.@GavinNewsom says Dems are up against the "ruthlessness of the Republican party...all of the rights we've been afforded since the 1960's are being rolled back in real time."
— Elex Michaelson (@Elex_Michaelson) July 16, 2022
He says the Democratic Party itself needs to "set the agenda...put the other party on the defensive." pic.twitter.com/NhNUuZOT03
"Democrats need the Democratic Party, not the president, not a Speaker, not an elected officeholder, the party infrastructure, I think, has to organize with more ferocity of focus, more determination to set the agenda, set the course, and put the other party on the defense."
What I had in mind was more like this, really. In the first place, in my
response to what seems to me like whining about the absence of leaders, that
we need to be the leaders ourselves. You know what the "party infrastructure"
is? Infrastructure is people, my friends, organizers, activists, and shouty people online
like you and me.
And in what I say about some unified partisanship: everybody needs to criticize a Democrat now and then but we need to be more careful about how we do it:
The thing is, other people need to vote for them too, and when they read what you write they may decide they can't. It's not all about you.
— Woke Mob For Disempowering Joe Manchin--Vote '22! (@Yastreblyansky) July 17, 2022
This guy annoyed me so much. Why does he suppose I care who he votes for? I care about whether he might have an influence on his 34,000 followers. We all know what kind of damage people like that did in 2016, with a little help from Russian intelligence, Wikileaks, and Roger Stone.
And then as to putting the other party on the defense, that's kind of what got me here in the first place, in the context of the poor little Ohio girl who had to travel to Indiana to get an abortion. Republicans were extraordinarily quick in trying to do that after Biden mentioned the story, questioning its veracity, but got rolled when the story turned out to be true. My contribution:
When will DeWine apologize to ten-year-old rape victim whose existence he tried to deny?
— Woke Mob For Disempowering Joe Manchin--Vote '22! (@Yastreblyansky) July 13, 2022
https://t.co/QK0ytyIUxJ Ohio law would have forced her to bear her rapist's child
You can be brutal without bending the truth. Nobody was even talking in particular about Governor DeWine when he finally managed to trot out and make a declaration of sorts. My idea was to force him to respond, or be revealed as a coward when he didn't. Of course I don't have the push to make that happen, and it didn't, but an actual working Ohio politician came out and copied it the next day, tagging the attorney general:
.@OhioAG Dave Yost was just asked if he would apologize to the 10yo child rape victim he would force to give birth, who he gaslit, who he called a liar. Whose very EXISTENCE he denied.
— Rep. Casey Weinstein (@RepWeinstein) July 14, 2022
“Apologize for what?”
He seriously just said that.
Vote @JeffaCrossman.
No need to credit me, Rep. Weinstein, I'm delighted to see it going to some use.
Here's another example of the personal call-out, which also failed to raise a response (McMegan was responding to a lot of people, too, so could be I really scared her):
Except for the exceptions (rape, incest, health of the mother) with which virtually everybody agrees. Do you have a reasonable libertarian argument for why the fetus begotten by rape is not the "moral equivalent of a child"?
— Woke Mob For Disempowering Joe Manchin--Vote '22! (@Yastreblyansky) July 17, 2022
And our cowboy friend asked her for an apology:
All the horrors we predicted (and it’s not like anyone is Nostradamus here. This was all obvious to anyone with a brain) are coming to pass. Will we get any apologies from people like @asymmetricinfo ? https://t.co/iDatPS4B7c
— Hootin And Hollerin Cowboy🌹💉 (@MPAVictoria) July 17, 2022
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