The Decline of the DNC IV

[CrimsonJazz]

Just my opinion and preference. I’d rather my current party not have candidates with that sort of baggage.

I get that; I really do. I wish the Libertarian Party would make an actual effort to try to get electable candidates, but I'll be pushing up grass before that ever happens (if at all.) I guess they will still get most of my protest votes, but only because they are, in fact, protest votes.

 

[selmaborntidefan]

This is hysterical.

 

[CrimsonJazz]

Minnesota Democrats are debating whether Wild Rice has an inherent right to life.

Two years ago they voted for abortion to be legal up to the moment of birth.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2031406312215502911

Not to turn this thread into an anti-abortion derailment (we already have an abortion thread) but holy crap is this weird. I'm starting to think the people of Minnesota are the nuttiest people in country, hands down. Is there something in the water up there?

 

[Huckleberry]

Minnesota Democrats are debating whether Wild Rice has an inherent right to life.

Two years ago they voted for abortion to be legal up to the moment of birth.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2031406312215502911

Not to turn this thread into an anti-abortion derailment (we already have an abortion thread) but holy crap is this weird. I'm starting to think the people of Minnesota are the nuttiest people in country, hands down. Is there something in the water up there?

Abortion rights and bodily autonomy I support. Special rights for wild rice due to some cultural/spiritual significance, not so much. Make a solely environmental case for its protection and it's easier for me to take the issue a little more seriously.

And people in Florida are equally nutty (in their own loony way).

 

[Crimson1967]

It sounds nutty, but what exactly is the context here?

 

[CrimsonJazz]

JUST IN: Democrat MI Senator Elissa Slotkin now says DHS SHOULD be funded — a day after voting AGAINST it

All it took was a freaking TERRORIST ATTACK in her state to change her tune

We’ve ALL been saying this was going to end up happening.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2032468477592690732

 

[selmaborntidefan]

It sounds nutty, but what exactly is the context here?

Remember that the state of Minnesota has a HUGE number of Native Americans living there.
And they see wild rice as a "living relative" protected "by treaty."

It is ALSO in the context of a regulatory debate because (as you probably know) the state has the Iron Range and produces taconite (which I believe Edmund Fitzgerald was picking up before he was baptized), which - after inevitable chemical reactions - can destroy the roots of wild rice.

These "rights" already exist to wild rice but haven't been "codified," which is what this is about. State regulatory agencies oppose this because they see the Pandora's box that will get opened the legal route once it's codified that could do something like, oh, limit the amount of taconite they can sell, which would likely have a deleterious effect on their economy.

Bear in mind this wild rice (Manoomin) has already become the first plant to sue a US state.

You're correct there is a substantially larger context than anything to do with abortion.

More below:

Manoomin: Wild Rice, Tribal sovereignty and the rights of nature in northern Minnesota  - Wild Ones: Native Plants, Natural Landscapes

Wild Ones: Native Plants, Natural Landscapes promotes environmentally sound landscaping practices to preserve biodiversity through the preservation, restoration and establishment of native plant communities.

wildones.org

 

[selmaborntidefan]

“And you should need a background check to own a gun. But NOT to work my security…..”

A man shot and killed by Dallas policeearlier this week was a familiar figure in North Texas law enforcement – and part of the security detail for U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett, sources told CBS News Texas.

Multiple law enforcement sources tell CBS News Texas the man, known publicly as Mike King, had been using aliases while running a business that placed officers in off‑duty jobs.

Wanted fugitive killed by Dallas SWAT officers worked security for Rep. Jasmine Crockett, sources say

Sources say the man, known publicly as Mike King, used aliases while running an off‑duty police job service and serving on the congresswoman's security team.

www.cbsnews.com

 

[selmaborntidefan]

Again - some of us knew 30 years ago the “you’re a (oppressed epithet)” from the ivory tower pretenders was gaslighting.

 

[Bazza]

CNN laments that Congressional Democrats have “NEVER been in worse shape than they are right now.”

https://twitter.com/x/status/2033934946411381048

 

[selmaborntidefan]

For those keeping score at home, a Deus Vult tattoo disqualifies you as a Republican but a Nazi tattoo is an asset for the endorsement of Pocahontas as a Democrat.

 

[Huckleberry]

For those keeping score at home, a Deus Vult tattoo disqualifies you as a Republican but a Nazi tattoo is an asset for the endorsement of Pocahontas as a Democrat.
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Regardless of the truth behind Platner's tattoo (I'm much more frustrated by his old Reddit posts), it appears deeply hypocritical. The lack of self-awareness from Warren is distressing.

 

[selmaborntidefan]

Regardless of the truth behind Platner's tattoo (I'm much more frustrated by his old Reddit posts), it appears deeply hypocritical. The lack of self-awareness from Warren is distressing.

Van Hollen
Bernie
Warren

All have endorsed Platner. So funny to recall my time in New England and their obsession with racism and Rebel flags down South.

As I said above, the tattoo BY ITSELF.....well, I might be willing to spot him some grace if that was all it was. It's not impossible for him to have had it removed, but he has chosen to not do so. But he's been on programs admitting to saying stuff in his 20s and 30s.

We live in a world where saying something racist AS A TEEN means you lose access to any sort of future. And while I'm not trying to minimize it, WE ALL SAID STUPID THINGS as a teen, I'm just lucky enough there wasn't social media.

But I don't recall any of these Democratic politicians sticking themselves into a hornet's nest of, "What can we do to have a positive outcome" for an obvious reason: there's nothing in it for THEM personally.

For the record, I wasn't for the cancellation of people in the wake of the Charlie Kirk assassination. But you can damn betcha if a 17-year-old gets a scholarship and then says something stupid on social media doesn't deserve an opportunity at redemption then a guy posting crap in his 30s doesn't need to be in the US Senate.


I recall the night that Kyler Murray won the Heisman and all of a sudden some tweets when he was TWELVE YEARS OLD were dug up by a jerk. They call it "resurfacing," but none of those things come to the surface without dragging the bottom of the river to find the dead ones in the first place.

 

[selmaborntidefan]

Remember:

if you're a 16-year-old gun rights activist who survived a school shooting and used racist slurs AT SIXTEEN YEARS OLD (like kill the bleeping Jews), you lose your scholarship.

if you are already a student at Harvard and the Democrat loses an election, Harvard cancels classes because you're not mature enough at 21 to handle these things

And if you are 41 and running for the Maine Senate with a track record like Platner, all the big liberals who can't get enough votes to win the Democratic nomination will endorse you after bleating self-righteously about bigotry.

 

[CrimsonJazz]

LMFAO! New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is being mocked nationwide after she BEGGED people to move back from Florida

4 years ago, she was GLOATING, saying Republicans should "jump on a bus and head down to Florida"

Mamdani will make the problem EVEN WORSE!

https://twitter.com/x/status/2034747134679871991

I've got a ten-spot that says this cerebral eunuch gets reelected anyway. New Yorkers have likely learned nothing from the Mamdani fiasco.

 

[crimsonaudio]

IRS net migration data is out of 2023:

Red states gained $37.2 billion in income and 492k filers.
Blue states lost ~$40.8B and 520k filers.

CA −$11.9B, NY −$9.9B, IL −$6.0B, MA −$4.2B, NJ −$2.8B.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2035364269873881322

 

[crimsonaudio]

Domestic migration only. Re tax filers for 2023:

Red states: +$38.0B in domestic income gained.
Blue states: −$38.0B lost.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2035371185341714556

 

[crimsonaudio]

Democrats are trying to put federal agents in jail for <<checks notes>> helping people move through TSA lines faster. DERANGED.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2036821762910847305

 

[CrimsonJazz]

"If these allegations are true…this is one of the most brazen abuses of tax payer money in recent memory."

A grand jury in Miami has returned an indictment charging Democrat Congresswoman Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick with stealing federal disaster money, laundering the proceeds, and using the money to support her congressional campaign.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2036860664996913571

 

[TIDE-HSV]

Minnesota Democrats are debating whether Wild Rice has an inherent right to life.

Two years ago they voted for abortion to be legal up to the moment of birth.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2031406312215502911

Not to turn this thread into an anti-abortion derailment (we already have an abortion thread) but holy crap is this weird. I'm starting to think the people of Minnesota are the nuttiest people in country, hands down. Is there something in the water up there?

Yes, the best walleye I've ever tasted, maybe the best fish, period...