She's right...but this is going to get a lot uglier now that she's laid it bare.
If it needs to get ugly for Dem leadership to stop using us black and brown folks as disposable PR props, then so be it.
She's right...but this is going to get a lot uglier now that she's laid it bare.
Oh come the fuck on Gillibrand. Real "brave" here.
@sengillibrand
As a Senator who represents 9/11 victims, I can't accept any minimizing of that pain. But Trump's dangerous rhetoric against @IlhanMN is disgusting. It's a false choice to suggest we can't fight terrorism and reject Islamophobic hate at once—a president should do both.
Dude, fuck these weak ass Dems. So sick of this fucking useless party.
Oh come the fuck on Gillibrand. Real "brave" here.
@sengillibrand
As a Senator who represents 9/11 victims, I can't accept any minimizing of that pain. But Trump's dangerous rhetoric against @IlhanMN is disgusting. It's a false choice to suggest we can't fight terrorism and reject Islamophobic hate at once—a president should do both.
Buttigieg and Harris have kind of stolen his lane in the primary. He and Gillibrand have been blocked out.
It kinda reminds me of what one of the folks on PSA said about their time working for the Obama campaign in 2007. How they had really great internal polling and funding in the ground, but everyone was treating them like Obama was done as either bigger polling being reported in the press had Obama down in terms of numbers. So while they were ecstatic where they were, everyone else was like "He's done".Not really. He's still drawing huge crowds and next to Bernie in fundraising. He's doing a people first campaign on the ground talking and meeting people while ignoring media opportunities.
Why does it seem like the house is threatening subpoenas and requesting information, and all that trump and his stooges do are say hahah no.... or when they come to speak at a committee they just talk around in circles and help make propaganda for Fox News.
It seems like they are just wasting time.
Whenever McConnell does give up the ghost or in retirement in 6-8 years whoever replaces him won't really be any different ideology wise. As for his Majority Leadership position I don't see a Leader Cornyn being any less ruthless than McConnell.
A Leader Cornyn or whatever Republican in place of that would likely have done and pulled the same stunts McConnell has done in terms of Judges, procedural rules etc.
Of course he does. He hasn't posted in 22 hours though.
They put us in photos when they want to show our party is diverse. However, when we ask to be at the table, or speak up about issues that impact who we are, what we fight for & why we ran in the first place, we are ignored. To truly honor our diversity is to never silence us.
Reading this hurt a lot. Pelosi and Hoyer have to go.
They put us in photos when they want to show our party is diverse. However, when we ask to be at the table, or speak up about issues that impact who we are, what we fight for & why we ran in the first place, we are ignored. To truly honor our diversity is to never silence us.
Reading this hurt a lot. Pelosi and Hoyer have to go.
You can pretty much put that statement on the US itself and how it "shows" the diversity, but it does not actually care about it.Righteous and historic.
Sliced right through everyone's bullshit in an instant
They put us in photos when they want to show our party is diverse. However, when we ask to be at the table, or speak up about issues that impact who we are, what we fight for & why we ran in the first place, we are ignored. To truly honor our diversity is to never silence us.
Reading this hurt a lot. Pelosi and Hoyer have to go.
I never thought about it like that.I feel this is the most people have been worked up about 9/11 in like five years...
Pious Poster @InternetHippo
Being a Democrat feels like going to a concert where the band is telling you to settle down the entire time
Part of me really wants to go into politics.I am still waiting for my democratic hero who straight tells Republicans to go fuck themselves.
I am still waiting for my democratic hero who straight tells Republicans to go fuck themselves.
I am still waiting for my democratic hero who straight tells Republicans to go fuck themselves.
They're too young to remember him in his heyday.
You said you wanted a Democrat who'd tell Republicans to go fuck themselves. We've had them before and have quite a few now. And Barney Frank wasn't a pariah in the party, even in a more ~~~centrist~~~ time.
but like, that has nothing to do with today.You said you wanted a Democrat who'd tell Republicans to go fuck themselves. We've had them before and have quite a few now. And Barney Frank wasn't a pariah in the party, even in a more ~~~centrist~~~ time.
Oh come the fuck on Gillibrand. Real "brave" here.
@sengillibrand
As a Senator who represents 9/11 victims, I can't accept any minimizing of that pain. But Trump's dangerous rhetoric against @IlhanMN is disgusting. It's a false choice to suggest we can't fight terrorism and reject Islamophobic hate at once—a president should do both.
You said you wanted a Democrat who'd tell Republicans to go fuck themselves. We've had them before and have quite a few now. And Barney Frank wasn't a pariah in the party, even in a more ~~~centrist~~~ time.
Yes there are - AOC, Bernie and Warren all stepped up and defended Ilhan fiercely and attacked Trump directly without hesitation.Right, but point to a Dem that would do that right now. It's great that there've been people in the past who would do it, but that's unhelpful when someone with some semblance of a fucking spine needs to step forward right now and there are obviously none.
Ratio keeps getting worse too.
Gilly clearly has no idea wtf she is doing.Do politicians not realize that the crowd is inherently very different on twitter than it is in real life? Why go with a milquetoast centrist shit take when you know you'll be buried. Just fucking go further left and appease people. It's not like the news is going to realistically cover Gillibrand tweeting sympathy for longer than a few fucking seconds considering the bullshit the President himself gets to tweet. The centrists in the party and in our politics literally could not give a flying fuck about twitter. You mention someone tweeted something and I think their eyes immediately glaze over. It's a nebulous concept to many.
Those are in the minority when comes to defending her. The majority on the other seems to be silent or going to both sides route.Yes there are - AOC, Bernie and Warren all stepped up and defended Ilhan fiercely and attacked Trump directly without hesitation.
Those are in the minority when comes to defending her. The majority on the other seems to be silent or going to both sides route.
1. She's running for President of the US, not President of NY.Gillibrand's from New York which is obviously ground zero for 9/11 as a loaded subject, as well as with a stronger Jewish constituency already disposed to think ill of Omar.
This'll be forgotten by next week.2. She isn't up for Senator for 6 fucking years. This will be forgotten by then.
Oh man. If ONLY he got voted out in 08. If only.Yup. The factors that make Bevin vulnerable don't really exist for McConnell.
It'd be nice to take him out, and he had a close call in 2008, but that's practically a century ago in terms of political trends.
I mean she could have just taken out the first sentence of her tweetGillibrand's from New York which is obviously ground zero for 9/11 as a loaded subject, as well as with a stronger Jewish constituency already disposed to think ill of Omar.
Josh Dawsey is the new target of the right-wing twitter machine.
Donnie Jr has been liking some posts of people going back through his twitter feed from 2010.
Good questionI honestly wonder how much this Omar story is penetrating the non chronically online demographic. Because I don't think it's making headlines anywhere.
It's not going to impact the national conversation much, but it revealed quite a bit about the Democratic Leadership.I honestly wonder how much this Omar story is penetrating the non chronically online demographic. Because I don't think it's making headlines anywhere.
It was actually due to WW2:Pretty sure it was people tired of dying, guillotines, and revolution; not the glorious market. Capitalism doesn't give a fuck about who it crushes.