they are so ill-suited for the moment. we don’t need genteel politicos. we need fucking bomb throwers. no “work across the aisle” types. i’m talking “burn it all down and salt the earth” types.
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They have no stomach for democracy saving.
aug 31, 2025, 5:04 pm • 2 0 • view
We absolutely don't need to work gently with authoritarian bullies/oligarchs & their foolish/cruel sycophants. But, IMO, using warmongering terms to describe what's needed simply mimics their destructive fear & resentment. Resist with conviction & humor. Tell the truth. Don't give up.
aug 31, 2025, 5:34 pm • 0 0 • view
We need more gen xers. We were feral. Zero fucks to give. Drank from the hose. Ran until we couldn’t run anymore. We know how to get down and dirty. Fuck em all.
sep 1, 2025, 1:03 am • 0 0 • view
100% this
sep 1, 2025, 1:01 am • 0 0 • view
Carthago Delenda Est
sep 1, 2025, 2:32 am • 0 0 • view
They are not up to moment and need to be replaced. This is @crockett.house.gov time, not kumbuya time
aug 31, 2025, 5:31 pm • 5 0 • view
Exactly. And it's really weird that establishment Dems haven't understood this yet. Campaigning and governing are two entirely different skill sets, and while Rs pretty much only campaign and don't/can't govern, establishment Ds went hard the other way like it was the high road. Gotta do both.
aug 31, 2025, 5:09 pm • 3 0 • view
Yes, it's like Republicans are using guerrilla warfare and Dems are fighting in phalanx formation. 🙄
aug 31, 2025, 9:25 pm • 1 0 • view
aug 31, 2025, 5:10 pm • 1 0 • view
I need an opposition that ends every floor speech with the GOP equivalent of "Carthago delenda est."
aug 31, 2025, 5:23 pm • 0 0 • view
I'd like to see every speech, address or interview ended with, "release Epstein files."
aug 31, 2025, 5:59 pm • 1 0 • view
Roomared that Jeffries and Schumer have borrowed the dino of dictionary from Grassley. They are looking for new strong words, for their next letter, in the "Thesaurus".😇
aug 31, 2025, 5:29 pm • 0 0 • view
I second that opinion!
aug 31, 2025, 5:07 pm • 2 0 • view
We’ve spent decades talking about what people should’ve done in similar situations in other countries and what we would do if it happened in America and then here it comes and all that happens is some lame tsk-tsking. It is beyond words.
aug 31, 2025, 5:55 pm • 9 1 • view
We’re gonna get some weak sauce again for the 2026 appropriations bills instead of a hard shutdown stance.
aug 31, 2025, 5:20 pm • 0 0 • view
💯 They are weak, weak-kneed and use an overused though apt word, performative. Talk. Tell. Talk. Run in the other direction. Feh.
aug 31, 2025, 5:06 pm • 2 0 • view
They advanced in the party at a time when R's were relatively normal and hadn't shown their full racist/fascist program. So they still think they can deal with R's as a normal party with slightly different views. But all the R's have sworn the oath to Trump and no longer care about normalcy.
aug 31, 2025, 7:53 pm • 2 0 • view
Agree. They simply don’t get it. And they are ruining us.
sep 1, 2025, 12:29 am • 0 0 • view
Exactly why Biden was NOT my first choice, Warren would have changed history. I voted for Biden in the general so don't start...
aug 31, 2025, 7:23 pm • 2 0 • view
Look and learn from Newsom and Pritzger......gloves off
aug 31, 2025, 7:51 pm • 0 0 • view
For the VERY least - to GET. The. Clicks!!! Yes!!! IT MATTERS!! We are an attention economy and sadly, WE MUST BE ENTERTAINED!!
aug 31, 2025, 10:21 pm • 0 0 • view
so much suffering could have been saved if, on day one of the doge dorks taking over washington, they'd sent the entire congressional delegation in for oversight and said "dare you to arrest us all" instead of being turned away by a rent-a-cop and then giving some strongly worded speeches outside
aug 31, 2025, 5:15 pm • 7 0 • view
Doesn't seem like there's a lot left to burn, Trump and Musk did their job. But, when the rebuilding starts, I want Schumer the hell away from it or we'll get the same economically lopsided mess we had last time.
aug 31, 2025, 6:40 pm • 2 0 • view
Everything thing except the 'burn it all down' part because that's what the MAGAs are doing and we need to 'burn them all down' -- metaphorically of course.
aug 31, 2025, 5:25 pm • 0 0 • view
I keep trying to imagine Newt Gingrich saying "in terms of how we will respond ... we will make that decision in a time, place and manner of our choosing" but my imagination is coming up short. I want someone in D leadership to print out an EO & burn it on camera
aug 31, 2025, 9:31 pm • 0 0 • view
These people either have never been bullied, or have been in power for so long they forgot how to actually deal with bullies. The *worst* thing to do is to "play nice." You fight hard, and so viciously that the bully is afraid to cross you AND all those you care about.
aug 31, 2025, 6:04 pm • 1 0 • view
🎯
aug 31, 2025, 6:03 pm • 0 0 • view
For the love of god and democracy and everything good and right, yes, please.
aug 31, 2025, 6:12 pm • 1 0 • view
My Sen, one of the "leaders" of Dems, wrote a recent opinion piece in the local paper. Focused on "bipartisan" legis she's working on with Blackburn and Tillis...👀. I don't want to see that shitte. She also mentioned in the past about being friends with Lee.😡🤬. Clueless, and not meeting the moment.
aug 31, 2025, 5:11 pm • 3 0 • view
Have you ever thought of running for office, Shauna?
aug 31, 2025, 5:51 pm • 0 0 • view
They expect "business as usual" without realizing we are no longer dealing with a sane faction. They've brought a strongly-worded letter to a gunfight.
aug 31, 2025, 6:09 pm • 0 0 • view
Yasss! No more “going high” crap. Fight like democracy depends on it, because it does. I’ll personally point and boo at anyone that says they want to “work across the aisle.”
aug 31, 2025, 9:31 pm • 0 0 • view
Yup, this is not a moment when 1) the opposition is persuadable, or 2) Issues have a middle ground. There's no comfortable middle ground between 'purge the country of non-whites' and 'leave people alone'.
aug 31, 2025, 6:28 pm • 0 0 • view
They propose to work reasonably with those who, at every opportunity, behave unreasonably.
aug 31, 2025, 7:52 pm • 0 0 • view
More Pritzkers, less Schumers.
aug 31, 2025, 6:08 pm • 1 0 • view
And their respective staffs seem more concerned with protecting their jobs than serving their voters too.
aug 31, 2025, 5:10 pm • 1 0 • view
General Sherman for Senate 2026
aug 31, 2025, 5:19 pm • 1 0 • view
You still need those types for demagoguery positions but not on leadership
aug 31, 2025, 5:13 pm • 1 0 • view
I don’t even hate Schumer and Jeffries. They have strengths and weaknesses, as all politicians, and indeed all people. They’re on the right side of most things. But they seem to have utterly lost the plot in this political moment. And if they don’t get a clue ASAP they need to step aside.
aug 31, 2025, 5:34 pm • 0 0 • view
From my perspective the actual problem is that they’re trying to ride the middle. You can’t satisfy constituents and big money donors in this moment because what each wants are incompatible.
aug 31, 2025, 5:19 pm • 4 0 • view
A lot of guys just went to congress just for the parties and to do some insider trading. We're finding out who those guys are now.
aug 31, 2025, 5:26 pm • 0 0 • view
So true. These aren't normal times and they don't seem to realize it.
aug 31, 2025, 7:29 pm • 0 0 • view
They're just feckless. They have no fecks to give, nor even the ability to generate any.
aug 31, 2025, 5:10 pm • 1 0 • view
Jasmine Crockett, Jamie Raskin, AOC Maxwell Forst are all great communicators in House and Chris Murphy or Elizabeth Warren would be my Senator Choices, but Chuck is too weak sounding and he is not up for the fight and Hakeem Jefferies comes off as weak as well.
aug 31, 2025, 8:43 pm • 0 0 • view
I keep coming back to the line from "The Godfather" where Michael tells Tom Hagen, "You're not a wartime consigliere, Tom."
aug 31, 2025, 5:06 pm • 3 0 • view
💯%
aug 31, 2025, 5:13 pm • 1 0 • view
"my friends across the aisle" The "friends" across the aisle: (feral snarling and racial/homophobic slurs)
aug 31, 2025, 5:45 pm • 1 0 • view