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[JackLuis]

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard Openly Criticizes DNC For Casting Out Progressives

On October 30, Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) posted a video on her social media accounts, criticizing the Democratic National Committee for its recent DNC appointments. Gabbard made headlines during the 2016 Presidential Primaries as DNC Vice Chair when she openly called the former DNC Chair to add more debates. She resigned from the DNC in February 2017 to serve as a surrogate to the Bernie Sanders Campaign.

“Tom Perez has removed many progressives from DNC leadership, including Jim Zogby, the only Arab American on the Executive Committee," Gabbard tweeted. "The DNC casts out progressives but keeps lobbyists+consultants. Those removed were supporters of Bernie Sanders, Keith Ellison, or both."

Despite calls for unity from DNC Chair Tom Perez, his DNC appointments heavily favored lobbyists and Clinton supporters. No Sanders supporter was appointed to the DNC Rules and Bylaws Committee, while former DNC Vice Chair Donna Brazile's appointment to the position incited criticism. In October 2016, Wikileaks released emails that revealed Brazile tipped off the Clinton Campaign to debate questions and forwarded a plan she obtained from the Bernie Sanders campaign to the Clinton Campaign. CNN fired Brazile after the revelation, but the DNC has continued employing Brazile as a consultant. A number of people who supported Keith Ellison for DNC Chair were kept from holding DNC positions, including New Hampshire Democratic Party Chair Ray Buckley and Babs Siperstein, the highest ranking trans person in the DNC. Perez's decision was viewed as a major setback for progressives working to reform the Democratic Party.

The LSM doesn't cover Tulsi's actions in Congress either. I guess they are not so anti-war or anti-corruption either.

 

[Hypoxia]

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard Openly Criticizes DNC For Casting Out Progressives

The LSM doesn't cover Tulsi's actions in Congress either. I guess they are not so anti-war or anti-corruption either.

TL/DR what's LSM? Lesbian Sex Mafia? Living Stream Ministry? Lanthanum strontium manganite?

Meanwhile, I elsewhere posted an unverified report that Mueller is investigating the RNC as a RICO crime syndicate, as well as Podestas for unknown wrongs. Wouldn't it be funny if both the RNC and DNC were dismantled sometime soon?

 

[JackLuis]

Lame Stream Media= LSM

What Does Tulsi Gabbard Believe?

I guess the New Yorker is a little less lame than the NYT?

 

[JackLuis]

Tulsi Gabbard: A Ridiculous Question Requires An Intelligent Answer

 

[JackLuis]

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[JackLuis]

Now the Truth comes out, Hillary buttfucked the Dems!

Inside Hillary Clinton’s Secret Takeover of the DNC

Apparently DWS and HRC sucked the life out of the party, and just kept sucking.

Before I called Bernie Sanders, I lit a candle in my living room and put on some gospel music. I wanted to center myself for what I knew would be an emotional phone call.

I had promised Bernie when I took the helm of the Democratic National Committee after the convention that I would get to the bottom of whether Hillary Clinton’s team had rigged the nomination process, as a cache of emails stolen by Russian hackers and posted online had suggested. I’d had my suspicions from the moment I walked in the door of the DNC a month or so earlier, based on the leaked emails. But who knew if some of them might have been forged? I needed to have solid proof, and so did Bernie.

So I followed the money. My predecessor, Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, had not been the most active chair in fundraising at a time when President Barack Obama’s neglect had left the party in significant debt. As Hillary’s campaign gained momentum, she resolved the party’s debt and put it on a starvation diet. It had become dependent on her campaign for survival, for which she expected to wield control of its operations.

Debbie was not a good manager. She hadn’t been very interested in controlling the party—she let Clinton’s headquarters in Brooklyn do as it desired so she didn’t have to inform the party officers how bad the situation was. How much control Brooklyn had and for how long was still something I had been trying to uncover for the last few weeks.

So Pilot, what do you think of your Princess now?

 

[sr71plt]

So Pilot, what do you think of your Princess now?

What I've always thought. I think it was quite legitimate for a long-time DNC worker--and the DNC staff--to stiff arm a nice guy/relevant messages septuagenarian socialist (whose policies I'd support, but that wouldn't have a whisper of a chance to be enacted) Jew (without Jewish lobby support) from a miniscule backwater state who had accomplished close to zero in a decade of trying on the national front and who wasn't a Democrat nor had he worked to elect Democrats (the job of the DNC, and which the "princess" had done for twenty years). And I think they could have done so more openly at the time and not permitted the non-Democrat to tear down the party and the best-chance Democratic Party candidate from inside the tent. Thanks for asking.

And, yes, everything else aside, the Bernie attempt to steal a party that wasn't his contributed heavily to the regime of Donald Trump and, no, he wouldn't have done better against Trump/the Russians. Once he got the nomination, they would have buried him in his inappropriate/nonproductive nonaccomplishments and "way out of where America is" programs. Reality trumping pie in the sky.

Why do you keep asking this politically naïve question, Jack? The answer remains the same. And the "princess" didn't "lose" the majority. She won the majority vote despite the Russians and Bernie's naïve followers. She just lost the obsolete, inequitable national voting system, as manipulated by forces smarter than the average American voter (which isn't all that hard to do).

 

[JackLuis]

What I've always thought. I think it was quite legitimate for a long-time DNC worker--and the DNC staff--to stiff arm a nice guy/relevant messages septuagenarian socialist (whose policies I'd support, but that wouldn't have a whisper of a chance to be enacted) Jew (without Jewish lobby support) from a miniscule backwater state who had accomplished close to zero in a decade of trying on the national front and who wasn't a Democrat nor had he worked to elect Democrats (the job of the DNC, and which the "princess" had done for twenty years). And I think they could have done so more openly at the time and not permitted the non-Democrat to tear down the party and the best-chance Democratic Party candidate from inside the tent. Thanks for asking.

What about her stealing the down ticket finances from the State Parties and fucking up the best chance for a Demo Senate?

Why did the party even allow Bernie to run as a Democrat if he wasn't one?

Or, why is the party having so much trouble raising money, now that they have shown that they don't support FDR Democratic principles and pissed off the progressives which they have depended upon for so many years?

 

[sr71plt]

You've decided to get stuck in 2016, right?

 

[Hypoxia]

Why did the party even allow Bernie to run as a Democrat if he wasn't one?

Because the DNC and RNC don't run most primaries, the states do, and they let anyone run as they declare THERE. David Duke could run as a Green in many states and nobody can stop him. Bernie Sanders could run as a Libertarian. Ditto. Parties only run the process in and after their conventions. No, Bernie didn't have to ask permission from the DNC.

 

[JackLuis]

DNC fires its top fundraiser

The committee’s slow fundraising has been a serious problem for the party since the 2016 election. Skeptical donors have stayed away from the DNC, while giving more to individual candidates and other committees. The party had just $7 million on hand heading into October, according to Federal Election Commission filings.

The DNC raised $51 million from January through September as it rebuilds under new chairman Tom Perez, who took over in March. But the Republican National Committee brought in $104 million over the same time period.

oops!

 

[Hypoxia]

Despite gaining more presidential votes than ever in 2008-2012-2016, the DNC presided over the loss of many many many congressional seats, statehouses, and governorships. The DNC's corporate bent focused on the presidency and neglected all else. They forgot that bottom-up can beat top-down.

Bernie's Babies raised bookoo money for him, more than HRC, none corporate. Yes, the Dums DO need to be taken over by populist insurgents. Or SCOTUS needs to rule that cash isn't speech and corporations aren't persons. Right.

 

[sr71plt]

Bernie didn't concentrate on anyone but himself in the race. The Clintons had been stumping down the ticket for two decades.

 

[JackLuis]

Bernie didn't concentrate on anyone but himself in the race. The Clintons had been stumping down the ticket for two decades.

Maybe that's why the Demo's have lost so many seats down ticket? Or was it that Hilary sucked up 90% of the money raised for the down ticket?

 

[sr71plt]

Maybe that's why the Demo's have lost so many seats down ticket? Or was it that Hilary sucked up 90% of the money raised for the down ticket?

No, it was because of the dumbed-down electorate.

Hillary still has you scared shitless, doesn't she?

 

[colddiesel]

Hatred.

Hillary Clinton is currently doing an invaluable job for the Democrats. The Republicans disagree among themselves on every issue except one; tax , health care, defence, you name it, there are disagreements every where.

But on one issue they are united: every single Republican hates Hillary Clinton with total passion - and it is, if handled properly and strategically a major weakness for the GOP.

After 2016 I thought Clinton should announce the end to her pursuit of office but I now think that assessment was wrong. Hillary should remain in play, remain the lightning rod of Republican hatred mebbe as late as 2019. The GOP is so obsessed with her they are not attacking any other individual. If she continues to goad the GOP she can withdraw at a time of her own choosing and effectively be the King/Queen maker.

But will she?

 

[JackLuis]

No, it was because of the dumbed-down electorate.

Hillary still has you scared shitless, doesn't she?

She never scared me. I've always thought she was a self centered tool of the Dark Lords.

 

[colddiesel]

Maybe that's why the Demo's have lost so many seats down ticket? Or was it that Hilary sucked up 90% of the money raised for the down ticket?

No Jack it's much more to do with the fact that the Sainted Barrack made virtually no effort to raise party funds other than for his own election in all the time he was President. Virtually all Presidents have made major efforts to obtain funds for their party but Obama was an exception.

It's about time you left the abusing of Hillary to the Trump GOP. She is past her use by date, but still provides a useful service as the witch of Washington. The next generation of D leaders to emerge will be grateful that she took so much political flak that would otherwise have been directed at them.

 

[JackLuis]

No Jack it's much more to do with the fact that the Sainted Barrack made virtually no effort to raise party funds other than for his own election in all the time he was President. Virtually all Presidents have made major efforts to obtain funds for their party but Obama was an exception.

It's about time you left the abusing of Hillary to the Trump GOP. She is past her use by date, but still provides a useful service as the witch of Washington. The next generation of D leaders to emerge will be grateful that she took so much political flak that would otherwise have been directed at them.

Well we shall see if Barack contributes in the 2018 elections. He could play the role to move the party away from the corporatist wing, but he probably won't. We shall see how Hillary plays this time. Will she try again?

Will the DNC follow their constituents to a more populist progressive stance or continue to suck Wall Street's cocks?

The Rethuglicans are setting the country up for another major crash and the Democrats could turn the tables in'18 if they could just challenge the Rethug's instead of compromising their principles to gain a marginal edge, as Barack did over and over.

 

[sr71plt]

We shall see how Hillary plays this time. Will she try again?

Will you cry if/when you don't have her to uselessly kick any more. Will you have to face your political naivete then?

 

[JackLuis]

Will you cry if/when you don't have her to uselessly kick any more. Will you have to face your political naivete then?

I have no reason to doubt that she will continue to be a pain in the Democratic ass, unless the DNC changes direction and picks a more progressive Candidate for 2020.

Will she fall in line and support a progressive Democrat, or will she rail against the hopelessness of wanting progress?

 

[Hypoxia]

Maybe that's why the Demo's have lost so many seats down ticket? Or was it that Hilary sucked up 90% of the money raised for the down ticket?

Dums nationally lost downticket races from around 2012 IIRC; earlier, for statehouses and governorships. Too early to blame HRC.

I attribute the Dum's decline to the vast right-wing conspiracy's faux-news-bubble universe. They've been telling Goebbels-type Big Lies since the advent of Rush Limbo. Dums haven't poured money and talent into building their own propaganda machine. No, the mainstream media ain't it. Corporate media are for-profit businesses presenting whatever will grab eyeballs to sell to advertisers. They certainly don't show Dums in a good light now.

In other nations, unions and parties and trade or social groups own prominent media outlets. Some such used to exist in USA; mostly gone now, except for church networks. I recall a failed 'liberal' broadcast effort some years back. Hey gals and guys, ya gotta be entertaining, not just didactic.

Can the Dums ever get it together? We'll see how their civil war works out.

"I'm not a member of any organized political party.
I'm a Democrat." --Will Rogers

 

[sr71plt]

The evidence of a dumbed-down electorate is right there in the Democrats not making headway in the last congressional elections. Congress had/has miserable approval ratings and everything voters were saying amounted to "throw the bums out." And then when the elections came around, they voted for the same bums who were in office, who had controlled Congress for years, and who were doing nothing but saying "no" about everything. That's on the voters.

 

[benschup]

She never scared me. I've always thought she was a self centered tool of the Dark Lords.

seems like the (pilot) is the one that brings up the bitch.

 

[JackLuis]

Political panic is brewing in the Republican Party after the Democratic sweeps on Tuesday

After 2017’s election night, the Republicans are on the brink of falling apart as a national party—and everybody who has been around politics longer than President Trump knows it.

“Ed Gillespie’s resounding loss in Tuesday’s Virginia governor’s race—coupled with a series of other losses in lower-profile races around the country—will likely take what was bubbling concern among Republicans about their prospects in the 2018 midterms and transform it into a frothing cauldron of panic,” wrote Chris Cillizza, CNN’s editor-at-large and a longtime Washington analyst. “That panic is born not from the fact of Gillespie’s defeat but the way in which he lost—and the role President Donald Trump and Trumpism played in that loss.”

As bad as the results were for Republicans on Tuesday (Democrats won two governors’ races as well as legislative majorities in several states, and elected a deep bench of progressives to mayoral and other down-ballot posts), Trump’s response in the aftermath will only make matters worse for the GOP.

First, Trump tweeted that Gillespie didn’t follow his cues. “Ed Gillespie worked hard but did not embrace me or what I stand for,” Trump said. That’s false, because Gillespie did what Republicans across the country thought was their best strategy: embrace Trumpism but not Donald Trump. Gillespie defended Confederate monuments, made racist attacks against Latin Americans (by accusing youths of being gang members), and pledged to outlaw sanctuary cities and repeal the restoration of voting to ex-felons.

What did the president do next? His administration Wednesday issued its latest Cuba sanctions, alienating many Latinos, who according to exit polls, turned out to vote in record numbers in Virginia on Tuesday.

Plus he's bankrupting the Party with legal fees!