Worth pointing out that Trump's CIA director John Ratcliffe, who was in the Signal group chat, and who ludicrously tried to defend it in Congress this week, was confirmed with the votes of 21 (!) Senate Democrats.
Ridiculous.
Ridiculous.
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Do you WANT a CIA Director to be in place - or not? https://bsky.app/profile/msmishmash.bsky.social/post/3llfckaqvjc2h
@schumer.senate.gov
Our representatives are jokes.
It didn't work with Hitler and it doesn't work with Musk/Trump. Even if our leaders refuse to fight fascism, we will not.
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#April5th
You'd prefer that the US make do without even any Secy of State? https://bsky.app/profile/msmishmash.bsky.social/post/3llfckaqvjc2h
In fact, CIA Director is one rung below - he accepted a demotion.
Democracy hangs by a thread of only 20 bucks!
Two questions for sane 🇺🇸:
Where is the armed coup d’état?
Where are the high ranking intelligence and military officials work under these idiots?
…Asking for 40M of us in 🇨🇦 and the other 8B+ people in the🌍.
Elbows up.
Democrats messaging is the worst.
"DJT is a danger to our democracy but we'll keep confirming his terrible nominees anyway everyday!"
You know, because decorum! or some other stupid shit.
And that they both voted for a terrible nominee for a Secretary of Navy while WhiskeyLeaks news is breaking? JFC!
I'm glad you're calling your reps. So should we all.
In a way, I feel like I'm in a bubble because my reps normally vote the way I would.
That my Senators voted to confirm Rubio was a punch in my face.
I suspect cronyism from both of my Senators. And it breaks my heart.
I try not to be a conspiracy theorist but I also try to not bury my head in the sand.
Note: links to respected news sources, please! I won't accept any declaration like that simply on the say-so of some mermaid https://bsky.app/profile/msmishmash.bsky.social/post/3llfckaqvjc2h
Coons👍
Hickenlooper👍
Warner👍
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/01/23/us/politics/ratcliffe-senate-confirmation-vote.html
What Dem Senators knew back when Ratcliffe was nominated was that he had already served as DNI, this made him actually among the more-qualified of Trump's nominees. No surprise they voted to confirm & nothing to condemn them for.
Coons (D-DE) Durbin (D-IL) Gallego (D-AZ)
Gillibrand (D-NY) Baldwin (D-WI) Blumenthal (D-CT)
Blunt Rochester (D-DE) Cantwell (D-WA)
Cortez Masto (D-NV) Duckworth (D-IL) Heinrich (D-NM)
Hirono (D-HI) Lujan (D-NM) Fetterman (D-PA)
https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1191/vote_119_1_00013.htm
It was perfectly reasonable to confirm Ratcliffe at the time https://bsky.app/profile/msmishmash.bsky.social/post/3llfckaqvjc2h
But now they know they made a mistake. Own it.
Marco Rubio is also qualified for his job BTW;
Do you WANT these important positions to be filled?
And yes, I want those positions to be filled - preferably by competent people and not Trump sycophants.
If they’re not unified toward advancing dignity, justice, and law - then why are voters supposed to unify to support them?
Not for you either, @chelseasquare.bsky.social https://bsky.app/profile/msmishmash.bsky.social/post/3llfckaqvjc2h
HOW much better-off would we be today if Harris were actually President?
STILL I would say the country is realizing it would prefer Harris there, Trump is obviously heading into authoritarianism.
The President is culpable of an ad-hoc extortion scheme of the EU.
facilities we should do it.
If we remember that they are the mafia, nothing less. It will be more evident to see their motivation in every turn.
Love you Mehdi!
Confirmed 99-0
Democrats: It's important we work with the other side..
Real Americans:
The 14th amendment will not simply enforce itself.
https://mdavis19881.substack.com/p/polirant-stop-with-the-impeachment
Did you and @bkgarden.bsky.social just wander into this thread by mistake? https://bsky.app/profile/msmishmash.bsky.social/post/3llfckaqvjc2h
Yes, the seeming indifference to genocide in Palestine is terrible;
Yes Democrats are hardly opposing Trump enough
Meanwhile, this https://bsky.app/profile/msmishmash.bsky.social/post/3llfckaqvjc2h
This administration is not interested in governing or democracy. Dems are enablers and have missed the fact that the entire situation has changed. They can’t treat anything like “the old days”.
He served as DNI! That's even a step above CIA Director ... so he is qualified, at least to Senators at time of the vote - sure, he also probably needs to resign due to "SignalGate"
“…Without intelligence experience” in 2020
https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/07/16/john-ratcliffe-director-national-intelligence-trump/
How many other candidates, in the whole country, who actually had served as DNI, were out there when it was time to fill the CIA Directors job? Top candidate!
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These old white men don't represent us. Go figure.
& I doubt the latter more than either the former.
Those collaborators rushed to confirm Collins for VA, Rubio for State, etc.
Don’t be in a f’n cult people! We have enough repubs in a cult.
Who’s actually fighting? AOC & Crockett.
And Social Security has absolutely nothing to do with what Mehdi's post was about https://bsky.app/profile/msmishmash.bsky.social/post/3llfckaqvjc2h
Got the “guardrail” vote, like Rubio … also on the chat
But keep in mind Mehdi (thus, this thread) was talking about how wrong it was to confirm Ratcliffe in the first place, and you can read my argument re: how that is just 20/20 hindsight
Even if you are, it is clear that I (and Mehdi) are writing here only about Ratcliffe, I point out he is in fact qualified, and whatever may have happened elsewhere has no impact on this argument.
I also expanded the example by using the war reference of "vichy"
An opposition in politics is meant to oppose.
Only 2 weeks ago they passed a budget that would otherwise have fallen were it not for collaboration, fulfilled by collaborators, i.e. Vichy!
When developing war strategies, create a gigantic group text and invite invitees.
Ensure that your invitees invite invitees. And that those invitees invite invitees.
Remind top invitees to misremember what they read by sharing your contact info to all.
I've been saying over & over that the senate is at fault for confirming people they knew to be unqualified.
I suggest a law as soon as we can:
Job Minimum requirements for cabinet members are:....
And then list them, one by one.
Do you WANT to have a Secy of State in place in this dangerous world - or no? https://bsky.app/profile/msmishmash.bsky.social/post/3llfckaqvjc2h
Will this be the final straw?
Will they now bother to #Investigate #Opposse & STOP the incompetent, unqualified bullies they helped confirm?
I won't forget nor forgive!