Journalist. Former advisor to dozens of non-establishment Congressional races. Anti-Genocide. Humanist. #AppalachianMomma #SurvivorSolidarity
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Tell me again why I should care about why the Reps of one of the parties that are responsible for this man-made atrocity have "career consequences" for "challenging leadership."
Genocide is not a rhetorical device to be overlooked when politically inconvenient.
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This isn't 11 representatives alone. The Democratic Party has, repeatedly, had just enough votes to uphold and maintain fascism. From the Iraq War to now.
Rotating villains that absorb the culpability for the party, as the rest save face, and measures for accountability die on the vine with just the right amount of votes to fail. Or an exploitative bill has just enough votes to pass.
Why am I seeing pitches to donate through ActBlue to representatives who were just elected?
They haven't even been seated yet. The political industrial complex is exhausting.
I'm so goddamn tired of the theorizing on why the new Congress is failing ALREADY. As if it's some kind of 4-D chess.
These Reps are supposed to work for US, REMEMBER? Yet they are willing to vote in a genocide enabler, an Israeli mouthpiece, with 18% approval rating, and some people out here talking about political strategy
It's CORRUPTION. Plain and simple.
Jeffries didn't deliver shit.
Debbie Dingle is acting like voters don't exist.
All exit polling was clear: defund Israel.
And Dingell thinks Israel's biggest cheerleader should be Speaker.
.@RepDebbieDingell (D-MI) says she supports Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) for House Speaker: "He has earned the right to lead us."
The Progressive Caucus has 105 members for the upcoming 120th Congress
With 25 new members this election.
What's the point of a caucus that refuses to wield their power in any kind of way?
“More than a million people signed a petition asking @HouseDemocrats to not elect @RepJeffries speaker— will that carry weight?”
@AOC reiterates that nobody is running against Jeffries, telling @JulianAndreone “it’s not a race right now” so 40+ Dems opposing is unlikely
I've grown to despise the term "working people."
Why? The unemployment rate is skyrocketing. There are millions disabled or who SHOULD be retired, but can't.
The impetus is that the people with value are "working people."
People have value beyond what they can produce.
Congress isn't children who will be reprimanded at school, or employees who will be fired by their employers. It shouldn't have to be one lone person. The PCCC is nothing more than a feckless virtue-signaling label.
These are representatives hired by the people, NOT the party. Who gives two shits about leadership backlash? We are talking about leaders who all supported a literal genocide. Who voted for the Lakin Riley Act and to triple ICE funding.
With Greg Casar and AOC and Ro Khanna and Brad Lander etc all lining up behind Jeffries it does seem like this assessment below of a foregone conclusion is right. Something dramatic would have to happen to derail the train at this point.
One problem is that even organizing a meeting to discuss the possibility of a challenge is risky. If that leaks back to leadership, and you don’t succeed, they’ll “make your life a living hell.”
Collectively they understand voters want change. Individually they’re better off not fighting for it.
At the sams time, that timidity opens up the chance for one person to break out and make a do-or-die run. We’ll find out if any of them have it in them.
I don't subscribe to this idea that the PCCC members' hands are tied due to threats from leadership.
That power would be rendered moot if the PCCC, as a bloc, took a stand against it. But they won't. And not out of fear or necessity, but out of Machiavellianism and careerism. It's about those campaign finances, bro.
They want the big bucks from the corrupt party.
With Greg Casar and AOC and Ro Khanna and Brad Lander etc all lining up behind Jeffries it does seem like this assessment below of a foregone conclusion is right. Something dramatic would have to happen to derail the train at this point.
One problem is that even organizing a meeting to discuss the possibility of a challenge is risky. If that leaks back to leadership, and you don’t succeed, they’ll “make your life a living hell.”
Collectively they understand voters want change. Individually they’re better off not fighting for it.
At the sams time, that timidity opens up the chance for one person to break out and make a do-or-die run. We’ll find out if any of them have it in them.
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When people like Neera Tanden, Ezra Klein, Third Way pundits tell us we've gone too far on policy when we demand to defund Israel, or to pass universal healthcare, just remember they profit off these lies in one way or another. It's not niavety.
Average people are paying 1/4 or more of their income for healthcare now. Not to mention waits in deductibles, holding out on care, and being unable to change jobs.
All research shows the cost will be far less for the averahe American.
The raising of taxes is a fallacy, because it doesn't consider the multitude of other cost factors.
Remember, the majority of American live pay check to pay check and healthcare is one of the largest costs NOW.
Poll after poll shows the same numbers.
Medicare For All is WILDLY popular.
65%-70% overall
80% of Dems
70%-75% of independents
EVEN 40%-50% of republicans
You are liars!
“The majority of Democrats did not run on Medicare for All. You think Adam Hamilton got elected in KS by saying he wants to kick everyone off their private insurance?”
We should fight for universal healthcare. Not force a vote on a bill voters don't want.
More from @Lis_Smith:
When we get gaslit about this being the "biggest change in our lifetime" when Dems have made it clear they'll do nothing, remember $ 11.9 BILLION was spent on elections.
Meaning, there is an entire industry of consultants, marketing firms, influencers, listservs, orgs, staffers that profit.
And boy, are they excited.
Really think about the argument liberal progressives are making that if AOC, Ro Khanna, Pressley, etc. vote against Jeffries, he and the party will refuse to assist them on policy for their districts.
It's ironically exposing that the Dem party and leaders are petulant opportunists who despise the public.
Democrats aren't going to do any of that, dude.
Kyle Kulinski: “The only way you can guarantee the Republican Party stays a permanent minority is to actually deliver for the people. That means democratic socialism or social democracy. That means Medicare for All, free college, no more medical debt, a living wage, unions for all, taxing the rich, ending these wars, stop sending money to genocidal terror states like Israel”
This guy keeps claiming that I defend the doupoly, entryism, and Dems. The irony. 🤣🤣
The fallacy of entryism is a large bulk of my coverage. And how reformism failed.
People create strawmen to argue with then try to knock it down.
The internet is a strange place.
Being a former congressional advisor explains the entire conditioning.
You spent your career trying to execute "non-establishment" entryism inside federal races. Even when you write articles admitting it failed, you still can't break out of the electoral cage: you still defend the duopoly's ballot box, you still attack non-compliance as a "fallacy," and you still mock people who hold a moral line as "badass leftists".
You took withholding consent personally because it rejects the very apparatus you dedicated years of your life to advising.
