Summary
Mike Davis, a Trump adviser and possible nominee for attorney general, issued a threatening warning to New York Attorney General Letitia James, who sued Trump for business fraud, not to continue her legal actions against him in his second term, threatening to put her in prison.
Davis’s inflammatory remarks, including personal insults, come as James has vowed to defend Americans against any unconstitutional actions by the new administration.
Known for his extreme rhetoric, Davis has previously suggested punishing journalists and Trump’s political opponents harshly, though it’s often unclear when he’s serious.
Trump has hinted at a significant role for Davis in his administration.
No. I’m not going to blame the fire department for not putting out the fire because they didn’t tap dance to my satisfaction.
We all saw there was a fire, but too many people still asked the people who would put it out (or at least not make it worse) to dance.
Literally doing their jobs ≠ “tap dancing for your satisfaction”
It’s amazing how you apparatchiks keep shifting the burden of responsibility from the ones failing to do their job of governing and campaigning according to the will of the people to the people for failing to reward them for their failure.
The fire has been burning worse and worse since 1980 at the latest and, far from putting it out, Dem leadership has maintained it and sometimes stoked it.
What you’re asking for isn’t democracy, it’s serfdom.
You think not aiding genocide in Gaza and not implementing trump-tier border policy and giving a shit about queer people is comparable to a fun dance that isn’t necessary, and think people who want those things are being unreasonable trump supporters. Thanks for telling me your exact ethnicity, income bracket, sex and gender (or at least telling me you have zero empathy for marginalized people)
I feel like they did the equivalent of watching it burn, as the fire department. Gaza was a fire they could have put out, they let it burn. They were making headway on climate change and then promoted fracking at the debate. Biden was clearly going to be a problem but they just let it burn until it was a mess.
We have to be vocal. People want change. We can’t have another election where the dems run on “at least we aren’t pouring gasoline on it like the GOP”.
They don’t need pity, their feelings don’t have to be protected. We can be harsh with them.
That’s the part the DNC doesn’t get. Every single successful campaign since 2000 has run on a change and reform platform. This time they ran with “we’ll continue business as usual” and it’s absolutely no surprise they were crushed.
(Edit. Seriously, listen to Kamala on The View when asked what she’d do differently to improve the economy. Her response was that they’re very proud of Bidenomics and nothing would fundamentally change.)
Voters want reform so that 95% of the profit from the economy doesn’t go to Wall St. Voters want public spending on things that make everyone’s daily lives better. Better roads, more reliable electrical grids, bridges that aren’t falling apart, downtowns with actual businesses that aren’t corporate franchises, houses that they can afford. Reboot the CCC and offer jobs building those things, offer jobs that pay enough for people to move out of their parent’s houses and start their own lives, offer to crack down on corporate profiteering, offer labor something other than “we’re less bad than the Republicans are.” Offer to bootstrap small and medium businesses, talk about kick-starting American manufacturing, talk about the jobs you’ll create and the spending you’ll do making lives better for everyone rather than just the corporate profiteers.
We already know that neoliberalism works for Wall St, voters are waiting to hear about what works for them too. Make that the core of your campaign if you want to win the popularity contest.
Oh, they get it. The DNC exists to prevent meaningful change and reform from actually happening.
There were a lot of fires to put out and this fire department chose the ones that would benefit them and lectured those abandoned in burning buildings about how their building aren’t burning and then campaigned arm in arm with a bunch of arsonists.
Yeah, their opponent was an arsonist so it wasn’t the best strategy to sit this one out but there is a lot of blame to go around.
America needs to fix it’s shit. I’m just hoping the arsonists don’t burn it to the ground first.