#Democ(RATS)

[xtruss]

Folks! Kick Genocidal Joe Biden, “The War Criminal, Demented and Complicit in Genocide in Gaza,” Out of Oval Office in 2024!

During U.S. primary elections this year, hundreds of thousands of voters have chosen "uncommitted" rather than endorse President Biden, who they say is complicit in genocide. Primary elections are used to determine the Democrat and Republican candidates for U.S. national elections. The grassroots movement began just a month before primary elections in Michigan - home to one of the largest Arab American populations - and quickly spread to other states.

[pipelinelaserraygun]

🆓⬆️ ENTIRE MOVIE: From David Lean, Director of "Lawrence of Arabia", 🎬🍿 "Dr. Zhivago", & "The Bridge on the River Kwai".

⬆️ Federal budget

⬆️ Ukraine

--"Take it, or LEAVE it."

"Yet despite 👺 their 'tough' posturing, democ-rats, who have vociferously protested Elon Musk and his DOGE/ Department of Government Efficiency’s ,🥶 freezing of Federal funds and FIRING of government employees, may face a 'Hobson’s Choice' on the bill. By rejecting the House-passed CR, and triggering a shutdown, 👹 democ-rats would furlough hundreds of thousands of government employees, undermining their projected concerns for those workers.

Since 47 returned to office, essentially the ONLY policy any 🤡💩 democ-rats have 'successfully' coalesced AGAINST is 47’s termination of government employees and funding and hiring freezes. Shutting down the government and rejecting spending levels democ-rats overwhelmingly supported in December would render their lone message MOOT."

🕎✝️🛐 Father God, provide SECURITY for good servants.

https://rumble.com/v6qde7u-fox-news-saturday-night-with-jimmy-failla-full-episode-march-8-2025.html

MUST ⬆️ SEE monologue❣️

New 2025 slang: Actor-vism.

[krispydreamerking]

She would realize who the Democ-rats were.

[furcafe]

Big congrats to @treihova at the closing of his “The DemoC(RAT)ic Process” at @rara.tinta in @52ostreetstudios , part 2! Lens c.1947, camera c.2019. #dcondigital #kodaklife #ektarlife #americanlens #leicathreadmount #techartlife #lmea9 #sonylife #sonya9ii #ilce9m2

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As the Left Looks to 2028, It Waits on Ocasio-Cortez’s Big Decision

With Bernie Sanders unlikely to run for president again and Democratic voters fuming at party leaders, many progressives see an open lane. But who will fill it?

— By Reid J. Epstein and Katie Glueck | March 23, 2025 | The New York Times

Many Progressive Democrats see Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York as the obvious successor to the left-wing movement championed by Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont. Credit...Mikayla Whitmore for The New York Times

For the last decade, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont has been running for president, planning a run for president or pushing former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. to adopt more progressive policies.

But now, as Democrats find their legal and fund-raising institutions under attack from the Trump administration, their base voters furious at their congressional leadership and their party’s popularity at a generational low, progressives are also staring down the prospect of a post-Bernie future.

A movement politician with a large and devoted base of supporters, the 83-year-old Mr. Sanders has signaled that he does not intend to run for president again. The question now is who will lead the network he built from scratch into the next presidential election and beyond.

Interviews with nearly 20 progressive Democrats about the left wing’s future revealed a faction that sees the ideas Mr. Sanders has championed — reducing the power of billionaires, increasing the minimum wage, focusing more on the plight of workers — as core to the next generation of mainstream Democratic politics.

Though there is little agreement about who will emerge to guide progressives into a post-Sanders era, virtually everyone interviewed said there was one clear leader for the job: Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York.

And it just so happened that Mr. Sanders and Ms. Ocasio-Cortez spent three days last week on a “Fighting Oligarchy” tour through Arizona, Nevada and Colorado. In Denver, they drew 34,000 people, what Sanders aides said was the largest crowd of his career. Neither has so much as obliquely referred to the torch-passing nature of their trip, and in an interview, Mr. Sanders declined to answer questions about whether Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, 35, would inherit his mantle. But the subtext of their travels appears clear.

She is what’s next — if she wants it.

“Alexandria has been doing an extraordinary job in the House,” Mr. Sanders said. “You can’t sit back. You can’t wallow in despair. You’ve got to stand up, fight back and get involved in every way that you can. There’s nobody I know who can do that better than Alexandria.”

Ocasio-Cortez’s Three Options

“Alexandria has been doing an extraordinary job in the House,” Mr. Sanders said of Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, left. Credit...Haiyun Jiang for The New York Times

Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, who declined an interview request, has said nothing publicly about her political plans. Several people who said they had spoken with her relayed that she was far from making any decisions.

But the fourth-term congresswoman has three clear options.

She could focus on the House, where she has become a well-liked and respected member of the Democratic caucus, and try to become a committee chairwoman if Democrats win back a majority in next year’s midterm elections.

She could run for the seat now held by Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the minority leader. Or she could seek the presidency in 2028.

(Ms. Ocasio-Cortez has also mused about dropping out of politics altogether, the people who had spoken with her said. This seems less likely, given her lengthy admonition on Thursday to a crowd in North Las Vegas, Nev., to stay involved in the fight against the Trump administration.)

Her evident frustration with Mr. Schumer after he greenlit the passage of a Republican spending bill this month heated up the long-simmering conversation about whether she might run for his seat in 2028, whether he seeks a sixth term or not.

A person who has worked with Ms. Ocasio-Cortez on campaigns, and who insisted on anonymity to discuss private outreach, recounted being inundated with calls from Democrats — and not just those on the far left — after Mr. Schumer’s vote, asking about the congresswoman’s future and encouraging her to consider higher office.

“She’s not looking to jump to the next thing or the next thing or the next thing, just for the simple reason of jumping to that thing,” said former Representative Jamaal Bowman of New York, a political ally and friend of Ms. Ocasio-Cortez’s. “When everyone is saying, ‘Speed up,’ that’s actually the time to slow down.”

He added: “You got to take a breath. That race for the U.S. Senate is three years away. Let’s govern for a little bit.”

Ms. Ocasio-Cortez has also had extensive conversations with House allies like Representative Jamie Raskin of Maryland, who said he had spoken with her about his own deliberations over whether to run for the Senate. Ahead of last year’s election, Mr. Raskin decided to remain in the House, passing on a Senate race in which he would have been a heavy favorite.

The Senate provides a larger megaphone for politicians, Mr. Raskin said, but he believes they can accomplish more of their policy goals in the House, a prospect that may appeal to Ms. Ocasio-Cortez — who hardly needs a larger megaphone.

“We are in a moment of crisis, and a crisis is always a moment when new leadership surfaces to speak to the moral and political imperatives of the time,” Mr. Raskin said. “This crisis may be the end of some people’s political careers, and it may be the beginning of some people’s political careers.”

2028 Jockeying On The Left

Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois is one of several mainstream Democrats who have drawn attention from progressive activists because of their pushback to the Trump administration. Credit...Todd Heisler/The New York Times

The question of who could assume the Sanders mantle — at least in part — is all but certain to come to a head in the next presidential election.

In some ways, the jockeying is already evident.

“I don’t think there’s going to be, in my view, a standard-bearer or two standard-bearers or three standard-bearers for the progressive movement,” said Representative Ro Khanna, a California Democrat who has had conversations to game out a potential 2028 presidential campaign of his own. “We’re going to see the beginning of a new progressive era where we’re going to see successive progressive nominees.”

Of course, there are deep divides in the party over how far to the left Democrats should go.

But some also argue that the tensions in today’s Democratic Party no longer center on the kinds of ideological clashes that characterized the 2020 primary race — left versus moderate and litmus tests on issues like single-payer health care.

At least for now, these Democrats say, the debates concern how and where to draw the line against President Trump and Elon Musk, the richest man in the world.

Several mainstream Democrats, including Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut, Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota and Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois, himself a billionaire, have drawn attention from progressive activists because of their vigorous pushback to the Trump administration.

“The biggest split amongst Democrats is between those who want to stand and fight and those that want to play dead,” said Representative Greg Casar, a Texas Democrat and the chairman of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. “We need more leaders from the stand-and-fight wing of the Democratic Party.”

Danielle Brecker, a leader of Empire State Indivisible, which has called on Mr. Schumer to step aside as minority leader, said she saw Ms. Ocasio-Cortez as the “future of the party” with any number of promising paths.

But she questioned the country’s willingness to elect a woman in 2028.

“I sadly think that it probably needs to be some very safe white man,” she said. “I feel terrible saying that. That wound is still very sore.”

How Anger May Drive Democratic Politics

Democrats hosting town-hall events meant to hold Republicans accountable for the Trump agenda have found themselves facing liberal pushback for not being able to change the country’s course. Credit...Mike Belleme for The New York Times

When Mr. Trump was in office the first time, the liberal energy was firmly with Mr. Sanders.

By the time the 2020 Democratic presidential primary race began, several contenders rushed to embrace Mr. Sanders’s goals on heath care and other issues — even though most of the party’s successful candidates in the 2018 midterm elections adopted more moderate stances. The party’s eventual nominee in 2020, Mr. Biden, took a more moderate tack as well.

There are now signs that outraged constituents have regained the power to steer their elected officials. Anger at Mr. Schumer and Senate Democrats last month prompted futile displays of opposition to Mr. Trump’s cabinet appointments. Democrats hosting town-hall events meant to hold Republicans accountable for the Trump agenda have found themselves facing liberal pushback for not being able to change the country’s course.

Taking the nation in a new direction will require, some progressives said, a sustained effort to demonstrate both popular opposition to Mr. Trump’s agenda and support for a liberal alternative.

“After the murder of George Floyd, you saw a massive outpouring,” said Keith Ellison, the Democratic attorney general of Minnesota, whom Mr. Sanders backed in 2017 to become the Democratic National Committee chairman. “You saw a lot of people making statements about police accountability, diversity, equity and inclusion. And then when the movement subsides, they’re ready to roll it all back.

“So there’s a lesson there. The lesson is you’re going to have to stay in the streets.”

— Reid J. Epstein covers campaigns and elections from Washington. Before joining The Times in 2019, he worked at The Wall Street Journal, Politico, Newsday and The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Reid J. Epstein reported from North Las Vegas, Nevada, and Katie Glueck from New York.

— Katie Glueck is a Times National Political Reporter.

[krispydreamerking]

Tis the Answer; why I voted Republican.  The Democ rats have gotten the United States in financing Two military campaigns without the United States having military Boots on the ground.  I would like to put a boot up their Ass pirin!

[furcafe]

Big congrats to @treihova at the closing of his “The DemoC(RAT)ic Process” at @rara.tinta in @52ostreetstudios , part 1! Lens c.1947, camera c.2019. #dcondigital #kodaklife #ektarlife #americanlens #leicathreadmount #techartlife #lmea9 #sonylife #sonya9ii

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[immunobiz]

Don't trust that team of democ rats

[abr]

"Al di là del contratto rescisso (66 miliardi per la costruzione di sottomarini nucleari per l'Australia, ndr), ora si pone la questione del rapporto di fiducia tra Francia e Stati Uniti", scrive LeMonde. La fiducia è una cosa seria, par sostenere il giornale di riferimento del Paese (ri-)fondato dal gen. DeGaulle, quello che sfanculò la Nato in tempi di Guerra Fredda.

Continuino pure a rosicare, per i schei e per l'esclusione dai ragionamenti strategici sul Pacifico, dove sono anacronisticamente convinti d'essere un player importante. 

Cmq. resta che questi Democ Rats Usa ne stan facendo di divertenti davvero: capisco l’ansia di reset per rischierarasi  contro il Nemico Vero Cina (strategia definita da Trump, che la eseguì in modo più intelligente, cfr. Nord Corea), ma ‘sti qui son peggio dell’elefante nel negozio di cristalleria.

[mojave-pete]

Trump! = best economy ever!

POTUS Trump has created the best economy ever, all the democ RATS ever gave us was manged declines! Right now they are spinning their wheels trying to steal our 2016 election from us and destroy the 2020, it is simple these type of people need to go! After 3 years of a HOAX it is enough! Vote them out!

[roscoerackham]

...I’m so fucking confused at my dad...

He gives me this heartwarming birthday card in the morning and takes me down to Wilton Manors (a major LGBT hub) for lunch.

Then when we stop at the mall so he can look at some furniture, it turns out to be an early voting site. So he starts booing at a sign someone is holding for a judge running for local office, whose name happens to look like Andrew Gillum (prompting incredulous cries of ‘You can’t fucking read’ from the man holding the sign).

Then I told him I had already voted, refused to tell him who I voted for.

And he said. “You probably voted Democratic, because you’re uneducated.”

Then he gave me a condescending pat on the chest. “You just voted to put a criminal in office, good job.”

...ignoring the fact that.

My father openly expressed a desire that this Andrea Gilman person or whatever her name was running for judge would lose strictly on the basis of her name SOUNDING LIKE ANDREW GILLUM rather than admit he was wrong and made a fool of himself in public for it.

He’s basic his assertion on Gillum being a criminal on an FBI investigation, and if he thinks being under investigation is proof of having committed a crime than BOY DO I HAVE NEWS FOR YOU FATHER.

Out of the two of us, I’m the one with a degree. Which normally I don’t invest much in for intellectual debates because we have different focuses of intelligence (he is far better at mechanics and engineering, while I’m better at language and philosophy, either of which makes us an expert on politics). But for him to call me fucking uneducated (read: stupid) on my BIRTHDAY after giving me a card praising how proud he was of how I’ve grown and developed my own strengths...

Listen, I know Tumblr swings democrat and most people have already made up their minds on the major issues, and I know most republicans will see the D-Word and discount this post immediately, but..

The hardest part of the current political climate is that it’s fucking mean.

I see the president make fun of autistic reporters, I look at my dad and say “Hey, I’m Autistic.” He shrugs.

We live down the road from Marjory Stoneman Douglas. I look at dad and say, “I’m afraid of what this means for me as a teacher.” He says “Don’t teach at a highschool” and then turns on an NRA video.

I see Mike Pence as VP and all of the anti LGBT legislation he’s pushed. I say, “Dad, I’m gay and afraid of what this means.” He says, “The Gay Community is thriving and no one is going to hurt it.” I think back to how my mom cried on the morning after the Pulse nightclub shooting.

He talks about how excited he is for the new tax cuts and how my paycheck is going to go up as the university is forced to cut my pay due to lack of funding.

Every night I sit at the table and hear Megyn Kelly or Tucker Carlson or Sean Hannity talk about the “Leftists” and the “Deep State” and how Democ-RATS are evil and slimy. I listen to them yell, I listen to them talk over people they invite onto their shows. I bought a pair of headphones so I would have a way to block it out because it triggers my anxiety so much to hear them rant and rave about disease ridden caravans and the mainstream media.

...I asked him, once, in a middle of an autistic meltdown, my voice hoarse with tears. “Why do you love Donald Trump more than me?”

He laughed, like it was the stupidest thing I’ve ever said.

...but now I’m looking at this empty sentiment of a birthday card, and I’m still waiting for an answer...

[stuffilikeonthenet]

Does not surprise me. I'd bet more democ- rat females own gun than the males also!🤷🏼‍♂️

[richstranger]

VERY, V-E-R-Y well, WITH ALL their unscrupulous GAINS from “contributions from THEIR HANDLER cronie$$$”…!!! And, NEVER, EVER forget: Joe MANCHIN IS just RE-pubic-CON in DEMOC-rat clothing!!! https://www.instagram.com/p/Cg-WnkaPFeY/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[xtruss]

Powerful Speeches From Trans Dems Flip 29 Republicans, Anti-Trans Bills Die In Montana

Transgender Reps Zooey Zephyr and SJ Howell Delivered Powerful Speeches on the Montana House Floor on Thursday. Republicans Defected En Masse to Join Them in Voting Against Anti-Trans Bills.

— Erin Reed | March 06, 2025

Something remarkable happened in Montana today. As has become routine, anti-trans bills were up for debate—the state has spent more than half of its legislative days this session pushing such bills through committees and the House floor, with Republicans largely voting in lockstep. But something changed.

A week ago, transgender Representative Zooey Zephyr delivered a powerful speech against a bill that would create a separate indecent exposure law for transgender people. Since then, momentum on the House floor slowed. Today, two of the most extreme bills targeting the transgender community came up for a vote. Transgender Representatives Zooey Zephyr and SJ Howell gave impassioned speeches—this time, they broke through. In a stunning turn, 29 Republicans defected, killing both bills. One Republican even took the floor to deliver a scathing rebuke of the bill’s sponsor.

The first bill to reach the House floor was HB 675, a measure that would ban drag performances and Pride parades in Montana. A previous drag ban had already been struck down by the courts after it was enforced against a transgender woman—who was not a drag artist—to prevent her from speaking about public history at a library. In response, the bill’s sponsor, Rep. Caleb Hinkle, introduced HB 675 to circumvent that ruling.

Rather than relying on state enforcement, this bill would grant individuals the private right to sue if a public drag performance took place, making it more difficult to challenge in court. During committee hearings, Hinkle went even further, calling being transgender "a fetish" and arguing that the law was necessary to prevent trans people from dancing in public.

And that’s when transgender Representative Zooey Zephyr took to the floor.

"Here I am again to rise on another bill targeting the LGBTQ+ community," she said, exasperated. "At its very core, drag is art. It is very beautiful art. It has a deep history in this country, and it is important to my community. You know, if you are a woman in this body wearing a suit today, you are in some way challenging gender norms that existed long ago… There were three-article-of-clothing laws 50 years ago that said if you wore three articles of clothing that were indicative of the opposite gender, they could stop you, arrest you… it was those laws that led to the police raiding an LGBTQ+ bar that led to the Stonewall riots, one of the most important civil rights moments in my community’s history," she began.

“When the sponsor closed on this bill, he said, this bill is needed… and I quote his words… ‘because transgenderism is a fetish based on crossdressing.’ And I am here to stand before the body and say that my life is not a fetish. My existence is not a fetish. I was proud within a month ago to have my son up in the gallery here. Many of you on the other side met him. When I go to walk him to school, that’s not a lascivious display. That is not a fetish. That is my family. This is what these bills are trying to come after… not obscene shows in front of children, we have the Miller test for that, we have laws for that. This is a way to target the trans community, and that is in my opinion, and in the speaker’s own words.”

Then something even more remarkable happened: A Republican, Representative Sherry Essman, rose to defend Rep. Zephyr and chastised the bill’s sponsor. “I’m speaking as a parent and a grandmother. And I’m very emotional because I know the representative in seat 20 is also a parent. No matter what you think of that, she is doing her best to raise a child. I did my best to raise my children as I saw fit, and I’m taking it for granted that my children are going to raise my grandchildren as they see fit,” she began.

“Everybody in here talks about how important parental rights are. I want to tell you, in addition to parental rights, parental responsibility is also important. And if you can’t trust a decent parent to decide where and when their kids should see what, then we have a bigger problem,” she turned to parental rights and spoke about how people who claim those rights should vote against the bill.

And then, she closed by chastising the bill’s sponsor for bringing the bill, “Trust the parents to do what’s right, and stop these crazy bills that are a waste of time. They’re a waste of energy. We should be working on property tax relief and not doing this sort of business on the floor of this house and having to even talk about this.”

Following the speeches, 13 Republicans, the most of any anti-trans bill this cycle, flipped and voted against the bill. See it as it happened here:

Were this all that happened, it would have been remarkable enough—such aisle-crossing has become rare in modern politics, and on transgender issues, it is almost unheard of. But Representative Zephyr is not the only transgender lawmaker in Montana. Representative SJ Howell, a powerhouse in their own right, took the floor when an even more extreme bill followed immediately afterwards—HB754, a measure that would remove transgender children from their parents. They had a powerful speech to deliver as well.

Representative Howell opened, "I stand to oppose this bill… When a state intervenes to remove a child from their family, that is one of the most serious and weighty responsibilities that the state has. That is not something to be taken lightly. Every time a child is removed from their family, it’s a tragedy. Sometimes a necessary tragedy, but a tragedy nonetheless. This bill does not come close to the seriousness with which those decisions should be contemplated."

They pointed directly to the bill’s language: "On page 1, line 19, any child protective service specialist, peace officer, or county attorney who has reason to believe any child is in immediate danger or harm may immediately remove the child. What we are adding… a child transitioning gender with the support of a parent or guardian is considered in immediate or apparent danger or harm."

Howell then turned to the bill’s vagueness and the dangers it posed to transgender children as well as any child who defies gender norms. "Transitioning gender is not defined in this bill… so what does that mean? Maybe it means, as the sponsor said, surgery or medical treatment. Maybe it means therapy, mental healthcare. Maybe it means a kid who gets a haircut and a new set of clothes. Maybe a name change… a legal name change, or someone who wants to try out a different name… a strict reading of this bill could include all of that."

They urged lawmakers to consider the real consequences. "Put yourself in the shoes of a CPS worker who is confronted with a young person, 15 years old maybe, who is happy… healthy… living in a stable home with loving parents, who is supported and has their needs met? And they are supposed to remove that child from their home and put them in the care of the state? We should absolutely not be doing that."

Then, the bill went to a vote. This time, the Montana Republican Party fully fractured—29 Republicans crossed the aisle to defeat it.

Watch it as it happened here:

Following the vote, Representative Zephyr took to social media to discuss the implications. “These kind of votes are born out of transgender representation in government,” she posted on her bluesky account. “Howell & I have built solid relationships with Republicans and those relationships change hearts, minds, and (eventually) votes. It is painful, grueling work. But it makes a difference.”

At a time when anti-trans bills are sailing through red-state legislatures, many are left wondering how they can be stopped. Some Democrats, like Gavin Newsom, have chosen appeasement—standing alongside anti-trans hate leaders like Charlie Kirk instead of standing up for transgender people. But Representatives Zooey Zephyr and SJ Howell offer a different path. As transgender lawmakers in a Republican-dominated government, they have shown that representation, relationships, and the power of speaking truth in hostile spaces can move hearts and minds. Their success is a reminder that even in the most challenging environments, refusing to back down can make a difference.

[theadmiralwho]

Elections have consequences. You keep electing these Democ-rats, and this is what you get. They don't have the right to tell law enforcement to stand down.

[zehabesha123]

THE WAGES OF BETRAYAL: DEMOC RATS BITE THE DUST IN VIRGINIA!

Posted in Al Mariam’s Commentaries Congratulations are in order for Governor Glenn Youngkin in Virginia. Youngkin, a first-time candidate, political newcomer and a virtual unknown beat the longtime democratic bagman Terry McAuliffe. Youngkin got 51.0% of the votes and McAuliffe 48.3, a difference of 86,020 votes. Virginians also elected a black Republican female lieutenant governor! Biden won by 10 points in Virginia in the presidential election in November 2020. Independent voters abandoned McAuliffe by double-digits. So did Ethiopian American, Eritrean America and Somali American voters in Virginia who voted to dumped McAuliffe. Why? They all felt betrayed by the Democ RAT source https://zehabesha.com/the-wages-of-betrayal-democ-rats-bite-the-dust-in-virginia/