President Joe Biden, flanked by Vice President Kamala Harris and a whole host of Georgia politicians, will deliver a speech Tuesday from the Peach State on the sacred importance of voting rights and the imperative to protect them with legislation.
“Here’s why this is bad news for Joe Biden.”
Mark Twain
BLM has released a bratty, divisive and insulting call for members not to attend Biden’s speech. The “time is past for speeches” they say. You really have to try hard not to adopt a “fuck them” attitude. They can bet their bratty asses that Kemp and the GOP’s vote suppression effort are loving this misdirected protest.
The time for games is over. We will have elections–real ones–or we will have the sort of spectacles millions of immigrants (including white ones) came to this country to escape.
“Will we choose democracy over autocracy, light over shadow, justice over injustice?"
No.
That is all.
Kanye?
Right, it’s time for Joe Biden to sue the Senate in the Supreme Court to stop the filibuster once and for all. Then we all get ice cream.
Elect a clown, expect a circus.
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) did express support for a filibuster rule change — but futilely insists that Democrats and Republicans “can do that together."
Listening to Manchin makes me think of the dead parrot sketch, and he’s the shopkeeper.
Exactly. Except the sketch was funny.
Well at least he waited until his popularity was at an all time low to begin this very heavy lift.
Sorry, I am losing my grip here as I watch this all slide by.
Let’s say this again, Senate Democrats represent forty-one million more Americans than rethugs. How’s that for democracy?
First, James Woodall is the former president of the NAACP of Georgia. Second, it wasn’t a formal statement. It was a quote. Third, this has zero to do with BLM.
These voters have every right to be angry. Every right. They delivered Georgia, not just in the presidential election, but also the United States Senate. They did the damn thing. And now their basic civil rights are under attack and they are angry that voting rights haven’t been more of a priority for the party.
They’ve spent the last year watching the party focus on all these other issues before getting around to the assault on their basic right to participate in democracy. Black voters have often felt as though we deliver victory for the party only to have our issues put on the back burner while the Dems pursue something else. For many, it feels like months and months were wasted and nothing got done while the party tried to get BBB and BIF passed. Then BIF passed and BBB is just sitting there. For a lot of activists, it feels like nothing is getting done. That’s the frustration.
I happen to think they’re wrong to focus their anger on the party and Biden when the rage should be squarely aimed at Manchin and Sinema. Had they not been absolute jackasses, had they negotiated in good faith, everything would’ve been buttoned up and finished by now. But that’s not what happened. Frankly, I’m not particularly worried about this because several other groups will be there. It’s not like the venue is going to be empty because this or that group is pissed off. And I’m hoping like hell they’ve got the votes on this one because much will be forgotten and forgiven when it’s time to actually vote.
BLM or NAACP? I see statements from the NAACP, but not BLM. At any rate, someone appears to have gone full Green Lantern.
These guys are not BLM
Go to BLM’s twitter and read a bit. Then come back and try to run that by me again.
Read up a bit.
Neither. The guy he quoted represents neither group.
BLM doesn’t have a single Twitter page. It’s a damn hashtag. And finding videos of various Black people from different groups doesn’t somehow make your point.
Not to mention the Republicans, particularly Mitch McConnell and all his spineless caucus, who will mindlessly do whatever he says, vote however he wants, regardless of what their constitutents or the nation’s welfare demand.
Yeah, LET’s mention the Republicans. Why is it that there can never be ANY Republican votes? What is wrong with those people? (rhetorical question)
Manchin wants Republican buy-in? What a crock.
Still cant be said often enough
FUCK Joe Manchin
