Wednesday, July 10, 2019

Democrats for Trump

Here are the 152 House Democrats who voted to fund Trump's concentration camps for children. Is your rep on the list? Please feel free to share this list wherever you like!
  • Adams
  • Aguilar
  • Allred
  • Axne
  • Bass
  • Beatty
  • Bera
  • Bishop (GA)
  • Boyle, Brendan F.
  • Brindisi
  • Bustos
  • Butterfield
  • Carbajal
  • Cárdenas
  • Carson (IN)
  • Cartwright
  • Case
  • Casten (IL)
  • Castor (FL)
  • Clay
  • Cleaver
  • Clyburn
  • Cooper
  • Correa
  • Costa
  • Courtney
  • Cox (CA)
  • Craig
  • Crist
  • Crow
  • Cuellar
  • Cummings
  • Cunningham
  • Davids (KS)
  • Davis (CA)
  • Davis, Danny K.
  • Dean
  • DeLauro
  • DelBene
  • Demings
  • Deutch
  • Doyle, Michael F.
  • Engel
  • Eshoo
  • Evans
  • Finkenauer
  • Fletcher
  • Foster
  • Fudge
  • Garamendi
  • Golden
  • Gonzalez (TX)
  • Gottheimer
  • Green, Al (TX)
  • Harder (CA)
  • Hayes
  • Heck
  • Hill (CA)
  • Himes
  • Horn, Kendra S.
  • Horsford
  • Houlahan
  • Hoyer
  • Huffman
  • Jeffries
  • Johnson (GA)
  • Johnson (TX)
  • Kildee
  • Kilmer
  • Kim
  • Kind
  • Kirkpatrick
  • Krishnamoorthi
  • Kuster (NH)
  • Lamb
  • Langevin
  • Larsen (WA)
  • Larson (CT)
  • Lawson (FL)
  • Lee (NV)
  • Levin (CA)
  • Lieu, Ted
  • Lipinski
  • Loebsack
  • Lowey
  • Luria
  • Lynch
  • Maloney, Sean
  • Matsui
  • McAdams
  • McBath
  • McCollum
  • McEachin
  • McGovern
  • McNerney
  • Morelle
  • Murphy
  • Neal
  • O'Halleran
  • Pallone
  • Panetta
  • Pappas
  • Pascrell
  • Payne
  • Perlmutter
  • Peters
  • Peterson
  • Phillips
  • Pingree
  • Price (NC)
  • Quigley
  • Raskin
  • Rice (NY)
  • Rose (NY)
  • Rouda
  • Roybal-Allard
  • Ruppersberger
  • Rush
  • Sánchez
  • Sarbanes
  • Scanlon
  • Schiff
  • Schneider
  • Schrier
  • Scott (VA)
  • Scott, David
  • Serrano
  • Sewell (AL)
  • Shalala
  • Sherman
  • Sherrill
  • Sires
  • Slotkin
  • Spanberger
  • Speier
  • Stanton
  • Stevens
  • Suozzi
  • Thompson (CA)
  • Thompson (MS)
  • Torres Small (NM)
  • Trone
  • Underwood
  • Van Drew
  • Vargas
  • Veasey
  • Visclosky
  • Wasserman Schultz
  • Waters
  • Welch
  • Wexton
  • Yarmuth
Source: http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2019/roll426.xml (FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 426)

Tuesday, July 2, 2019

Echoes in the wilderness

Here's the thing that worries me: I can't see any scenario in which the DNC allows Bernie or Tulsi to get the nomination. None.

The superdelegate "reform" was pure window dressing. No one was punished for the widescale election and registration fraud that the DNC used to falsify the 2016 nomination. It wasn't even acknowledged by the DNC. we have been given no reason to believe that Hillary Clinton has relinquished her control of the DNC. So why should we expect things to be different this time?

The media has covered Bernie and Tulsi as little as possible, and as dismissively as they can. They were the only two candidates to be attacked by the debate moderators.

We are being given every sign that the DNC intends to screw progressives out of our votes and our choice once again. And then they are going to try to beat us into submission with screams about "unity", accusations of racism and/or sexism, browbeating about the evils of Trump (as if we were responsible for him, rather than the DNC itself), and the usual online campaign from David Brock gaslighting us and destroying our subreddits and groups.

I'm not giving up, but I am also not putting my hopes in the electoral process. Even if the DNC's chosen candidate wins, we will not get the massive climate change action which is absolutely necessary for our civilization to have a chance of survival. And we can't afford to wait another four or eight years. We only have 10 years left at most.

We should have other tracks. Other avenues of approach to make the fundamental social, environmental, and economic changes which are critical to human survival. No matter how the coming election turns out, we have to be ready for the fight of our lives. Because it's coming.