This is focusing on legislative abilities and completely ignoring intent. Their silence on it is telling in and of itself. No condemnation? It’s free. Are we to believe that they have to have the house and Senate in order to speak? Real leaders speak up and build back their power. These people just sit there hoping to win the next election solely because the other party screwed up.
During the Uvalde shooting, did it not upset you that the police stood around doing nothing? Even as the minority party, the Democrats have some power they can exert. At the very least, they can make a big stink about the situation. When the Republicans inevitably obstruct them, the Dems can highlight how the Republicans are obstructing justice.
Instead, what we’ve seen the Democratic party do time and time again is just sit on their hands, defeated. Rolling over like dogs, unwilling to even appear to care. Hiding away and hoping nobody notices them standing off to the side.
Yes, obviously people are upset when the Republicans do something bad. They want the Republicans to be held to account. The people that should be holding them to account is the oppositional party and the Democrats aren’t doing that.
Omar does have people fighting on her side. As my Nation colleague John Nichols reports, she remains popular with her constituents in Minnesota, and the state’s Democratic Party has rallied to her side. House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries decried Trump’s “vile personal attacks” and the fact that Trump’s “violent mass deportation machine has descended upon the home of a duly elected Member of Congress and her family.” Even former Republican representative Marjorie Taylor Greene was critical of Trump. In a post on X.com, Greene asked how “pretending to get ready to deport Ilhan Omar is going to bring gas down under $2, make health insurance freaking affordable, make a family’s weekly grocery bill make sense, and stop sending our beloved military off to fight for another fucking foreign war???”
Greene’s pointed rebuke of Trump stands in sharp contrast to Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer, who in the five days since the raid has yet to say one word in defense of Omar.
But there are people speaking up for her within the democrats and the media is right lit up about this right now.
Your comparison to the Uvalde shooting is bullshit because the cops there not only didn’t do anything but they actively held people back who were trying to help too.
I agree that it is good that Jeffries is speaking out in defense of Omar, but I would argue that the only reason he is defending his progressive colleague is because he’s been recieving a bunch of pressure to do so. It is very obvious why the leader of the party is not defending Omar; it’s because of the progressive ideals she espouses.
Leftists need to continue pressuring the Dems apparently for them to do the basics of their job. I see no reason why Jeffries would defend Omar without having experienced the pressure and criticism. He and the other Establishment Democrats in leadership positions have been actively sabotaging and holding back their progressive flank.
Hakeem Jeffries saying, “This is bad y’all” is the same as police showing up to a shooting and playing Candy Crush on their phones. I want Hakeem Jeffries to pledge launching an investigation and using whatever power his party has, even if it ends in the president pardoning the people responsible. Just like I wanted the police to storm into the school and take down the shooter killing children. I want action being done.
I want the ranking Dem member on every committee to conduct inquiries. Make a billion motions, cast votes, debate, whatever to result in some kind of legislative action. Hold formal proceedings, conduct investigations, subpoena people.
I want the Democrats to launch Benghazi style investigations like the Republicans did that helped tank Hillary Clinton’s presidential run. The only difference being that there is actual wrongdoing here.
Well, it’s gonna take about 20-30 years to build up a media empire specifically designed to move democrat’s messaging into every single house in america first. That’s if people with communications degrees start becoming democrats.
Typical leftist bullshit.
“Republicans are doing something bad so what are the Democrats doing without any power or majorities?”.
This is focusing on legislative abilities and completely ignoring intent. Their silence on it is telling in and of itself. No condemnation? It’s free. Are we to believe that they have to have the house and Senate in order to speak? Real leaders speak up and build back their power. These people just sit there hoping to win the next election solely because the other party screwed up.
If you looked down the thread you’ll see democrats are speaking up for her.
It’s still happening even if you aren’t paying attention.
During the Uvalde shooting, did it not upset you that the police stood around doing nothing? Even as the minority party, the Democrats have some power they can exert. At the very least, they can make a big stink about the situation. When the Republicans inevitably obstruct them, the Dems can highlight how the Republicans are obstructing justice.
Instead, what we’ve seen the Democratic party do time and time again is just sit on their hands, defeated. Rolling over like dogs, unwilling to even appear to care. Hiding away and hoping nobody notices them standing off to the side.
Yes, obviously people are upset when the Republicans do something bad. They want the Republicans to be held to account. The people that should be holding them to account is the oppositional party and the Democrats aren’t doing that.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/ilhan-omar-raid-trump-reaction/
But there are people speaking up for her within the democrats and the media is right lit up about this right now.
Your comparison to the Uvalde shooting is bullshit because the cops there not only didn’t do anything but they actively held people back who were trying to help too.
I agree that it is good that Jeffries is speaking out in defense of Omar, but I would argue that the only reason he is defending his progressive colleague is because he’s been recieving a bunch of pressure to do so. It is very obvious why the leader of the party is not defending Omar; it’s because of the progressive ideals she espouses.
Leftists need to continue pressuring the Dems apparently for them to do the basics of their job. I see no reason why Jeffries would defend Omar without having experienced the pressure and criticism. He and the other Establishment Democrats in leadership positions have been actively sabotaging and holding back their progressive flank.
Don’t move the goalposts you compared the democrat’s reaction to the raid of Omar to be the same as the police response to Uvalde shooting.
Which is bullshit.
Hakeem Jeffries saying, “This is bad y’all” is the same as police showing up to a shooting and playing Candy Crush on their phones. I want Hakeem Jeffries to pledge launching an investigation and using whatever power his party has, even if it ends in the president pardoning the people responsible. Just like I wanted the police to storm into the school and take down the shooter killing children. I want action being done.
I get this all the time from leftists.
“Why aren’t the liberals doing anything?”
“They are you just aren’t paying attention”
“Well they should be doing more!”
You’re just doubling down on the false equivalency now.
They are doing something about it. They’re writing letters and complaining about it in the news.
That’s all they can do, considering we voted them into the minority.
That’s not true:
https://youtu.be/1PwmiG7ABl0
I want the ranking Dem member on every committee to conduct inquiries. Make a billion motions, cast votes, debate, whatever to result in some kind of legislative action. Hold formal proceedings, conduct investigations, subpoena people.
I want the Democrats to launch Benghazi style investigations like the Republicans did that helped tank Hillary Clinton’s presidential run. The only difference being that there is actual wrongdoing here.
Well, it’s gonna take about 20-30 years to build up a media empire specifically designed to move democrat’s messaging into every single house in america first. That’s if people with communications degrees start becoming democrats.
Liberals: Always making excuses for racism when it comes from the team wearing your preferred sports jersey.
I think it’s the republicans trying to denaturalize and deport her but my little liberal brain might be missing out.