There is a striking contrast between the scoldy, condescending tone of coverage of @Ocasio2018's

[demmiblue]

There is a striking contrast between the scoldy, condescending tone of coverage of @Ocasio2018’s budget hand-waving and the decade of credulous-verging-on-worshipful coverage of the same from Paul Ryan.

Ryan was actually *given an award* for fiscal policy seriousness based on a plan where *over 100% of the deficit reduction* was achieved through hand-waving.

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[Voltaire2]

1. It is nearly impossible for women in politics in this

country to get treated fairly by the media.

[Power 2 the People]

2. I think the only thing that will save this Democracy

is more women in politics.

[demmiblue]

3. Her comment:

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[joshcryer]

4. While true I would point out that Ryan wanted to dismantle the government.

Which is not controversial to his supporters or the people who vote conservative (even while a good majority of locally employed government workers are conservatives).

What is controversial is how Paul Ryan and the conservatives wanting to dismantle the government is completely asinine and a disaster.

See this pie chart?



They want to eliminate like 60% of it.

There are two ways to do it, 1) get the votes, which is damn near impossible, because most people like that 60% of the budget, or 2) bankrupt the country, causing a default on internal debt, and massive austerity.

[oberliner]

5. Do you think it's race or gender or both?