hike-on-investors

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/09/how-wall-street-wooed-sen-kyrsten-sinema-and-preserved-its-multi-billion-dollar-carried-interest-tax-break.html

Biden supported a provision in the Inflation Reduction Act to to bring down drug prices. Again. one single Senator was enough to weaken his reform.

https://www.salon.com/2021/09/23/big-pharma-firms-donated-750k-to-kyrsten-sinema-then-she-opposed-bill/

https://www.businessinsider.com/kyrsten-sinema-pharmaceutical-giants-campaign-donations-drug-price-reform-2021-9

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/11/big-pharma-has-a-powerful-new-shill-kyrsten-sinema-fighting-drug-price-reform

Iran* 🇮🇷 Am I a joke to you? I just killed tens of thousands in 4 days.

Russia 🇷🇺: Am I a joke to you? I have been invading and killing my neighbors for centuries

UAE 🇸🇩 : Am I a joke to you? I’m funding genocide in Sudan right now

Israel is bad, but let’s not pretend it’s uniquely bad