My favorite men!! @BarackObama and the late great #ElijahCummings #ObamaHadAHeart
— Chris Michael Ward @ChrisMichaelW
#BlackExcellence lives forever
Source: twitter.com
❤️ Elijah Cummings' Poetic First House Floor Speech
‘I only have a minute, 60 seconds in it, forced upon me, I did not choose it, but I know that I must use it, give account if I abuse it, suffer if I lose it. Only a tiny little minute, but eternity is in it.’
— Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Maryland Democrat and Civil Rights Leader
Elijah used every “tiny little minute” in service to Americans #RacialEquality #SocialEquality #Justice
R.I.P. Elijah Cummings ✊ #NeverForget
Source: The Huffington Post
Crowds getting smaller 🌊 #Trumptanic 😂 Where was #MoscowMitch?
😂 #TrumpJr event was so poorly attended, "Organizers have asked the audience to move out of the seats and closer to the stage” 🤣 #CrowdSize
Vote for #AndyBeshear 🌊
Donald Trump Jr., son of President Donald Trump, spoke on Thursday at a rally in Kentucky for Gov. Matt Bevin (R), who is running for reelection in a tight race against state Attorney General Andy Beshear (D).
Local CBS station WYMT reported before the event that “locals expect a memorable turnout.” And indeed it was, but perhaps for all the wrong reasons for Trump.
🤣 “According to Louisville radio station WFPL, only about 200 people turned out for the Bevin event at the Appalachian Wireless Arena. The venue has a capacity of 7,000.” 😂
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Don Jr.'s rally reminded me of Daddy #Trump's inauguration! I hope they're getting the message. The @GOP has lost with this moronic potus.
— #FREEDOM (@gmachrisc) August 29, 2019
I could fit this Don Jr rally in my house and not violate fire code
— Adrian Oaks (@FriendOfTheYeti) August 29, 2019
Someone forgot to post the Craigslist ad for “Paid Rallygoers”. #Resist https://t.co/JR9m4emTFk
— Wrath of Khan (@WrathOfKhan2016) August 30, 2019
“Like his father, Trump Jr. often brags about the crowd at events” 🤣 Trump scrapbook!
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A lot of Democrats have been worried that the 2020 primary could turn ugly. Before announcing his presidential candidacy, Bernie Sanders urged his supporters to engage respectfully and talk about issues, not personalities or past grievances.
That is why it’s surprising that, only after the Atlantic‘s Edward Isaac-Dovere contacted the Sanders campaign and asked about David Sirota, did they announce that he’d been hired as a senior communications adviser and speechwriter. Even more importantly, Sanders’ campaign manager, Faiz Shakir, confirmed that Sirota had been working for the campaign in an advisory capacity as a trial run for months.
Among progressive bloggers, Sirota has been a known quantity for years; he has a reputation as a relentless attack dog. He was a strong supporter of Bernie Sanders in 2016, having worked for him previously as press secretary in the House. But after the Democratic Convention, when Sanders endorsed Clinton and campaigned for her, Sirota continued to attack her right up until the November election.
Now we know that around the time Sirota was launching attacks against Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, and Beto O’Rourke, he was working for the Sanders campaign in an “advisory capacity.” For those of us who followed the response to those attacks on Twitter, we watched Sirota get incensed when challenged. He defended himself as an unbiased journalist merely reporting a story, all while ruthlessly attacking his opponents as “mentally incapacitated” or “positively unhinged…”
[T]here is no way that Bernie Sanders or the people who are running his campaign could be ignorant about David Sirota’s style of engagement. Even if they were, with his work over the last few months getting widespread attention, they must have seen his attacks and liked them, because they decided to bring him on in an official capacity.
There is no one that I can think of who, if hired by a campaign, would more strongly suggest that a candidate intends to treat their opponents as enemies than David Sirota.
FACT: Bernie Sanders is NOT a Democrat
"If (Sanders) wants to be a Democrat, he should register in the Democratic Party, and then you can talk about running and to be my representative. I want a Democrat to be my representative as president of the United States and be my nominee."
— Rep. Gregory Meeks from New York
👏 👏 👏 Character Matters! 👎45 👎Republicans #VOTE #VoteThemAllOut
"When I think about the next election, whether it's 2018 or 2020 or 2022, you know, folks say that the character of the candidate is always on the ballot; I think the character of the country is on the ballot right now"
"I'd like to see this whole administration go. That's what 2020 is about, and 2018 is about putting some real oversight in the administration in the meantime,"
Trump has publicly criticized Sessions over his decision to recuse himself from oversight of the Russia investigation and said during an interview with Fox News last month that his attorney general "never took control of the Justice Department.”
"I think if, you know, if he's not in the position where either of them think they ought to be, then there are ways to honorably ... deal with that than a public flogging."
But Patrick was quick to point out his own "issues" with Sessions."My issues with Jeff Sessions go back to trying a voting rights case against him when I was at the Legal Defense Fund," he said, adding, "his attitude about what constitutes fair access to the ballot, about what it means to be a full and enfranchised citizen of the United States, are as antiquated as they come."
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Arizona Republican Kelli Ward and one of her staffers accused John McCain of announcing that he was about to die at a time that would harm their campaign.
Veteran Arizona TV reporter Brahm Resnik shared tweets between the staffer and Ward herself, in which they bantered about the timing of McCain’s announcement that he was dying.
“I wonder if John McCain’s trying to steal attention from Ward’s bus tour by announcing his life is coming to an end,” the staffer wrote.
Ward, a Trump-loving extremist who primaried McCain in 2016, had a contentious relationship with McCain, who she frequently slammed.
Ward is now running for Sen. Jeff Flake’s seat (R-AZ), and agreed that McCain was trying to have a “negative” effect on her by dying.
“I think they wanted to have a particular narrative that was negative to me,” Ward wrote in response to the conspiracy theory.
WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?@kelliwardaz staffer: I wonder if John McCain’s trying to steal attention from Ward’s bus tour by announcing his life is coming to an end. Ward: Yup, it’s all about me. #AZSEN pic.twitter.com/AXKAOhKYkU
— BrahmResnik (@brahmresnik) August 25, 2018
After Resnik pointed out Ward’s comment she deleted it and posted a statement accusing the “fake” news of pushing a narrative.
@kelliwardaz deleted that comment on the FB thread. She has now posted this comment, blaming the media. pic.twitter.com/EYozlaLRzT
— BrahmResnik (@brahmresnik) August 25, 2018
Arizona, Dr. Kelli Ward is a National Disgrace and UNFIT for office.
Arizonans, vote for decency and values. Vote for someone who is as bipartisan as Flake and McCain.
Vote for Rep. Kyrsten Sinema.
- Sinema was the sixth most bipartisan member of the U.S. House of Representatives during the 115th United States Congress
- She was the first openly bisexual person elected to the U.S. Congress.
- If elected, she will be the first openly bisexual person elected to the U.S. Senate and the second openly LGBT person ever to serve in the Senate, after Tammy Baldwin.
Source: rawstory.com
Congratulations Patty Schachtner & Wisconsin!
Patty won in a DEEP RED district #BlueWave2018
Democrats picked up their first state legislature seat in 2018 on Tuesday, as the party’s candidate won a special election for a state Senate seat in Wisconsin’s 10th District.
Though Donald Trump had won the rural district by about 17 points in the 2016 presidential election, Democratic nominee Patty Schachtner defeated her Republican opponent for the open seat by a comfortable margin of about 10 points.
The news is setting off alarm bells for Republicans, who are increasingly worried about a Democratic wave in the 2018 midterms. Gov. Scott Walker, the conservative two-term Wisconsin Republican running for reelection again this year, openly tweeted about his concerns:
Senate District 10 special election win by a Democrat is a wake up call for Republicans in Wisconsin.
— Scott Walker (@ScottWalker) January 17, 2018
For perspective:
- Barack Obama lost the district by 6 points in 2012
- Hillary Clinton lost by 17 in 2016
- Republican Rep. Adam Jarchow was in the middle of his third term representing the area in the Assembly and had built a formidable base.
Women Running for Office #ElectWomen
- Trump opened the floodgates. Now Democratic women are running for office in record-breaking numbers
- Women Line Up to Run for Office, Harnessing Their Outrage at Trump
- Emily’s List - Run for Office
- She Should Run
Raised on a St. Croix County farm, Patty Schachtner is a lifelong Western Wisconsin resident, a former EMT and supervisor for the Star Prairie township, and is currently the St. Croix County Medical Examiner and a Somerset School Board member. Patty is also a biker, a former member of the Wisconsin Bear Hunters’ Association, and a gun safety advocate. She and her family have enjoyed hunting in Wisconsin for generations. Patty is also an active community volunteer and serves on the board of her local food pantry and on the board of directors for “Turning Point Wisconsin,” a center for victims of sexual and domestic violence.
waiting for the urban dictionary version
American political insult mad-libs might go something like this:
A Democrat says: “Conservative (noun or plural noun) are destroying America.”
A Republican responds: “No, left-wing (noun or plural noun) are destroying America.”
If you’re American, you probably used different words for each blank. Maybe “idiot” and “zealot,” or “hack” and “nut job.”
Analysis by Katherine Martin, a lexicographer with Oxford Dictionaries, suggests that the words Americans use to belittle each other’s political views vary based on the target’s political affiliation.
Martin spent time rifling through Oxford’s New Monitor Corpus to identify the insults Americans most commonly lodge at their ideological adversaries. The corpus monitors thousands of websites for articles and other English text, storing them in a database that now contains over 3 billion words. Oxford uses the data to analyze how word usage evolves over time, usually to help decide whether or not to include it in a new dictionary.
Source: qz.com