We are winning out of sheer anger. NOT because of any leadership shown by the house or senate Dems. Why are the Democrats approval in the 20% range because 80% of Democrats hate that there is no backbone. A few congressmen and Gavin Newsom are standing up. Quit bitching at Velshi and get to work.
My sheer anger comes from being a resident of Altadena and losing 25 of my Black community members as well as my home and having to watch national politicians like Hakeem Jeffries voice drowned out trying to advocate for us among all the Velshi saying he’s doing nothing.
Or is it the fact that I have to go looking for what the House and Senate Dems do? Is it the fact that our Media spends an inordinate amount of time normalizing Trump's bull@#$%? I'm sorry, I think the problem is TRUMP, not Congressional Democrats. I wish those in the media got that.
Not mutually exclusive
We wouldn't be winning so many races, flipping so many seats if something weren't working. DNC has been helping in state races w money, volunteers. Congress supports town halls that energize action. It's a NEW politics and is working. No 'great man' is needed now. Media need to tell the new story.
Both things can be true. The media fetishizes Trump while ignoring Democrats. However, as a life long Democrat, our reps/sens in Washington are, for the most part, too weak. We, the people, are angry. We have lots to run on. Folks like Bernie and AOC are a better fit.
GTFOH. The real problem are the majority of white voters who voted for the felon racist rapist pedophile in 2016, 2020 AND 2024 (and vote Rethuglikkkan since the 1960s) when the majority of Black voters and voters of color did not.
True also!
You: Our leaders are weak and compliant! *Somebody yells at you to GTFOH* You: You're right!
She’s not wrong. White folks voted against their own interests when they voted for Trump.
Perhaps we should consider that they believe voting for racial hierarchy IS in the best interests
Im sure they do. When I was a teacher, kids believed all sorts of inane stuff. They were still wrong.
Grandpa wagglefinger, who goes around the country telling people not to vote for Democrats and says trump supporters aren't racist is NOT who voters should be looking up to.
omfg the wagons are circling around a media pundit! this is my shocked face
We’ll quit “bitching” at him when he ditches the blood libel and the Jew-hatred how about.
This👆
I also believe that we will only make democracy weaker by unnecessary infighting. Schumer-I get it. Jeffries? Nah. He is navigating one of the most toxic work environments to ever exist. 💙🔥
Schumer has been gumming up the works just like Liz Warren said Dems can and should do. Btw she will continue to want him as minority leader unless and until he DECIDES to step away.
Agree. He’s a huge disappointment who doesn’t get why he is! 💙🔥
So…you don’t agree with me at all.
I was about to say...
I don’t understand? I think Schumer doesn’t know he is awful at his “ job.” I would like to see him leave, whether he wants to or not.
Schumer has been doing the thing Liz Warren said Dems can and should do - gum up the works. Liz Warren wants him as minority leader. Schumer’s job ALSO includes taking one for the team, in this case “one” being public haterade. He knows it, she knows it, all their D colleagues know it.
The problem is that you don't know what Schumer's job is, because the media had a vested interest in lying to you about how important the Supreme Court was in what it enabled a minority party to do. So you keep assuming Schumer has levers he can pull but won't. But no one does.
Luckily he’s drawing attention away from Ossoff who said just this at a town hall and oh boy did people not wanna hear it
The time to stop Trump was in November. Now the only thing we can do is survive him. There is nothing, absolutely NOTHING a Democrat in office can do to stop Trump that a citizen can't. And the media knows this. But they also know that if they told the truth, they'd lose ratings.
Schumer is kicking ass at his job. You want results. You don't see that results come from process and are rarely immediate. The analogy I use is that you want to see the baby, but you refuse to drive the pregnant woman to her OB-GYN appointment.
Jeffries top donors for 2024 were Aipac, Blackrock, and Lockheed Martin. I'll pass on Jeffries too
JB Pritzker says hello.
Ya know. The guy who stands up to Trump without platforming anti-trans bullshit.
No, getting to work is bitching at Velshi and the rest of corporate media who normalize Republican crap and shit all over Dems. The media sold the public out for a ratings grab with Trump. Fuck them.
Velshi is not a normalizer. As he explains above, he's 50% shitting on Trump.
He needs to make that 100%. At this stage, only talk about the GOP
50%?????? You ok w that?
He chastised me when I asked about any attacks on R leadership; told me to use "the little google machine". I did & asked him to please offer his insights on the results I found. Crickets; although he hasn't blocked me.
Please. Spending only 50% of time on covering the fascist takeover of the USA only serves to normalize the fascist takeover. PERIOD. Something as dire as what is happening derserves 24/7 coverage. This isn't hard.
"Velshi is not a normalizer." He's a both-sideser and a self-important clown.
Why is he only attacking the party 50% of the time that controls 100% of the power? Here's the inconvenient truth: Nothing, from letters to speeches to press conferences to riots will change that Republicans control 100% of the levers of government. The only group that can stop Trump is the GOP
And the voters if we're allowed to vote.
Not true, if media didn't crave viewers by allowing Trump and his cuckoos to spout lies without calling them out on the air. He could never have won. Media doesn't even use the word LIE. Imagine if Velshi or Tur looked right in JD's eyes and called him a liar ?
If they had done this prior to November, it would've mattered. But now, it doesn't. The problem is that if Ali and MSNBC were honest, their news coverage would be "Trump is a menace to society, voters failed America and Dems have no power to stop them, and now the weather." Bad for ratings.
Right now? Nothing would change. Until voters start pressuring Republicans to stop Trump and Vance, nothing will change. The problem is that Dems could replace every member of the senate with their favorite fighter, and it would have no effect. Because Republicans control 100% of government.
I'm surprised at you. You should know better. 94% or mainstream media is owned by 6 corporations benefitting from Republican tax cuts. They will always suppress pro-dem narratives and Dem accomplishments while suppressing GOP failure and elevating the tiniest GOP thing.
"of" mainstream media ^
blah blah blah "I must blame Democrats for GOP behavior. Because. It's important not to hurt the feelings of the white ppl who are trying to kill everyone." Meanwhile, here's a thing Democrats are doing that Malcolm mysteriously missed: bsky.app/profile/pegg...
Backbone www.npr.org/2025/08/03/n...
Schumer is not up to this moment and should retire like Durbin. And Van Hollen, Crockett and other reps are fighting hard. It’s not a monolith. We can sort the wheat from the chaff.
While working around leadership for many years I noticed that the most effective leaders, sometimes, were those who worked quietly in the background pulling strings you would never see. Some are good at yelling and pointing out problems while others are best at solving problems. Both are needed. 😁
Yeah, we can't expect anyone to come and save us. We need to save us. Grassroots movement is the answer.
If the democrats had, codified Roe v Wade, passed Medicare For All, Supreme Court Ethics, helped Cities Fight Crime, Cut Israel Aid, increased Ukraine Aid, approved Citizenship for Dreamers, and DC Statehood when they held the White House and both houses of Congress…WE WOULD NOT BE IN THIS MESS!
There was only a couple of months in Obama's first term where that would have been possible. But sure.
They had 2 years under Obama. Trump has done more evil in just 7 months.
Not with a supermajority in the Senate. But sure.
Spot on. Absolute apathy. Mild words and letters. The occasional verbal explosion with no follow up from others. And no action.
Definitely not an exhaustive list of actions taken, considering the source:
Imagine watching the media screw over the country and then rushing in to defend them. #Pathetic
I know you support Israel. Velshi said on October 8th, 2023 that Israel is an Apartheid, that they were committing GENOCIDE in Gaza the day after Hamas murdered, raped & kidnapped Israelis & foreign nationals. He can say whatever he wants, but I am not watching that shit he is shoveling out!!
Voters did not give democratic leadership the power needed to stop the GOP agenda. Rather than beat down D electeds, we should be amplifying them. This is what amplifying the work of democrats to defeat fascism looks like. bsky.app/profile/arie...
With all due respect, this is just not true. Why are people with huge platforms depressing democratic voter enthusiasm rather than amplifying the real work being done? Is it really just for clicks? That's what it feels like, and it's incredibly disappointing.
Malcom, I love you dearly, but Velsi needs to get over himself. I used to watch him religiously. Now, not so much.
facts!
Congressmen and congressWOMEN, but yeah. I agree.
This is such an uninformed response
Do not forget Pritzker. He's not in corporate pockets as badly as our CA governor.
People the U.S. and Americans outside the U.S. are disappointed and maybe the DEMS aren’t ideal but the U.S. needs a democratic Administration so organize to get this done. Other nations are losing trust in the U.S. please make sure THIS will never happen again.
The US is a two party country ** BECAUSE OF ELECTION RULES **. Republicans turned to the dark side with treason and explicit racism ** 57 ** years ago (Paris Peace Talks & the Southern Project). SO, job #1 - crush all Republicans job #2 - change election rules so that the majority wins. and not ...
51% of 51%. There are many ways to do voting and many of those approximate the Condorcet winner without requiring complicated counting (RCV). Some variation on approval voting seems optimal to me. Thus, you'd get viable 3rd parties.
Preach it Malcolm!
Sadly the Democratic members are used to using Decorum. Under this set of circumstances, that would never work...and they are not able to think outside the BOX. To do something-that this TIME calls for....Being uncomfortable and still taking action.
Have you called out these demographics yet Malcom…i see youre a regular on Stephanie Miller and got a lot to say…say this next time! Stop shitting on the only party participating in democracy
OR do you have the impression that only "a few congressmen and Gavin Newsom are standing up" because they're the only one's coveres by the MSM. Maybe you "quit bitching" at us for rightfully bitching at Velshi for his role in normalizing this shit show administration. "Leading Resister", my ass.
Also, would the public be angry at Democrats if they knew what was going on? Or would they be angry at the press for misinforming them? And, if it’s the latter, doesn’t that give the press incentive to lie, to cover up their own recklessness?
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I would remind you it's house and senate Dems taking it to the streets in town halls across the country. That's w the support of both leg. leaders. It's a new politics and it works. Stop looking for a hero. People are building a powerful base for 2026 to build for 2028. Leg. leaders support it all!
Right. And that IS the story because it's about local control. DNC always deferred to that in candidate choice and are accelerating support for it. It really doesn't matter what polls say only how people vote reflecting LOCAL great organizing, DNC support. No 'great man' theory matters now.
👍💯 Slava Ukraini
But what do the Baileys think?
Constantly explaining themselves instead of nailing Rs to the wall.