Give to Heidi Heitkamp:
Give to the Balloon Juice More More More Fund:
Repeat.
Update. Here’s a great article about the hero we need right now.
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This post is in: C.R.E.A.M., Don't Mourn, Organize, Get Mad You Sons Of Bitches
Give to Heidi Heitkamp:
Give to the Balloon Juice More More More Fund:
Repeat.
Update. Here’s a great article about the hero we need right now.
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Omnes Omnibus
Clampdown FTW.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
Welp, it appears Manchin is going to be a yes on Kavanaugh. So much for hoping he was going to be a no on the final vote, even if it made no difference in the end. Why did he feel he had to vote for Kavanaugh? He had a comfortable lead. What kind of principles does Manchin have that he’s going to vote to put this dick on the Court?
Omnes Omnibus
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??: It doesn’t matter.
What Have The Romans Ever Done for Us?
Anger is an Energy. Johnny Rotten. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOLMQZEe0_A
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@Omnes Omnibus:
It matters because he’s a turncoat traitor who literally had no reason to vote for this unfit sorry excuse for a human.
RedDirtGirl
Has anyone been able to use the post card site? I’ve gone there but the links don’t seem to be working for me.
Omnes Omnibus
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??: It makes no difference to the end result. Manchin votes with the party 80% of the time and, most importantly, he is a vote for Schumer over McConnell as Majority Leader. Save your outrage.
Baud
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??:
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??:
Manchin was going to follow Collins. At least he spared us the speech.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@Omnes Omnibus:
I understand all that and alluded to it. I just want to understand why he felt he had to vote yes. Heitkamp and Donnelly, in much tighter races, didn’t. He had nothing to lose given his large lead. He could have stood for some principles and voted no.
TaMara (HFG)
Let’s not forget fuckwad Nevada Sen Heller, his opponent is Jacky Rosen, here’s her actblue page.
Some polls are showing her ahead.
debit
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??: I refer you to this:
Cake or Death
@Johngcole
Cake or Death Retweeted Matt McDermott
*SCREAMS*
EVERYONE NOT FROM WV PLEASE STFU ABOUT MANCHIN.
Ivan X
Anger is an en-er-gy!
WhatsMyNym
@TaMara (HFG): Good idea, so I just donated to her.
Doug!
@RedDirtGirl:
I haven’t tried it but someone else in the comments did recently.
Marcopolo
Just finished knocking out a state house DtD canvass list in way way way south StL County that will also help Cort Van Ostran in MO-2. Props to everyone donating, writing, knocking & otherwise helping to get the right (by which I mean left) folks in office.
WaterGirl
@TaMara (HFG): I gave 50 bucks to Heidi H. as soon as she announced NO on Thursday. Just gave to Jacky Rosen — just knowing she is running against Heller is enough.
These fuckers aren’t statesmen — they are only in it for the power. They have lost the right to govern.
SiubhanDuinne
@debit:
Nope, Matt McDermott and John G. Cole. I am not from WV and I will not STFU on this. My take on Senate confirmation votes (SCOTUS, Cabinet) and significant legislation is that Manchin and his colleagues are no longer merely representing their narrow state constituencies; rather, they are United States Senators making decisions on people and policies that will affect the entire United States for years and years, and I have the right as a United States citizen to express my views.
They’re voting on naming a new Post Office in Buckhannon? Happy to STFU.
debit
I am not from WV and I don’t want to argue. I will simply point out the thread that John wrote here. And about his opponent here. Manchin is what we’ve got for now. Having him in the senate is better than having his opponent. It’s wasting energy to concentrate on him at this moment in time. Let’s reward the people who did vote no, and donate to D opponents of those who vote yes.
I am sick and heartsick and just can’t see the wisdom of fighting for things that won’t make a difference right now. Will I do what I can for is next primary opponent? Yes. If everyone else wants to hurl themselves bloody against a granite wall for nothing but the satisfaction of it, have at. I’m going to peace out for now and concentrate on the things I can actually change.
Yutsano
@debit: I’m just hoping Bresedesn didn’t blow his chance by coming out in support of Justice Asterisk. I’m hoping he walks that back before it’s too late and the women/minority vote abandons him.
Plus the thought of Blackburn in the Senate makes me ill.
Barbara
I gave this morning to Heitkamp and Jacky Rosen. Articles suggest the race with Heller is tight. For some reason I couldn’t access Sinema’s page, that is, I found it but it wouldn’t go to a secure donation page. I hope that is because there is so much traffic. I feel bruised, but you know, compared to so many other people, I will be personally unscathed so I am going to let others grieve as long as they want and keep soldiering on.
The article on Susan Collins in the NYT this morning was pukeworthy. She lives in a little fairyland in her own mind and just wishes away the anger of her constituents. She doesn’t know what it means to have non-negotiable principles and just can can’t understand why everyone has to be so mean about these things. I can’t decide whose demise I would welcome more, hers or Grassley’s. As for Manchin, I firmly believe he and Collins decided to vote the same way weeks ago.
Platonailedit
Coons got played by a known flake. Dumbass.
SiubhanDuinne
@debit:
I agree. In no way did I suggest supporting his opponent. But earlier in the week I called his office, and the offices of several other Senators I thought might be swayable. It worked for a couple (Heitkamp, Murkowski). It didn’t work for Manchin, Collins, or Flake.
pamelabrown53
@Baud:
Hah! “Manchin was going to follow Collins”…so true. One’s a fake democrat and the other a fake republican. They are kindred spirits.
Platonailedit
Coons got played by a known flake.
Gin & Tonic
@SiubhanDuinne: Been missing you in several threads. Is our pal efg in hospital in BOS or PVD? If it’s the former, I’m very unlikely to pop in, but if it’s the latter, then I might.
Betty Cracker
WTF is up with Manchin following Collins anyway? Isn’t it kind of strange that he’s outsourced his vote to a Republican from Maine? Yet people just shrug and accept that rationale. Had it been the other way around, the Beltway press would hint that Collins is such a weak female she has to yoke her vote to a gun totin’ he-man, poor little dear.
delk
They put up a poster saying we earn more than you!
James E Powell
@debit:
The failure to see the truth of this statement has been the bane of the Democratic Party as long as I have been politically active. If I had a clue as to the cure for this disease I would have offered it long ago.
Eural Joiner
Hey, all you Manchin critics? At least you’re not stuck – as I am – with the glorious leadership of one L. Graham…so…silver linings and all that! :)
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@pamelabrown53: I think revealed Collins as a typical Republican in another way: She doesn’t actually care about abortion, it’s just that her political calculation makes her act as a mirror image of the phony “pro-lifers” in her party. She’s as ‘pro-choice’ as Willard is ‘pro-life’. In my lifetime, I think the only GOP presidential candidate who actually cared about abortion was Dumbya. McCain and Dole were pretty consistent votes for the bible thumpers, but that I suspect was only out of habit and partisan loyalty. It’s mostly just boob bait for the rubes to advance the big money agenda.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@WaterGirl: I’m in, too. I was just saying on an earlier thread that I don’t know why Rosen and Heller aren’t getting more attention.
John Revolta
@SiubhanDuinne: This. Should everybody not from Kenfuckintucky shut up about Mitch McFuckinConnell?
SFAW
On the plus side, it sounds like Lisa “Tower of Power” Murkowski will be voting “Present,” not “Nay.” That may change, of course, but that it’s even “a thing” is annoying.
They are what we have always said they are. And the idea that the Rethugs attend to the wishes of their electorate will, I hope, die pretty fucking soon now. And, no, I don’t consider the donor class “the electorate,” just a tiny subset thereof.
Barbara
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Collins is the Nora Desmond of Republican politics.
Chetan Murthy
@Betty Cracker:
If the theory that he was only gonna vote “yes” when it was clear his vote didn’t matter is true, then this follows automatically, doesn’t it? He waited until Collins voted, b/c she -might- have changed to a No. Might.
He’s not following her. He’s waiting until she puts it in the bag.
Lapassionara
@Marcopolo: Thank you. I am hoping for a flip in MO2!
Catherine D.
I gave to Heidi yesterday and got a “please reply about issues” email today. Replied just thank you for guts!
SiubhanDuinne
@Gin & Tonic:
Email me at SiubhanDuinne (at) gmail (dot) com and I’ll send you his contact info.
This goes for anybody. Say something in subject line or body to identify yourself as legit and not-a-troll and I will pass along what efg has authorised me to share.
SiubhanDuinne
@John Revolta:
Can’t speak for anyone else, but I am not, no how, no way, shutting the fuck up.
Jennifer Hachigian
@RedDirtGirl:
I used the “Just Email to Start” contact form on PostcardPatriots.com yesterday morning to request addresses for Harley Rouda. I promptly got a response asking how many, and I replied “fifty.” I got the LAST forty-four addresses they had for Rouda yesterday morning, with a promise for six more as soon as the Rouda campaign gives more addresses.
I sent pictures of the forty-four postcards I mailed out earlier today to PostcardPatriots with a promise to write six more as soon as I receive the remaining six addresses. PostcardPatriots mentioned that they have 100 promised postcards for Rouda and were waiting on additional addresses from the campaign. A moment later, Rouda delivered more addresses.
So, I need to write six more postcards.
If you used the “Just Email to Start” button, give them time. They may be waiting for more addresses.
VFX Lurker
@RedDirtGirl:
I used the “Just Email to Start” button on PostcardPatriots yesterday morning to request addresses for Harley Rouda. I promptly got a response asking how many, and I replied “fifty.” I got the LAST forty-four addresses they had for Rouda yesterday morning, with a promise for six more as soon as the Rouda campaign gives more addresses.
I sent pictures of the forty-four postcards I mailed out earlier today to PostcardPatriots with a promise to write six more as soon as I receive the remaining six addresses. PostcardPatriots mentioned that they have 100 promised postcards for Rouda and were waiting on additional addresses from the campaign. A moment later, Rouda delivered more addresses.
So, I need to write six more postcards.
If you used the “Just Email to Start” button, give them time. They may be waiting for more addresses.
dnfree
Here’s what I’m tired of (speaking of our donations). I really appreciate DougJ and others putting this together for us, and I’ve been using the links regularly. Hence I get a lot of emails from individual campaigns. The “whiny” ones are getting to me. “We’ve failed!” “Danny has lost!” All with the implication that if I don’t send them money right this minute, it’s my fault if disaster strikes. I realize I can unsubscribe from these, and I have from some–but how in the heck do these candidates think that these plaintive cries of disaster, overlaid with threats, are going to be convincing to ANYONE, not just me? I’m glad they’re not my candidates.
Seanly
Fuck these fucking motherfucking Republicans. Fuck ’em all. I gave to the 46k goal. I also gave a bit more to another thing that came into my email (also ActBlue).
I’m just sick of these fucking Republicans and the media who cheer them on & gets giddy when these motherfucking Nazi bitches get another win.
WaterGirl
@SiubhanDuinne: Good morning SD. Does that mean you’ve decided against the PO box? Or is this a short-term thing until we get the details worked out?