Connolly secured his position on the pivotal Oversight Committee after leaders in the House Democratic caucus—most notably former Speaker Nancy Pelosi—backed Connolly’s bid over Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez.
While other Democratic leaders have been fumbling for a response to Trump, the administration has been in a public feud with Ocasio-Cortez. Tom Homan, Trump’s handpicked immigration czar, has even called on the Department of Justice to investigate the congresswoman after she advised migrant communities of their constitutional rights.
In contrast to Connolly’s pro-compliance message, Ocasio-Cortez recently wrote, “America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.”
Considering what Trump and L1 are doing, Democrats should put every rock they find into their path. Instead they do this. Cowardice.
in a CNN appearance on Sunday, Connolly said workers should comply for now.
“I guess if you can, cover yourself and do the five things you did last week just to be able to say, ‘well I did it,’” he advised.
Obviously Congressional Democrats need to fight, but this sure sounds to me like he’s just telling Federal employees to cover their bases in case the courts rule DOGE does have authority. This is their livelihood, after all.
Maybe I’m misunderstanding.
Democratic Rep. Gerry Connolly, the highest-ranking Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, said government workers should comply with an Elon Musk order that is being disputed by others. Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency sent out an email…
Thank you Nancy Pelosi!
He’s seventy-four with a cancer diagnosis so… 🤞
Everyone downvoted me and called me an idiot when I said the Dems are weak and useless. Most of them don’t have a spine.
People lost their minds when I suggested the dems are at fault for losing so badly, not protest voters. It’s funny as hell thinking the old guard of the democratic party will ever become effective
I have been thinking, even though there are genuinely tone deaf, smug, urban elite centrist Democrats who call everyone who disagrees with them as plain stupid-- instead of acknowledging that the once reliable working-class and rural voters that supported Democrats felt abandoned by jobs outsourcing went over to the Republicans-- I reckon some accounts are also bots to amplify this disdain by centrist Democrats on the conservative-voting working-class, in order to further widen the partisan gap.
So much had been reported of Russia funding far-right populist parties, but there is also Russia funding the left or at least being suspiciously friendly. Putin is cosy with the former centre left German chancellor, Gerhard Schroder, who have worked in Russian energy firms. Jill Stein rob votes from Democrats during presidential elections and she is hesitant to call Putin a dictator (like Trump). Many far-left parties in Europe also either have warm or ambivalent feeling towards Russia, and are reluctant to support Ukraine.
Unlike during the Cold War when the Soviet Union solely funded radical far-left groups (while the US supported right wing dictatorships), the current meddling and psy-ops from current Russia don’t have any ideological preference to support in order to destabilise the West. Russia simply throws all the wrench they could get into the machine.
Stupid cunt.
Wow, the cancer must have spread to his brain.
Lets hope it finishes him off soon, fuck this fascist colloborating sack of shit.
The Dems are so good at being the opposition party that they are… complying with the fascists? This is pathetic.
This POS can go to hell.
Along with Pelosi. In the name of American unity, I’m ok with this shit and Pelosi being on the hanging block with the Republicans.
Definitely
If nothing else, this whole situation is a very revealing about which Democrat politicians have proverbial balls, which ones have their balls in the clamp (probably for doing embarrassing stuff), and which ones have no proverbial balls at all.
So far only AOC, Sanders, Pritzker, and a handful of others are showing they have the guts to stand up on the bullshit the administration is pulling.
Obligatory reminder that Sanders is categorically excluded from being a “Democrat with proverbial balls” not because he doesn’t have balls, but because he isn’t a Democrat. I deny the Democratic Party credit for his courage.
It’s not about balls, it’s about loyalty. AOC and the like have loyalty to the country while corporate Dems have loyalty to corporate interests.
After the Bernie Sanders’ “stop arms sale to Israel vote”, I can confidently say %90 of democrats are just worthless human shits who would have fared just as well being members of the Republic party or United Russia (Putin’s party) or AKP (Erdoğan’s party). As long as they got a seat of some power to glue their sweaty asses to, they will adapt to anything.
The problem I have with this take is that we knew 4 years ago too. For some of them, we’ve known for decades. We should have already been primarying them out, but between local ratfuckery and a lack of funding for primary challengers, we’re stuck with these assholes at a critical moment.
They probably don’t mind benefitting from Trump tax breaks.
But until many states have elections which pass United Nations reviews, and international witnesses, and stop having oligarchs counting the votes without oversight. All of this is just pandering to reasonable people. Just words with no weight. Hopes and dreams. The voice at the back of one’s head while doing something stupid.
Connolly backs Musk’s farce, showing even oversight can crumble under the weight of vanity projects.
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Connolly is an accomplice in the coup d’etat.
Just to state the obvious, you should be bitching at your representatives, state and federal, all the time.
Yes, that includes me too. And no, I don’t do it either.
I have heard from others this website can be really helpful for getting yourself going on this - https://5calls.org/
I’ve heard of that too. They also have a mobile app, so you can do it directly from your phone.
And now the party should primary him…too bad the party is a feckless shell of bullshit wrapped around a bunch of greedy little piggies.
The people can primary him. Need 1,000 qualified signatures first though. The party won’t like it but they can’t stop you from running in a primary against him and making him answer to these issues.
It’s nice of them to so formally declare themselves enemies of the working class.
Sounds like he needs a challenger in the primaries
