Connolly secured his position on the pivotal Oversight Committee after leaders in the House Democratic caucus—most notably former Speaker Nancy Pelosi—backed Connolly’s bid over Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez.
While other Democratic leaders have been fumbling for a response to Trump, the administration has been in a public feud with Ocasio-Cortez. Tom Homan, Trump’s handpicked immigration czar, has even called on the Department of Justice to investigate the congresswoman after she advised migrant communities of their constitutional rights.
In contrast to Connolly’s pro-compliance message, Ocasio-Cortez recently wrote, “America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.”
Not trying to be an asshole but if you expect anything will materially change you shouldn’t be surprised when the DNC rug pulls you again.
I strongly disagree.
“There are a lot of good billionaires out there that have been with Democrats, who share our values, and we will take their money. But we’re not taking money from those bad billionaires” - New DNC Head Martin
The DNC is run by corporate democrats which, aside from the hate, racism and bigotry, might well be the on the same team as Republicans when it comes to facilitating the actions of the wealthy in this country. Its why nothing materially changes when Dems run the show. Their wealthy donors are happy with the job they are doing currently, which doesn’t include improving the quality of life for the vast majority of us because it is easier to exploit a populous that is teetering on the edge of ruin. How many of you cant change jobs because you’d lose your insurance? How few Americans have 500 dollars in the bank for a catastrophic emergency? The fact that we have to live in such a precarious position is a feature to the wealthy that allows them to exploit us for their significant personal gains. They don’t see us as people, they see us as a resource to exploit and toss when they are done.
Did Biden push for Universal healthcare, or even talk about it really? What about pressing for codifying of Roe v. Wade? Or wage theft being, from a dollar perspective, the vast majority of theft that occurs in this country? Marijuana reform? Better to leave that as a carrot to try to get votes as they’ve shown in the last 3 elections… What about taxing the rich as a rebuttal to the constant assault on social services that help the most vulnerable in our society yet account for the smallest fraction of the actual budget? Or upholding the law and holding Trump and his cronies for the January 6th attack on our nation, which should have prevented Trump from running in the first place? The wealthy in this country are seeing their wealth explode from a government that today has enabled them to wholesale embrace corruption by attacking regulatory and oversight bodies… wonder why they didnt want Trump to be held accountable…
Biden did things in his term to help Americans to an extent, but these Donkeys in the room are glaring examples of areas that Biden had flat out ignored or intentionally neglected us. The reason to me is that the money didn’t support those initiatives… i.e. not in the donors interests.
Remember that the DNC put Biden there, and if we let them they will happily keep playing the role of controlled opposition as a fulcrum to leverage our nation to the right while giving lip service to the things we care about and enriching themselves with our donations.
Why are so many people stuck on a single comment he made during the DNC chair campaign when he was asked if he’d take donations from billionaires?
Do you legitimately think he’d have won the chair election by answering no?
And why did so many people all discover this comment from over a month ago about 48 hours ago?
I’m legitimately asking because I followed the chair election pretty damn closely, and even at the time it was made it just wasn’t a big deal…
But most importantly:
I didn’t say he should be, I said I want to include him.
He has a long and respectable history at the state level, and I have no reason not to be optimistic that he’ll stay that way…
Yet.
So I want him to keep doing the right thing and earn on a spot on that list.
Why the absolute about-face from you on the DNC over the last couple weeks?
They’re not stuck on this single comment. They’re seeing the trend from the DNC over the last few decades and seeing more of the same in his statement.
And what does that tell you about where their allegiance lies? I can’t believe you think this comment helps your argument.
I’ve been saying since the day Biden lost that the DNC chair election determines if I support the DNC as hard as possible or push for a third party.
Ken Martin was one of the candidates I consider “good enough”.
It would be easier to see that side of it, if there was more than one I cident of him saying something “bad”.
Dude was campaigning in an election where voting members of the DNC were the only ones who could vote. A “hard no” would have prevented him from becoming chair.
Who cares?
Their only power is electing a chair in years a republican is president.
That’s all the DNC is really, some people who vote on who the chair is, and around 20 people in other leadership positions the chair appoints.
The DNC is not some huge unchangeable monolith, don’t blame fresh leadership for last 30 years of shit decisions.
Now, I answered all your questions. So if you’d be so kind I’m legitimately interested in this:
Where and when did you first see that comment?