Yes. Let's keep this going. I got emotional when Senator El-Sayed was elected. He won, despite the terrible bigoted, racist things his opponent said about him, his ethnicity and religion, which I am sure he has put up with all his life.
Possibly the best news EVER for American history educators. The election of Scott Colom should be the focus in every US history class and beyond. (Almost) inspires this 40-year public school educator to return to the classroom.
I like the looks of most of the new crop of legislators especially since most do not take any corporate or AIPAC money. Many are just regular people who actually pump their own gas and know what a grocery store looks like and have actually shopped in them so they know the real price of gas and groceries. They cannot be gaslighted and willnot gaslight us.
Give it up with the AIPAC stuff already; it's anti-semitic and divisive. If you want to argue that all Superpacs as well as large personal donations should be limited, I agree. Singling out AIPAC is an ugly look.
Being against what Israel is doing is NOT antisemitic and you know it. That is no different than saying it is anti Muslim if I am against Iran. My college roommate lives in Israel she is well aware of what is anti-Israel and what is antisemitic I just heard from her two days ago and she is very glad about our blue tsunami and hopes trump and his regime will soon be gone. Two of her sibs and their children still reside in the US.
Me too. Extremely emotional. Even after it was evident that we won both houses, my mind would not let me celebrate until Scott’s victory was confirmed. Tears of joy.
I’ve said this before, and now I’m going to say it again. Regarding transgender kids:
The Christian, right, having failed with gay people 11 years ago, decided they needed a new target. They picked transgender kids. Donald Trump, slime that he is, decided he could run with that, and that is what right wing Republicans, Christian nationalist, Christian Dominionists, and reactionary conservatives have decided to run with. Like Hitler did with the Jews, 100 years ago, the Republican Party is now doing with transgender kids. A generation or two before that, they were doing it with gay people.
In short, exactly the same people are telling exactly the same lies about the exactly the same kinds of people, and for exactly the same reasons. They have picked a vulnerable minority, and like bullies everywhere, pick them for that reason: weak and vulnerable.
Every single conversation I have had with every single transphobe has been pretty much the same. They don’t know what they’re talking about, they don’t know any transgender people, they know nothing about them, but they are convinced that there is an ideological basis to force men into women women’s locker rooms, assault children, and perform mutilation on children, for some reason that they can never, ever explain or justify.. One more time, it is yet another deflection from the truth about childhood sexual abuse: the father is usually the perpetrator, followed by someone close to the family. One more time, you might find one or two LGBT people offending every single year. But every single year, there were at least 500 pastors or priests who have been arrested, or convicted, or sentenced for their crimes against children, often against women, occasionally against men.
And it is this single paragraph of facts that defines what the Republican Party, Christian nationalist, right wing Christians, and Donald Trump are all about. And there is no difference between this and what was done to Jewish people a century ago.
One of the things that I truly hope is that the Democratic Party when it comes into power will take very positive steps to crush this vicious prejudice.
I know 19 trans people. They're all pretty normal people.
Watching Scott Colom's victory speech reminded me again of the key different between Black Christians and White Christian Nationalist, a difference I see every day in our diverse Democratic Party here in NE Ohio. Black Christians view Jesus as a PERSONAL savior who leads them in their OWN lives. They very seldom believe that this is a mandate to force their views on others. And that is exactly what white Christian Nationalist believe: that everyone should be forced to abide by the rules they believe in (or say they do; they often don't themselves.)
Thank you for writing what you wrote. That is indeed the issue: most transgender people are perfectly normal people who have been dealt a fairly difficult hand in life. And these flaming Hemorrhoids want to use them for and scapegoats are doing nothing to make anyone ‘s life better, especially their own.
You tell 'em Mike! I did cry, seeing all those it affected so deeply in Miss. I had hope.....Once again. Not since JFK when I missed the chance to vote...not turning 21 (the voting age) until the day before the election. Took long enough. We fought for lowering the age to vote, choosing as we could. This year was a Special Gift delivered by all of us, to US.
Please, please stop with the rural, non-urban, red voters trope. Frankly it is classist, racist (remember Mississippi is largely rural and has the largest % black population of any state) and elitist. My “rural, non urban” largely working class district has consistently voted in favor of practical, and yes, “progressive” legislation and legislators.
One of the advantages we have, and I say this as someone who spent most of her life in urban communities, is that in these supposed backward areas, we know our neighbors and have to rely on each other—and we directly experience and witness the impact of regressive legislation on our community.
I love the pendulum metaphor, one of my father’s favorites. If you go back to Bush and think about the swings from there to now, the pendulum is aimed in the right direction again. Or
Who are "corporate Democrats" and what defines them? General impression? Because it seems like that to me when someone calls Chuck Schumer a "corporate Democrat" while seeing Bernie Sanders a leading progressive voice, when Schumer has the more progressive voting record in the Senate. Let's stop slinging around vague insults and meaningless demands (you seriously think no Democrats have done "introspection"? I guarantee more have done a lot more than you.)
I was moved too. Now please let these new down to earth dems in congress actually get something done. I do think the establishment dems leave much to be desired in leadership roles
Yes. Let's keep this going. I got emotional when Senator El-Sayed was elected. He won, despite the terrible bigoted, racist things his opponent said about him, his ethnicity and religion, which I am sure he has put up with all his life.
Possibly the best news EVER for American history educators. The election of Scott Colom should be the focus in every US history class and beyond. (Almost) inspires this 40-year public school educator to return to the classroom.
I like the looks of most of the new crop of legislators especially since most do not take any corporate or AIPAC money. Many are just regular people who actually pump their own gas and know what a grocery store looks like and have actually shopped in them so they know the real price of gas and groceries. They cannot be gaslighted and willnot gaslight us.
Congratulations Mississippi 🎊 👏
Give it up with the AIPAC stuff already; it's anti-semitic and divisive. If you want to argue that all Superpacs as well as large personal donations should be limited, I agree. Singling out AIPAC is an ugly look.
Being against what Israel is doing is NOT antisemitic and you know it. That is no different than saying it is anti Muslim if I am against Iran. My college roommate lives in Israel she is well aware of what is anti-Israel and what is antisemitic I just heard from her two days ago and she is very glad about our blue tsunami and hopes trump and his regime will soon be gone. Two of her sibs and their children still reside in the US.
Agree totally
Agree. But singling out AIPAC from the flood of SuperPACs is. It's a signal, not intended by everyone, but it always reads that way.
I consider AIPAC right up there is AI money, Crypto money and other corporate donations. And yes, many dems and reps take from all of these sources.
Me too. Extremely emotional. Even after it was evident that we won both houses, my mind would not let me celebrate until Scott’s victory was confirmed. Tears of joy.
This is wonderful news. If we could flip Texas then we could do anything. I teared up when Scott won Mississippi
I’ve said this before, and now I’m going to say it again. Regarding transgender kids:
The Christian, right, having failed with gay people 11 years ago, decided they needed a new target. They picked transgender kids. Donald Trump, slime that he is, decided he could run with that, and that is what right wing Republicans, Christian nationalist, Christian Dominionists, and reactionary conservatives have decided to run with. Like Hitler did with the Jews, 100 years ago, the Republican Party is now doing with transgender kids. A generation or two before that, they were doing it with gay people.
In short, exactly the same people are telling exactly the same lies about the exactly the same kinds of people, and for exactly the same reasons. They have picked a vulnerable minority, and like bullies everywhere, pick them for that reason: weak and vulnerable.
Every single conversation I have had with every single transphobe has been pretty much the same. They don’t know what they’re talking about, they don’t know any transgender people, they know nothing about them, but they are convinced that there is an ideological basis to force men into women women’s locker rooms, assault children, and perform mutilation on children, for some reason that they can never, ever explain or justify.. One more time, it is yet another deflection from the truth about childhood sexual abuse: the father is usually the perpetrator, followed by someone close to the family. One more time, you might find one or two LGBT people offending every single year. But every single year, there were at least 500 pastors or priests who have been arrested, or convicted, or sentenced for their crimes against children, often against women, occasionally against men.
And it is this single paragraph of facts that defines what the Republican Party, Christian nationalist, right wing Christians, and Donald Trump are all about. And there is no difference between this and what was done to Jewish people a century ago.
One of the things that I truly hope is that the Democratic Party when it comes into power will take very positive steps to crush this vicious prejudice.
I know 19 trans people. They're all pretty normal people.
Watching Scott Colom's victory speech reminded me again of the key different between Black Christians and White Christian Nationalist, a difference I see every day in our diverse Democratic Party here in NE Ohio. Black Christians view Jesus as a PERSONAL savior who leads them in their OWN lives. They very seldom believe that this is a mandate to force their views on others. And that is exactly what white Christian Nationalist believe: that everyone should be forced to abide by the rules they believe in (or say they do; they often don't themselves.)
Thank you for writing what you wrote. That is indeed the issue: most transgender people are perfectly normal people who have been dealt a fairly difficult hand in life. And these flaming Hemorrhoids want to use them for and scapegoats are doing nothing to make anyone ‘s life better, especially their own.
You tell 'em Mike! I did cry, seeing all those it affected so deeply in Miss. I had hope.....Once again. Not since JFK when I missed the chance to vote...not turning 21 (the voting age) until the day before the election. Took long enough. We fought for lowering the age to vote, choosing as we could. This year was a Special Gift delivered by all of us, to US.
Let’s hope the Democratic Party establishment takes heed as well! Business as usual is not going to work anymore!
Yes all of this is good indeed. But i’ll reserve my emotion for the day when the orange witch, and associated flying monkeys, fly down to hell.
Turmp’s an orange demonic imp, not a witch.
Even as a Canadian I sat and smiled with a big grin watching Republicans one after another lose.
Please, please stop with the rural, non-urban, red voters trope. Frankly it is classist, racist (remember Mississippi is largely rural and has the largest % black population of any state) and elitist. My “rural, non urban” largely working class district has consistently voted in favor of practical, and yes, “progressive” legislation and legislators.
One of the advantages we have, and I say this as someone who spent most of her life in urban communities, is that in these supposed backward areas, we know our neighbors and have to rely on each other—and we directly experience and witness the impact of regressive legislation on our community.
So what kind of Tattoo are you going to get, and will Jack be cutting his hair soon?? ❤️
God damn it lol
😂😂
I love the pendulum metaphor, one of my father’s favorites. If you go back to Bush and think about the swings from there to now, the pendulum is aimed in the right direction again. Or
We're pumped down here in Mississippi I assure you. :)
Democrats need to do introspection. Get rid of corporate democrats.
I don’t need to justify anything to you. Will not reply.
Who are "corporate Democrats" and what defines them? General impression? Because it seems like that to me when someone calls Chuck Schumer a "corporate Democrat" while seeing Bernie Sanders a leading progressive voice, when Schumer has the more progressive voting record in the Senate. Let's stop slinging around vague insults and meaningless demands (you seriously think no Democrats have done "introspection"? I guarantee more have done a lot more than you.)
I was moved too. Now please let these new down to earth dems in congress actually get something done. I do think the establishment dems leave much to be desired in leadership roles