What’s the thing about Dem leadership not protecting its progressive members come from? I mean beyond the broader security issues that put all the Dem reps at risk on 1/6
― “Big” Don Abernathy, Tuesday, 2 February 2021 19:31 (three years ago) link
excellent posts djp
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 19:34 (three years ago) link
It is terrifying, yes. It's also an artifact of the Democratic politician's assumption that the loonies are all talk, no action, and that the country is inexorably marching towards their point of view so there's no need to push/sell people on their viewpoints as they are just Common Sense. It's their hubristic complacency that hamstrung the latter part of Obama's presidency, warped AMA into a form that hurts as many people as it helps, and creates gigantic blind spots in how their agenda is being interpreted and what people in this country are thinking at any given time.
I will say that I don't expect the DCCC of the past few years to wholeheartedly embraces a fully progressive agenda so I understand why they would have candidate priorities different from AOC and I understand why she wouldn't want to fundraise for them. I think that's understandable and good tension and it would be odd to me if it didn't exist. I still don't think that means the Democratic establishment is intentionally with full malice attempting to endanger and harm its progressive members, particularly since AOC, Tlaib, and Pressley all retained seats on the FSC after its size was contracted. None of this is to say that the Democratic leadership has done a great job of integrating and supporting the progressive members that have joined them in Congress but it isn't in any of their interests to set them up to fail and, if there's one thing we can depend on national politicians to do, it's act in their own self-interest.
― Hello Nice FBI Lady (DJP), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 19:40 (three years ago) link
I'm concerned that the difference between full malice or complacency won't matter if something happens. Various republicans have been refusing to go through metal detectors for a month now. I hope Cori Bush's resolution to investigate/remove reps from the House for voting against certifying the election goes somewhere, although Idk what its chances are.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 19:50 (three years ago) link
I share that concern but I also think it's easier to get someone to take you seriously if they haven't been paying as much attention to you as they should have been paying than when they actively hate you and want you to fail.
― Hello Nice FBI Lady (DJP), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 19:52 (three years ago) link
I also think the insurrection shook some of the complacency off of the Democratic Party as a whole, who are absolutely making moves and staunchly supporting positions they would have tepidly offered up as fodder for bipartisan compromise two months ago.
― Hello Nice FBI Lady (DJP), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 19:54 (three years ago) link
looks like a bunch of right-wingers are accusing her of making the whole thing up because she wasn't in the main capitol building at the time
kind of summarizes conservatism as a whole, just because *they* make up shit that's so easily debunked, it must mean the other side would as well
― frogbs, Wednesday, 3 February 2021 20:51 (three years ago) link
Friendly reminder to keep generously tipping your bartenders, servers, delivery, venue, and hospitality workers. ☺️🌹 https://t.co/gjxRaNEtfe— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) May 13, 2021
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 13 May 2021 21:32 (two years ago) link
(And no this is not intended for magic the gathering players, you’re cool w/ me)— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) May 13, 2021
i'm not sure what this reference is, but you have to appreciate a politician shouting out M:TG
― parenthetically yours, (Karl Malone), Thursday, 13 May 2021 22:23 (two years ago) link
Marjorie Taylor Greene
― intern at pelican brief consulting (Simon H.), Thursday, 13 May 2021 22:24 (two years ago) link
It's just a reference to Manu Raju shortening Marjorie Taylor Greene's name to MTG.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 13 May 2021 22:24 (two years ago) link
she really does have the best fadeaway jumper in the game
― Washington Generals D-League affiliate (will), Thursday, 13 May 2021 22:28 (two years ago) link
Nice
you're cool w/ us too— Magic: The Gathering (@wizards_magic) May 13, 2021
― frogbs, Thursday, 13 May 2021 22:29 (two years ago) link
Greene's arms too short too box with god
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 13 May 2021 22:31 (two years ago) link
to*
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 13 May 2021 22:32 (two years ago) link
i wonder who's going to win in the cool-off between fucking AOC and MTG
― parenthetically yours, (Karl Malone), Thursday, 13 May 2021 22:42 (two years ago) link
“Talking to her. She says screaming. You know what screaming is? Screaming is what people do when rockets are fired at them like Hamas terrorists are firing into Israel,” Greene told reporters.
MTG is the beating heart of...something
― parenthetically yours, (Karl Malone), Thursday, 13 May 2021 23:42 (two years ago) link
it's like she speaks with the obvious intent to get quoted somewhere after, but has no idea what makes a statement quotable
― Feta Van Cheese (Neanderthal), Friday, 14 May 2021 03:31 (two years ago) link
And now it’s revealed that this person showed up to members of Congress’ doors with folks from the mob who infiltrated the Capitol, beat Capitol Police, and strung up nooses in front of the House.If the shoe were on the other foot, the GOP would be calling for my expulsion. https://t.co/ccN01sjbBk— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) May 14, 2021
New: A since-deleted video from 2019 shows MTG harassing @AOC's office through a locked door. Calling her "crazy eyes" and telling her through the office's mailbox slot to "get rid of your diaper" while telling the office to open the door and come out. https://t.co/QgcJucs4o8 pic.twitter.com/ccTufF90Z9— andrew kaczynski (@KFILE) May 14, 2021
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, 14 May 2021 16:05 (two years ago) link
this stupid menace needs to go
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, 14 May 2021 16:07 (two years ago) link
if any democrat - let alone AOC - did anything remotely close to this, it would be all over fox and the #1 they talked about for MONTHS until she was forced to resign
― parenthetically yours, (Karl Malone), Friday, 14 May 2021 16:13 (two years ago) link
Shit, half the Dems would be calling for her to resign.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 14 May 2021 16:14 (two years ago) link
like Hamas terrorists are firing into Israel
Ah I see the update finally finished downloading, was briefly concerned when she was still screaming about antifa terrorists
― rob, Friday, 14 May 2021 16:36 (two years ago) link
the cruelty of people like MTG escapes out of their pores. you can see it especially when they get flustered irl and come up with a counterattack on the fly - it's completely unrelated to what was being discussed, and also it manages to be despicable and wrong in a completely different way
― parenthetically yours, (Karl Malone), Friday, 14 May 2021 16:39 (two years ago) link
a close bigot in my life used to do that. the issue would be stuff like "stay on the trail" and he would immediately flip to "but YOU probably had an ABORTION!"
― parenthetically yours, (Karl Malone), Friday, 14 May 2021 16:40 (two years ago) link
but imagine being like that, and then being rewarded for it by your own constituents, and there's no one left in the party to tell you "no". she's a fucking mess
― parenthetically yours, (Karl Malone), Friday, 14 May 2021 16:41 (two years ago) link
the people of GA district 14 can go fuck off too
i kind of want to go there and troll her constituents as she trolls the rest of the country on their behalf
― parenthetically yours, (Karl Malone), Friday, 14 May 2021 16:42 (two years ago) link
maybe i should go yell things at them through their front doors
yeah she's like a right-wing blog comment from 2003 made into a human, screaming "Chappaquiddick" at you when you voice the opinion that maybe torture is bad
― rob, Friday, 14 May 2021 16:43 (two years ago) link
I guess I am slightly curious if those three idiots realized how much their three little pigs routine looked like an amateur horror movie
― rob, Friday, 14 May 2021 16:44 (two years ago) link
maybe they've been doing this forever but I've noticed this a ton since the Trump era, you can't talk to them about anything without them flipping to the one topic they actually want to discuss. "the destruction of our environment? if you ask me the real issue facing the American people is the destruction of emails, but you never want to talk about that, I wonder why"
― frogbs, Friday, 14 May 2021 16:46 (two years ago) link
lmao but they have been doing this for a while for sure. It may have taken on a more cult-like vibe since 2016 though
― rob, Friday, 14 May 2021 16:47 (two years ago) link
And if the target does the smart thing by refusing to engage when they ambush out of nowhere, they screech about how they "refuse to debate".
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 14 May 2021 16:48 (two years ago) link
also I mentioned this in the Politics thread but she talks exactly like On Cinema Tim: "Alexandra Okay-sio Cortez. I'm an American citizen. I pay your salary through the taxes you collect from me through the IRS. Because I'm a taypaying citizen of the United States. I'm a woman, and I'm a female...business owner. And I'm proud to be an American woman. And I do not support your socialist policies and I do not support your murderous abortion...policies"
― frogbs, Friday, 14 May 2021 16:49 (two years ago) link
These are as bad as policies can get and it's so horrible that they're still making these kinds of policies
― frogbs, Friday, 14 May 2021 16:50 (two years ago) link
she talks exactly like On Cinema Tim
otm. it's like how trump is just Tim's Decker
― parenthetically yours, (Karl Malone), Friday, 14 May 2021 16:57 (two years ago) link
I really wish she didn’t start whatever that is with Taylor-Greene, she is so above all that.
― Van Horn Street, Friday, 14 May 2021 17:00 (two years ago) link
No it’s very funny and cool actually
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Friday, 14 May 2021 17:04 (two years ago) link
I suppose those are the two adjectives that matters the most today.
― Van Horn Street, Friday, 14 May 2021 17:05 (two years ago) link
I think it's the way she constantly loses her train of thought, like she gets 10 words into a sentence and just forgets what she's talking about. like she's so excited to get to yell at AOC through a mail slot but all she says is like "as a mother of 3, I do not support abortion", which is uh....what? the one thing people mention a lot about Tim is how good he is at speaking like a person who's suffered some kind of brain damage. not saying that Republicans necessarily have brain damage but uh...well, I guess I am
― frogbs, Friday, 14 May 2021 17:07 (two years ago) link
p sure MTG "started" this by harassing AOC?
― Bobo Honk, real name, no gimmicks (Doctor Casino), Friday, 14 May 2021 17:14 (two years ago) link
p sure none of this is going to hurt MTG in any way
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Friday, 14 May 2021 17:36 (two years ago) link
yeah it's kind of feeling like the lesson they learned from the Roy Moore thing was to dig their heels in even further. wonder how that's gonna play out when Gaetz gets arrested.
― frogbs, Friday, 14 May 2021 17:41 (two years ago) link
this is a really weird take on this, considering MTG has been after AOC for quite some time. AOC didn't start shit, she's been trying to do her job despite an unhinged lunatic literally stalking her at her workplace.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 14 May 2021 17:49 (two years ago) link
some would say that MTG started the beef in 2019 when she was yelling through AOC's door and her staff was probably like who the fuck is this
― parenthetically yours, (Karl Malone), Friday, 14 May 2021 18:05 (two years ago) link
but then again, rumors are that in 2018 AOC picked a fight with MTG at a 4th of July picnic in MTG's neighbor's backyard
― parenthetically yours, (Karl Malone), Friday, 14 May 2021 18:06 (two years ago) link
didn't MTG claim last week they'd "agreed to a debate" on the Green New Deal even though the "agreement" was apparently just her yelling at AOC on the floor of the House
― frogbs, Friday, 14 May 2021 18:10 (two years ago) link
idk this is just another version of the Trump problem, you can't interact or cover these people without lending them some air of credibility, and when they're literally at the highest levels of government you can't exactly ignore them like any other lunatic
― frogbs, Friday, 14 May 2021 18:13 (two years ago) link
one option is greatly limiting that obligatory coverage rather than, idk, milking the sensationalist high for clicks
― intern at pelican brief consulting (Simon H.), Friday, 14 May 2021 18:21 (two years ago) link