DNC Chair is a full time job!
This is serious, people. We're fighting Russian Nazis for the future of the republic here and a DNC Chair who can't devote 100% of his energy to the position is unacceptable.
it's a pretty calm moment in politics for Democrats, so the DNC chair is taking a side gig teaching at Brown https://t.co/zmWw2d0Qqf
— Edward-Isaac Dovere (@IsaacDovere) September 7, 2017
Except when it's not.
The truth is that Tom Perez already served his purpose. His only purpose, from the beginning, was to stop Keith Ellison from becoming DNC Chair.
We all knew the handwringing about the need for a full-time Chair (which continued long after Keith Ellison pledged to give up his House seat if he won the position) was a sham. This just proves it.
Like pretty much everything the Democrats do, the goal was to stamp out any chance of the party moving left. Mission accomplished.
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Full time job to rake in the corporate cash?
Turns out a few calls to J P CitiFargo of America then it's off to the golf course.
They only need to be working for the Democrats --
when there are faux opposition tasks to be performed. Otherwise donations are down, but Republicans are in power, which is what the DNC wanted all along. So Tom Perez is bored, and he takes on a teaching appointment at Brown. It's important for people such as him to have something to say when they get in front of large audiences.
The ruling classes need an extra party to make the rest of us feel as if we participate in democracy. That's what the Democrats are for. They make the US more durable than the Soviet Union was.
A democratic PAC is fundraising off Medicare for all
even though most of the members don't support it. This is just another sleazy way to fleece people for money.
Nope. They have no shame.
Who's doing this?
We should be able to warn people before they donate.
The ruling classes need an extra party to make the rest of us feel as if we participate in democracy. That's what the Democrats are for. They make the US more durable than the Soviet Union was.
I will try to find the article on this
Huffpo had it yesterday.
A Democratic PAC Is Raising Money Off Of Single-Payer
A Democratic PAC Is Raising Money Off Of Single-Payer, But Not All Members Back Policy |
They are receiving booko bucks from this. Beyond sleazy, but that sums up the Democratic Party, doesn't it?
Oh good lord!
These people need to post a disclaimer every time they get
out of bed and show up for work.
NOTICE: Just because your representative, Insert name here, was given their job by the voting public (who also pays their salary, expenses, perks, and benefits,) DOES NOT MEAN that they work for them. Their loyalties are to themselves first and their corporate/Wall Street johns second. So don't get your hopes up Plebs.
I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa
@Amanda Matthews
Lol, disclaimers aren't required! Remember, as one of two private political parties involved in selecting the allowable candidates permitted to run even for the US Presidency, any and all fiscal and electoral fraud is permissible, and people should simply know that they're criminals and not donate to them. Actually, at this point, that last bit is imperatively true...
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
@Cassiodorus I wouldn't take that
I wouldn't take that class. What on earth could I learn?
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
From your link:
I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa
Heh. Very well done. Thanks.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Suuuuure he's teaching...
Although I fully expect his grad students to teach all of his classes, most of his students to not bother showing up for the "Lectures" and still be overcharged for the privilege, and lots and lots of talk in his classes about "Realism" and "Pragmatism" and how the political system works just like they told you in high school civics, before they dropped that class of course, and now make you take it in college...
Two things I hate embodied in one individual: Crappy politicians and Professors who phone it in.
I do not pretend I know what I do not know.
professors
Professors who phony it in, did you say?
"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
@detroitmechworks Well, like I said above,
Well, like I said above, who the hell would attend that class? I can't imagine paying to listen to Tom Perez.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
@Cant Stop the Macedonian Signal
Maybe the plan is to have people pay to not have to listen to him? Unless they wish to learn how to become slimy in The Swamp, so that more billionaire/corporate interest money-flow sticks to their corrupted hides...
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
"Whatever Democrats bring I'll be there"
I had never heard of this guy before but I got a kick out of this.
O.k. When is the next meeting for the revolution?
-FuturePassed on Sunday, November 25, 2018 10:22 p.m.
Well, to be fair...
Debbie Wasserman-Schultz treated getting Hillary Clinton elected as a full-time job plus overtime. Her other DNC duties? Not so much.
Thank the election gods
she failed.
the little things you can do are more valuable than the giant things you can't! - @thanatokephaloides. On Twitter @wink1radio. (-2.1) All about building progressive media.
Notthat they ever abide by it but according to their charter
The DNC Chair is supposed to be a full-time position.
Remember if Keith Ellison had been elected, he had said he'd resign from Congress.
There probably isn't really all that much for Tom Perez to do until the party gets ready to make the final arrangements.
@LoneStarMike
It's hard not to laugh at that one...
One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will. To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.--Tennyson
They need to get rid of Obama & Hillary...
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
wonder how much they pay
leading a study group sounds fun. good work if you can get it.
such a nice young man, he deserves it.
I'm evem more cynical and jaded than you are.
I agree part of putting Perez in that Temp job was to make sure no one that Sanders supported/supports ever gets anywhere near any 'position of power' in Al From/Bill Clinton's Turd Way Neo-liberal 'New' Democratic Party.
But Perez was their token Minority Sorry if that offends, but he was. Since the Clinton Creature didn't get along so well with BLM and because she probably still thinks they're all Superpredators, (I sure didn't detect any remorse for that remark from tCC, just impatience that she was having to deal with the whole episode ) she decided to go for a member of a different minority and that it would be Hispanics, and Hells Bells, she wanted to be their Grandma dammitt!
Perez is a Clinton Creature acolyte from his head down to his toenails. He serves/served her well.
I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa
There were two reasons for why Perez was parachuted in
to lead the DNC.
Haim Saben is a huge supporter of the DNC and he said that if Ellison became the head of it, he would withhold his donations.
I don't know if Ellison being a Muslim had anything to do with it. Saben is Jewish.
The other reason was Obama wanted Perez to protect his legacy (of being the Empty Suited president) and make sure that the party didn't move to the left.
ToP bots insist that Hillary was running on the most progressive platform ever! That so many people fell for this is just mind boggling. The most progressive president in their eyes lied his ass off to the whole country and they (me too) believed him. They insist that he was the best president since FDR. I think he was more like Hoover. But what do I know?
There was some... concern about
that.
The Democratic party, noble champions of identity that they are, ran a nasty whisper campaign about Black Panther and Muslim Brotherhood ties in the final weeks of the DNC Chair campaign.
A lot of "There's no reason we can't have a Muslim DNC Chair but" going around in those final days.
Perez going into hiding while Hillary gets the stage.
Hillary is just beginning her parody.
I think she's jump starting her next campaign.
Believe me, I hope I'm wrong.
I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa
She is try to vindicate herself to donors.
If anything it seems to have a second run, she needs to get the big donors by convincing them she ran a damn good campaign.