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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsShontel Brown strikes back at Killer Mike and Nina Turner calling James Clyburn "stupid"....
Brava, Ms. Brown!
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Cha
(297,317 posts)SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)sheshe2
(83,791 posts)That twitter thread is not being kind.
George II
(67,782 posts)sheshe2
(83,791 posts)Cha
(297,317 posts)hlthe2b
(102,292 posts)Have we turned into our own worst enemies?
I can not think of someone running on the Dem ticket in recent years who has been so derisive to the party and its members--including our own President.
msongs
(67,417 posts)sheshe2
(83,791 posts)hlthe2b
(102,292 posts)Some things are inexplicable. I may not always like AOC's positions, but I honestly think AOC will come to regret supporting Nina Turner.
comradebillyboy
(10,154 posts)empedocles
(15,751 posts)Cha
(297,317 posts)Historic NY
(37,451 posts)These two would have comfortably welcomed Trump back in the WH, especially with their active measures long after the primary's ended.
sheshe2
(83,791 posts)Never mind.
moonscape
(4,673 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(145,321 posts)Turner bragged about voting and campaigning for stein and tried to help TFG beat Joe Biden. She is not a Democrat
betsuni
(25,537 posts)BannonsLiver
(16,396 posts)They know they cant say what they want to say about him here so they boost those who say voting for him is like eating a bowl of shit.
Clyburn is hated because his endorsement put it out of reach for their guy back in 2020.
Demsrule86
(68,586 posts)She messed up on this one
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)a very significant part of the draw. It's been a consistent note through all their perambulations, from attacking from outside and openly advising people to not vote Democratic (as in 2016) to current actions from officially within. Both have spent years equating Democrats with Republicans in intractable shared-evil narratives. Killer's famous agressive hostility toward politicians:
It's scammer bliss when you puttin' villains in charge of shit
All of us targeted, all we doin' is arguin'
Pardon them as they work until every pocket's been picked and soul been harvested
I'm ready to mob on these fuckin' charlatans (Charlatans, charlatans, charlatans, charlatans, charlatans, charlatans)
Echoed, of course, by Ms. Turner's famous depiction of Democratic policies as shit.
I sometimes wonder, if attacking Democrats from the right as a Republican were seen as acceptable among some as attacking Democrats from the left is, how people like Mr. Blacks-should-buy-guns might identify.
Cha
(297,317 posts)about Rep Clyburn endorsing Biden & the rest is DEMOCRATIC History! Boom!
TY Rep Clyburn, Sec Buttigieg, Sen Klobuchar, & Beto O'Rourke!
Chili
(1,725 posts)... that she pays dearly for her agreement with the attack on Clyburn. She already had enemies, but she's riling them up. You go, girl.
Cha
(297,317 posts)That's all they have are vicious attacks.. . that's what they do.
Must think it works.. it sure as hell didn't work with President Joe Biden!
Trueblue1968
(17,228 posts)"NEGATIVE NINA" did both of those rotten actions. I can't stand her.
brooklynite
(94,597 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)uponit7771
(90,347 posts)comradebillyboy
(10,154 posts)Common values.
Cha
(297,317 posts)Because of course she did.
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,321 posts)They share common values which are NOT the values of many in the Democratic Party
Guilded Lilly
(5,591 posts)Chili
(1,725 posts)What a difference between the two.
And I swear, those pro-Turner people on that twitter thread reminds me of those freaky bot people who used to suddenly take over pro-Biden threads before the election. So obvious.
Cha
(297,317 posts)BGBD
(3,282 posts)Run The Jewels is great....but he has some pretty out there politics.
George II
(67,782 posts)sheshe2
(83,791 posts)When Parkland students put together a walk out against guns...Mike told his kids if they followed they could not walk back in their own front door.
WTF?
betsuni
(25,537 posts)Same old script.
Someone in the comments reminded us about Mike meeting Georgia governor Brian Kemp, how much Mike liked him: "Politics and policy don't matter to me as much as human decency and principles and he seemed to be a principled human being when I talked to him."
Principles and human decency? Policy not important? Okay, Mike. You're a really good judge of character . Nothing wrong with meeting Republicans, but if you think they're more decent and principled than Democrats, if you can't bring yourself to vote for the Democratic presidential nominee because you think they're the same or worse than Trump ...
Hillary Clinton/Joe Biden and Trump? Same, can't tell the difference! Everyone is corrupted by corporations somehow because corporations control everything! Everything is terrible and everyone's out to get me because I am the only one who cares about working families in this bleak corrupt neoliberal establishment corporatist status quo oligarchy. Don't vote for Democrats except for me when I'm forced to run as one of them because my third party isn't on the ballot yet! Authentic, principled!
Nailed it!
sheshe2
(83,791 posts)Good ole Mikie...
Hate the corporations and love the NRA.
Said he would kick his own kids out of his house if they walked out with Parkland students in protest of guns. What father, what black father does that? I don't get it.
betsuni
(25,537 posts)is often somewhere there.
sheshe2
(83,791 posts)The Atlanta rapper had pre-recorded a segment for NRATV, the National Rifle Associations broadcast outlet, in which he argued strongly for gun rights. The video went online during the March. Killer Mike, half of the fierce hip-hop tag team Run the Jewels, filmed a pre-recorded chat with NRATV host Collins Iyare Idehen Jr. (who is also black, hence the stage name Colion Noir). In the video, Idehen added an introduction to the video directly challenging the March organizers. What are you really marching for? said the host, apparently unable to discern that from the events title. Because from where Im standing, it looks like a march to burn the Constitution and rewrite the parts you dont like in crayon. Idehens corny screed set the tone for a conversation in which both he and Mike question the wokeness of black gun control advocates and show condescension for the hundreds of thousands of marchers who took to the American streets. It was less an interview than it was propaganda for the NRA, arguably the most powerful political organization outside of the criminal justice system that works consistently to create societal acceptance of untimely black death.
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More:https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/what-the-kids-got-right-and-killer-mike-got-wrong-205306/
betsuni
(25,537 posts)Budi
(15,325 posts)BRAVO, SheShe
Thank You
💙 ShontelBrown
Cha
(297,317 posts)Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)Which music distributor (corporation) puts his music out there, making him money?
I know "Big Mike" isn't a candidate here, but he certainly seems to be a surrogate for Turner.
Duppers
(28,125 posts)Hitting Congressman Clyburn & Biden!!! Just No!!
brush
(53,787 posts)control the House and Senate. So sick of these alleged Dems blasting Dems for actually being successful.
Cha
(297,317 posts)less than nothing to them.
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,321 posts)It appears that Nina holds a grudge with respect to her failed South Carolina operation
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MrsCoffee
(5,803 posts)The consequences of which we will be living with for generations to come.
He made it fashionable to assault the party from within.
niyad
(113,343 posts)comradebillyboy
(10,154 posts)from both his 2016 and 2020 campaigns.
uponit7771
(90,347 posts)betsuni
(25,537 posts)BannonsLiver
(16,396 posts)tonedevil
(3,022 posts)sheshe2
(83,791 posts)See my posts above.
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,321 posts)This Mike person and Nina need to apologize for these comments. I am appalled
mcar
(42,334 posts)That's all I need to know.
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,321 posts)Cha
(297,317 posts)tonedevil
(3,022 posts)I think he is one of our better Congresspeople and will allow him to support who he wants to support.
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,321 posts)Ted Lieu will be asked about these comments and his judgment in supporting a non-democrat who voted for Jill Sein and tried to help TFG win re-election should be questioned
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tonedevil
(3,022 posts)that Rep. Clyburn is stupid. Somehow that hasn't turned into me thinking Rep. Lieu needs to explain his endorsement or take responsibility for what Nina Turner or Killer Mike say.
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,321 posts)Rep. Clyburn is the reason Joe Is the nominee of the party and Nina was in charge of sanders South Carolina campaign that was so bad that is was funny. The comments of Nina on that encounter are sad and the comments of the Mike idiot are disgusting. Lieu needs to clarify if he agrees with these comments.
Lieu will be asked about this endorsement and these comments It will be interesting to see how Lieu answer these questions
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tonedevil
(3,022 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)That's three strikes in my book.
Shontel Brown has zero strikes.
tonedevil
(3,022 posts)Nina Turner can win the election so problem solved.
George II
(67,782 posts)SunSeeker
(51,571 posts)jml510
(10,893 posts)I'm disappointed in Lieu and Porter for getting behind someone who not only backed a 3rd party candidate last election cycle, but has openly expressed contempt towards our party and the leader of it. I expected them to know better.
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)I can't support anyone who compares Biden to a "bowl of shit" or who supports Jill Fucking Stein... AND I have nothing but disappointment and contempt for anyone who believes that the things she does or says is appropriate. Politicians who have endorsed her have soiled their reputations. Fact of the matter is that Nina is NOT A FRIEND of the Democratic Party or Biden or Hillary. She says and does divisive things that only weaken and fracture the party.
I'm not at all surprised that this "bowl of shit" is being presented by and promoted by TYT.