Kristen Olmi

Community & Economic Development, Entrepreneur & Activist in Youngstown & the Mahoning Valley. Progressive, extensive researcher/reader, and a student of life.

[Kristen Olmi @KristenOlmi]

I don’t know how any member of Congress didn’t learn a damn thing from 9/11. Force hearings, force authorization. Force justification. In public, in the open, with hearings. It’s just sad no one wants to protect the Constitution they claim to uphold.

[Jess Coleman @jesskcoleman]

Universal health care? Too expensive.

Child care? Unrealistic.

Free buses? Defunding public transit.

Eliminating student debt? Dumb kids don’t know the value of a dollar.

Rent freeze? Communism.

Unconstitutional wars? Funded instantly.

[Kristen Olmi @KristenOlmi]

This x 100. We have not met the moment that is Trump and this version of the Republican Party and its time those who make up the movement outside of government become the government.

[Rep. Noah Arbit 🇺🇦 @NoahArbit]

The clear dividing line in the Democratic Party now is not moderate vs progressive, abundance vs anti-oligarchy, it’s fighters vs folders. Folders can GTFO.

[Kristen Olmi @KristenOlmi]

@amandalitman Furious right now. Any money I was giving to DNC or DSCC needs to come to organizations like yours. My donations will change accordingly.

[Kristen Olmi @KristenOlmi]

If your premise of shutting the government down was ACA, and you re-open it without ACA, you literally will take the all the blame. I have so many feelings about Trump, but the man is a spin doctor and Dems are about to get burned on this.

[Kristen Olmi @KristenOlmi]

@donwinslow @RachelCoyleOhio @SenAngusKing @SenatorShaheen @SenatorHassan @timkaine @SenatorDurbin @SenFettermanPA Also did @timkaine not watch the election returns from his state?

[Kristen Olmi @KristenOlmi]

As someone who use to tow the party line for practically a living. I am 💯 on board with this.

[Ronald Brownstein @RonBrownstein]

Statement from Indivisible sums it up; "We hope to celebrate the Democratic Party for fighting back. But if they surrender, the next step is primaries and new leadership. We get the party we demand, and we intend to demand one that fights."

[Kristen Olmi @KristenOlmi]

There’s a difference between good governance and being terrible at making deals. Save me some bs spin on this. Senate Dems are fools and leadership is too old to play this game.

[Kristen Olmi @KristenOlmi]

Democrats are so weak, you honestly think you have any negotiating chips if you blink on this. There’s a reason I’m a registered independent. After Tuesday’s election results, for Senators to get here-It just shows Dems can’t play ball in this era under the “old” guard.

[Kristen Olmi @KristenOlmi]

How about instead of blue checks, your account should have to be vetted if you run it or staffers do. Because either you believe the garbage you allow them to post or you don’t.

[Tim Wise @timjacobwise]

ICE is a jobs program for guys who peaked in high school.

[Kristen Olmi @KristenOlmi]

Really rich coming Trump about paying loans and bills. Hope you 5 million that are in default, got what you voted for.

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

It's a terrible, awful, unthinkable mistake, that @BarackObama & @JoeBiden are remaining silent during the past sixty days of brutal insanity.

Democrats continue to observe "custom" and "norms" during a time where Republicans are destroying the rule of law.

It's why we lost.

[Matt McDermott @mattmfm]

Is the press seriously going to cover this story without mentioning that Trump was impeached in his first term for withholding aid to Ukraine to pressure Zelensky into fabricating dirt on Biden to help Trump win in 2020? Seems relevant!

[Chris D. Jackson @ChrisDJackson]

This has to be photo of the year.

Zelensky is the entire world outside of MAGA.

[Kristen Olmi @KristenOlmi]

The crowd that’s like we didn’t vote for this. Umm yes you did. Trump was always telling you what a second term would look like. Maybe he sprinkled in some lies about lower grocery store prices here and there. But ALL of this other stuff was always there too.

[Hunter📈🌈📊 @StatisticUrban]

Gay marriage is still constitutionally banned in every state that's a shade of red on this map, and those bans would come into effect if Obergefell were ever overturned.

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Watch as President Biden welcomed President-elect Donald Trump back to the White House on Wednesday, in a decades-old tradition that Trump did not extend to Biden when he lost in 2020. https://t.co/xUpOrVQluF

[Kristen Olmi @KristenOlmi]

@RepShontelBrown thank you for your comments today at the City Club of Cleveland.

[Kareem Carr, Ph.D. @kareem_carr]

One thing I realized from listening to a bunch of interviews with the undecided voters is they really have no idea what is going on. They don't know about DEI or facism. They don't know what any of the policies are.

They didn't like that groceries were expensive. That was it.