Democrats now attacking fake ass AOC

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More details on this evolving story.  Hahahaha  

https://www.vox.com/2019/7/13/20692925/house-democrat-aoc-progressives-twitter-pelosi-cbc

The ongoing feud between House Democratic leadership and progressives, explained

House Democrats are attacking Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s top staffer on Twitter.

By Tara Golshan and Ella Nilsen  Jul 13, 2019, 5:50pm EDT

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and her staff have come under public attack by House Democratic leadership.  Spencer Platt/Getty Images

House Democratic leadership is on the attack, and party leaders are going after some of their own: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and her staff.

Late Friday night, the official Twitter account for House Democrats, managed by Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) — fired off an incendiary tweet about Saikat Chakrabarti, Ocasio-Cortez’s chief of staff, accusing him of “singling out out a Native American woman of color,” Rep. Sharice Davids (D-KS).

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Who is this guy and why is he explicitly singling out a Native American woman of color?

Her name is Congresswoman Davids, not Sharice.

She is a phenomenal new member who flipped a red seat blue.

KeepHerNameOutOfYourMouth.

 

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A spokesman for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi declined to comment on the speaker’s view of the tweet from the official House Democrats’ account. House Democratic Caucus spokesman Michael Hardway, however, confirmed to Vox the tweet was sent intentionally, but didn’t explain the rationale behind it.

The tweet was sent in response to something Chakrabarti had tweeted two weeks prior about Democrats accepting the Senate’s $4.59 billion emergency border funding bill in late June, a bill progressives argued did not go far enough to address conditions at the detention centers at the border.

At the time, Chakrabarti referred to moderate Democrats who advocated for the Senate plan the “New Southern Democrats,” and said they were “hell bent to do to black and brown people today what the old Southern Democrats did in the 40s.” (Southern Democrats in the 1940s were on the whole conservative, and were opponents of civil rights efforts, including early attempts at desegregation.) Chakrabarti eventually deleted the original tweet, clarifying he didn’t see those members as racist, but as enablers of a racist system.

Tensions between House Democratic leadership and progressive lawmakers have been escalating in recent weeks, as progressives see leadership as dismissive of their demands and influence in the party. Chakrabarti sits at an interesting intersection of this dynamic. He works for Ocasio-Cortez, a Democratic Socialist member whose viral internet presence has helped her platform to dominate conversation at the national level in a manner that has struck the ire of entrenched House members. And he founded Justice Democrats, a progressive group working to unseat ideologically moderate Democrats, some of which are veteran black lawmakers who have worked their way into the inner circle of House leadership.

Until now, Pelosi has publicly dismissed progressives’ influence and privately told the House majority to maintain a spirit of unity. But the internal strife within her party keeps boiling over into the public.

House Democrats are angry about a two week old tweet from AOC’s staffer

 

Rep. Hakeem Jeffries runs the House Democrats Twitter account.  Paul Morigi/WireImage for The Recording Academy

The tweet from House Democrats comes days after Pelosi firmly told House Democratic lawmakers and their staff to keep their internal gripes off Twitter.

“You got a complaint? You come and talk to me about it. But do not tweet about our members and expect us to think that that is just okay,” Pelosi told lawmakers in a private meeting Tuesday, according to multiple sources in the room.

Pelosi’s remarks were interpreted as a direct message to progressive lawmakers and their teams. Lawmakers like Reps. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) and Mark Pocan (D-WI) were explicit about their frustrations with moderate Democrats after the border funding vote. Pocan called the bipartisan group of moderate Republicans and Democrats — dubbed the “Problem Solvers Caucus” — the “Child Abuse Caucus.” Chakrabarti commented as well, with his tweet comparing current moderate Democrats to the Southern Democrats who enabled segregationist policies in the 1940s.

Despite Pelosi’s admonition, the official House Democrats account tweeted a direct attack on one of its members’ staff. Even though his boss was one of the subjects of the speaker’s warning, Chakrabarti himself responded to the House Democrats’ tweet.

“Everything I tweeted two weeks ago was to call out the terrible border funding bill that 90+ Dems opposed,” he said. “It gave Trump a blank check to continue caging people in horrendous conditions. Our Democracy is literally falling apart. I’m not interested in substance-less Twitter spats.”

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This tweet was in response to someone else's tweet where they specifically brought up Rep. Davids. Why did you leave that out?

I've known Rep. Davids for a long time, consider her a friend, and encouraged her to run for Congress back in the fall of 2016. I'm glad she did. https://twitter.com/HouseDemocrats/status/1149856308801286148 …

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Who is this guy and why is he explicitly singling out a Native American woman of color?

Her name is Congresswoman Davids, not Sharice.

She is a phenomenal new member who flipped a red seat blue.

KeepHerNameOutOfYourMouth.

 

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Pelosi has yet to respond to the escalation.

“This is Hakeem [Jeffries]’s account so he can do whatever he wants. This was a brutal attack on a member here,” a senior Democratic aide told Vox. “This is the caucus’s Twitter account, this isn’t the voice of House Democrats generally, come on.”

The aide clarified the fact Chakrabarti was a staff member rather than a Congressperson could help explain why he was singled out.

“The segregationist tweet is what members are roiled about,” the aide said. “Staff are meant to be seen and not heard. That is unprecedented.”

There’s some important history here

The tweet from Ocasio-Cortez’s chief of staff comparing moderate Democrats to past segregationists in Congress inflamed some moderate, black Democrats in the House. But there’s been longer-simmering tension between the two camps that has to do with Justice Democrats attempting to primary a Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) member in 2018.

Ocasio-Cortez swept into Congress last year by ousting former House Democratic Caucus Chairman Joe Crowley (D-NY), a powerful Queens party boss who was widely seen as being next in line for speaker of the House in the coming years.

The group that backed her, Justice Democrats, hasn’t shied away from campaigning to oust sitting moderate Democrats. The group has been clear it wants more progressives in Congress to focus on liberal issues — even if that means getting rid of the Democrats that are already there.

During the 2018 midterms, the Justice Democrats-backed Cori Bush, a black woman challenging longtime Rep. Lacy Clay of Missouri, himself a member of the CBC. Bush is planning to run against Clay again, and Justice Democrats have also backed a primary challenger against Congressional Hispanic Caucus member Henry Cuellar (D-TX).

“It just seems strange that the social Democrats seem to be targeting members of the Congressional Black Caucus, individuals who have stood and fought to make sure that African Americans are included and part of this process,” Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-NY), a senior CBC member, himself a Queens party boss, told The Hill’s Scott Wong.

Meeks has also suggested his fellow moderates challenge progressive members of his chamber. “Primaries go two ways,” Meeks told the New York Daily News. “If someone picks a fight with somebody else, you fight back.”

Beyond the ongoing primary fight, there’s something else going on in the continuing war between Ocasio-Cortez’s camp and the rest of the House Democratic Caucus — a vast disagreement on the underlying seniority structure on which Pelosi’s caucus runs. Seniority is extremely important in the House Democratic Caucus, especially among the powerful CBC, whose members are close to Pelosi.

From the beginning of Ocasio-Cortez’s entrance into Congress, she made it clear she didn’t want to play by the old rules. Beyond her tendency to tweet brash things to a following of millions, the new freshman raised eyebrows with an opening bid to get on the powerful House Ways and Means committee, Politico reported back in January. That small action alone aggravated many longtime members.

“It totally pissed off everyone,” a senior House Democratic lawmaker told Politico at the time. “You don’t get picked for committees by who your grass-roots [supporters] are.”

But the young, new progressive members are tired of House leadership’s structure, both in Congress and the larger political system. Notably, however, these progressive’s supported Pelosi’s speakership bid in January, whereas many of the moderate Democrats did not.

“I don’t want to bring a chair to an old table,” freshman and Ocasio-Cortez ally Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) said Saturday at the annual Netroots Nation progressive conference in Philadelphia. “This is the time to shake the table, this is the time to redefine the table.”

 

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) takes part in a panel at Netroots.  Photo by Bastiaan Slabbers/NurPhoto via Getty Images

This is about a progressive movement trying to gain power

On Saturday, at the annual progressive Netroots Nation conference, House leadership’s conduct was centerstage at an event with progressive lawmakers Reps. Pressley, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, and Deb Haaland.

“Every single person in Congress has a role — our role is to take our votes, leadership’s role is to wrangle votes,” Omar said. “When everybody understands what their role is, then everybody succeeds. But there is a constant struggle oftentimes with people who have power about sharing that power.”

The viciousness of the fight between the progressive “squad” (a group of progressive freshmen that includes Ocasio-Cortez, Omar, Tlaib, and Pressley) and the rest of the House Democratic caucus may be amplified the closer to the 2020 elections we get, because Democrats are very focused on protecting their House majority, especially moderate members.

Some within the Democratic caucus are nervous about Ocasio-Cortez’s star power and megaphone of 4.7 million Twitter followers, as well as the large following of the rest of the squad. The fact those followings are used to amplify progressive ideas like the Green New Deal, Medicare-for-all, and Abolish ICE is making moderate Democrats — many of whom are the reason Democrats hold the majority in the House right now — incredibly nervous.

The reality is, however, Ocasio-Cortez is not just a Congresswoman, but a social media star with 4.7 million followers, and at times, she uses that huge platform to call out fellow House Democrats on disagreements that normally would be hashed out behind closed doors, as they have been for many years. As House Democrats adjust to this new reality, and as Ocasio-Cortez and other freshmen Democrats with large online followings work to convert social media power into political capital, disputes such as the one between Jeffries and Chakrabarti are likely to continue to spill into the public sphere.

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Hahaha this is so awesome 

can anyone say that guys name? What a doosh 

“ the squad” lmfao. Mod squad lol

[Pete]

I bet she and her other 3 phonies thought they were going to storm Congress with their outer space ideas lmao

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I consider it a good thing that the most repulsive people hate AOC, Omar, and Tlaib

[AKIQPilot]

Just now, motonoggin said:

I consider it a good thing that the most repulsive people hate AOC, Omar, and Tlaib

I find it comical that you like her.  

Hows Bernie doing by the way? 

[Pete]

12 minutes ago, AKIQPilot said:

I find it comical that you like her.  

Hows Bernie doing by the way? 

He is going down in flames just like the other asshats 

[Mainecat]

Why are you Trump pussies so concerned with a first term congresswoman?

[f7ben]

31 minutes ago, motonoggin said:

I consider it a good thing that the most repulsive people hate AOC, Omar, and Tlaib

I love them.....whatever drives neocon authoritarian jerk offs nuts is fine with me

[BOHICA]

17 minutes ago, Mainecat said:

Why are you Trump pussies so concerned with a first term congresswoman?

You think she may be pretty much ensuring Trump gets a second term?

Edited July 14, 2019 by BOHICA

[hayward]

1 hour ago, AKIQPilot said:

I find it comical that you like her.  

Hows Bernie doing by the way? 

Obviously not so well, tis why he is now hitching his cart to another horse.

He may run out of options till it's said and done.

[Zambroski]

1 hour ago, Mainecat said:

Why are you Trump pussies so concerned with a first term congresswoman?

What a god damn gong show and MC carrying all the water he can for them.  How absolutely fitting.  

”Stop making fun of us!!!!”   

[AKIQPilot]

2 minutes ago, Zambroski said:

What a god damn gong show and MC carrying all the water he can for them.  How absolutely fitting.  

”Stop making fun of us!!!!”   

And Ben wonders why no one here takes him seriously any more.  SMH.  

[AKIQPilot]

29 minutes ago, hayward said:

Obviously not so well, tis why he is now hitching his cart to another horse.

He may run out of options till it's said and done.

His hold on second place is slipping bigly to Warren and Harris.   

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/second-place-in-the-democratic-primary-is-crowded-thats-not-good-for-sanders/

Second Place In The Democratic Primary Is Crowded — That’s Not Good For Sanders

Poll(s) of the fortnight

You’ve probably heard that the first Democratic primary debate was bad for former Vice President Joe Biden’s polling numbers and good for Sen. Kamala Harris’s and Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s. But what about Sen. Bernie Sanders, who’s long been second to Biden in the polls? Well, his standing appears to be slipping — and his runner-up status is now in real danger.

For example, a CNN/SSRS poll conducted in the days after the debate gave Sanders 14 percent of the vote, which was down 4 points from late May, when CNN/SSRS last polled the primary. And a Quinnipiac poll from after the debate gave Sanders 13 percent of the vote; earlier in June, the pollster had him sitting at 19 percent.

Granted, not every poll showed Sanders losing ground. According to Reuters/Ipsos, Sanders enjoyed the support of 15 percent of Americans a few weeks before the debate and 16 percent right after it. And the poll we partnered with Morning Consult on to track debate reaction in almost real time found Sanders’s support virtually unchanged from before to after the debate. But RealClearPolitics’s overall polling average does suggest that Sanders did indeed lose a couple of points from the debate.

And his standing might be even more endangered because Warren and Harris improved so much that they are now in a rough three-way tie with Sanders for second place. That’s a problem for Sanders because there are now two newly competitive rivals whom he needs to vanquish to win the nomination. Your baseball team may be only a few games out of first place, but if four other teams are too, it hurts your odds of finishing first; not only must you perform well, but you also need multiple other teams ahead of you to stumble.

More importantly, Sanders is arguably in a worse position than Warren and Harris are, despite their nearly tied horse-race polling. And that’s because someone with near-universal name recognition like Sanders needs to be polling higher to have a good shot at winning the nomination (or at least that’s what our research on historical early primary polls has found). On the other hand, lower-name recognition candidates like Warren and Harris arguably have more room to grow than Sanders does, as there is still a pool of potential supporters out there who haven’t heard of them. And unlike Sanders, Warren and Harris both outperformed their polling average in the first half of 2019 when you adjust for name recognition.

Another potential pitfall for Sanders is that he has so far limited himself with a campaign strategy that doesn’t appear designed to expand beyond his base. But to win the nomination, he’ll need to win over some new fans — especially if he keeps losing old ones. Ardent progressives have more options (most obviously Warren) to choose from than they did in 2016, and Sanders may have underestimated how much of his 2016 support was simply a protest vote against Hillary Clinton. An Emerson College poll out this week found he was getting only 25 percent of the vote among those who said they supported him in 2016.

So yes, Sanders is going through a rough patch — but he could still recover. With eight months until the first ballots are cast, there is plenty of time for him to change campaign strategies. He certainly has the money — a reported $30 million cash on hand, plus the proven ability to fundraise even more — to go on the offensive again. Then again, so do his rivals — Warren reportedly raised even more money than Sanders in the second quarter. Sanders might want to act quickly to turn his campaign around, as his margin for error is rapidly shrinking.

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3 hours ago, motonoggin said:

I consider it a good thing that the most repulsive people hate AOC, Omar, and Tlaib

I hate them too. They all need their fukken faces slapped off. 

[Guest]

6 hours ago, jtssrx said:

 

 

 

 

Fukken punk-assed bitch Porno Rican. 

[motonoggin]

11 hours ago, AKIQPilot said:

I find it comical that you like her.  

Hows Bernie doing by the way? 

I don't pay a ton of attention to electoral politics anymore.

Your bourgeois illusion of democracy will always favor the moneyed elite and participating in it is giving implied consent to it's outcome.

11 hours ago, f7ben said:

I love them.....whatever drives neocon authoritarian jerk offs nuts is fine with me

Exactly

10 hours ago, hayward said:

Obviously not so well, tis why he is now hitching his cart to another horse.

He may run out of options till it's said and done.

What in the fuck are you talking about? What other horse? 

Are you fucking retarded too? Does everyone here have fucking brain worm or what?

[jtssrx]

1 hour ago, motonoggin said:

I don't pay a ton of attention to electoral politics anymore.

Your bourgeois illusion of democracy will always favor the moneyed elite and participating in it is giving implied consent to it's outcome.

Exactly

What in the fuck are you talking about? What other horse? 

Are you fucking retarded too? Does everyone here have fucking brain worm or what?

Why don’t you and Ben move to another country if it sucks here??

 

[f7ben]

5 minutes ago, jtssrx said:

Why don’t you and Ben move to another country if it sucks here??

 

Why dont you eat another tide pod and settle down for a bit

[Jimmy Snacks]

5 minutes ago, jtssrx said:

Why don’t you and Ben move to another country if it sucks here??

 

Fuck I hate it when people say this....nothing but intellectual dishonesty and laziness. 

[Jimmy Snacks]

Just now, f7ben said:

Why dont you eat another tide pod and settle down for a bit

[motonoggin]

1 minute ago, Jimmy Snacks said:

Fuck I hate it when people say this....nothing but intellectual dishonesty and laziness. 

It's simple.

Either you think America is perfect in every way or you hate everything.

[jtssrx]

5 minutes ago, f7ben said:

Why dont you eat another tide pod and settle down for a bit

I’m 100% settled I just chuckle at you and comminoggin and your distain for America and Americans. 

 

I also chuckle at Jimmy who dangles off your ball sack 

[Jimmy Snacks]

3 minutes ago, motonoggin said:

It's simple.

Either you think America is perfect in every way or you hate everything.

Fuck don't I know....

Me- Damn I wish our government would stop bombing and killing innocents around the globe.

Forum Plastic Patriots- GET THE FUCK OUT....MERICA!!!!!!!

[Jimmy Snacks]

1 minute ago, jtssrx said:

I’m 100% settled I just chuckle at you and comminoggin and your distain for America and Americans. 

 

I also chuckle at Jimmy who dangles off your ball sack 

Disdain and not dangling off anything you partisan hack flat earth nitwit fucktard.