Unfortunately it’s about another decade before we can get @davidhogg.bsky.social in the Oval Office, but we should be able to get him into Congress soon.
Leaving Rahm Emanuel completely out of this, white people will say the most unfactual (and in this case ageist) shit to avoid the desperately obvious truth that this is a white people problem.
In this time of Netanyahu's fascism partnering with Trump's, it's important to note Rahm Emmanuel's father was an OG zionist terrorist who blew up busloads of people. His Hollywood agent brother Ari is a billionaire funder of AIPAC.
Honestly, I hope he runs for president. I hope he's so busy running for president that he forgets to run for mayor of Chicago or Senate for Illinois. And then I'm excited to see him lose to JB Pritzker in the Iowa primary.
I don't think there is any chance Rahm will last a month in a primary.
There will be tons of stories in places like Politico about how great he is and what a good candidate he will be but the unnamed source on every single story will just be him.
His own hype and Politico aren't going to help.
Yeah, Rahm really doesn't stand a chance. Dems need someone of a relevant generation (which Rahm is not) someone with more tact (which Rahm doesn't have) and someone who is isn't in it just for their own ego.
I would LOVE the schadenfreude of Emanuel and Newsom going down in flames as the gas-filled husks of toxic mediocrity that they are. But I would also remember that I think that for all the same reasons I WAS SURE Trump could never win. Don't underestimate the power of like promoting like.
If you want to catch the tech bros you have to get rid of the millennials too, and then there's nobody left who meets the mandatory minimum age for office. 😜
"The former Chicago mayor is already on the hustings, finding new ways to attack Trumpism from the center.
Rahm Emanuel listens during a news conference."
q's for Politicope:
1) tf are hustings?
2) please name one salient issue where Rahm is in the center, and not to the right, of the electorate
"Hustings" is a British term. I think it means a campaign stage? IDK. I also thought it was a strange choice of word in an article about an American politician.
"...finding new ways to attack Trumpism from the center"
Whassat? Like accusing Trump of being soft on transwomen in sports and Palestinians whose opposition to apartheid and genocide is "aligned with" Hamas? Or not buying ENOUGH Teslas? Fuck Rahm and the Rahma Llama Ding Dong he rode in on.
memory says Carter got elected because young people turned up and did the hard graft and got the numbers in the dems... as someone put it the time "the smoke in the smoke filled rooms smells different" time for take 2?
A beloved Union leader and former high school chemistry teacher, Karen Lewis ran for mayor against him. She sadly died b4 we could elect her. She had cancer. Anyway, one of her allegations was that he cursed her out too.
This could be a me thing, but I find it particularly noxious when they can thoughtfully articulate what got us into this crisis and then they're like...but what if.
Rahm's interview on Ezra Klein's pod was especially shocking in this way.
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Who’s the youngest viable candidate?
That's ageist, btw.
It always leads to authoritarianism.
Why do we think we're going to have another election after this piece of shit dies?
The generational warfare is divisive, irrelevant, and —worse— just what Putin wants you to say.
You wouldn’t say the same about Elizabeth Warren, Barack Obama, or Kamela Harris.
It's all AIPAC all the way down.
https://bsky.app/profile/amandalitman.bsky.social/post/3lk6hjhxowk2x
less then zero.... Delusional.
There will be tons of stories in places like Politico about how great he is and what a good candidate he will be but the unnamed source on every single story will just be him.
His own hype and Politico aren't going to help.
might as well read:
"Rahm Emanuel Gears Up for Disappointment" lol
Sounds about right
I would be super happy to see that.
Rahm Emanuel listens during a news conference."
q's for Politicope:
1) tf are hustings?
2) please name one salient issue where Rahm is in the center, and not to the right, of the electorate
Whassat? Like accusing Trump of being soft on transwomen in sports and Palestinians whose opposition to apartheid and genocide is "aligned with" Hamas? Or not buying ENOUGH Teslas? Fuck Rahm and the Rahma Llama Ding Dong he rode in on.
The voters who don't care about his Laquan McDonald cover-up aren't gonna vote Dem anyway.
Cuz that may hurt your audience too much
He is an odious personality in an angry suit.
He should partner with Newt Gingrich. They are quite the pair.
We're going to have to live in reality on that or we'll never be able to fix it, even if we can achieve a better government.
As long as white people keep denying that white people keep doing this, it'll happen again.
How much money could there be in ball-washing Rahm Freaking Emanuel? This makes the Stephen A. Smith 2028 nonsense look plausible
New blood please.
We have new talent: it should be developed…
He didn’t like something and yelled at one of the Field Organizers.
I was in a different part of my turf, but man I was furious.
One of my biggest regrets is that I wasn’t there to
1/2
You don’t treat Organizers like that. They are, along with volunteers, the life of campaigns. They work super long hours.
It’s 13 years later and I’m still furious.
Fuck him. Fuck Rahm. Disrespectful piece of shit.
You don’t treat Organizers like that. Makes me so angry.
Want to yell at me? Fine. Not my Organizers. Not my RFDs. Come for me.
Rahm's interview on Ezra Klein's pod was especially shocking in this way.