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ancianita

(41,096 posts)
Mon Jul 14, 2025, 12:56 PM Jul 14

Time to Wake Up #300: Wake Up and Fight -- MVP of the Senate Sheldon Whitehouse:

"History will show that the three most consequential disasters for America in our lifetimes were
1. The capture of the Supreme Court by right wing billionaires,
2. The influx into elections of floods of corrupting, special interest dark money, and
3. The success of the fossil fuel climate denial operation at blockading solutions to the fossil fuel emissions crisis.
It is entirely possible that fossil fuel interests were the driving force behind all three disasters. Indeed, it is likely.
What makes these disasters the three worst is that their damage will be lasting and perhaps irrecoverable...

Think of all three special interest campaigns as a single covert operation -- a cover op run against America by forces within our country an enemy within -- of creepy billionaires, fossil fuel interests, far right foundations determined to impose on the country a blighted and unpopular vision that they could never achieve democratically...."



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Time to Wake Up #300: Wake Up and Fight -- MVP of the Senate Sheldon Whitehouse: (Original Post) ancianita Jul 14 OP
Sheldon Whitehouse is a national treasure some_of_us_are_sane Jul 14 #1
The party leaders had better do exactly what he says. The concrete things he literally TOLD us are what we must DO. ancianita Jul 14 #2
ME TOO!!! some_of_us_are_sane Jul 14 #3

some_of_us_are_sane

(1,618 posts)
1. Sheldon Whitehouse is a national treasure
Mon Jul 14, 2025, 01:40 PM
Jul 14

but Congress ignores his oracle advice. It's as if Paul Revere galloped madly by and warned us, but people shrugged their shoulders and went back to sleep.

ancianita

(41,096 posts)
2. The party leaders had better do exactly what he says. The concrete things he literally TOLD us are what we must DO.
Mon Jul 14, 2025, 01:49 PM
Jul 14

I am posting this Whitehouse video as a Reply to every single email I get from the DNC, DLCC, and any other Democratic leadership person or group, demanding this:

To Party leaders -- Martin, Jane Kleeb, Reyna Walters-Morgan, Malcolm Kenyatta, Jason Rae, Virginia McGregor, Chris Korge, Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries and consultants:

-- Watch this video beginning at 13:17- 14:15, then 29:00 to the end.
-- Terminate your longstanding consultant group contracts.
-- DO, literally, the war room actions Whitehouse literally tells you to do -- PROPER DEFENSE INFRASTRUCTURE to
Whip our party out of ballerina mode and into exceptionally battle disciplined Democratic centurions for The People.

In fact I just did just now.

When party leaders literally DO these things in the next 10 months, the DNC's messaging will change a distrustful public and non-voting demographics to become our GOTV voters.

Whitehouse knows exactly what problems to solve and in what order to solve them for this nation.

And OUR PARTY LEADERS HAD BETTER DO WHAT HE SAYS . (caps for EMphasis, not shouting)

I'd vote for Senator Sheldon Whitehouse for president in a new york minute.

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