Democratic (Party) Direction

Ilhan Omar is a leader with strength and courage. She won't back down to Trump's racism and hate, and neither will we. The disgusting and dangerous attacks against her must end.

— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) April 13, 2019

good for him

Warren has spoken out as well.

Warrens tweet was even better because she called out anyone in dem leadership unwilling to publicly stand behind Omar

for posterity

The President is inciting violence against a sitting Congresswoman—and an entire group of Americans based on their religion. It's disgusting. It's shameful. And any elected leader who refuses to condemn it shares responsibility for it.

— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) April 13, 2019

Its unrealistic for Schumer or Biden to defend Ilhan, come on now

Pelosi. well, she got her magazine cover - though it was kind of surprising she did that I thought!

"realism" sucks

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2019/03/all-about-pete

Don't know this site, so I don't know if ILX is suspicious of Current Affairs (educate me) but this definitely makes me more skeptical about Pete Buttigieg

this article was discussed at some length in the 2020 Dem primary thread

For all the talk we hear from Pelosi, Hoyer, Schumer and the rest of Democratic leadership about the importance of party “unity,” they never seem to think it’s important to unify behind members who are progressive and/or not DCCC frontliners.

— Every Billionaire Is A Policy Failure (@DanRiffle) April 13, 2019

Tlaib has had enough

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. https://t.co/7T1OlwS1YG

— Rashida Tlaib (@RashidaTlaib) April 13, 2019

"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"

the genius of Nanc

Nancy Pelosi: "By and large whatever orientation they came to Congress with, they know we have to hold the center. We have to go down the mainstream."

60 Minutes: "You have these wings. @AOC and her group on one side..."

Pelosi: "That's like five people." pic.twitter.com/yxVQDiUxgu

— Waleed Shahid (@_waleedshahid) April 14, 2019

awful

surfin' the mainstream straight into the apocalypse

gurl, damn that's some epic shade more tea plz beyonce.gif

Jayapal for speaker ASAP por favor

democratic (party) grim resignation thread

Rise of the Hickenloopers

it is literally never necessary to look at who posts the tweets on any of these threads

that's nice

(and you know what that means in the South)

hey it's in a tweet i guess she didnt really say it

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/05/coming-generation-war/588670/

sorry 4 niall content

When about 40% of the resources are monopolized by the top 1%, then the remaining people fight over the scraps. Let's change the first term of that equation.

The Koch Brothers are considering spending tons of money to defend Democratic incumbents from progressive primary challengers.https://t.co/xhRcn9Wp0v

— Waleed Shahid (@_waleedshahid) June 10, 2019

i'm sure they'll throw in Stop Bernie dough if needed

more of this plz

Long-time New York Democratic Rep. Eliot Engel has drawn a primary challenger in his 2020 reelection bid who is supported by a key group that backed Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) in her upset win.

Middle school principal and former teacher Jamaal Bowman launched his progressive campaign on Tuesday to represent New York’s 16th congressional district, pitting himself against Engel, who has served 16 terms.

Bowman’s platform shows support for Medicare for All, the Green New Deal, increased investment in public schools, free college and reforms to the criminal justice system, according to his video.

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/449019-justice-democrats-announces-primary-challenger-for-engel

my parents live in engel's district and, uh, good luck bowman

people should run opposition even when there is no hope of winning in that election cycle.

I’m rooting for Bowman, and hopefully he’ll pull off an upset, but I have realistic expectations

"Why yes -- I *too* support neoliberalism and militarism! Corporations are our friends! Our Wise Leaders always have our best interests at heart! Family Guy is not a ripoff of The Simpsons!" https://t.co/6LqvfA2kNK

— Dennis Perrin (@DennisThePerrin) July 13, 2019

"see dennis perrin's other tweets" links to a morbs page somewhere in the ilx multiverse

There should be a thread for Dennis Perrin tweets. iirc

I'd ask (the Americans) if we are all on the same side

Trump wants to make AOC, Pressley, Tlaib and Omar the faces of the Democratic Party. The Democrats, whose current faces of the party are Schumer, Pelosi, Hoyer and Biden, should say, thank you very much, Mr. President, for doing what we should've done ourselves.

— Jeffrey St. Clair (@JSCCounterPunch) July 19, 2019

won't argue with that one, other than that I could definitely not pick Steny Hoyer out of a lineup of miserable white congressmen

Dems commissioning and then leaking that uneducated-whites-only polling to Axios to smear the Squad was some truly despicable shit, even before Trump used the polling to bash them.

as Perrin says, bad cop-bad cop

I believe it was Mark Russell who once rhymed "anyhoo" with "Steny who?"

This is good:

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2019/12/19/no-more-nice-democrats/

Thats a very good piece!

hell yeah

icymi, P4reeene on the Decade From Hell:

"The story of American politics over the past decade is that of a political party on the cusp of enduring power and world-historical social reform, and how these once imaginable outcomes were methodically squandered."

https://newrepublic.com/article/156066/decade-liberal-delusion-failure-obama-presidency

Pelosi & Schumer’s tone is procedural updates, boring partisan jabs & patronizing ‘you dont understand how the game works’ head-patting. It’s devoid of any class politics or rage or urgency. 1/3rd of the economy evaporated overnight & it sounds like just another day at the office

— Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) April 22, 2020

How can I fp Adam H. Johnson? I'd like to 51 him asap.

If there's one thing missing from US politics atm, it is rage. Everyone is so polite these day that it's hard to get anyone on social media to even admit there are any problems with how things are, let alone work up a good frothing rage over those problems.

not Grancy & Schmucko

that dude is a friend of a friend and I remember pretending to be interested in his phone charging startup at a party years ago. this was long before he made a career out of being the dude who left angry comments on blog posts. he is exactly what you would expect irl.

https://www.bizjournals.com/newyork/news/2013/02/11/how-annoying-bar-customers-with-dead.html

Contrary to the classic Saul Steinberg New Yorker cover where the world stops at the Hudson River, Brightbox’s recharging stations are found in nearby Connecticut and New Jersey but also in California and Florida.

Johnson thinks the concept of recharging a fading phone battery will work anywhere. He refers to New York Times’ columnist Thomas Friedman’s influential book to say, “The world is flat. There’s little difference between New York, Moscow and Madrid.”