Connolly secured his position on the pivotal Oversight Committee after leaders in the House Democratic caucus—most notably former Speaker Nancy Pelosi—backed Connolly’s bid over Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez.
While other Democratic leaders have been fumbling for a response to Trump, the administration has been in a public feud with Ocasio-Cortez. Tom Homan, Trump’s handpicked immigration czar, has even called on the Department of Justice to investigate the congresswoman after she advised migrant communities of their constitutional rights.
In contrast to Connolly’s pro-compliance message, Ocasio-Cortez recently wrote, “America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.”
So far only AOC, Sanders, Pritzker, and a handful of others are showing they have the guts to stand up on the bullshit the administration is pulling.
I really want to include the new DNC chair in that list.
"We're calling it the 'Organize Everywhere' tour," Martin told ABC13. "It's a simple premise that if we're going to win throughout this country and get back into power, we have to organize everywhere. We're visiting red states, purple states, and blue states on this tour. And Texas really is the future of the Democratic Party. This is such a critical battleground state as we move forward in the 2026 elections -- of course, the 28 election cycle and beyond."
And
"We have to earn their trust back, and part of that is not just showing up a few months before the election and asking them for their vote," Martin said. "We have to get back to organizing year-round where we're building trust with communities around shared values."
Like, he's had the chair a month, and he's going out and doing local station news interviews already.
For the past 30 years every other chair would have been grifting huge dollar donors in exchange for more conservative policy positions right now.
Like, he’s had the chair a month, and he’s going out and doing local station news interviews already.
I really feel like they all need to be doing this, as much as possible. Get out there and publicize just how fucked things are, and what they're doing to fight back, and how Trump's cronies control the entire government right now and what's happening is directly their fault.
Not trying to be an asshole but if you expect anything will materially change you shouldn't be surprised when the DNC rug pulls you again.
I really want to include the new DNC chair in that list.
I strongly disagree.
“There are a lot of good billionaires out there that have been with Democrats, who share our values, and we will take their money. But we’re not taking money from those bad billionaires” - New DNC Head Martin
The DNC is run by corporate democrats which, aside from the hate, racism and bigotry, might well be the on the same team as Republicans when it comes to facilitating the actions of the wealthy in this country. Its why nothing materially changes when Dems run the show. Their wealthy donors are happy with the job they are doing currently, which doesn't include improving the quality of life for the vast majority of us because it is easier to exploit a populous that is teetering on the edge of ruin. How many of you cant change jobs because you'd lose your insurance? How few Americans have 500 dollars in the bank for a catastrophic emergency? The fact that we have to live in such a precarious position is a feature to the wealthy that allows them to exploit us for their significant personal gains. They don't see us as people, they see us as a resource to exploit and toss when they are done.
Did Biden push for Universal healthcare, or even talk about it really? What about pressing for codifying of Roe v. Wade? Or wage theft being, from a dollar perspective, the vast majority of theft that occurs in this country? Marijuana reform? Better to leave that as a carrot to try to get votes as they've shown in the last 3 elections... What about taxing the rich as a rebuttal to the constant assault on social services that help the most vulnerable in our society yet account for the smallest fraction of the actual budget? Or upholding the law and holding Trump and his cronies for the January 6th attack on our nation, which should have prevented Trump from running in the first place? The wealthy in this country are seeing their wealth explode from a government that today has enabled them to wholesale embrace corruption by attacking regulatory and oversight bodies... wonder why they didnt want Trump to be held accountable...
Biden did things in his term to help Americans to an extent, but these Donkeys in the room are glaring examples of areas that Biden had flat out ignored or intentionally neglected us. The reason to me is that the money didn't support those initiatives.... i.e. not in the donors interests.
Remember that the DNC put Biden there, and if we let them they will happily keep playing the role of controlled opposition as a fulcrum to leverage our nation to the right while giving lip service to the things we care about and enriching themselves with our donations.
Why are so many people stuck on a single comment he made during the DNC chair campaign when he was asked if he'd take donations from billionaires?
Do you legitimately think he'd have won the chair election by answering no?
And why did so many people all discover this comment from over a month ago about 48 hours ago?
I'm legitimately asking because I followed the chair election pretty damn closely, and even at the time it was made it just wasn't a big deal....
But most importantly:
I really want to include the new DNC chair in that list.
I didn't say he should be, I said I want to include him.
He has a long and respectable history at the state level, and I have no reason not to be optimistic that he'll stay that way...
Yet.
So I want him to keep doing the right thing and earn on a spot on that list.
Why the absolute about-face from you on the DNC over the last couple weeks?
Why are so many people stuck on a single comment he made during the DNC chair campaign when he was asked if he'd take donations from billionaires?
They're not stuck on this single comment. They're seeing the trend from the DNC over the last few decades and seeing more of the same in his statement.
Do you legitimately think he'd have won the chair election by answering no?
And what does that tell you about where their allegiance lies? I can't believe you think this comment helps your argument.
This may be cynical but this just sounds like he wants to make people fall in line and adopt more Texas style right-wing politics.
The "we have to regain their trust" line could be copy and pasted from just about every corporate non-apology in existence. This instills little hope in me for the future of the Democratic party.
This may be cynical but this just sounds like he wants to make people fall in line and adopt more Texas style right-wing politics.
The “we have to regain their trust” line could be copy and pasted from just about every corporate non-apology in existence. This instills little hope in me for the future of the Democratic party.
The man didn't magically appear when you learned his name...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/...
He wins elections with progressive candidates, because that's what increases dem turnout.
What more do you want from a party chair?
If he's dirty, where's the dirt from the time he ran a state party?
I didn't say anything of his qualifications or history. I said I think his statements and future plans sound like more of the same ineffective lip service and rightward drift.
Obligatory reminder that Sanders is categorically excluded from being a "Democrat with proverbial balls" not because he doesn't have balls, but because he isn't a Democrat. I deny the Democratic Party credit for his courage.
It's not about balls, it's about loyalty. AOC and the like have loyalty to the country while corporate Dems have loyalty to corporate interests.
The problem I have with this take is that we knew 4 years ago too. For some of them, we've known for decades. We should have already been primarying them out, but between local ratfuckery and a lack of funding for primary challengers, we're stuck with these assholes at a critical moment.
After the Bernie Sanders' "stop arms sale to Israel vote", I can confidently say %90 of democrats are just worthless human shits who would have fared just as well being members of the Republic party or United Russia (Putin's party) or AKP (Erdoğan's party). As long as they got a seat of some power to glue their sweaty asses to, they will adapt to anything.
See if @WorkingFamilies@mastodon.social is backing any candidates in your area during the next race. They also try to build working-class solidarity through mutual-support events, too.
But until many states have elections which pass United Nations reviews, and international witnesses, and stop having oligarchs counting the votes without oversight. All of this is just pandering to reasonable people. Just words with no weight. Hopes and dreams. The voice at the back of one’s head while doing something stupid.
They probably don’t mind benefitting from Trump tax breaks.
man suggests employees write an email to their new boss as requested, in attempt to keep their current job, immediately becomes the new nazi collaborator
not at all the extremist take from the new fundamentalists designed to destroy the dems and ultimately help keep trump-like politicians in power
Along with Pelosi. In the name of American unity, I'm ok with this shit and Pelosi being on the hanging block with the Republicans.
For totally different reasons.
Fetterman 2.0
People lost their minds when I suggested the dems are at fault for losing so badly, not protest voters. It's funny as hell thinking the old guard of the democratic party will ever become effective
Both of them are at fault. The voters are just as culpable for being so misinformed about what was at stake, and the democrats should've told them more.
But the info was all available, so that's not an excuse.
The Dems told us a lot, the problem is they don't follow through with action. People are suffering and all they've got to offer is some ineffectual policy efforts and being the lesser of two evils. We're bombarded daily by sensationalist talking points so telling us that Trump is a fascist is met with desensitized ears. And any policy stance they take is so generic and bland in an effort to appeal to everyone that it inspires nobody and it all comes off as empty promises.
Despite being the party of not actually achieving anything meaningful to the majority of the working class for a generation, people still came out by the millions to vote for them because the alternative is that bad. But their chronic complacency was enough to tip the scales.
This has been explained so, so, so-so, so so so.many times. How is it still not understood?
The very same phenomenon you seen with those whose identity is to be MAGAs of being unable to believe the truth about their "leader" even when pretty much rubbed on their faces, because their tribalism means they're emotionally wedded to the tribe and will always believe the tribe's chief is right and those who say otherwise are liars, is also on display amongst those whose identity is to be Democrats toward their own "tribal chiefs".
When it comes to Politics there is no greater human character flaw than Tribalism and the selective blindness that goes with it.
They were "relaxed about Trump" back in the campaign for President hence didn't even try to appeal to voters left of center (whom they later slandered via their minions and useful idiots as having the blame for the Trump victory because they didn't vote for the very Democrat leaders who didn't even try to appeal to them) and they're still "relaxed about Trump" now that he's using the powers of the Presidency to go full-Fascist.
Blaming the protest voters on the losses like blaming the immigrants on... Well, all the s*** that the GOP blaimd on the immigrants.
However, while the Democrats could have done A LOT more to win, I'm not entirely sure that things were counted correctly. They may even be complicit, can anyone come up with a reasonable answer as to why nobody demanded recounts?
I have been thinking, even though there are genuinely tone deaf, smug, urban elite centrist Democrats who call everyone who disagrees with them as plain stupid-- instead of acknowledging that the once reliable working-class and rural voters that supported Democrats felt abandoned by jobs outsourcing went over to the Republicans-- I reckon some accounts are also bots to amplify this disdain by centrist Democrats on the conservative-voting working-class, in order to further widen the partisan gap.
So much had been reported of Russia funding far-right populist parties, but there is also Russia funding the left or at least being suspiciously friendly. Putin is cosy with the former centre left German chancellor, Gerhard Schroder, who have worked in Russian energy firms. Jill Stein rob votes from Democrats during presidential elections and she is hesitant to call Putin a dictator (like Trump). Many far-left parties in Europe also either have warm or ambivalent feeling towards Russia, and are reluctant to support Ukraine.
Unlike during the Cold War when the Soviet Union solely funded radical far-left groups (while the US supported right wing dictatorships), the current meddling and psy-ops from current Russia don't have any ideological preference to support in order to destabilise the West. Russia simply throws all the wrench they could get into the machine.
Truly an unsaveable party.
in a CNN appearance on Sunday, Connolly said workers should comply for now.
“I guess if you can, cover yourself and do the five things you did last week just to be able to say, ‘well I did it,’” he advised.
Obviously Congressional Democrats need to fight, but this sure sounds to me like he’s just telling Federal employees to cover their bases in case the courts rule DOGE does have authority. This is their livelihood, after all.
Maybe I’m misunderstanding.
Just to state the obvious, you should be bitching at your representatives, state and federal, all the time.
Yes, that includes me too. And no, I don't do it either.
I have heard from others this website can be really helpful for getting yourself going on this - https://5calls.org/
Democratic Rep. Gerry Connolly, the highest-ranking Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, said government workers should comply with an Elon Musk order that is being disputed by others. Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency sent out an email...
Thank you Nancy Pelosi!
He's seventy-four with a cancer diagnosis so... 🤞
Why should he give a shit. He literally has terminal cancer. This who the DNC picked over a young a vibrant AOC. The DNC needs to be burned down and replaced from the top.
If we are going to lose anyways it’s time to make a third party. Call it the Progressive Party and continue to lose until democrats give up. These people literally only care about lining their pockets.
Yeah that seems to be a popular idea but it never gets anywhere after that.
My thought was, since the DNC organization exists and anyone can participate, we should y'know - take it over. Basically. Like it was intended.
So in the first example we'd have to build it from scratch (pros/cons) and in the second example, we'd have to deal with a fully functioning national party (pros/cons).
They essentially cancelled the last few primaries. Bernie was gonna win and they cancelled it. Biden wanted to run so they cancelled it. Biden backed out last minute so they cancelled it for Kamala. Shit is so undemocratic it’s crazy.
Bernie was gonna win and they cancelled it? Okay, Imma need to see some articles on that.
Basically unless you're talking about Texas or California or heck even PA and Bernie is polling at ~90% and the DNC says "actually we're cancelling due to rain" I'm going to find there's no reason to assume Bernie was going to win and they cancelled primaries to prevent him.
That's just - Fox News type of narrative. It's lacking all context and the context it does have is childishly simple and outrageous.
Check out @WorkingFamilies@mastodon.social they might already be active in your area. Depending on the race, they sometimes recommend voting for the Democrat, as the "least bad" option, but they also run their own candidates.
And now the party should primary him...too bad the party is a feckless shell of bullshit wrapped around a bunch of greedy little piggies.
The people can primary him. Need 1,000 qualified signatures first though. The party won't like it but they can't stop you from running in a primary against him and making him answer to these issues.
What makes a democrat "top"?
Like, is he the one who fucks you in the ass? That's probably it.
Edit: just to remind everyone; the DNC is a sunk cost. You can keep trying to make them fight back, make them stand up for you, and make them care. At the and of the day they will take your energy, take your money, take your vote and do nothing with it.
What makes a democrat "top"?
They have a leadership position, like a committee chair.
Assuming there was any good faith in there. Which-
Connolly backs Musk’s farce, showing even oversight can crumble under the weight of vanity projects.
😾
They say that all that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing (or something similar to that) but it doesn't hurt to have a few "good" men in power, just go along with it I guess.
Voter mandate only seems to pop up as a reasoning when it's doing what rich people want. When is healthcare reform, VA funding, civil rights bills, or regulations to prevent another economic crash, student debt, or worker's pay and rights, no amount of voter mandate send to register, we get a 10 year delayed bill that ultimately changes nothing.
Line 1 of pretty much every government oath out there: Uphold and defend the constitution. First and foremost. You're not going to find "do any bidding of a newly elected regime" as part of anyone's official duties. So the "voter mandate" is complete bullshit.
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