Pretty fed up with folk telling senior Black elected leaders to “step down” It’s ageist and racist - ThreadSky

deardean22.bsky.social • 2 days ago

Pretty fed up with folk telling senior Black elected leaders to “step down”

It’s ageist and racist

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bridgetbiden4ever.bsky.social•9 hours ago

Same! Pretty tired of anyone telling anyone to step down. If Schumer hadn't stopped the shutdown we'd still be fighting to restore every single stitch of the safety net. It's Citizens United that needs to go.

tinyt320.bsky.social•2 days ago

Yup👏🏾💯

1green3.bsky.social•2 days ago

Good WEDNESDAY 🌄 MyronJ Clifton🌞 BIG HUG🫂 THANK U 4 ADDRESSING THIS!! THEY R Presenting NO EVIDENCE That They R NOT Doing Their JOB And Also NO EVIDENCE That THEY Can DO THEIR Job When they Leave!! 😡 LEAVE THEM ALONE!😡 Again--Thank U🌞

BLESSINGS💚🌞

notyournegro.bsky.social•2 days ago

The one bonus is that they’re telling on themselves and reminding us daily why we should focus on our own communities instead of joining forces with them.

deardean22.bsky.social•2 days ago

💯👍🏾👍🏾👏🏾👏🏾

michelec64.bsky.social•2 days ago

Between that and the think pieces about how ⚪️ are realizing they were "bamboozled," it's clear that they're not built for the incoming hardships and are floundering.

Don't know about y'all, but I'm planning on having a nice, chill summer. 🪭

notyournegro.bsky.social•2 days ago

In my well-stocked house!! lol

ektashahmd.bsky.social•2 days ago

Nailed it and helping take themselves out for when we need to remember down the road who not to trust

notyournegro.bsky.social•2 days ago

Girl!!! Cause you already know!!!

ektashahmd.bsky.social•2 days ago

I am convinced all these white men politicians are taking themselves out by speaking against Biden and Harris and by speaking about catering to white Nazis and kkk folk

notyournegro.bsky.social•2 days ago

And anyone talking shit to or about Black elected officials.

ektashahmd.bsky.social•2 days ago

That too

chicago21222.bsky.social•2 days ago

So according to these geniuses, Grassley is just peachy. And Moscow Mitch. Why don’t they ever go after the gop?! Plus good luck primarying Rep Clyburn. You said it. They are mad he supports Biden and Harris. How dare he? 🙄 And do nothing Bernie is fine.

philliemoodo.bsky.social•2 days ago

Motherfuckers tried it with Mr. John Lewis!

The ignorant audacity!

chriswainscott.bsky.social•1 day ago

Not to mention that exactly ONE person stood up against Trump’s bullshit propaganda speech in March, and that person was Al Green.

So yeah, enough with any of this. Talk of term limits is one thing. Talk of age restrictions is quite another.

deardean22.bsky.social•1 day ago

That’s a great point

thebookwizard.bsky.social•2 days ago

I mean, if they’re healthy enough to do the job with and/or without accommodations, let them! Experience is good, mentoring is good, youth on its own is no guarantee that they’ll be GOOD

maggyw.bsky.social•2 days ago

Wisdom is good. In horribly short supply these days.

deardean22.bsky.social•2 days ago

Yes!!

marcmck.bsky.social•2 days ago

Speaking the truth as always, Myron.....

abbiseattle1.bsky.social•2 days ago

Amen. Also appreciated your well timed chuckle.

darlingebony.bsky.social•2 days ago

The people saying this about senior Black elected leaders are too damn immature and too damn ignorant of how government works. For weeks, they bashed Schumer for voting for that CR. Yet if the government had been shut down so would some of the federal courts. They govern via social media opinion.

deardean22.bsky.social•2 days ago

All this. Thank you!

janeroehopeful.bsky.social•2 days ago

Thank you for saying it.

Schumer drives me crazy on many fronts (the chatty grandpa verbiage, etc.) but I really do think he made the right call on this one.

sbeazy.bsky.social•2 days ago

Myron, one of them actually manipulated their fingers to post this image in response to Hakeem Jeffries in 2025.

deardean22.bsky.social•2 days ago

My gawd. It’s not surprising and that’s a whole other level of unfortunate.

He wouldn’t say it to to his (or ours) faces

sbeazy.bsky.social•2 days ago

Not in this lifetime or any other

nicokow.bsky.social•2 days ago

I gasp when I see this stuff. They have no shame. No knowledge or understanding. Just stupidity and ugliness.

sbeazy.bsky.social•2 days ago

None. Less than maybe.

cheekyginger.bsky.social•2 days ago

Every once in a while, often when I think I'm as jaded as I can get, I'll see something on social media that makes me literally gasp.

I guess I was due.

yvet406.bsky.social•18 hours ago

Same

polyculeofone.bsky.social•2 days ago

Welp.

May the Norns weave that fuckturd the wyrd they absolutely deserve. Dafuq?

polyculeofone.bsky.social•2 days ago

Did a search to slap a 🚫 on them & they were already on an anti-TERF list I subscribe to .... but their mentions were 💯 Hamasshole scam farm accounts grifting for donations.

Ugly, ignorant & stupid is a helluva way to go through life.

deardean22.bsky.social•2 days ago

You took one for the team! Thank you !!

And of course they are all those things. Typical.

sbeazy.bsky.social•2 days ago

For real. I’d have my volume cranked all the way down if I was skidding through life like that.

marcmck.bsky.social•2 days ago

abbiseattle1.bsky.social•2 days ago

Hoooeee. Racist and antisemitic in one image.

reneepatrice.bsky.social•2 days ago

kosherart.bsky.social•1 day ago

Of course they did. 😒
Racism & antisemitism in one reply.
How are they calling others Blue MAGA while posting shit like this?

thebearjieux.bsky.social•1 day ago

Y’all are shocked by this? Have you not witness what those same people have been treating Jews? Especially since Oct 7th.

We tried to warn yall but a lot yall fell for the “Jews are white European colonizers” propaganda lies.

kosherart.bsky.social•1 day ago

I’m not shocked. I think the tone was missed in my reply.
I’m Jewish & have been earning as well.

thebearjieux.bsky.social•1 day ago

(I was trying to reply to Myron’s post.)

deardean22.bsky.social•1 day ago

No, I’m not shocked or surprised.

kosherart.bsky.social•1 day ago

Myron’s been a good ally. He knows. He’s just focused on his community with this post because Clyburn is the one being attacked.
No worries. 😊

kosherart.bsky.social•1 day ago

*warning, not earning

truthseeker77.bsky.social•2 days ago

McConnell dodged another arrow

Frozen the movie

deardean22.bsky.social•2 days ago

lol. Constituents voted for him

truthseeker77.bsky.social•2 days ago

But as you stated they're only going after elderly African representatives

annieopopoagie.bsky.social•2 days ago

Not true. They went after Biden the hardest. They are only going after Dems though, not the GOP. That’s how we know it’s the Bernie people. Again.

mbriatack.bsky.social•18 hours ago

Biden put a Black Woman on the Supreme Court and appointed many other Black and POC federal judges and you can bet that's a big reason the "progressive" racists went after him too.

deardean22.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Yep. Absolutely

isacromulentword.bsky.social•2 days ago

These are the same hideous people who actively booed John Lewis and Elijah Cummings in 2016. They’re back for more of the same “progressive” white grievance - I am beyond sick of their bullshit.

deardean22.bsky.social•1 day ago

Exactly!

21cpedagogy.bsky.social•2 days ago

Black men & Black women & women in general have to work harder AND longer for their positions of power. Pelosi: As the 52nd speaker (at 67 years), she was the 1st woman! 51 WM before her. Jeffries (54) is the 1st Black person to lead ANY party in either Senate or House! I’m so tired of this agist BS

deardean22.bsky.social•2 days ago

And *now that group wants everyone else out.. we see right through it.

21cpedagogy.bsky.social•2 days ago

Yep. Got to take out the competition. They don’t like level playing fields.

plaintanjane.bsky.social•2 days ago

🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵

Thank you, Myron.

carmenbwifemom.bsky.social•2 days ago

I agree with this 1000 percent!

maggyw.bsky.social•2 days ago

I have said so all along. Let’s be clear about this. It MUST stop

nicokow.bsky.social•2 days ago

Just left an Instagram discussion where this was happening with the usual carve out for the Shower Door Warrior.

deardean22.bsky.social•2 days ago

So typical and exhausting

headhuntersully.bsky.social•18 hours ago

“But but but.,,Bernard of The Three Houses, our Maple Messiah!”

dangerfieldnewby.bsky.social•1 day ago

They fail to realize that those senior Black elected officials help Democrats pass legislation when we have a majority in the house. Those senior black elected officials also deliver the most reliable voters for the Democratic Party. They can’t win without us and they need to understand that

deardean22.bsky.social•1 day ago

I wish your plain true words were stapled to the computer screens of all those stupid consultants

dangerfieldnewby.bsky.social•1 day ago

Because we are the only voting bloc that voted blue in every state in this past election. So they can stop trying to scold us as if we don’t know what’s best for us.

crystal4mvpharris.bsky.social•2 days ago

You can hear the dog whistles a mile away. That is when my knives of sky come out.

mik203.bsky.social•2 days ago

I hear what you're saying. But the man is 84 years old. I don't want him to be like Ruth Bader Ginsburg who waited too long to leave. I would love to see these older CBC members do some succession planning find a younger Black man or woman to train up and support so that we hold the seat but we

mik203.bsky.social•2 days ago

don't have to worry as much about someone dying after elected. I will say though, if the people who are trying to push out representative Clyburn are not saying the same thing about people like Bernie's old curmudgeondy ass, then they can shut the fuck up. We've had at least three old Dems die

mik203.bsky.social•2 days ago

While in office and the last few months. It's concerning and we can't ignore it, and I don't think it's ages to think that someone who was 84 years old should maybe retire. I do think, we need to let them retire with dignity though. They don't need to be treated the way Joe Biden was.

mik203.bsky.social•2 days ago

But at some point we have to encourage them to step back and let the next generation come in and lead. I have to wonder how much some of this is because they genuinely think they are the best person for the moment, or because they don't want to let go of power.

deardean22.bsky.social•2 days ago

I hear you, sis. I’d only say that unlike in business or even churches, “succession planning” isn’t precisely the same. Someone has to be elected. That means money, backing, etc -something our current political system-outside of president—>> Vice President, isn’t designed for.

mik203.bsky.social•2 days ago

I think that people like representative Clyburn are so respected in their districts that if they fully supported someone, that person would win. Isn't it better to have them here alive and able to endorse than the alternative? Because then who knows who we get.

annieopopoagie.bsky.social•2 days ago

Jim Clyburn has been raising younger people up, and can continue to do so from the House.

mik203.bsky.social•2 days ago

Or, hear me out, he can let one of those young people that he's raising up step in to their power, and he can retire.

annieopopoagie.bsky.social•2 days ago

But that’s not how it works. They can learn how to do the work, but then they have to do it.

retiredwhitelady.bsky.social•2 days ago

💯. One huge tell is that no one insists Bernie Sanders should retire.

bowiegrrl.bsky.social•2 days ago

THANK YOU.

annieopopoagie.bsky.social•2 days ago

I’m with you, Myron! 💙

drchronology.bsky.social•2 days ago

Let em know!

jennifro.bsky.social•2 days ago

Are these same people concerned about Bernie's age, I wonder? 🧐

deardean22.bsky.social•2 days ago

Rarely!

yet-lotuses-bloom.bsky.social•2 days ago

Nope. To them, he's got the vigor of a bull, and we should all hope that we're as healthy as he is when we're his age.

(What heart problems? That's a neoliberal lie!)

marcmck.bsky.social•2 days ago

carolynelsey.bsky.social•2 days ago

I hate seeing fellow white folks who cannot view someone like Clyburn as their elder, as someone who ought to be respected and from whom you can learn a lot. This obsession with youth rather than competence feels very op-like coated in racism.

resistsaj.bsky.social•2 days ago

They’re not really obsessed with youth because they love Bernie. This is just another version of them trying to get rid of those that don’t subscribe to their white grievance agenda.

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