Pro-Pritzker
Pro-AOC
Pro-Hogg
Democrat!

is the kind of person we need. I’m starting to feel this but I’m usually wrong

I never was into it that much, in the first place.

for Hogg. He needs to resign from the DNC and use his organization to destroy the Dem Party if that is his goal.

J.B. gets it.

Comes from an immigrant self made billionaire family!!! He’s not afraid to fight. We must fight!!!

She gives no other evidence of that and I'm not seeing it in Washington.

the majority appear to be following the Schumer strategy to let Krasnov burn it all down and then win the next election.

I have posted 139 times here that every Democrat needs to do town halls.

The protests nationwide are being organized by Indivisible.

Democratic leaders need to rid themselves of the notion that only moderate Dems can win in certain districts. How about nominating the best candidate?

These have been bright points of courage and/or leadership. Yes we need more, but enough to say a shift? I think, and I hope so.

There IS a shift, more DEMs taking it seriously, and Schumer is gonna get trampled on if he doesn't start getting serious about stopping 2025 Tyranny.

Sorry just had a brain fart…

David Hogg https://g.co/kgs/ynXgRTQ

I really like that he gave concrete examples of how Dems can resist in our own communities - the flag at El Capitan and the “snow” reports from Vermont when Vance was there.

JB Pritzker now joins Bernie, AOC, Tim Walz, Pete Buttigieg and others in a national effort rallying Dems across the country.

Let’s go!

Sen. Ed Markey MA and more.

Hogg gets a job as VP of DNC and wants to work against the Dems in office. He needs to quit the DNC and just work with his own organization. The DNC has got a lot of blowback on Hogg. Attack me all you want, that's my view of him.

As the excerpt quotes “Dems need fighters, not politicians who are too cautious” or those, such as the Problem Solvers caucus, who seek “common ground” with the MAGAs.

If DNC leadership said they were going to raise millions to primary progressive members, people saying they love Hogg would be losing their minds. It's the same.

I'm willing to vote for a new candidate against an incumbent based on their record. Trump is in the White House because Biden, and the Democratic party elite, helped him get back there by being stupid, irresolute and too concerned about their own interests to help unite the party nationally.

The core, elite leadership of the Democratic party had four years, four years, to use the justice department and two years to use Congress to make sure Trump was removed as a threat to Democracy and they didn't do it. So they weren't so elite, were they? And how serious did they really take this?

Pritzker, and Hogg, and AOC and Bernie, are serious.

Absurd.

Biden was in office four years. For two of those four years, he had a Congressional majority. What did that majority accomplish toward preventing a charged criminal from running again? Why didn't he can Merrick Garland who was doing nothing to move Trump's insurrection trial and stolen documents trial forward?

Why did he stand in the way of Senators breaking the filibuster in order to amend the judiciary act and pack the court when that was clearly the solution to the whole Trump mess? Why not pack the court, ensuring that they expedited Trump's trials, maybe even took them on themselves, and adjudicated the indictments, branding him as an Insurrectionist, making him ineligible for runnning again? If he was an existential threat to democracy, as they kept insisting, then why not do whatever it took, risky as it might be, to make sure he was convicted and jjailed?

So yes, he must share some of the blame. He had the power to stop it and sat on protocol and tradition and wouldn't do it.

Absolutely NOT absurd.

That's what we complain about Trump doing.

Again, absurd.

in a word, an extremely weird denial of the psychopathic elephant in the room four short years ago.

voted out of office. Hogg is doing just that. Pritzker is trying to light a fire under all Democrats. I don't trust Hogg. JB is my governor and I know how good he is. He gets things done.

Does he support “fighters”, whether they are incumbents or primary challengers, or does he simply support any D incumbent?

So far, his words indicate he would do the former, not the latter.

We shall see.

a decade ago, exactly for it's "moderating". Many Democrats have for decades felt our party should be fighting more and appearing moderate less -- especially against an adversary that quite obviously considered Democrats their enemy, not just opponent.

I'm all in with Hogg ... and Pritzker, AOC, Bernie, Booker, and others who are calling it boldly, unambiguously, and provocatively like they see it.

What does this have to do with Hogg?

he thinks Dems doing "business as usual" need to be CHALLENGED

HE IS NOT WRONG

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democracy. The commitment to a Horse of Lords where people serve for life is as anti-democratic as it gets.

He would probably be unbeatable.

don't be defeatist, THAT IS WHAT FASCISTS WANT

Pritzker 2028

J.B.? Contact me. I will work for you for free in a campaign as long as you are willing to take the figjht to them and stop the "sharply worded letter" response vector. Its brass knuckles and rumble in the rain time. Let's get it on!

authority got an orange belly full.

I mean, what Democrat DOESN'T believe that "it’s wrong to snatch a person off the street and ship them to a foreign gulag with no chance to defend themselves in a court of law?"

If you want to go after our own, name names -- don't just slur the Democratic Party as a whole for stuff that doesn't apply to the vast, vast, VAST majority of us.

Two steps forward, and then three back. That is why we can't build a solid opposition to the totalitarian threat.

Pritzker urged Democrats to stop listening to "do-nothing political types."

He urged Democrats to lead with the same passion.

He listed the positions on which he wants Democrats to stand firm.

How is he slurring the Democratic Party as a whole?

What is the point in going after Democrats as a whole? The vast majority agree with him on pretty much every position -- is he listening to the "do-nothing political types" as well? Is that how he arrived at the same damn position as the rest of us? And for the small handful that may disagree with him, does he think him "not-calling" calling them out is going to get them to change their position? Like I said, stop smearing Democrats as a whole and fucking name names if you want to lob these sorts of attacks.

The same old tired cliches. Disagreements are not "circular firing squads"

If, as you say "the vast majority agree with him on pretty much every position" then we would not even be having this discussion.

No one is "smearing Democrats as a whole." That is simply false. Naming names would produce exactly the sort of internecine warfare you say you oppose. Calling for that suggests that you are not actually opposed to "circular firing squads," you just want those who disagree with you to shut up.

Denying their existence will not change anything. Denying that the Democratic Party is too good to improve is actually advocating to do nothing about a systemic problem facing both Democrats AND Republicans—voter apathy.

At least he sees an accurate picture, not a vision created by a PR-guided approach that has failed to increase voters at the polls.

People like Pritzker create voters at the polls—mostly Democratic voters. That’s the real world.

So, do you advocate constantly criticizing the whole party for positions that only a few may take? Why would you not name specific individuals that are causing the problems rather than smearing our party as a whole when most of us -- including our elected leaders -- agree with Pritzker on just about every-damn-thing? Do you think that's productive? You think that will somehow motivate people to the polls rather than helping CREATE the voter apathy you are upset with?

that their districts elected them and that regional red/blue and many mixed purple regions exist. They prefer their generalized smears against our party, even after Katy Porter flamed out in solidly blue California against Schiff using their phony corruption smear tactics. Even blue California didn’t want them.

The easiest way to fight fascists is not let them in office — a lesson they are desperately avoiding. Don't weaken our party, which has been happening for 10 years now.

He could have taken Trump apart..

Democratic party.

Until they can somehow push and facilitate that, I'll wait and see and give my money to Bernie, AOC and David Hogg.

And if J. B. wants to start running for President now, I'll donate to him, too.

And how do you suppose the Democratic Party can effectuate that?

start with the Trump whores

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=20280569

They do not work for the betterment of the country and her allies. They work to advance the cause of Trump and the Fox News cult of personality, and Vladimir Putin. They are aiding and abetting the enemy. People like Stephen Miller, Pam Bondi, RFK Jr, and Tom Homan think they are above the law. They are terrorists. It's time we treat MAGA like terrorists.

needs to be RDF. Search and destroy EVERY Lie, mis-characterization and misinformation the instant it hits the airwaves, by a team of experienced veterans of the fight. Field a team that can bring gravitas and trust to the conversation and hard facts about the consequences of policy going forward, and the alternatives available. Stick to the Facts and leave the grab-ass to those with form in that area. It will take stubborn persistence and commitment for the Long Haul... it took most of my lifetime for the wall of shit to grow this tall, and it won't come down in a day. Fight on, all the while teaching our children the righteousness of Humanity, and equity toward all mankind, and the necessity to labor to keep it so, and the will to resist when it isn't.

if hes tough enough for illinois hes plenty tough to take on the party of putin

should be on the DU front page EVERY DAY.

I read her daily commentary every day first thing, before DU........

He's a fighter.

DEMS NEED TO GET ONBOARD OR GET OUT OF THE FUCKING WAY

NO MORE "BUSINESS AS USUAL"

FIGHT THESE FASCIST FUCKS

We need a united and energized front. We don’t need attacks on each other

democrats need to get younger and more aggressive. if they don’t, they will disappear. the middle of the road is where chickens go to die.

She is the one that ushered my wife into liberal politics. She always had the sensibilities, but lacked any real motivation or urgency.

It does irk me a little that my wife was the one that "found" HCR and introduced me, though.

that surely you can introduce to your wife. Marcy Wheeler, Joyce Vance, ... the list goes on.