I'm going to say the quiet part out loud. What is this really about?
MAGA Republicans are counting seats because they’re chasing something much bigger.
A two-thirds majority in Congress.
Why, because, that gives them one step closer in power to change the Constitution.
Then, it's 3/4 of the states (38 of 50) to ratify any proposed amendments.
I wonder what the plan is to do that?!?
This isn’t normal politics anymore. This is a naked power grab in real time.
Clock it.
Not when it impacts the politics of winning elections… and the constituents that the political party is telling you this is dumb and don’t do it. If you can’t see the difference then maybe you shouldn’t be opining about politics.
And for the record, if I wanted a policy role I could have done that also given my years working on the Hill as a policy staffer, Executive Director of the House Dem Caucus and Floor Director for the House Majority Whip. I even wrote a book on how Capitol Hill works.
With due respect @jrpsaki, I think maybe we spoke once while you were at the White House… so I’m not sure how you would know what I thought.
But since you’re curious: I believed the DNC should have been empowered to do its job, organize aggressively not just in the midterms (but also the presidential cycle), communicate directly with the base, and operate as a PARTNER, not a subsidiary whose tweets, press releases, and routine decisions required constant White House approval.
We raised historic amounts and when I did try to ruthlessly define the opposition we were told by folks in WH comms or the Deputy Chief we couldn’t or that our approach or rhetoric was too sharp.
I never sought a policy role but if I thought a policy didn’t make sense politically, particularly for minority communities I respectfully made it known.
But I digress…
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When the Head of the Commonwealth that’s 95% black & brown people has a documented history of deliberately avoiding shaking the hands of dark skinned people … questions should be asked.🤔 Children and adults alike, if your skin is dark you get the same treatment. The third video is in Bermuda this morning.
In all due respect, if Black districts get wiped out across the south, you don’t have to worry about the age of committee chairs… because there won’t be any committee Chairs.
Wrong moment. Wrong fight. Wrong priorities.
“Had to wipe his… rear… on the grass.” A Houston teen is humiliated after he had a bathroom emergency and a Sunnyside gas station clerk said he couldn’t use the bathroom.
Now community activists and the teen’s family are demanding answers.
Influential people are praising AI as a wonderful tool we should all embrace. On Facebook I have been to the hospital, the World Cup, cussed out Whoopi Goldberg, and I have a Netflix documentary. Wonderful, sure.
When Color Me Badd illegally sampled Betty Wright’s Tonight Is The Night (Live) so she sampled them right back in a diss track remake 😭. Cooked them POCs!
The President of the United States is threatening to commit war crimes and wipe out a "whole civilization" — all because he started a disastrous war of his own making and had no plan and no strategy for how to end it.
This is abhorrent, and the American people do not support this.
Trump's recklessness is needlessly putting our brave service members in harm's way, destroying America's global standing, and making life even more unaffordable for the American people.
We must all stand against this and oppose funding this illegal war of choice.