I talk about a LOT of things. "The 21st century is when everything changes. And you've got to be ready." -Capt. Jack Harkness, Torchwood #BlueIsTheWay
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Carl Gorney retweeted
Keith is just helping Republicans with posts like this. These Democrats "showing up" to vote would not have made a difference. Republicans outnumber Dems and they would have kept the vote open for as long as necessary to send this impeachment to the Judiciary Committee. Last year Mike Johnson kept a vote open for 10+ hours. These Dems could have voted in the first minute of the vote and we still would have lost this motion. And even if the Dems won by some miracle, the vote the next day on the actual articles of impeachment would have failed. And if by some crazier miracle it passed in the House, Thune would have dismissed the articles of impeachment without a trial in the Senate.
We now have the opportunity to write proper articles of impeachment for Hegseth, hold hearings and hear from witnesses, win over more than one House Republican, and have a real trial in the Senate where there's a much greater chance that 11 Republican Senators will join us in ousting this unqualified Secretary of Defense.
Keith is also undermining Hakeem Jeffries as leader of the Dems (something he probably thinks is the right move). But Hakeem will be the next Speaker. Everyone from AOC to Tom Suozzi supports him, and there is no one challenging him. The American people overwhelmingly voted for Dems to govern. We should respect our elected officials' choices for leaders and support them.
As a big influencer on the left, Keith should be finding ways to defend our Dems - not undermine them by getting his audience mad at them.
@keithedwards, I'm happy to talk about this on stream sometime if you want to discuss it.
Carl Gorney retweeted
Classic Klippenstein framing. He didn't mention that it was a ceremonial vote that would have done fuck all and that there were also Republicans that failed to show up.
Mike quickly closed the vote. Obviously if Jeffries tried to whip the vote, Mike would have just done the same.
Ken ALWAYS negatively frames everything for Democrats. Do left-leaning people not get tired of that?
Carl Gorney retweeted
Y’all do know that yesterday’s vote was NOT a vote to impeach Pete Hegseth, right?
It was a procedural vote on whether to REFER the articles of impeachment to the Judiciary Committee.
A YES vote meant sending the articles to committee rather than proceeding immediately with impeachment.
A NO vote meant rejecting that procedural maneuver so the impeachment effort could potentially move forward.
Nobody voted on whether to actually impeach Pete Hegseth yesterday.
And yes, I understand why some of y’all are upset that several Democrats got stuck in traffic and missed the vote. The vote was reportedly open for approximately 23 minutes, and some members arrived after it closed.
But even if those Democrats had made it and defeated the referral motion, that STILL would not have meant Pete Hegseth was impeached. The House would have needed to vote on the actual articles.
We can discuss accountability without misrepresenting what happened.
The misinformation on this app is dangerous, especially when people are repeating things they clearly do not understand.
Learn the difference between a procedural vote and a substantive vote before telling everybody what Congress did.
Carl Gorney retweeted
progressives really are acting like they won these midterms for Dems. that the voters gave them a mandate to go left. the Speaker is suppose to be their cheerleader.
none of those things are true.
progressives are weaker today than before the election.
Carl Gorney retweeted
A reoccurring theme on the far left is this mindset of *someone else* doing it:
*someone* should challenge Hakeem
*someone* should write a bill
*someone* should protest
It’s never “I will” do something. They are professional sideliners; always critiquing and barking orders from the sidelines. They are never the leaders of anything. That’s why not a single person in the squad has ever passed a bill.
New members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, including Reps.-elect Claire Valdez, Darializa Avila Chevalier and Adam Hamawy, told POLITICO Playbook they are “uncommitted” to voting for Hakeem Jeffries for Speaker. Rep.-elect Melat Kiros said another progressive should challenge Jeffries if he doesn’t have a “bold agenda.”
Carl Gorney retweeted
John Lewis, 2018: We are going forward. When the state of Georgia becomes blue, along with the state of Texas, they will not be able to hold us down. It’s going to happen.
Carl Gorney retweeted
“It’s not about race”
I guess it wasn’t about race when the socialist cult targeted
John Lewis
Elijah Cummings
Obama
Harris
Jim Clyburn
And now Jeffries. And any Black Dem who refuses to bend a knee to socialism. It’s about stopping the Black leadership who stopped BERNIE!
Carl Gorney retweeted
Trump has a major problem now. One the media hasn’t discussed.
Fear only works…for a little while.
Eventually, after being under threat for long enough, the masses reach a “I am NOT afraid of you, MOTHERFUCKER! So, if you’re going to do it, then DO IT….YOU FUCKING PUSSY!”, state of mind and body.
Once enough people have reached that point, the “Strongman” is fucked, and there is nothing he can ever do to recover.
The masses will prevail, and the “Strongman” will fade to the place where the stories of other weak men go to die.
We. Are. There. Now.
Bumps still to come, yes; perhaps the bumpiest yet.
However, “I’m NOT afraid of you, MOTHERFUCKER!” is the energy we’re moving forward with, and there’s not a Goddamn thing he can do about it.
Believe that.
Carl Gorney retweeted
This is Republican Bruce Bartman,
He registered his dead mother to vote and illegally requested an absentee ballot for her.
If Republicans are so worried about voter fraud - why don’t they just stop doing voter fraud?
Carl Gorney retweeted
Here’s the full transcript of the reverse edit of the CBS 60 Minute interview. There’s NO PAYWALL so anyone can read it. CBS completely rearranged the interview. I just went through and pointed out what was cut and what wasn’t. substack.com/@decodingfoxnew…
Carl Gorney retweeted
“Whitted’s petition has amassed at least 1,095,000 signatures, potentially netting her a profit of $547,500.”
I hope she buy herself something nice 🤷🏽♀️ cause that’s all that will come of this.
Carl Gorney retweeted
I don’t think you even understand the level of cheating via gerrymandering & voter suppression the OH GOP has engaged in since we elected Obama twice! Those were the headwinds and we pulled this off anyway!
Carl Gorney retweeted
🚨 BREAKING: AOC just called out the media for spending years fixated on Biden’s cognition while barely touching Trump’s very real cognitive decline and escalating erratic behavior.
None of this is normal. And pretending it is, is journalistic malpractice.
Carl Gorney retweeted
Everything she says in this video is, of course, 100% correct.
And people will, of course, choose to dismiss it because they (a) have no clue how Congress works & don’t care to learn, and (b) are never happier than when they’re getting likes for relitigating old Dem primaries.
Carl Gorney retweeted
The reason God gave us the Internet,... was so this video about former representative Lauren Boebert,... could be retweeted until everyone in America has seen it at least once:
Carl Gorney retweeted
Re: Schumer / Jeffries drama --
I don't waste my time on things like this, to me, bottom line, this an attack on the Black & Jewish Alliance, let the pilots fly the plane, so many of these ppl don't know their pay grade & I don't need to waste time explaining it to them.
Team KLB Blue backs Schumer / Jeffries, we talked about it in person last night.💙
Carl Gorney retweeted
I mean this with every ounce of respect that you deserve, @JDVance
FUCK ALL THE WAY OFF
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Carl Gorney retweeted
Abdul El-Sayed: I am going to be JD Vance’s greatest nightmare and bully in the Senate.
Dr. Annie Andrews: Hold my beer.
I mean this with every ounce of respect that you deserve, @JDVance
FUCK ALL THE WAY OFF
