Liberals are people who think that the only thing worse than fascism is bad manners. Everybody who supported Connelly for leadership on Oversight sold us out β just as they did with Feinstein, Biden, and RBG.
They also think their only problem is not having enough black/gay/female greedy warmongers.
They call healthcare for all βa ponyβ while they spend billions on a military that canβt win a war on its own.
Democrats are just republicans with better gaslighting proceduresβ¦
I think our military could very efficiently win a war if it needed to do so, but the conflicts that we are engaged in are largely not for the sake of national defense and resolving conflicts quickly is not particularly profitable. Iβm playing semantics here, but yes, I agree with you.
I'm Canadian, and not knowing the rules of your government, I need help. Could someone explain what happens to the seat that Connolly held? How does that get filled? By whom and for how long?
Thanks
Although I think Connolly should have stepped down I donβt want to comment on that. Esophageal cancer is a horrible diagnosis and this man was fighting for his life. Just take a moment and honor his passing and then get back in the fight against Trump.
Which is why he never should have been given more work and responsibility. Dude should have retired and focused on beating it full force, he was prime retirement age @75 yet you give him a promotion? Fuck the DNC. Rip Gerry, but you don't get sympathy just cause you died while stifling resistance
He was never going to beat it which is why those around him should have stopped him. When I was diagnosed with this type of cancer everyone around me told me I could beat it. They never looked up the statistics. I was 45 when I was diagnosed so I have been lucky to survive for seven years. This
cancer is one of the deadliest and even now I would never think I could serve in office. We need term limits and an end to PAC money. Public office should be to serve the people and not be a career. I feel bad for Connolly because I know what he went through but he should have stepped aside.
Upon hearing the news Chuck Schumer told reporters that seniority was a good system within the Democratic Party and nominated Connolly for the judiciary committee.
do you know much about his legislative history, or is your comment just a way of showing the world that you don't follow or even care actually care about politics, you just want attention?
Hahahahahahha oh man a yo momma joke? Wow. Sick burn. Somebody better call the trauma ward because we got a burn victim over here. Hey everyone come take a look at this sweet burn. Burn rubber baby.
I'm sorry you're stuck with that lead poisoned brain. Anyone over the age of 40 with incoherent rage always makes me feel bad. Y'all were huffing leaded gasoline exhaust for decades and now you'll never be normal. It's really quite sad.
When leftist fuckknuckles get called out on their obstructionist bullshit, their complete disregard for reality, and abject stupidity, they get mad and start screeching "BLUE MAAAAGA", like a bunch of goddamn idiots.
Actually itβs liberals who like to use a tool of fascism, declaring all criticism to be treason against leftists who have the tiniest critique of their leader.
You can tell who the reasonable one is here, itβs not the one saying βfuck knuckleβ and sexually harassing people.
I mean Blue MAGA is just democrats uncritical of the Democratic Party even when they do at are stupid or would get them up in arms if it was team red doing it. That is blue MAGA
Why do these people hang on in congress? He could have spent his last days with family. Why did Feinstein hang on? Why did Biden? Cannot understand the allure.
He has been repeatedly the most effective legislator. 7xs more effective than the average House member. While AOC is one of the LEAST effective. What has she done to EARN the role? Yβall are the group project members who want a grade when youβve done none of the work. https://pac.org/impact/show-horses-workhorses
You do know that everyone dies eventually right? When he dies, someone replaces him. Thats how jobs work. Regardless, he has already been more effective as a legislator since January than AOC. You all should be absolutely ashamed of yourselves. Absolutely ableist talk from your crowd.
youβre suggesting that the best way for aoc and bernie to legislate would beβ¦β¦to die and get people to sympathetically pass a bill out of committee about how itβs sad they died? i think itβs better for them to live.
but you should encourage all your faves to adopt your idea and see how it goes
My condolences to his family and his loved ones, but this is a structural problem in the Democratic Party. We need to stop treating power as something that is the prize for a life well-lived rather than something wielded to accomplish ends which are undermined when we give Johnson more margin.
Sorry, but when your ego and addiction to national office means you screw over your party, the public owes you no condolences. Itβs the same shit as with Biden and RBG, and now everyone else gets to pay for it
Absolutely the fuck not they fought fang and claw to get this man a job when he should have been spending the literal rest of his life with his family. All that and for what? He's fucking dead now.
You sowed a geriatric cancer patient. That was you. This is you reaping. This is your fault. You, the Dem establishment and the entire Khive. You are the one letting Republicans take more power and rights away. You are scum.
People arenβt going to offer condolences to a guy who screwed over a younger woman to get a job, especially since he then had to quit that job 3 months later. Multiple democrats have died in office within the last few months, people want younger people in charge.
But also, he was a fiscally conservative βNew Demβ who is everything ideologically wrong with this party. This is very relevant to the politics of the whole thing.
I don't owe this guy shit, I don't owe any elected politician anything. They work for me and they keep telling me things have to get worse because they wanna have a job where they feel important so fuck him and his entire family.
Why do we need to pay homage to these ghouls? They would never, ever offer the same respect back to us. Was he a personal friend of yours or something?
Decent human beings don't cling to power for so long that they end up incapable of representing and fighting for their constituents. These people don't respect their voters, why should we respect them?
He died shortly after pulling the ladder up on a younger generation of democratic politicians. Just like how they shut Hogg out for daring to ask for things to be better.
That, for some reason, was a job that was given to Gerry Connolly instead of AOC. He was basically used as a barrier to prevent the Democrats from being an opposition party because they don't want to be. They have the same big donors. They're owned by the same oligarchs. It's controlled opposition
Itβs 100% okay and good to demand a higher standard from the party thatβs *supposed* to be fighting the republicans, because they are doing a subpar job. That wonβt be fixed unless we make them fix it.
"fight a republican for once" is so funny from the people who lost while trying to court Republicans. Trotting out fucking Liz Cheney was like some shit from Veep lol
Both partiesβ current leaderships want to kill you. One for profit, the other for profit. There has never been a more apparent oligarchy sitting on Capitol Hill
Not fighting every Senator and Representative for blatant, flat-out abandonment of the American people would be a waste of time
You can root against republicans while admitting that the Democratic Party did all of us a huge disservice by putting him, a 76 year old who didnβt reveal his diagnosis until after his election, as top dem of the oversight committee over a younger person.
telling a total stranger online to show their face or never reply to them again... why would anyone share their face with an insane HRC stan? it's 2025.
Yeah, it's become pretty clear that Dems will never answer to their constituents for anything they're doing, you're right about that. They'd rather scream and yell at the left than do anything at all about the right.
That and supporting genocide, and I'm somewhat curious if this lady's principled stance on mourning loss of life extends to Palestinians, or if it's just for Americans or something π€
No, Carmen. Fuck the democrats who want to put ineffective, terminally ill people over young bloods into positions of power while we recede into fascism.
This shit is the democratic version of "thoughts and prayers"ing a school shooting. "Look, this clear symptom of one of the major problems of our society! Let's ignore it and use a shield of social decency to excuse our failures!"
This would be a good gotcha if racial equality weren't something that many democrats recognize as a significant problem and run on platforms of addressing while using the obvious symptomatic moments of it like the murder of George Floyd as opportunities for change rather than calling for condolences
Thank you. I wish I could say it's in our pasts, but we both have high likelihoods of highly treatable recurrences. If we manage to save our system, we should be fine for 30-40 years. Otherwise we could both be gone within 10
Then if it happens again, may you kick the shit out of it again, I believe in both of you and hopefully if it happens again you'll have a recovered system made even better.
May we all outlive Trump and his entire cadre of future random ditch inhabitants.
Dude couldn't even do his job for 4 months, why would i show respect or condolences to someone i have never met and i can assure you i will never meet(because he is dead you see)
Literally every single statement by anyone news organization or person about this man's death is dotted with bullshit comments like this about the "younger generation" being shat upon by these old people who won't leave office in time
I mean there are hundreds of them posting this shit.
my condolences are for people who don't actively sabotage progress, Connolly is burning in hell, probably having drinks with Thatcher and Reagan as we speak
He shouldnβt have been in congress this old and this sick. This is too critical of a time for people to βhave their turnβ. Pelosi is destroying her own legacy, and for what?
Yeah that they're also million year old ghouls who care more about clinging on to power and a system that they know doesn't work anymore than actually even giving the illusion they care about their constituency.
Curious how centrists voting to confirm Trump's nominees and passing fascist legislation will lead to future victories. Is Jeanne Shaheen voting yea for 40% of his nominees a good thing? Is giving the Laken Riley Act cloture and passing it some kind of 4d chess?
Biden and Harris managed to turn 9,000,000 Dem voters into non-voters in the span of one term, in any sane world that would be a five-alarm wakeup call but these clods just keep hitting the snooze button.
Weird how you left off the part the people who would be quitting for the suggested reason are also the ones who routinely support the Republicans at any/every opportunity
Itβs literally not a separate problem though. The problem is that Dems will do anything to avoid opposing fascists. Whatβs more, the fact youβd lie about the matter to defend your failure is an indication youβre just a braindead cultist who canβt handle any actual opposition to fascism
He'll be fondly remembered for that time he bravely took on leadership of the house oversight committee during a time of unprecedented government malpractice because it was "his turn", and then proceeded to basically do nothing with it.
telling victims of DOGE political targets that they should complete their "name 5 things you accomplished" homework assignments given to them by BigBallz before he finally keeled over
Rip to him and condolences to his loved ones, but the fact that Democrats leadership railroaded a popular AOC to give a 70+ year old with cancer the position just out of spite highlights exactly what is wrong with the Democrats and why we can't depend on them for anything useful.
Good.. this guy caused irreparable harm to the country over his ego. Instead of spending his dying days with his family he chose to screw progress one jar time.
Yeah he screwed the country and wasnβt going to leave office until he died. He was essentially stealing the seat from somebody who was actually willing to do the jobβ¦ is horrific to prop up a cancer patient just to screw AOC out of leadership positions
Connolly told reporters the most βcapableβ candidate won.
"Again, I think my colleagues were measuring their votes by whoβs got experience, whoβs seasoned, who can be trusted, whoβs capable and whoβs got a record of productivity. I think that prevailed,β he said.
Youβre right we need more dying cancer-ridden corpses in the Democratic Party. Otherwise weβll have to deal with incredibly popular younger politicians like AOC.
Youβre losing your health care because white people voted for a racist rapist who told them exactly what he was going to do if he were to win. Suck on it.
Did you miss all of them voting against the Republican shit bill? Or Dem AGs stopping Trump from continuing to dismantle library funding? Or Dems introducing amendment after amendment to try to stop the passage of the GOP Shit Bill?
That dead man was used to block AOC having the seat at all costs. And it cost us. We lost months of someone alive in oversight at the time in our history we needed it most. Itβs shocking how goddamn weird & heartless & arrogant you are.
Do you think youβre better than a MAGA supporter? Ugly stuff
I don't understand why they're not blaming Republicans WHO HAVE THE MAJORITY -- have stated since forever that they're going to get rid of ACA, Medicaid and Medicare -- are ACTIVELY and DELIBERATELY taking away their health insurance. They really need to bring back Schoolhouse Rock.
That's a lie. You are losing your healthcare because people didn't vote enough Democrats into office to stop the fascist Republicans from doing this horrible stuff. Even though everyone KNEW they would do horrible stuff.
No, youβre losing your healthcare because of MAGA. If a 20 year old was in Connollyβs seat the result would be the same. But the right thanks you for your disingenuous bullshit all the same. Rot.
Youβre losing your healthcare because you did that. Blame yourself. We told you but you didnβt gaf. Maybe next time youβll vote like a responsible adult who cares about your community. Stop being selfish.
That's not even a little bit true, Merisa, and you know it.
Or perhaps you just can't add because the math isn't there for Democrats, regardless. If you think the Republicans who voted against it wouldn't have voted for it if they needed to, I've got a bridge to sell you.
Connolly's choice not to retire has nothing whatso-fucking-ever to do with that, liar. You're losing your healthcare because white women like us lined up to vote for fascists instead of voting for an overwhelmingly qualified Black woman.
How 'bout you redirect this misdirected anger at the GOP?
Both Edison and VoteCast data show 53% of white women backing Trump, compared to 60% of white men. That's an unconscionable stat foe white women, but white men are even more responsible than they are. We shouldn't absolve white men of their part in all of this.
No one is absolving white men of anything, but you're attempting to absolve us right now by engaging in this whataboutism fuckery.
We know what white men are. And we know what white men will do. When we don't act to prevent or reduce the harm they do, we are responsible for the result. Period.
Youβre losing it because WHITE PEOPLE handed all three branches of government to Republicans. Connollyβs vote made no difference. GOP had plenty of leeway.
Obviously the problem is βyouthβ canβt deal with mortality and not, you know, frail elderly people clinging to their seats and life by their fingernails while fascists steamroll the opposition.
Who said that? Iβm saying life is uncertain. And if people think every one over 70 should drop dead and be out of congress thatβs ageism and a lack of understanding in how congress works.
If the democrats intend to be taken seriously, perhaps they shouldn't be dragging coffin dodgers into positions of power
Biden had dementia WHEN HE WAS CAMPAIGNING IN 2020
everyone saw it, everyone knew it and the democrats pretended it wasn't real
really the last year has been an unmitigated disaster for the merits of gerontocracy. i don't know why anyone would still be pushing it as viable after this last 12 months
Famously, older people are more likely to die. Younger people do not tend to drop dead anytime. Old people very much do. Do you understand the concept of age? You can't be this dense.
You may want to rethink this. You realize there are other people, right? This puts them in danger. Try to imagine what itβs like when bad things happen to you.
a lot of people in congress are old because it takes a lot of money and connections to run for office, because republicans allowed unlimited money to be spent on elections and rather than elect people who would vote that policy down, young people opted to reup the power republicans had
This comment section shows just how heartless Americans areβ¦yβall canβt take two seconds to feel sympathy and think of this manβs family before going into a debate about who did what! Something is wrong with yβall!!!!
To be fair, not all of us are American, some of us are non-Americans looking at the US political system baffled at how the opposition party seems to be unable to grasp that their rock bottom approvals are related to the gerontocracy doing nothing with their political position
This is a fair commentβ¦and I think most of us who are apart of the Democratic Party would agree with you. However we also understand how the constitution works..and unfortunately for now, thereβs no way for the Democratic Party to do anything until the 2026 elections.
I fear Trump will just arrest all of his opponents and silence the media and we'll be in the cells talking about how unconstitutional this is and that he should be impeached.
these century-old mummies would throw you in the biomatter recycler machine for their own personal gain in the blink of an eye and you're here preaching about showing sympathy for these monsters? fuck off.
Hell no & I am not thrilled that we have a felon in the WH who doesnβt care about anyone or anything. He keeps doing criminal crap & in the WH. This admin is an embarrassment & I would hope that the SC wakes up & realize they made a huge mistake by giving a felon immunityπ«£ Just sayin!
This fucker is leaving people high and dry, fucking us over because he couldn't let go of his insider trading. Why should I feel anything good for him? He wouldn't care if I died
Dems demonstrated they canβt take one millisecond to feel any sympathy for various marginalized groups during the last election. Not sure why youβre demanding random people be held to a higher standard than an
Our relationship to members of Congress and the other branches is a transactional one. On that basis, his legacy (and his import to us, the governed) is one of personal ego getting in the way of building a better opposition to growing fascism. He didn't care about that, why should we care about him?
This isn't mutually exclusive to having sympathy for his loved ones. But it's not what's going to stand out in our reaction to a news story highlighting a major whiff by our supposed allies in the halls of power. Sorry, the latter is going to be our focus because it's what affects our lives daily
Imo, it's also not just about any particular member of Congress being old.a mix of ages and experience is generally good. It's that the older members of Congress have done everything in their power to block the bottom of that diversity range, especially from leadership roles.
Not to mention ideology and personality. AOC came in as an insurgent, and she's still one to some degree. If a ranking membership on an important committee could raise her profile even more and set her up to primary Schumer or whatever, a block within the caucus wanted that stopped
Meanwhile, this same group supported Jefferies for a leadership position years ago against Barbara Lee. Fair play for supporting friends and allies, but it's having a stagnating effect on the Party and how it's seen by the electorate. And I'd argue that's bad for the country
Yep, they have their ideas about how the party should be run and how they should govern or oppose, and really don't like anyone trying to change that regardless of evidence
When was America great anyway? I mean we have a felon in the βgolden, gaudy ovalπ.
TY SC
Is it true we bombed Somali? Someone told me we dropped one of the biggest bombs in Somalia?π
WHY?
It would be nice to turn this country around. Maybe start w/keeping dark money out & educating stupid people.π
I feel sympathy for his family that their terminal family member rather spent his last months grasping unto what little power he had instead of spending it with them.
It's normal for presents to joke about a tyrant king dying. Just because the king was replaced with a committee of multi millionaires doesn't really change that
He was my congressman..as a matter of fact they just sent out a letter where he endorsed his former staffer to take his place. So sad to see him go. Didnβt expect it to be so soon!
We are literally losing our country because these people won't step down. He had terminal cancer and yet ran for office and won. Biden was TANKING in the polls and waited to drop until 4 months before the election which gave it to TRUMP. Ginsberg wouldn't step down and lost a SCOTUS seat.
Thank you to Democratic Representative Gerry Connollyβ¦and family for sharing his love and dedication to service and country with dignity and truthβ¦we shall never forgetβ¦Rest in Powerβ¦and PeaceππΎπ¦
Another bastard who decided to feed us to the wolves as his final act. There needs to be a full scale reckoning for the Democratic Party because apparently losing to Trump TWICE wasn't enough to change anything
He was still on tv, pushing back on media b.s. up until just a few weeks ago. He was a very effective member of Congress and Iβm sorry we lost him. Condolences to his family. He will be missed.
Demanding he be given a position in the government rather than stepping down due to his age/health issues proves he was neither of those two things you named. Iβm sorry this fact is too hard for you to understand/accept
Democrats gotta start telling these fucking skeletons to take a hike. Like, thank you for your service, but please, enjoy the millions you've syphoned off via insider trading and your beachfront homes.
Itβs gotta be some kind of mental illness to have like the means to retire peacefully, spend time with your family and do your hobbiesβbut instead choose to cling to power. It should be studied.
He couldβve just spent a decade at the beach, popping in from time to time to help a young politician.
If he was that close to death, he should have resigned long ago, and never should have accepted tho oversight committee gig. I don't care how uncouth any of y'all think this post is. Our country has been hijacked by a corrupt regime, no time for "norms".
Why the fuck would this guy spend the last few months of his life taking the air out of AOCβs tires instead of spending it with his family? The narcissism of these people knows no bounds.
This is why I don't think the Biden story is just a distraction. The Democratic party has a very real problem with the older generation clinging to power against all reason. It's closing off the party to new leadership and new ideas, and ultimately it's making it harder to win elections.
Great respect for Mr. Connelly. Dedicated, caring and responsive to his constituents. We will miss him but are thankful for his service to us and our democracy π
So sorry to hear that.
And fuck all you AOC stans who shit on this man who deservedly was voted for ranking member over her. He worked damn hard for that position & she did not.
Iβll block any fucker who whines about that shit now!
RIP. Mr. Connolly was a very kind and friendly gentleman whom I had the pleasure to meet in his last local election several years ago. My sincere condolences to his family and friends.
Jesus. Everything I've read about this man this year is tragic. Insisting on his earned right as a senior member to chair a committee while dying of cancer. Unable to let go of the ego. I hope his final no months had his loved ones nearby. May he finally rest.
Damn dude, you could want a functional opposition for it's own sake. But I guess some people would rather die on the hill of defending a corrupt and *literally* decaying party than deal with the real world. Have fun with your weird internet beefs!
The lengthy thread of conflicting responses to this post serves to epitomize the holier-than-thou struggle within today's spectrum of left wing views: the circular firing squad
No disrespect and may he RIP. But isn't he the guy AOC was running against for a leadership position and established Dems shot it down? Please correct me if I'm wrong π
And here come the weirdo βleftistsβ dancing on his grave with the βI told you soββ¦.more and more like maga every dayβ¦thank you Rep Connolly for fighting til then end sir
Numbers donβt back up your theory. Black people are the base of the Party. Young or old, WHITE people and especially white males overwhelmingly support the GOP.
Black democrats are the worst. This bitchβs post is why.
They just love the feel of a boot on their neck while they piss on MLKβs true legacy.
Log off, you dumb shitlibβ¦
Cancer is terrible, and anyone's death should be properly mourned. But one isn't a "democrat hater" simply for pointing out flaws in one's own political party. If Democrats are forbidden to criticize their own party or their leaders' actions, that's no better than any other kind of fascism.
I live in VT like Bernie & I'm an Indie like Bernie & I criticize the hell out of him. Why is he touring the US instead of working in DC where he belongs?
My Dem state rep Balint is "noncommittal" toward impeachment. Forget her.
I was a Dem till 2024. They are now too dysfunctional.
Also, itβs okay to hate the democrats if theyβve done little for their constituents. Only performative stuff while being just like the republicans, taking corporate donations, and using our tax dollars to fund the killing of innocents. You should be disappointed when the left party doesnβt care.
the flaw in our political party is that republicans passed legislation that make it almost impossible for young people to be elected and young people decided to reward them for it in 2016 and then again in 2024?
i dunno dude, i think maybe your framing isn't the sharpest it could be.
One certainly is tacky and without class if they follow up with βbutβ after any statement about the horrors of cancer and the devastation to the family and friends of the deceased.
This situation perfectly encapsulates why thereβs such a problem with octogenarians in office.
I listened to his interview after he became the committee chair, about how it was βhis turnβ and he kept saying how long he βwaitedβ for this opportunity.
He was more concerned with getting the victory lap and jingling the keys than he was actually upholding the point of the committee or his own elected office.
And the amount of sympathy on that point that he received from other old representatives really hit home how theyβre not there to help us.
How come Republicans aren't asking Chuck GRASSLEY or Virginia Foxx to retire? Mitch McConnell is at weekend at BERNIEs stage but stays because Kentucky has a Dem gov and GOP would lose that seat until a special election or the next general election.
JACK SWIGART Apollo 13 astronaut ran for Cong in Colorado in 1982 he told public he was battling cancer they still voted for him, he won the seat but never served, he died before he was to be sworn in Jan 1983.
Iβm sad for his family and friends, and his life should be celebrated. That said, I donβt understand why he was put in a pressure cooker position as ranking member of oversight when was obviously very sick. Why this compulsion to believe that paid labor is the only measure of personal βvalueβ?
So liberals pushed someone to chair the committee who literally had 6 months to live rather than allowing a young progressive into the position. Solid effort.
this is what it looks like when you want others to think you're mad, but you're not really sharp enough to form an actual opinion about what to be mad over
Your defense of incompetent behavior & negligence is cult-like.
You should be furious. Instead, you've chosen hypocrisy. Somehow Trump is existentially dangerous but the choice of any Committee Chair isn't all that important?
#BlueMAGA is a mirror image of regular flavor. Good lord.
Isn't this like the third Democrat to die in the House in the last few months? I know young people can die too, but maybe we need to stop electing the ones that should have retired 20 yrs ago... Maybe the ones that should have retired 20 yrs ago should have a succession plan for their replacement.
Canβt think of anything more demoratic party coded than memorializing a man elected at the age of one billion do guard the aging right wing of the party against a popular younger politician by posting a gif of the rapist from the Harry Potter movies
I know! Iβm sure the party is searching cancer wards right now for a replacement who can explain why trans women shouldnβt be allowed to play sports so youβre sitting pretty
It's anger you are seeing, not happiness. Republicans are destroying this country and we have a useless opposition party who are dying while in office, because they could not fathom stepping away from power and letting someone younger take over.
Iβm not dancing on anyoneβs grave. I live in Virginia and the guy was already one foot in the grave and Dems still chose him over AOC?? Itβs an unforced screw up and his eventual passing couldnβt have been more expected
A basic level of decency is generally what we expect in our day to day interactions. If you roundly insulted passersby and used the βrespect is earnedβ bs, trust me people will give you the wide berth that you so desire
If the republic bill passes on a handful of votes because the dems are short a member can we get you and all your fascist collaborationist ilk to never speak up on anything again. Vote blue but shut up?
The Democratic establishment blocked AOC because it was better for them to have a dying old man doing their bidding than letting a young woman rock the boat. Why the fuck do we keep voting for these clowns?
Had been? For how long? COVER-UP!!!! Zomg every Democrat with heartburn or athlete's foot who doesn't disclose their medical conditions upon diagnosis is not fit to lead!!!
I suppose there is both strategy and hubris at play when someone who can reasonably not complete their term chooses to stand in an election. On one hand, how will they be replaced? Otoh, choosing to compete with a viable alternative. I'm ambivalent about what the rules ought to be.
That's what I'm saying. Another candidate may not perform as well as the incumbent, so it may be electoral calculus to not add the spectre of mortality into the campaign. It's disrespectful to the constituents, for sure, to not let them make an informed choice.
Also, if you know your replacement would be appointed by a favorable governor, for example, you can get that new candidate into place with less risk and then let them get reelected on merit of their performance instead of your recommendation.
Cue the lefties whingeing because AOC (who half of them hate anyway because she's starting to vote more like a real Democrat and not a DSA Bernie Bro hijacker) wasn't given his committee chair position even though she has zero experience in that area
But it was βhis timeβ π₯΄ Iβd argue seniority doesnβt always make for the best leadership skills. This has to be left over from the 60s or something even my companies now CEO is younger than I am. We need better more credentials than age here.
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With any luck a progressive Black woman will take his place, but I don't have much faith in Dems to do the right thing
Rest In Piss
They call healthcare for all βa ponyβ while they spend billions on a military that canβt win a war on its own.
Democrats are just republicans with better gaslighting proceduresβ¦
Thanks
https://patch.com/virginia/reston/choosing-connollys-successor-congress-what-know
I'm not one to hate...but, I really do hate cancer. We need that cure. If we can spend billions for war or to go into space, we can cure cancer.
#CureCancer
Y'all do-nothings are some sort of weird unsocialized freaks I swear.
she aint too happy
pissing off assholes like you by explaining the many ways in which you can shove your moral narcissism up your ass, gives me a lot of joy.
thanks for asking! π
Here's your prize --> π
You can tell who the reasonable one is here, itβs not the one saying βfuck knuckleβ and sexually harassing people.
Ghouls, all of them. I hope these ghouls get everything they deserve.
https://bsky.app/profile/maudi63.bsky.social/post/3lporhiyucs2o
Thatβs bullshit lefty, because even the left wonβt vote for AOC
https://pac.org/impact/show-horses-workhorses
but you should encourage all your faves to adopt your idea and see how it goes
Good lord the selfishness of these people is LITERALLY killing them.
Reap what has been sewn. This is what you wanted. He got it.
They pushed a man with throat cancer into the position because of 'it's his turn/he earned it' mentality.
No one wants, or should, follow a corpse leading a charge into war.
I would offer condolences based on respect.
You are sounding like a Republican. π
I don't owe this guy shit, I don't owe any elected politician anything. They work for me and they keep telling me things have to get worse because they wanna have a job where they feel important so fuck him and his entire family.
you should tell your precious democrats that.
Not fighting every Senator and Representative for blatant, flat-out abandonment of the American people would be a waste of time
Any time a lefty isn't given something on a silver platter, they whinge.
Then they act so entitled when they steal Hillary's voter data or spread lies about Obama and Biden
The left literally UN-ENDORSED aoc in 2024!
Sit down, sock puppet.
Do you think this is a binary? There's only Democrat or Republican?
his family should have intervened earlier and gotten him out of office sooner.
His is higher (-11)
This job matters. Connolly among others treating congress like their own publicly funded nursing home is unconscionable
May we all outlive Trump and his entire cadre of future random ditch inhabitants.
I mean there are hundreds of them posting this shit.
She's young, and a woman, and actually wants to improve things rather than feather her own nest, so that explains why pretty handily right there.
It isn't the publics fault for seeing an enrichment cult for what it is.
You're basically a Pirates fan for politics, cheering on someone else making money from losing.
It wasn't far left saying screw it I'll bite Jill Stein again to show 'em.
We know who sat out and didn't vote and it wasn't centrists.
Not sure why you seem to think thatβs worth noting.
Crockett or Mfume would be great too...but "progressives" are mad that Pelosi and the Dems put someone on their literal death bed into the job.
The boomers dying off is a blessing
"Again, I think my colleagues were measuring their votes by whoβs got experience, whoβs seasoned, who can be trusted, whoβs capable and whoβs got a record of productivity. I think that prevailed,β he said.
https://bsky.app/profile/phillewis.bsky.social/post/3lpon624q622b
clearly not the useless aoc
And the maga doge ghouls just slashed pediatric cancer research funding.
Funding for research for kids with cancer slashed thanks to the Jesus Party.
thank you for being so brave, Lisa
Replace an older Dem with a younger Dem, and somehow, that's supposed to flip the control of the House.
Age has absolutely nothing to do with deciding the majority party which controls the House.
Social Media needs a free civics class for users.
Unfortunately white men and women decided to hand power to the GOP at every level.
Youβre whining that someone not in the driver seat canβt stop the bus from crashing after the steering wheel was taken off, you vapid potato.
They coordinate the votes ahead of time.
Donβt blame a dead man for what republicans are doing.
Do you think youβre better than a MAGA supporter? Ugly stuff
Aren't you, Merisa?
Or perhaps you just can't add because the math isn't there for Democrats, regardless. If you think the Republicans who voted against it wouldn't have voted for it if they needed to, I've got a bridge to sell you.
How 'bout you redirect this misdirected anger at the GOP?
We know what white men are. And we know what white men will do. When we don't act to prevent or reduce the harm they do, we are responsible for the result. Period.
You should have worked a little harder to get Harris elected.
Several Republicans voted against it because it didnβt go far enough
Shelia Jackson Lee got diagnosed one month and was dead the next.
This is life; you die.
Actually you should retire so they can start the process to replace you.
Biden had dementia WHEN HE WAS CAMPAIGNING IN 2020
everyone saw it, everyone knew it and the democrats pretended it wasn't real
The problem really is the gerontocracy, also the Senate Dems who are like 50% hard conservatives??? It's weird!
Why do we have to follow the rules that the other side can just ignore?
Next delusional lie please
One... Two...
So glad this youthful 74 year old, cancer notwithstanding, prevented the younger generations from accessing any level of power.
Look like a braindead cultist who cannot operate in good faith.
TY SC
Is it true we bombed Somali? Someone told me we dropped one of the biggest bombs in Somalia?π
WHY?
It would be nice to turn this country around. Maybe start w/keeping dark money out & educating stupid people.π
And his fuck his family for supporting him. Some things should be bigger than personal ego and legacy.
We have had THREE Dems die in office.
What an embarrassment these dinosaurs are.
Itβs unfortunate some people only know him for the Demβs Oversight Committee situation.
Wishing peace to his loved ones. Hope they know that others remember Connolly for more than the committee chairmanship.
You donβt. You areβ¦ thereβs a word for thatβ¦ ignorant.
There has NEVER been a more selfish generation than teh Boomers.
Hands down "I got mine" generation
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_boomers
Enjoy them! Away from the fucking reins!
He couldβve just spent a decade at the beach, popping in from time to time to help a young politician.
Gerry was the epitome of what we want to see in a representative, he truly was committed to public service and he will be missed.
Insider.
Stock.
Tips.
Fromsoft-tier writing.
And fuck all you AOC stans who shit on this man who deservedly was voted for ranking member over her. He worked damn hard for that position & she did not.
Iβll block any fucker who whines about that shit now!
Fuck all of you
You can't even be normal when someone dies?
Can you spell M O R O N??? I knew you could.
They just love the feel of a boot on their neck while they piss on MLKβs true legacy.
Log off, you dumb shitlibβ¦
My Dem state rep Balint is "noncommittal" toward impeachment. Forget her.
I was a Dem till 2024. They are now too dysfunctional.
Young people die in office too.
i dunno dude, i think maybe your framing isn't the sharpest it could be.
Young people get elected all the time.
Ah! Well. Nevertheless,
But this man has endangered all of us with his ego. We are worse off because his inability to step aside. He tarnished his own legacy with pride.
I listened to his interview after he became the committee chair, about how it was βhis turnβ and he kept saying how long he βwaitedβ for this opportunity.
Frankly, it disgusted me how he discussed it.
And the amount of sympathy on that point that he received from other old representatives really hit home how theyβre not there to help us.
Step two: tbd
You should be furious. Instead, you've chosen hypocrisy. Somehow Trump is existentially dangerous but the choice of any Committee Chair isn't all that important?
#BlueMAGA is a mirror image of regular flavor. Good lord.
Can the Dems ever do anything wrong in your eyes? Or is everything they do always the right option and never worthy of criticism?
Why defend this man so much when they could have picked a younger progressive and a woman.
Honest to God question: Is this because AOC is close with Bernie Sanders and this is a "2016" thing? I saw Hillary in your bio.
You're playing a weird game of prestige ball that serves little but egos. It's not good for politics or governance.