Katie Porter Does More To Save The Republic In Five Minutes, Than All The Vapid, Phlegmatic DNC

[TrollBuster9090]

...Sunday show talking heads have been able to do in six months. While they were trying to 'explain' inflation by blathering about Putin, and Covid-19; Porter just put up a bar chart showing that the ACTUAL impetus behind inflation is corporate windfall profits.

I'll ask again. Why isn't this woman the junior Senator from California? If the Democratic Party can't find a more prominent role for her, I give up.

Link to tweet

[Raven123]

1. Dems need to figure out how to disseminate this info ASAP to all candidates

They a need a well organized information/data bank, complete with Porter style charts to explain issues to people in clear, concise terms that are memorable.

[blm]

4. Exactly.

[boston bean]

2. Had to vote on this and you probably wouldn't like my vote.

Don’t disrespect Democrats.

Love Katie Porter though!

[JohnSJ]

3. +++

[usonian]

5. A Democrat from Orange County? WOW. Don't that turn my red eyes blue!

Looks like she and Sheldon Whitehouse are telling the story loud and clear.

WHO RAN UP PRICES?
IT WAS THE DUKES!!!

[Beachnutt]

6. We are in a battle with coorperate America

they love to keep the working man depressed and beat down.
They will stop at nothing to ensure their wealth and control.
Blue collar slaves live the "American Dream".
Democrat leaders are fighting like hell for us all, even the brainwashed magaloon blue collar slaves of cooperations.

[NullTuples]

14. We vs Corporate America working class vs investment class

[msongs]

7. heard from the actual female senator from CA lately? nt

[brush]

8. You can post this without bashing Dems, you know.

If you don't, it's a violation of DU terms of service.

[brooklynite]

22. Criticizing the strategy of the DNC (even if incorrect) isn't a violation.

[brush]

28. Check again.

Support Democrats
Don't bash Democratic public figures

[brooklynite]

31. Nobody ever reads the specifics...

Support Democrats

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Don't bash Democratic public figures

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Neither of those apply in this situation.

[brush]

32. I read them, and remind others who may not be aware of them.

But I don't see how a poster with some 5k posts doesn't know about the TOC.

[W_HAMILTON]

39. Speaking of not reading specifics...

...did you not read this part of your quote?

"Do not post anything that smears Democrats generally."

[brooklynite]

42. SMEAR (verb): "to vilify especially by secretly and maliciously spreading grave charges...

...and imputations".

I have a higher standard for what defines "smearing" that goes beyond saying something negative.

[W_HAMILTON]

43. And yet if one poster were to call another poster...

..."vapid," among other insults, their post would almost certainly be hidden because it would be (rightfully) seen as a personal attack.

[betsuni]

44. +1

[Samrob]

9. YES!! It is so obvious. The CEOs are even on tape saying it. They are the price controllers. nt

[Lucinda]

10. ❤️ ✿❧🌿❧✿ ❤️

[cayugafalls]

12. Corporations, blah, blah, blah, nobody cares, nobody truly listens, why? Because we are washed.

This kind of information should scare the liquid out of people.

But, it does not.

Washed.

Reminds me of the movie, "They Live" with "Rowdy" Roddy Piper...

[Lonestarblue]

13. When I went to business school in the 1970s for my MBA, I learned that all corporations had

responsibility to three groups: consumers, workers, and shareholders. Some years later, the sole responsibility is now to maximize profit fir shareholders. Some management guru also came up with the idea that giving CEOs skin in the game through executive bonuses would give them incentive to manage the corporation well. All it did was give them incentive to manipulate the business to ensure the highest bonuses possible. Operating expenses getting too high to qualify for maximum bonus? Fire a few people.

Today we have corporate CEOs earning annual bonuses of many millions of dollars. Of course, they’re price gouging. They earn big money from doing so. We need tax laws that discourage such big bonuses and managing businesses to achieve them.

[summer_in_TX]

16. Good info, thanks!

[raging moderate]

15. How can we share this to Facebook? Please, can somebody do it?

I am almost 75 and terrible with computers.

[Ligyron]

18. Go up to the top where the blue UHR thing is, put pointer on it and click

should turn dark blue. now go over to the end of that line where the middle shows an arrow thing and click it to share.

[HardPort]

17. I suggest siracha whilst eating the rich. Blends well with the fetid stank of avarice in their flesh

Adding the mandatory /s for sarcasm lest any billionaire-enabler snowflakes get their panties bunched.

[Gaugamela]

19. She has to run for another office. The Democratic Party can't appoint her as senator.

[OnDoutside]

33. Well, if Feinstein retired before her full term, Newsom would appoint her successor until the end of

her term, so the successor would have a distinct advantage at the next election.

[Hortensis]

51. Lol, the danger of that would probably keep Feinstein from retiring!

Not that it's a danger. Newsom wouldn't appoint someone who's connected in people's minds with "socialists" and others among the anti-Democratic far left. Unlike house reps, senators have to appeal to MAJORITIES of a state's many diverse electoral groups and to LEADERS among those groups.

Most of Porter's enthusiasts are farther left of mainstream Democrat, and Newsom needs a candidate admired by mainstream voters -- California's share of the 81 million Democrats who voted for Biden, as well as as many indies and moderate conservatives as possible.

AND, (THIS IS IMPORTANT!): Senators have to mostly agree and work together with other senate Democrats. Just look at the damage Kyrsten Sinema's done to our big, progressive plans by putting her agenda before her colleagues'. Unlike the house, just one obstructive or even just verbally oppositional senator can be devastating.

Porter already has "continues to have problems working well with others" on her record in the house.

Reality is that the stand-out oppositional behaviors that Porter's enthusiastic supporters most notice and admire are seen as causing problems for them by 200 Democratic colleagues who are trying to accomplish the kind of big things Porter claims to want. Just look at what she's doing right now by breaking with our honest pandemic-inflation message aimed against the Republicans. Republicans may love it, but most Democratic voters who are aware of these behaviors don't like them.

Being realistic, Porter's best chance for remaining in congress at all is to continue in the house. Two-year terms in congressional districts are much easier to get and hold onto -- they don't require convincing hundreds of local power figures of many ideologies and interests that one candidate would do the best job for them in DC. And then coming through.

[questionseverything]

52. "Breaking with our pandemic inflation message"

Better tell Obama cause he is “breaking “ from that message too

[Hortensis]

53. Please don't imagine Obama can't be trusted to elect

Democrats and further our goals. HE is not aligned in any way with subversive groups, nor with attempts to weaken the Democratic Party and our ability to protect America from extremist overthrow. He knows that election theft steals the sovereignty of ALL, not just from majority voters; those who wish to win that way are the most useful idiots of all.

HE also knows, like all smart people, that destabilization by LW extremists only assists the RW extremists who would win. And the wicked fantasy that misery for 330,000,000 America under a fascist government would lead to a revolution LW extremists would win is just that.

What everyone should take a hard look at is just how different are the ones who'd be in charge of a LW takeover, really, from those who have already killed over 1 in 300 Americans, and abused all, in pursuit of their goals? Now that's a good question! We even have the answer, studied and proven many times over: the similarities are much stronger than the ideological differences.

"The worse, the better." LW and RW revolutionary mantra.

[TrollBuster9090]

47. That would be news to Alex Padilla. (nt)

[betsuni]

50. The governor of California appointed him, not the Democratic Party.

[calimary]

20. She's like the Conscience of the Congress.

[brooklynite]

21. You have no idea what the role of the DNC is...

Its not to be the voice of the Democratic Party. Bur I guess its a good target for angry rants.

[Genki Hikari]

23. Not a surprise, given how so many

Have never shown up at a Democratic Party office, anywhere, never mind during those lulls between elections. They miss all those lean months of finding/fielding candidates to run in the next election, build a team around them, hook them up with resources to run a campaign, and all of that.

That looks like...work. Boring work, at that.

[betsuni]

27. +1

[JI7]

29. Some people think politics is all about what they see on tv.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

25. The angry rant doesn't hurt Porter's chart and succinct explanation. It does get extra attention.

[W_HAMILTON]

45. Not really.

Personally, I usually gladly watch viral clips of Porter doing her thing.

Your comment just made me realize that I didn't bother watching this one due to how the original poster framed it. It made me write off everything they had to say, including whatever clip they posted.

A simple "Katie Porter kicking ASS again!" would have garnered far more views, recs (her videos frequently approach 200), etc.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

46. I clicked to see Porter and to see if there was a valid complaint about the DNC.

It's not a one-view-fits-all. Sometimes people seek calm, sometimes they seek battles.

Expect more angry rants as things heat up. Some reflect genuine concerns and some will simply reflect the commenter's level of tension and frustration. We frequently butt heads during primaries but come together afterward; no reason we can't be tolerant of each other during the run-up to a very, very important general election.

[TrollBuster9090]

48. There were three posts about Porter's performance before that preceded mine, and got no attention.

I respectfully disagree that another "Katie Porter kicking ASS again" post would have garnered far more views. You say you discounted the post because of the way I framed it. Yet here you are, talking about it.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

24. Hope you good folks on twitter make this impossible to miss.

[betsuni]

26. Biden, Sanders, other Democrats have blamed corporate greed for price hikes, inflation.

What does the DNC have to do with anything? Porter's not a senator because she didn't run for the senate. "I give up"?

[Nixie]

35. I gave up on another similar thread, too. This thread is more

explicit, though. The message “corporations” can apparently only be spoken by certain believers.

[betsuni]

37. The endless repetition of corporate-Dems-corporate-Dems-establishment-centrist-status quo

takes its toll. If Democrats blame corporations it can't possibly be genuine. This constant negativity is really too much.

[uponit7771]

30. THANK YOU !!! I've been posting for nearly a year that its *NAKED FUCKIN GREED* that's drviing infla

[Roisin Ni Fiachra]

34. Good on her for stating the obvious. nt

[kwolf68]

36. We need her in leadership

This is the new blood I'd like to see. She's sharp, consistent, and has a certain charisma that appeals to people.

[Progressive dog]

38. Inflation is caused by too much money chasing too few goods

Corporations are a big loser in the current economic conditions. Those "profits: have been discounted by the stock market with losses way beating the supposed profit increases.

[betsuni]

41. Diabolically corrupt wealthy powerful organization rigging elections and controlling

America because they must do everything evil corporations and wealthy donors, billionaires and oligarchs, tell them to. Because beholden and will stop at nothing to thwart progress.

At the same time it's an organization of humans who have to fundraise to have enough money for ads and campaigns, said to not know what they're doing, weak, incompetent leadership.

Really, choose one. Can't be both.