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.”
Too democrat recommends fascism
The Dems are so good at being the opposition party that they are… complying with the fascists? This is pathetic.
Wow, the cancer must have spread to his brain.
Lets hope it finishes him off soon, fuck this fascist colloborating sack of shit.
This POS can go to hell.
Fetterman 2.0
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.
Definitely
If nothing else, this whole situation is a very revealing about which Democrat politicians have proverbial balls, which ones have their balls in the clamp (probably for doing embarrassing stuff), and which ones have no proverbial balls at all.
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.
They probably don’t mind benefitting from Trump tax breaks.
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.
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.
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/wiki/Ken_Martin#Minnesota_DFL_chair
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?
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.
Why the absolute about-face from you on the DNC over the last couple weeks?
I’ve been saying since the day Biden lost that the DNC chair election determines if I support the DNC as hard as possible or push for a third party.
Ken Martin was one of the candidates I consider “good enough”.
They’re seeing the trend from the DNC over the last few decades and seeing more of the same in his statement.
It would be easier to see that side of it, if there was more than one I cident of him saying something “bad”.
Dude was campaigning in an election where voting members of the DNC were the only ones who could vote. A “hard no” would have prevented him from becoming chair.
And what does that tell you about where their allegiance lies?
Who cares?
Their only power is electing a chair in years a republican is president.
That’s all the DNC is really, some people who vote on who the chair is, and around 20 people in other leadership positions the chair appoints.
The DNC is not some huge unchangeable monolith, don’t blame fresh leadership for last 30 years of shit decisions.
Now, I answered all your questions. So if you’d be so kind I’m legitimately interested in this:
And why did so many people all discover this comment from over a month ago about 48 hours ago?
Where and when did you first see that comment?
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.
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.
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.
Connolly is an accomplice in the coup d’etat.
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/
Sounds like he needs a challenger in the primaries
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.
It’s nice of them to so formally declare themselves enemies of the working class.
We have to give the people what they want! This is what they voted for.
If democracy and majority rule were the same thing, no new democracy would ever have a second election.
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.
