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.
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US PoliERA 2019 |OT4| Folded like a DOG
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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.
This is why Republicans win all the time. They are rutheless. Democrats only seem to win when independents say "well, the Republicans had their X years, time to see what a Democrat can do".
Booker fizzling out already is fantastic.
Jesus, that's a weak fucking response. She deserves to be polling at 1%.
Jesus, that's a weak fucking response. She deserves to be polling at 1%.
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".
The point of it was that there is a media bubble on the East Coast that doesn't accurately portray things on the ground. Twitter and social media makes that problem exponentially worse.
They likely are. "Maybe we can get out of this 84% Wanna See The Thing You Acting Guilty As Hell thing if we wait them out, maybe?!?!"
Second-hand narcissism is a thing.
Thing is about McConnell is that he has powerful donor/think tank friends and he has the balls to do this stuff. For the rest of these spineless lunks, they don't have that chutzpah to actually take it from hypothetical to action.
Hell, I'd surmise if hey retires next year, or god willing go down in flames, or drops dead, the Senate GOP would run around like chickens with their heads cut off like McCarthy "runs" the House GOP caucus.
Imagine if the GOP Senate had been run by a Paul Ryan type for the past 5 years. We wouldn't be in half the mess we're now in.
Righteous and historic.
Sliced right through everyone's bullshit in an instant
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.
Do you think Republicans go to bed every night thanking god that 9/11 happened? Rudy probably does.
I am still waiting for my democratic hero who straight tells Republicans to go fuck themselves.
Part of me really wants to go into politics.
The other part knows I could never. I would straight up tell someone to fuck off during a debate.
"Sir, you can fuck off and shove your healthcare plan right up your asshole where it belongs... Respectfully."
I'm waiting for this person and I feel like they're never gonna show up.
I'll run when Alcee Hastings retires and have this be my platform.
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.
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.
Yes there are - AOC, Bernie and Warren all stepped up and defended Ilhan fiercely and attacked Trump directly without hesitation.
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.
Most 2020 candidates have. I've read plenty of statements fitting that description from other representatives too. I would've liked to see more from Pelosi and the statements from Gillibrand and Perez among others were just bad. But there have been people speaking up.
1. She's running for President of the US, not President of NY.
2. She isn't up for Senator for 6 fucking years. This will be forgotten by then.
This'll be forgotten by next week.
Everyone remember Governor "Can't tell if he was in Blackface or the Klan outfit" and Lt Governor "Might be a rapist"? Because the public doesn't seem to. Or Twitterverse.
I mean she could have just taken out the first sentence of her tweet
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's not going to impact the national conversation much, but it revealed quite a bit about the Democratic Leadership.
I don't want to derail that other thread so I'll drop this here instead:
TheLostBigBoss
https://www.demos.org/blog/5/25/14/piketty-has-two-separate-income-inequality-theories
The greatest wealth distribution scheme of the last century was, in fact, an apocalyptic world war. We are actually headed towards a repeat of those economic conditions that appeared in the early 20th century, except this time it's driven by global socio-economic chaos (as a consequence of climate change and decades of austerity) instead of imperialist Germany.
TheLostBigBoss
It was actually due to WW2:
https://www.demos.org/blog/5/25/14/piketty-has-two-separate-income-inequality-theories
The greatest wealth distribution scheme of the last century was, in fact, an apocalyptic world war. We are actually headed towards a repeat of those economic conditions that appeared in the early 20th century, except this time it's driven by global socio-economic chaos (as a consequence of climate change and decades of austerity) instead of imperialist Germany.
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