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(27,827 posts)Could be some fun Tweetstorms coming!
Cha
(297,517 posts)flamingdem
(39,319 posts)Muy caliente!
Cha
(297,517 posts)flamingdem
(39,319 posts)Noticed that they both emphasized being friends, and it's for real!
As opposed to Bannon and don't touch my leg Preibus.
Wow, feeling better. This is going to help with the gargantuan task ahead.
Note: from now on trying not to use yuuge since it's all about uniting the party, so a new term is needed!
Cha
(297,517 posts)is room for everyone who actually wants to defeat the repubs!
Tom&Keith!
C_U_L8R
(45,018 posts)It's going to be one hell of a glorious fight.
Fuck you Trump!
Thank you, C_U_L8R
Cha
(297,517 posts)yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)Thank you, Mr. Precedent! Keep up the only good work you are capable of!
Cha
(297,517 posts)Cha
(297,517 posts)bigtree
(86,005 posts)...k&r
Cha
(297,517 posts)Kath2
(3,089 posts)Amen!
Cha
(297,517 posts)Tatiana
(14,167 posts)Let's hope this portends of good things to come!
I think we're righting the ship!
Cha
(297,517 posts)panader0
(25,816 posts)Gothmog
(145,489 posts)Cha
(297,517 posts)irisblue
(33,018 posts)I cannot imagine Donna Brazile or DWS clapping back like this. Go Tom!
Cha
(297,517 posts)Mahalo, Irisblue!
Madam45for2923
(7,178 posts)Trump so stupid trying to be scary or something....
Cha
(297,517 posts)bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)VOX
(22,976 posts)All in, everything. Let's clean up this fucking mess...together!
brer cat
(24,592 posts)K&R
Cha
(297,517 posts)You bring us great tweets!
Cha
(297,517 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)Cha
(297,517 posts)bdamomma
(63,917 posts)with that tweet, disgusting POS.
Good for Perez and Deputy Chairman Ellison.
Here we go!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Cha
(297,517 posts)mcar
(42,371 posts)Cha
(297,517 posts)mcar
(42,371 posts)NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)It'll get under Dump's onion skin.
Great day for Democrats! I haven't felt this good, and hopeful, since before the Disaster of November 8.
Cha
(297,517 posts)mvd
(65,180 posts)on Twitter lately. No more bullying without being put in his place.
Cha
(297,517 posts)Great! the bully needs to be taken down.. enough of his wannabe reign of terror.
He's been a little more silent lately.
Cha
(297,517 posts)Cha
(297,517 posts)Cha
(297,517 posts)Cha, this is a "where were ya?" moment. Years from now, our children and grandchildren will ask us where we were when Trump and the GOP attacked the core values of our country and our party.
I vowed after November 8th, 2016 that I would do whatever I could to move our party forward, and I'm honored to step into this new role as Chair of the DNC today.
I want to be able to say I did everything in my power to fight back. How about you, Cha?
If we're going to organize and fight and win, it's going to take folks like you at every level. We need to strengthen our team from the grassroots up to build the party that empowers every single Democrat to fight for our progressive values and vision of opportunity and optimism.
oasis
(49,400 posts)I'm liking the sound of that.
Cha
(297,517 posts)Cha
(297,517 posts)People, including the media, who claim Tom isn't progressive (enough) are out of their fucking minds. If the Republicans hate and fear him, that's good enough for me!
Cha
(297,517 posts)they had going on.. trying to make it so he lost.
I am so damn happy he won!!
Mahalo, Riff!
Cha
(297,517 posts)Me.
(35,454 posts)When they talk about grass roots or progressives who are they talking about...the Newbies? 'Cause I certainly consider myself a progressive and have been grassroots since for decades I was one of the ones making calls and writing letters, long before Weaver and other like him got 'religion'. So I don't need to be lectured by anyone about what is needed. I saw Weaver on MSNBC the other day threatening what would or wouldn't be if Ellison wasn't elected. And frankly, I think the actions of his supporters, sending out a false message about Mayor Pete and yelling and carrying on at the back of the room, was unappreciated and was a real factor in sinking Ellison's changes Saturday.
Cha
(297,517 posts)the same observation of why Keith lost.
People like Weaver want to hi-jack everything.. they're the only ones who count. So he threatened on tv about what would happen if Ellison lost. I hope he feels foolish like he should now.
So divisive.. that's never going to be a winning strategy.
Cha
(297,517 posts)oasis
(49,400 posts)Cha
(297,517 posts)Cha
(297,517 posts)Madam45for2923
(7,178 posts)Cha
(297,517 posts)Also see this:
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/new-dnc-head-perez-promises-to-focus-on-grassroots/
The reality is, Perez is a pathbreaker in his own right, becoming the first Latino to lead the Democratic party. And his platform was nearly indistinguishable from Ellison's during the several-months-long campaign for chairman. Both men, like the other eight candidates running, emphasized organizing and reconnecting with the party's grassroots, a glaring weakness in their 2016 defeats. Thousands of those people, however, are now turning out to protest Trump and his policies, a sign of the energy on the left that Democrats hope to capitalize on in the years ahead.
His goal as party chair, Perez said in his opening remarks, is "organize, organize, organize." Like his fellow candidates, Perez emphasized the need for Democrats to contest races up and down the ballot and all around the country, from school board to Congress. "We must redefine the role of the DNC so that were not simply electing the president," Perez said, an implicit rebuke of the party during its eight years under President Obama.
FakeNoose
(32,718 posts)Cha
(297,517 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Keep it up Perez!
sheshe2
(83,855 posts)Boom!
Love that tweet Cha.
Pachamama
(16,887 posts)....Trump and the Republican's worst nightmare....
Love the "Call me Tom"....