U.S. Rep. Katie Porter became a social media celebrity by brandishing a white board at congressional hearings to dissect CEOs and break down complex figures into assaults on corporate greed, a signature image that propelled the Democrat’s U.S. Senate candidacy in California.
The progressive favorite known for spotlighting her soccer mom, minivan-driving home life was trounced in Tuesday’s primary election to fill the seat once held by the late Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein, finishing far behind Republican Steve Garvey and fellow Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff.
Porter didn’t go down quietly. She immediately pointed a finger at “billionaires spending millions to rig this election.” That claim resulted in a brutal social media backlash from many who were happy to depict the congresswoman as a graceless loser.
Perhaps chastened by the criticism, Porter later clarified her initial statement to say she didn’t believe the California vote count or election process had been compromised, but she didn’t recant her earlier remarks. Rigged, she said in a follow-up, “means manipulated by dishonest means.”
We don’t want to solve these problems.
Most people think the disparity in wealth should grow, so that’s what it does.
I have no hope for civilization and just look out for myself and those close to me, now.
As I tell my kids. There’s no reason to like the game, and spend your entire lives doing what you can to change it for the better, but while you’re doing that, and to change the game, you’re going to have to play it as best you can.
We’re not going to change to a utopia overnight, it has to be one little change at a time and people have to work to get to the place to make those changes first.
I’m not sure most people think that. But the ones with money and power do.
Most people definitely think that.
It’s how history continues to repeat itself.
Fixed it for you.
Most people think the game can’t change or shouldn’t be changed. They’re a much bigger issue than the people trying to get by who think the game can be changed.
Nah. We can pick the game, but we cannot change the rules.
I’d rather play a different game than the one I’ve been playing for the past 10+ years with no satisfactory results.
Can’t keep doing the same thing expecting different results.
Of course you can change the rules. Or even better you can change the game.
Rule 1 of life … never play somebody else’s game by somebody else’s rules 'cause you’ll lose every time.
No, the rules are (mostly) open to change, but you don’t get to pick a new game. Physics is what it is, the immutable ground rules of the game, and it’s the only game in town. Everything above that, the social reality that is most of what people think about and engage with, can be changed, but you do have to invest a lot of energy to shift the inertia of the existing system.
If they did, the rich would be running influence campaigns on it rather than making up other bullshit to distract people.
How history continues to repeat itself? Really? Guess I’ll just put my magic glowey rock that speaks messages in an as of yet to be invented script that will never exist and ride off into the sun set on my bronze age chariot to defend my home from the sea peoples!
This is such a myopic view of history it borders on “measels aren’t so bad! There hasn’t been a major death from it in decades! That’s why I don’t vax!”