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26 Dec, 4 tweets, 3 min read
Listening to @AOC talk with @jeremyscahill on intercepted I have two observations.

1. @AOC and @RashidaTlaib are doing everything in their power to prepare themselves for leadership positions.

2. If the left wants power, it needs to master parliamentary procedure to pass bills.
As this last week has shown we (the left) are woefully inapt at understanding the intricacies of how to get laws passed, and we are fighting amongst ourselves unnecessarily even when both wings of the Democratic Party want the same thing (Ie. $2kx6months)
Nancy Pelosi will retire in the next few years and there will be a leadership vacuum. If the left is able to position themselves in those leadership positions they will hold power for the long term whether corporate Dems like it or not.
20 minutes in to this podcast @AOC lays out that exact strategy. It’s very clear that right now she is thinking 2 to 3 steps ahead of everyone and that she understands how to play the chess game. Her doing that will translate into REAL power for the left.

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Adam Christensen Profile picture
26 Dec
This is the thing that most people don’t understand. Right now there are litterally rules on the books that prevent most progressive policies from getting passed. And because we haven’t cared about these rules, corporate politicians rewrote the rules to favor themselves.
So before most progressive policies can even get voted on we have to change the procedures, and the rules to allow us to even vote on them. Congress doesn’t work because it’s been designed not to work. We have to fix that also.
“You want to know why McConnell is the majority leader? It’s because that turtle ass-hat knows the rules!”

- @jrgaillot
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21 Dec
Democrats are straight up losing the PR battle right now, and they are losing enthusiasm for Georgia. The speaker of the house should be all over social media saying vote for @ossoff and @ReverendWarnock and We will get you $2000 a month for six months.
Why isn’t @JoeBiden On every Sunday morning news show saying “get me the Senate and I will give you money”. Where are the billboards, where are the Facebook ads, where are the TV advertisements saying I’m going to give you your money back so you can survive.
Why don’t we have guests on every single media outlet talking about $2000 a month. Passing $600 once doesn’t help anyone, it’s just prolongs the inevitable. Give people an actual reason to care, make it transactional. When they vote for Democrats = $ + their lives are better.
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20 Dec
The left constantly mocking faith and everything spiritual is a mistake. The church’s greatest message is to value and uplift the working poor and those with no power. The church should become the greatest ally of the populist left. Bring them into the fold like MLK Jr. did.
The comments in this tweet are exactly what I am talking about. The reason so many “Christians” are republicans and locked onto Donald Trump is because they are welcomed warts and all. At the same time they are twisted into whatever the Republican Party wants. A feedback loop.
As one of the biggest critics of “hypocrite” and the “Christian right” it’s clear that the left had done a very poor job of expanding and grabbing hold of this “low hanging fruit”. Returning them to their “roots” of caring about people should be a no brainer.
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19 Dec
The Left’s cancel culture is fascinating to me.

Instead of concentrating all of their fire power making the lives of moderates and corporate democrats a living hell they continue to find reasons to believe that their biggest advocates are “giving them up” or “hypocrites”.
If you want them to back better policies then primary the hell out of the moderates and constantly make the corporate wings of both parties pay with driven and easy to follow messaging. Stop “cancelling” your greatest advocates.
Example:

Confusing a difference in opinion on strategy with a difference in ideology. This kind of behavior is toxic and achieves the opposite of what was intended.
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29 Sep
I absolutely HATE politicians. All they do is LIE. So we are going to do something RADICAL. We are going to tell the TRUTH.

Over the next few weeks, we are going to expose one of the biggest scandals in Florida Politics History.

Stay Tuned:
I told you I had the receipts🧾 and I was done playing games.

You lie about everything, let’s see how you handle the truth.

#letsdothisthing
Y’all gonna find out WHY the president came to a “safe” red district to back @Kat_Cammack last Thursday 👀
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22 Sep
Would someone please explain to me where this money went? Because it sure as hell didn’t go to candidates, or software or Hispanic/Latino Outreach.

This is Political Malpractice bordering on Fraud.

Btw: it would take $200,000 to flip this seat and win our race.
Btw: most people who donate to the party believe that money eventually goes to candidates.

It doesn’t.

Trickle down economics doesn’t work in the economy and it doesn’t work in politics.

Want to know how much help has been given to candidates within 100 miles of us?

$0
OMG he’s holding the Florida Democratic Party accountable for their actions🤭

Absolutely!!! If we can’t get our own house in order then what makes anyone think we’d be any different if we were in charge.

You can (and should) always hold your team accountable
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