Al Franken's Blog, page 15

The Senate’s immigration bill

The bipartisan group of senators that has been working for months finally released its immigration bill. It is not a bill I would have written, but our immigration system has been broken and overwhelmed for years, and this bill at least addresses the chaos we have been seeing at our southern border.

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Trump Destroying Democracy Out of the Gate

We knew that Trump would be a threat to democracy if he became president again. We didn’t figure on him being a threat quite this soon. 

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Terrifying Election Approaching

As we all know, there’s a really important and terrifying election fast approaching. And we also all know, we have to win.

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the Dow

This past week the Dow hit 38,000 for the first time. Fifty-eight percent of Americans own stock, and many who don’t, have pensions or 401ks that are invested in the market.

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It’s Trump.

Well, the bad news is that it looks very much like a short march to the nomination for Donald Trump.

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SCARY!

I just read a piece in the New York Times from columnist Zeynep Tufekci entitled, “The Appeal of an American Strongman.” 

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It’s time to get our collective ass in gear.

Remember watching the January 6th Committee hearings and thinking, “Well, Trump is toast?” 

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My dad said, “F*#$ that.”

My family watched Cronkite every night while we ate dinner on tray tables and in 1963, we watched as police set fire hoses, dogs, and billy clubs on civil rights protestors. In no uncertain terms, my dad said we couldn’t be for that. So when Barry Goldwater voted against the Civil Rights Act, my dad said, “F*#$ that.” 

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“We love you.”

It “will be wild.” That’s what Donald Trump told his supporters about his January 6, 2021, rally in Washington. And he was right.

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I actually write these damn things

Happy New Year! I just realized that this year is an election year. That’s because the guy who runs my PAC reminded me.

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