At 100 days, some Dems pointing out the obvious

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Now, these guys are politicians, and politicians are ambitious, but what they’re saying is not wrong:

Pritzker:

…urged Democrats to stop listening to “do-nothing political types” who are calling for caution at a time when Americans are demanding urgent action, and to “fight—EVERYWHERE AND ALL AT ONCE.”

… “It’s wrong to snatch a person off the street and ship them to a foreign gulag with no chance to defend themselves in a court of law.” This is not about immigration, he said, but about the Constitution. “Standing for the idea that the government doesn’t have the right to kidnap you without due process is arguably the MOST EFFECTIVE CAMPAIGN SLOGAN IN HISTORY,” he said. “Today, it’s an immigrant with a tattoo. Tomorrow, it’s a citizen whose Facebook post annoys Trump.”

Oh no! That’s not a “kitchen table” issue! We shouldn’t even mention such irrelevant niceties like the Constitution.

“We have a Secretary of Education who hates teachers and schools,” he said. “We have a Secretary of Transportation who hates public transit. We have an Attorney General who hates the Constitution. We have a Secretary of State, the son of naturalized citizens—a family of refugees—on a crusade to expel our country of both.”

“We have a head of the Department of Government Efficiency— an immigrant granted the privilege of living and working here, a man who has made hundreds of billions of dollars after the government rescued his business for him—who is looking to destroy the American middle class to fund tax cuts for himself.

And we have a President who claims to love America but who hates our military so much that he calls them ‘losers’ and ‘suckers’ and who can’t be bothered to delay his golf game to greet the bodies of four fallen US soldiers. And we have a Grand Old Party, founded by one of our nation’s bravest Presidents, Abraham Lincoln—who today would be a Democrat, I might add—... so afraid of the felon and the fraud that they put in the White House that they would sooner watch him destroy our country than lift a hand to save it.”

Now, I’m not convinced that putting another rich old white heir-to-money like Pritzker in the White House is the answer. And before Pritzker stood up, AOC and Sanders showed the way. But they’re at least speaking the truth, out loud, and making Schumer and the fearful milquetoast we-need-to-move-toward-Trump consultant classes look like fools.

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Okay, I can’t help it. Some more, same link:

He called on Democrats to “stop wondering if you can trust the nuclear codes to people who don’t know how to organize a group chat. It’s time to stop ignoring the hypocrisy in wearing a big gold cross while announcing the defunding of children’s cancer research. And time to stop thinking we can reason or negotiate with a madman. Time to stop apologizing when we were NOT wrong. Time to stop surrendering, when we need to fight.

“Our small businesses don’t deserve to be bankrupted by unsustainable tariffs. Our retirees don’t deserve to be left destitute by a Social Security Administration decimated by Elon Musk. Our citizens don’t deserve to lose healthcare coverage because Republicans want to hand a tax cut to billionaires. Our federal workers don’t deserve to have, well, a 19-year-old DOGE bro called Big Balls destroy their careers.

“Autistic kids and adults who are loving contributors to our society don’t deserve to be stigmatized by a weird nepo baby who once stashed a dead bear in the backseat of his car.

“Our military servicemembers don’t deserve to be told by a washed up Fox TV commentator, who drank too much and committed sexual assault before being appointed Secretary of Defense, that they can’t serve this country simply because they’re Black or gay or a woman.

“And If it sounds like I’m becoming contemptuous of Donald Trump and the people that he has elevated, it’s because... I am. You should be too. They are an affront to every value this country was founded upon.”

More please.

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Also,

Kamala Harris is set to step off the sidelines and go after Donald Trump on Wednesday in her first major address since leaving office.

The former vice president’s return to public life, the day after Trump marks 100 days in office, will be at a San Francisco event encouraging women to run for office.

Her address there will be the first in a series of public appearances where she takes on the Trump administration.

… The vice president has been upholding the tradition of letting the next administration “get its sea-legs,” but she has been keenly aware of what is happening, the source said.

An entirely decent tradition, which means Trump would never have honored it if he had lost. But the current captain of the ship appears to be hell-bent to sink it, and it’s time to point this out.

Moving forward, the former vice president is expected to call it as she sees it, the source added.

It comes amid speculation over whether Harris will run for Governor of California in 2026.

I’d be okay with that.

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Dems have held over 100 town halls since Rump took office, often not in their own district or even state. Repubs are too cowardly to face their constituents right now.

This guy is also doing a good job:
Rep.Greg Casar of Texas. He gets it.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/29...sts-028509

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Say the obvious, and say it over and over again. Take a cue from Trump. He never. shuts. up. He rode that tongue right back into office.

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…and honestly, we’ve gotten back to the old dependable No Democrats allowed on the teevee with the evening news these days.

So spread the word.

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Watch the entire Pritzker speech. It's a barnburner.

https://youtu.be/zMndfvxVeRo?si=TUZhzEoWDNiZ2WXH