November 04, 2021 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized
Okay, when you get to a place where Trae Crowder, James Carville an AOC all agree, maybe it’s time to listen.
HOLLERIN ABOUT VIRGINIA, THE DEM PARTY, AND THE FUTURE pic.twitter.com/EWDoN5p9TU
— Trae Crowder (@traecrowder) November 3, 2021
Carville blames “wokeness,” and AOC says progressives weren’t even invited.
Thelma and I are pretty near starting a beauty shop rebellion.
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A lot of what I post here has to do with local politics, but you probably have the same folks in your local government.
This ain't a blog. Blogs are way too trendy for me. This is a professional political organization.
We were cheering James Carville on last night during Newshour. No handwringing, no excuses, just callling it as he sees it. Count me in for the rebellion.
1Harry Truman said it a long time ago and it still holds.
2“Run a fake Republican against a real one and the real Republican wins every time.”
I know this is OT, but just couldn’t help myself:
GOP’s Allen West involved in physical altercation over masks inside Texas airport – Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/allen-west-2655495367/
3Yee haw! But are you listening DNC? The get out the vote effort is exhausted and past its expiration date. The deliveries are past due. Albeit anyone not an ultra billionaire that votes QOP is voting against their own interests. However, either charming them or educating them are non starters. So please DNC give it up already.
Need a to do list? No problem. Gun safety. Health care. Education. Fair wages. Tax the freeloading corporations and multi-billionaires. Judicial reform. Immigration reform. Familiar list – the Democratic Platform for nearly 4 decades. How to?
1. End the filibuster in the Senate
42. Expand SCROTUS
3. Either fire or “fire up” Merrick Garland
4. Pass the legislation needed; hint: we do not care how you “convince” either Manchin or Sinema. However, far be it for us to suggest anything happening to their beautiful states should those 2 continue down the belligerent trail.
I saw that yesterday and he’s spot on. I hope folks that run the Texas Democratic Party were listening to that for 2022 and 2024!
5Jane & PKM @ 4,
May I add to the list:
5. Begin the process of abolishing the EC. Pass permanent federal voting laws that protect and promote the right to vote for everyone.
6. If they’re really sincere about following the law, then start arresting NOW those who broke the law and are not responding to supoenas, court summons.etc. Bannon, tfg, et al.
6Steve from Beaverton @ 2,
Too bad someone didn’t deck him.
7Papa @6, yes please, add away! We’re all for an active and successful Democratic Party as well as democracy. tRump or no tRump, the QOP will never be the solution to anything. Yes indeed voters rights, and everything possible to counter QOP rat molesting election fraud.
We’d also like to give a shout out and a huge thank you to DaChipster for all the mentoring he did for us over the years at the WMDBS. Your two formerly naive disciples be learning as we continue to absorb all the political history you taught. Thanks!
8Since Carville, et al., got mentioned [I don’t usually pay much attention to him], here’s the whole PBS Newshour segment transcript and video if you want to detail it:
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/why-the-dem-strategy-in-virginia-failed-and-how-youngkin-flipped-the-state
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On the same theme, in one of the poorest neighborhoods, Southside, in the poorest big Texas city, San Antonio, densely Latino, the Rethugs flipped a [formerly] solidly Democratic [Biden +14] TX House district.
If the Dems can’t retain the Hispanic voters [see how the Valley slid towards Red in 2020], some damned fools ain’t doing something right!
https://www.ksat.com/news/texas/2021/11/03/texas-democrats-went-all-in-to-protect-a-san-antonio-area-house-seat-from-flipping-the-gop-still-took-it/
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9BTW, I sometimes cite and post over at Daily Kos, which a lot of you probably follow too. Whelp, no more. After getting ticked off about the elections at some of the more PC and pusillanimous denizens therein, got myself ‘bojo’d’, heheh…
Sandridge @9, it has been our experience that other than the Qcumber snowflakes, there are none so WATB than centrist, third way or corporate Democrats. As we would anyone we ALLOW them to self describe; even the so called liberals We are even so kind as to NOT call them “limousine” liberal, albeit we ARE thinking that. In the interest of sportsmanship and fairness, we’ll even concede that the US is a centrist nation. In return:
They howl like stuck pigs when the facts are there that despite all our best efforts the QOP has been steering the country hard fascist since FDR, and accelerating like a bat out of hell since Reagan. We get centered. We get balanced. We also understand that to achieve even that crumb of an improvement, the course correction requires a steady HARD turn to the progressive.
10In regards to Dems losing the Hispanic vote, AOC has been tweeting lately about the Spanish disinformation sites on FB. None of which are being addressed. Dems had better get on it.
11I don’t understand the way the Democratic party fights. It’s almost as if they’re not trying to win. Which may well be the case, considering that they’re beholden to big money just as much as the Republicans are.
12I went for Terry AGAIN cuz I well remember the surplus his administration raised without taxing everyone to death. Plus he was savvy and actually had a personality to back up the brain department. I also liked the fact that when he started out he was just a kid and got his hands dirty raising his own money by installing driveways! Youngkin impressed me as being just way too genteel by comparison despite his claim to come from a blue collar family where he had to work his way into college via an athletic scholarship. I was also totally unimpressed by Youngkin’s tv ads about students, elementary to high school, turning the classrooms into bare knuckle jungles. I challenge that point. I have been active over the years in PTA etc. etc. and I do not know where that footage came from. When I was teaching school there were small eruptions among small groups over really stupid stuff but none worthy of footage and mostly involving boys. These same boys must have grown up to identify with Trump and vote for him. Simply put, I do not trust Youngkin for his trumpian allegiance. I expect the next legislative session to be a very hot one over all the antideluvian bills the R’s will want to pass on restricting voting, school issues and of course protecting their right to view females as political objects.
13Vic, Lakoff said it in what I remember as a small part of Don’t Think of an Elephant.
14Republicans think long term.
Democrats try to fix things now. Solving problems. Using government to help people.
Republicans have painted government as the enemy.
So they send people into it that do nothing.
If that’s a main plank of their platform, look at all the winning they’re doing.
Winning is ALL they care about.
Getting things done would look efficient as hell if only one person did it, without anyone challenging them.
There’s several names for that, but democracy isn’t one of them.
The people we’ve got fighting for us now are strong willed, opinionated, and have different opinions on what needs to be done.
And I think most of them realize their window is probably narrow, so they fight even harder.
It looks inefficient, and it is.
Intentionally, because that’s the way the framers intended it.
If Democrats all fell in line, they wouldn’t be Democrats.
They’d be Republicans.
Having said that, watching what’s going on in Congress is driving me crazy.
15If we hold out too long and end up with less than we can get right now, we won’t just look ineffectual, we’ll be ineffectual.
And we do have to weigh the gain/loss in political capital.
Because as monumental as these two pieces of legislation are, IMHO, they take a back seat to voting rights legislation.
We could pass Medicare for all, but it wouldn’t be worth the paper it was written on after 2024 if Repugnantcans’ voter laws allowed to stand.
It’d be game over.
So the winning still has to be done too.
I don’t know where the balance is.
I’m just lobbing smack from the cheap seats.
I hope congressional Democrats leverage good economic news (good for some) to get stuff done. The rich are getting richer in the stock market and elsewhere, but the middle class is not participating nearly equally. If not, this is an opportunity lost. The economy can pay for it now and economic growth being a side benefit, will benefit the rich even more. But at least the middle class may be able to participate if they pass Biden’s agenda.
16Repugnanticans are good at leveraging bad news, so we should do the same with some good news. Goddamit Manchit and Sinema, your constituents should be able to see that their obstruction is not good for them.
Grandma Ada: The TDP approach seems to be: keep doing the stuff that hasn’t worked in decades, and when it doesn’t work again, fire the people in charge and hire another batch who will do the exact same thing. Rinse, repeat.
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