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Newton Mannis retweeted
No B.S. time.
11 House Democrats missed the Hegseth impeachment vote.
It lost by 7.
The excuse? Traffic.
Try that one with your boss. Or your customers.
Winners leave early. Losers explain late.
You knew the vote was coming. Show up or step aside.
This is unfuckingacceptable.
Newton Mannis retweeted
PSA: You don’t get to refuse to support Zohran and actively oppose Abdul and take money from AIPAC and oppose Medicare for All and be chicken shit about abolishing ICE… then turn around and act shocked that people don’t see you as leadership material. @SenSchumer @RepJeffries
Newton Mannis retweeted
The calls—coming from inside and outside of Congress—cite a lack of vision, an unwillingness to go after Trump, the continued acceptance of corporate PAC money, and an extreme deference to the Israeli government. mrf.lu/2_qc3
Newton Mannis retweeted
The DNC is forcing the American people to accept Jeffries & Schumer in the same way it tried to force the people to accept Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton.
Newton Mannis retweeted
We went from this to Shitllary and NEVER once stopped to think why that was a problem. Just blame it on misogyny and Russia, why not. For all of his talents, and I still like him a lot, I will never forgive him for resurrecting Shitllary from the dead in 2008, a completely unnecessary act of naivete, buying into some academic gobbledegook like Team of Rivals. That is where the Donorcratic party went to die for the next 10-15 years - driven by donors, lobbyists, pollsters, consultants who became their north star. Until this Tuesday. @BarackObama @DorisKGoodwin
Newton Mannis retweeted
Most Democratic voters want to replace Schumer, polling since 2025 consistently shows. This is not some fringe or "progressive" position. I'm not even sure it's primarily ideological. Schumer is 75, stumbles while speaking, was hospitalized last year - he's not up to the job
Newton Mannis retweeted
Both Florida and Louisiana were big misses by Dem Senate Leadership. Both were within a few percentage points, and both got almost no money.
The victories last night were in spite of Democratic leadership, not because of it.
Schumer needs to go.
Newton Mannis retweeted
Better than hate speeching all your neighbors that look different from you, wouldn’t you say Dan? I’ll take the AI data center slowdown for 500 Alex, if that’s what it takes. Thank you very much. My government of the USA which doesn’t usually do much of anything well, MUST NOT be involved in inciting daily hate that targets my neighbors and my community no matter where they came from. That’s one job we must NEVER EVER AGAIN give our elected officials.
Newton Mannis retweeted
The lesson of the Biden presidency and what the midterms will say about Trump-2 is pretty obvious: Never mistake winning an election with an unchecked mandate to indulge the excesses of your base. For Biden, the excesses involved gross violations of cultural norms: His obsessions with open borders, DEI and everything trans plus a huge helping of expensive and expansive government through needless spending that led to inflation, a tax on the working class. For Trump, it’s needless excursions into tariffs (making the Biden-created affordability crisis worse), his belief that the American people wouldn’t lose patience with a drawn out war with Iran (we should have crushed the evil Mullahs months ago and be enjoying a peace dividend), and his belief that he has some magical power over the American people in that he sold the war or his tariffs when he didn’t. Trump’s hubris extended to weird people excursions about ballrooms, reflecting pools and a lot more and people — not his base but most people — are tired of it. Occupancy of the White House doesn’t mean you own it; it’s always for rent
Newton Mannis retweeted
Republicans were rapidly gaining ground on Democrats among Indian-American voters.
Then Bo French happened.
🧵 1/ Hot off the press: Ahead of the U.S. midterms, new IAAS survey data on the political preferences of Indian Americans. carnegieendowment.org/resear…
This is joint work w/ @kharibiskut of @AmericanU, Devesh Kapur of @SAISHopkins, and Annabel Miller & Andy Robaina @CarnegieSAsia
Newton Mannis retweeted
Nah, I hate to disagree here ; the real betrayal is by the feckless and incompetent Donorcratic party. By recycling aging losers the last three presidential election cycles , 2/3 losing to the decrepit threat to democracy, they failed to offer up a viable, competent, and compelling alternative to the mayhem. The inability to look yourself in the mirror and recognize how much you’ve become captured by donors, lobbyists, consultants and pollsters when party primaries were clearly telling you the whole time that we didn’t like Shitllary all that much.
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It would be more reassuring if David Frum, one-time star of the anti-Trump ‘resistance’, wasn’t a card-carrying anti-Muslim bigot, pro-Israel shill, and unrepentant warmonger.
It would be more reassuring if national Democrats could say:
"Everybody in Democratic leadership will combine to curb the ugliest instincts of a Senator el-Sayed. We'll vote funds to protect Jewish institutions from the antisemitic violence that el-Sayed made excuses for. We'll assign him to healthcare committees and keep him far, far away from Homeland Security. We desperately need this seat to hold the Trump administration accountable, but we're not going to lie to you and pretend the guy is anything other than what he is. That would be disrespectful and dishonest. Trump is the main issue here. You have our promise that this nomination is a one-time aberration - and that the rest of us will continue to uphold Jewish safety at home and the US-Israel alliance overseas."
Instead it's all unconvincing and insulting gaslighting - and not-so-subtle signals that if el-Sayed wins, many more Democrats will adopt his style of politics.