US Democrats have appointed Rep. Gerry Connolly, a 74-year-old congressman, battling a deadly form of cancer as the top Democrat for oversight, a key role overseeing investigations into public corruption and misconduct for the next two years. 1/4 🧵
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Emblematic of everything that is wrong with the party. And our two party system. Time to help build something new. Hope y’all are participating ✌🏼
dec 18, 2024, 11:14 am • 0 0 • view
Yeah totally smart move dems JFC
dec 18, 2024, 9:01 am • 1 0 • view
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dec 18, 2024, 3:19 pm • 0 0 • view
What a joke.
dec 17, 2024, 9:23 pm • 2 0 • view
JFC. Burning themselves down.
dec 17, 2024, 10:09 pm • 0 0 • view
I’m not one to make accusations, but this was not what I would have done. Can’t they find someone who’s not so old and not so sick???
dec 17, 2024, 9:44 pm • 0 0 • view
Old white men on their death bed. We passed on @aoc.bsky.social for this? Dems are you fucking stupid right now?!
dec 17, 2024, 10:40 pm • 6 1 • view
Why though
dec 18, 2024, 11:30 am • 3 0 • view
Democrats fail again. Youth, female and smart but they chose the old fart.
dec 18, 2024, 11:07 am • 5 0 • view
these democrats are a rotting corpse
dec 17, 2024, 9:10 pm • 14 0 • view
Let’s replace them with the People’s Party
dec 18, 2024, 1:39 pm • 0 0 • view
This seems to be one of the problems with dem party, seems like decisions are always based on seniority rather than merit
dec 17, 2024, 9:58 pm • 1 0 • view
You don't think the GOP doesn't?
dec 17, 2024, 10:57 pm • 0 0 • view
I would assume they do as well. Bottom line is leadership doesn’t do what the majority of we the people want b/c they are more concerned about keeping their jobs
dec 17, 2024, 11:01 pm • 2 0 • view
If they lose their jobs there won’t be that sweet sweet insider’s trade money coming in anymore.
dec 18, 2024, 1:45 pm • 1 0 • view
We’re not sending our best.
dec 17, 2024, 9:11 pm • 1 0 • view
This person must attend all meetings and calls without using chemotherapy as an excuse.
dec 18, 2024, 1:15 pm • 2 0 • view
OMG. Now if this doesn’t say it all! He’s too old! AOC should get it! Insane! Old Dems RETIRE you selfish people!
dec 17, 2024, 9:11 pm • 12 0 • view
They’re boomers - they have always occupied the center of the universe and always will. They eat their young, it’s what they do
dec 18, 2024, 12:24 am • 3 0 • view
As a boomer I am all for younger people taking the reins. I hate this decision
dec 18, 2024, 1:41 am • 6 0 • view
I apologize for my broad brush, but the trend is real
dec 18, 2024, 1:42 am • 1 0 • view
I get you. I can tell you all of my friends feel as I do. Every one.
dec 18, 2024, 1:46 am • 4 0 • view
this has me wild w anger
dec 17, 2024, 9:12 pm • 1 0 • view
I’m re-registering as unaffiliated. I’m tired of this old guard that just keeps losing and won’t step away. Such arrogance
dec 17, 2024, 9:19 pm • 12 0 • view
This could be seen as a clear example of obstructing the oversight committee, as Rep. Connolly, even if he survives, is likely to be absent due to the grueling nature of his medical treatment, which would essentially incapacitate him. 2/4
dec 17, 2024, 9:09 pm • 45 5 • view
However, Connolly, does have a strong resume, making him one of the few US politicians to call out Israeli war criminal Netanyahu for his massacres and was previously elected president of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in 2020, where he has focused on strengthening the US presence within NATO. 3/4
dec 17, 2024, 9:09 pm • 38 2 • view
While the US sinks into legal turmoil due to the election of the organized crime linked Donald Trump and his cabal of criminal billionaires, the pool of ethical law abiding politicians and officials continues to dry. 4/4
dec 17, 2024, 9:09 pm • 41 5 • view
We continue to shoot ourselves in the foot. I had surgery for a rare, aggressive sarcoma in early August of this year and I still have yet to get up to speed. It slowed me down all the way around. This is no time to play with anything as serious as this. Put somebody else in and let him advise.
dec 17, 2024, 9:32 pm • 3 0 • view
Because we couldn’t pick the young, qualified woman. We’ll take the old dude that is most likely gonna struggle to keep up with failing health. Are there any in the back that are still wondering why democrats are failing us?
dec 17, 2024, 9:12 pm • 20 0 • view
Wow.
dec 18, 2024, 1:34 am • 0 0 • view
I am sorry, he is probably normally a good choice, but too old and to ill to handle this.
dec 17, 2024, 9:24 pm • 1 0 • view
Top Democrats made the bed for the Trump return to presidency.
dec 17, 2024, 10:10 pm • 3 1 • view
Ah yes, the bold new future of the Democratic Party.
dec 19, 2024, 12:50 am • 0 0 • view
I think they did this as a chess move to appeal to the moderates, boomers, etc. The old guard appeals to swing reds. While I love AOC, there are still a lot of people who are triggered by word "soc" and "prog" and generally feel the youth don't know enough yet. Sad.
jan 30, 2025, 5:40 am • 0 0 • view
They could have chosen AOC. WTAF?
dec 17, 2024, 9:18 pm • 0 0 • view
Term limits on Senators and SCOTUS.
dec 17, 2024, 10:16 pm • 2 0 • view
Term limits on every single local, state, and federal government position whether elected or appointed. Then we must erect safeguards and screening procedures for any potential candidates seeking public office or appointment. Before any of these advances we must skin and gut and abolish lobbies.
dec 18, 2024, 1:49 pm • 1 1 • view
Also, a ban on securities trading for all branches of government and their immediate families.
dec 18, 2024, 1:58 pm • 1 0 • view
I want my DNC donations refunded
dec 18, 2024, 2:00 am • 2 0 • view
They wants the monies and you get nothings
dec 18, 2024, 1:52 pm • 0 0 • view
What a joke.
dec 17, 2024, 9:12 pm • 6 0 • view
because Dems are better just because of how bad MAGA is. Otherwise Dems is an utter joke
dec 17, 2024, 9:16 pm • 3 0 • view
US Dems are idiots.
dec 17, 2024, 9:12 pm • 6 0 • view
Some of these comments...ugh. The AG refuses to uphold the rule of law and ppl blame him (rightfully so), but not the POTUS who appointed him, who's most basic job rrsponsibility is to be sure the rule of law is upheld. Democrats appoint an aging sick person to head oversight & once again ppl say
dec 18, 2024, 10:54 am • 1 0 • view
things to imply they just didnt know better. I dont personally share much in the way of political views with AOC but I respect her. If oversight were the goal it seems a bit unbelievable that she wasnt chosen to lead the committee.
dec 18, 2024, 11:00 am • 1 0 • view
The supreme court stopped Trump's prosecution.
dec 18, 2024, 11:01 am • 0 0 • view
The SCOTUS is thoroughly and obviously corrupted. Our constitution is about having no kings, not the other way around.
dec 18, 2024, 11:04 am • 0 0 • view
Also, that decision was more recent.
dec 18, 2024, 11:05 am • 0 0 • view
I don’t think the Democrats wish to ever win anything again
dec 17, 2024, 11:10 pm • 4 0 • view
They’re being paid to lie down and die
dec 18, 2024, 1:51 pm • 1 0 • view
I wish I could disagree but I cannot.
dec 18, 2024, 6:02 pm • 0 0 • view
Smh, thanks Nancy. 
dec 17, 2024, 9:11 pm • 8 0 • view
emocrats are so unserious anymore. Like they don’t even care why we’re where we are these days and why the younger generations are shifting to the right. Democratic leadership needs to learn to pass the torch before the grave, not after.
dec 18, 2024, 10:47 am • 0 0 • view
Why?
dec 17, 2024, 10:55 pm • 0 0 • view
Then step down and let the new generation take charge.
dec 17, 2024, 9:12 pm • 5 0 • view
Gerry's a good guy, but, holy shit, would it KILL you guys to appoint someone younger than 60? (Whose initials are AOC...)
dec 17, 2024, 9:21 pm • 10 0 • view
WTAF??? As a life long Democrat this makes me sick 🤢 So disappointed in Pelosi and the institutionalists who won’t make way for new action and thinking.
dec 17, 2024, 9:22 pm • 0 0 • view
Remember the Pelosi and her gang have all been in this game for their own personal fortunes too. They belong to the same class of rich assholes who belong on the sacrificial pyre of liberty. Let them all burn to ashes.
dec 18, 2024, 1:43 pm • 1 0 • view
Well said
dec 18, 2024, 7:09 pm • 0 0 • view
dec 17, 2024, 9:54 pm • 0 0 • view
What on Earth are they thinking? There has got to be behind the scenes IOUs being cashed in here.
dec 17, 2024, 10:09 pm • 0 0 • view
Hope it’s bc he is free to drag their asses Free to say whatever he wants
dec 29, 2024, 8:01 pm • 0 0 • view
They are part of the coverup
dec 18, 2024, 11:07 am • 1 0 • view
It's the age old story of "one hand washing another" He's probably done favors and now it's payback time. The Dems are imploding!
dec 17, 2024, 9:53 pm • 1 0 • view
I would really like to hear their reasoning for this decision.
dec 17, 2024, 9:11 pm • 14 0 • view
AOC is young and scary. She makes the cadavers look bad
dec 17, 2024, 10:26 pm • 0 0 • view
Anything to keep a younger player like AOC away from meaningful power. Seems to be the goal usually.
dec 17, 2024, 9:14 pm • 1 0 • view
They won't give us one
dec 17, 2024, 9:14 pm • 6 0 • view
AOC is too progressive for Nancy Pelosi.
dec 17, 2024, 9:46 pm • 1 0 • view
I’m sorry but why would someone at 74 with this disease put himself in contention and more importantly, why would enough congresspeople vote for him against a young, female rising star who is an excellent communicator? Thanks, Nancy Pelosi
dec 18, 2024, 1:39 am • 4 0 • view
Money
dec 18, 2024, 1:51 pm • 1 0 • view
What the fuck are we even doing anymore
dec 17, 2024, 10:37 pm • 3 0 • view