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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(124,802 posts)
Tue Jul 23, 2024, 02:02 PM Jul 2024

Tweety: Harris should stress she's 'not a member of the squad'

Pundit Chris Matthews is encouraging Vice President Harris to distance herself from the policies of the liberal wing of the Democratic Party as she runs for president this fall.

Matthews, during an appearance on MSNBC early Monday, said Harris should lean into her personal story, saying “she has a chance to say, ‘Here’s who I am. I am a daughter of an Indian immigrant, a Jamaican immigrant, and I had a tiger mother. And I went to Howard.'”

“Why did you decide to go to Howard, why don’t you identify with the African American history in this country? People want to know,” Matthews added.

Harris, Matthews said, should also make it clear that she is “not a member of the ‘squad,'” a reference to a group of liberal House lawmakers including Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.).

https://www.yahoo.com/news/chris-matthews-harris-stress-she-173853925.html

Crawl back under your rock Matthews.

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Tweety: Harris should stress she's 'not a member of the squad' (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2024 OP
agreed... they're already starting to use the "California slur" WarGamer Jul 2024 #1
The CA slur always cracks me up when coming from the Repukes FHRRK Jul 2024 #11
Wouldn't that enable MAGA slur use that they'll just use anyway no matter what we do? uponit7771 Jul 2024 #19
Believe it or not... some parts of the country are really anti-California WarGamer Jul 2024 #21
The LAST person I want to hear from about Kamala senseandsensibility Jul 2024 #2
Why would anyone think she's in the squad? Elessar Zappa Jul 2024 #3
Her skin is brown and MAGA will ascribe her to anything brown and negative they can. Still ignore him, we shouldn't ... uponit7771 Jul 2024 #20
Matthews should STFU LiberalFighter Jul 2024 #4
Exactly. I thought he was done. Electrolite Jul 2024 #17
Oh, come on Tweety. Does the media have zero responsibility to dispel lies? And what if she names Shapiro hlthe2b Jul 2024 #5
The "squad" is in the house, Kamala never served in the house, she came from the senate Bev54 Jul 2024 #6
That's stupid to go there. blm Jul 2024 #7
Good Gawd.. VP is Not A Congresswoman in the House of Reps! Cha Jul 2024 #8
Whatever. I don't care. Just get elected!! aeromanKC Jul 2024 #9
Tweety should crawl back under a rock. n/t Marcus IM Jul 2024 #10
Oh, he's still alive? Sky Jewels Jul 2024 #12
What??? LeftInTX Jul 2024 #13
Who gives a crap with he thinks about anything? DFab420 Jul 2024 #14
Shut up, tweety. yardwork Jul 2024 #15
Every time I start to think about missing him he reminds me why I shouldn't. n/t Xavier Breath Jul 2024 #16
Stopped listening to him SocialDemocrat61 Jul 2024 #18
AOC is a national treasure! ViewObsessed Jul 2024 #22

FHRRK

(1,103 posts)
11. The CA slur always cracks me up when coming from the Repukes
Tue Jul 23, 2024, 04:15 PM
Jul 2024

Now I did move to SoCal right out of college so obviously biased. But here is the rub, coming up on 40 years in CA, so getting close to retirement. A few months ago I ran the delta of, what if I took every damn cent I put into 401k's and bought CA property. Conservatively, I would have had at least 2.5x the amount of money for retirement. So CA housing is one of the best examples (positive) for free market capitalism.

Newsom does a good job of slapping people around on the CA slurs, Kamala has a basic template to use.

WarGamer

(17,358 posts)
21. Believe it or not... some parts of the country are really anti-California
Tue Jul 23, 2024, 08:13 PM
Jul 2024

I've been mostly here in CA since 1978...

Love it. I'm a homeowner and worked most of my career here.

But I've traveled a lot and have been told directly by management at corporate offices across the country (My former employer has around 10 US locations) to make sure I don't have CA license plates on my car if I've driven there...

Across the Mid-West and into the Deep South... not a lot of fondness for Californians.

And now that I think about it... the Pac Northwest isn't fond of us either. I spent a year outside of Seattle babysitting a production facility and people blamed Californians for the real estate crisis and home pricing.

senseandsensibility

(22,604 posts)
2. The LAST person I want to hear from about Kamala
Tue Jul 23, 2024, 02:03 PM
Jul 2024

is tweety. Luckily he doesn't have a platform to trash her like he did with Hillary.

uponit7771

(92,968 posts)
20. Her skin is brown and MAGA will ascribe her to anything brown and negative they can. Still ignore him, we shouldn't ...
Tue Jul 23, 2024, 04:55 PM
Jul 2024

... enable MAGA slurs but lean into them

hlthe2b

(110,342 posts)
5. Oh, come on Tweety. Does the media have zero responsibility to dispel lies? And what if she names Shapiro
Tue Jul 23, 2024, 02:07 PM
Jul 2024

as her VP candidate, is he now obligated to explain every aspect of his Judaism and whether/why he does/does not agree with every aspect as practiced in the US and Israel? Do we hook him up to a lie detector, just to be sure?

Bev54

(12,565 posts)
6. The "squad" is in the house, Kamala never served in the house, she came from the senate
Tue Jul 23, 2024, 02:11 PM
Jul 2024

Why the hell would she even bring it up?

Cha

(312,205 posts)
8. Good Gawd.. VP is Not A Congresswoman in the House of Reps!
Tue Jul 23, 2024, 02:11 PM
Jul 2024

And, I don't know about the rest of the Squad but AOC has been very supporting Prs Biden and now Kamala.

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