Sinema's challenger could simply ignore her, and say "I am under no illusions about what the Republicans are, and I will support my party's efforts" or something to that effect. Everyone gets the message that "I won't be pulling a Sinema" but it presupposes that she's going to lose the primary. Besides, Im sure a lot of outside groups will be hammering her anyway.
The problem as I see it is, the media is owned, and controlled by the oligarchs, who really want to keep their tax-cuts. So they will smear the democratic candidate for being "Far-left" when often they are centrists. Biden's great job numbers gets buried in the back pages of WaPo, who are busy stroking the republicans to orgasm, these days, (sorry for that distasteful image BTW) with their new republican editor who is buds with RWNJ John Solomon.
Nina Turner & Shontel Brown are competing again. Still undecided where to go with that; My zone's very new to the district, so I'm playing catch-up.
It would be great if more news sites people read actually told the readers reality instead of pegging everything to Democrats and massaging GOP insanity as legitimate discourse. Democrats are horrifically inept all too often, but I feel like a big reason for weak messaging is that Democrats seem to me to inherently know they will never get a fair shake. Why work on your messaging when you're constantly barraged with headlines the likes of NYTimes Pitchbot retweets or makes up?
So all the Democrats can do is the gritty behind the scenes work that keeps this nation barely functioning as a representative democracy and not as a right wing White Christian ethnostate and hoping for the best.. I feel like this is just a matter of time now and am really having a hard time feeling positive about the midterms and beyond.
On the other hand, some of the candidates with the letter D next to them, yeesh, this is really the best the Party can do?
Pittsburgh here. I've been assuming I'd vote for whichever Dem wins the primary. But Lamb's attack ads have been so vile I'm not sure I'd even be able to force myself to vote for him in the unlikely event he makes it to the ballot. Every time I see one, I find myself remembering Pelosi bleating that there is no room in the Democratic party for views like AOC's. As it happens, I agree with AOC and Fetterman on every issue important to me. If there's no room for those views in the Dem party, then I guess there must not be room for me either. I keep voting for them on the ground that (most) of them aren't quite as bad as most Republicans, but ads like the ones Lamb is running make me wonder about that.
"almost" is doing almost no lifting in that sentence. I don't condone or excuse him pulling a gun, it's very risky behavior out in public, however he has discussed this incident, he couldn't see that the guy running from the direction of loud bangs was black, he didn't shoot. He has addressed his “I made a split-second decision to intervene for the safety and protection of my community, and intercepted the person to stop them from going any further until the first responders could arrive,” but you're here in the chatcave hanging out with DJT and painting Fetterman as Amaud Arbury's murderers.Maybe the "eager as hell" party in this conversation is you KB.
My comment was directed at the anti-squad types around here. The squad was trying to make Nancy P hold to her promise to pass the bills together, but a few special elections were on the table and the powers that be decided to pass the bipartisan bill first, to show something got done, and in the end the squad was right, centrists backed away from BBB and now it's dead, and the midterms are coming up with the dems looking like they can't move the ball forward on some very popular and urgent legislation. I wasn't trying to put you on the spot Shan, I was trying to remind centrist squad-haters that they weren't wrong about BBB.
You are exactly excusing his behavior. And you are taking his account of things as gospel, because really, what reason would he have to lie about his motives or actions ?
Of note: Fetterman didn't call the police; other people did. Fetterman wasn't thinking in terms of "until the first responders could arrive"; he didn't factor them into the equation at all.
"safety and protection of [his] community"
There was only one person in danger, and Fetterman put that person in danger.
But hey, what is a black man's life in comparison to a progressive's political ambitions?
Conner, is that you?
That you, Conner?
Sinema's challenger could simply ignore her, and say "I am under no illusions about what the Republicans are, and I will support my party's efforts" or something to that effect. Everyone gets the message that "I won't be pulling a Sinema" but it presupposes that she's going to lose the primary. Besides, Im sure a lot of outside groups will be hammering her anyway.
I want to see Fetterman cruelly mock Dr. Oz. But I also don’t want Oz to be the candidate. That’s just too close for comfort.
He is not. That's a Fetterman talking point. He's a reliable Democrat who votes with Biden.
Okay.
https://www.nytimes.com/202...
For all his flaws, he has that AOC flair for making repug heads explode.
The problem as I see it is, the media is owned, and controlled by the oligarchs, who really want to keep their tax-cuts. So they will smear the democratic candidate for being "Far-left" when often they are centrists. Biden's great job numbers gets buried in the back pages of WaPo, who are busy stroking the republicans to orgasm, these days, (sorry for that distasteful image BTW) with their new republican editor who is buds with RWNJ John Solomon.
Nina Turner & Shontel Brown are competing again. Still undecided where to go with that; My zone's very new to the district, so I'm playing catch-up.
Yeah let's blame the Dems on loss of reproductive rights.
Sigh
It would be great if more news sites people read actually told the readers reality instead of pegging everything to Democrats and massaging GOP insanity as legitimate discourse. Democrats are horrifically inept all too often, but I feel like a big reason for weak messaging is that Democrats seem to me to inherently know they will never get a fair shake. Why work on your messaging when you're constantly barraged with headlines the likes of NYTimes Pitchbot retweets or makes up?
So all the Democrats can do is the gritty behind the scenes work that keeps this nation barely functioning as a representative democracy and not as a right wing White Christian ethnostate and hoping for the best.. I feel like this is just a matter of time now and am really having a hard time feeling positive about the midterms and beyond.
On the other hand, some of the candidates with the letter D next to them, yeesh, this is really the best the Party can do?
Pittsburgh here. I've been assuming I'd vote for whichever Dem wins the primary. But Lamb's attack ads have been so vile I'm not sure I'd even be able to force myself to vote for him in the unlikely event he makes it to the ballot. Every time I see one, I find myself remembering Pelosi bleating that there is no room in the Democratic party for views like AOC's. As it happens, I agree with AOC and Fetterman on every issue important to me. If there's no room for those views in the Dem party, then I guess there must not be room for me either. I keep voting for them on the ground that (most) of them aren't quite as bad as most Republicans, but ads like the ones Lamb is running make me wonder about that.
I was with a group of PA folks over the weekend and people really seem to be noticing Fetterman in a good way. Let's hope this keeps up.
"almost" is doing almost no lifting in that sentence. I don't condone or excuse him pulling a gun, it's very risky behavior out in public, however he has discussed this incident, he couldn't see that the guy running from the direction of loud bangs was black, he didn't shoot. He has addressed his “I made a split-second decision to intervene for the safety and protection of my community, and intercepted the person to stop them from going any further until the first responders could arrive,” but you're here in the chatcave hanging out with DJT and painting Fetterman as Amaud Arbury's murderers.Maybe the "eager as hell" party in this conversation is you KB.
My comment was directed at the anti-squad types around here. The squad was trying to make Nancy P hold to her promise to pass the bills together, but a few special elections were on the table and the powers that be decided to pass the bipartisan bill first, to show something got done, and in the end the squad was right, centrists backed away from BBB and now it's dead, and the midterms are coming up with the dems looking like they can't move the ball forward on some very popular and urgent legislation. I wasn't trying to put you on the spot Shan, I was trying to remind centrist squad-haters that they weren't wrong about BBB.
"I don't condone or excuse him pulling a gun"
You are exactly excusing his behavior. And you are taking his account of things as gospel, because really, what reason would he have to lie about his motives or actions ?
Of note: Fetterman didn't call the police; other people did. Fetterman wasn't thinking in terms of "until the first responders could arrive"; he didn't factor them into the equation at all.
"safety and protection of [his] community"
There was only one person in danger, and Fetterman put that person in danger.
But hey, what is a black man's life in comparison to a progressive's political ambitions?