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blm

(112,919 posts)
Thu Feb 20, 2020, 06:23 PM Feb 2020

This primary post is about Katie Porter, the most proficient dragonslayer in congress today.

I’m dreaming big and fighting hard here.

Everyone here at DU who witnessed the grilling of Jamie Dimon by Katie Porter marveled at her calm, matter of fact evisceration of Dimon, one of the most powerful men in the financial industry here and around the globe.

Well, guess who her professor and mentor was......Elizabeth Warren. For some of you last night may have been your first experience seeing Warren in action when confronting power.

Now, imagine how quickly this country could right itself with squadrons of women and public servants of that mold looking out for tthe interests of all instead of the few.

I see one helluva future ahead of us.

For those newer DUers not familiar with Porter:

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This primary post is about Katie Porter, the most proficient dragonslayer in congress today. (Original Post) blm Feb 2020 OP
i love her ibegurpard Feb 2020 #1
I knew that and just finished a comment about it! 2naSalit Feb 2020 #2
Perhaps in 8 years lapfog_1 Feb 2020 #3
Warren did great. I don't understand why there is a problem for our candidates to stand up katmondoo Feb 2020 #4
Damn, I want every single student Warren ever had to run for office in 2020! beastie boy Feb 2020 #5
She's very bright and fearless. n/t Just_Vote_Dem Feb 2020 #6
So inspiring! JudyM Feb 2020 #7
Dream Team: Warren/Porter 2020! OMGWTF Feb 2020 #8
I just got a chill thinking of Mrs. Warren picking her as her running mate. RVN VET71 Feb 2020 #9
Hey, I can snap witcha going back to Napoleon Lajoie blm Feb 2020 #10
I remember Lajoie! RVN VET71 Feb 2020 #12
You're good. I read a lot of baseball history when I was a schoolgirl in the 60s. blm Feb 2020 #13
I loved baseball history, too RVN VET71 Feb 2020 #14
Great Gal marieo1 Feb 2020 #11
 

2naSalit

(86,031 posts)
2. I knew that and just finished a comment about it!
Thu Feb 20, 2020, 06:26 PM
Feb 2020

We need a bunch for Reps like her and some of the other amazing women in this Congress.

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lapfog_1

(29,166 posts)
3. Perhaps in 8 years
Thu Feb 20, 2020, 06:37 PM
Feb 2020

she might consider running for President?

I absolutely love her.

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katmondoo

(6,454 posts)
4. Warren did great. I don't understand why there is a problem for our candidates to stand up
Thu Feb 20, 2020, 06:40 PM
Feb 2020

express themselves. Would you rather they all be wishy washy. How are they to beat Trump if they can't show they can fight.

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beastie boy

(9,056 posts)
5. Damn, I want every single student Warren ever had to run for office in 2020!
Thu Feb 20, 2020, 06:49 PM
Feb 2020
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

Just_Vote_Dem

(2,790 posts)
6. She's very bright and fearless. n/t
Thu Feb 20, 2020, 07:02 PM
Feb 2020
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
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JudyM

(29,122 posts)
7. So inspiring!
Thu Feb 20, 2020, 07:38 PM
Feb 2020

Great post, thanks!

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OMGWTF

(3,891 posts)
8. Dream Team: Warren/Porter 2020!
Thu Feb 20, 2020, 09:13 PM
Feb 2020
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RVN VET71

(2,686 posts)
9. I just got a chill thinking of Mrs. Warren picking her as her running mate.
Thu Feb 20, 2020, 09:13 PM
Feb 2020

I doubt it will happen, politics being what they are. But just think of these two women running things and collaborating with their counterparts in the Democratic controlled House and -- I tremble to imagine -- Senate!

Yep, then in 8 years, Ms. Porter would be more than equipped and ready to run for number one.

(I still like Stacey Abrams and am, therefore conflicted. But it's like having to choose between Duke Snider and Jackie Robinson. Mrs. Warren, of course, would be the Bambino in this analogy. IQ45 (I love that nick!) would be Arnold Rothstein. (Yeah, I know, if you're not baseball literate and old Dodger fan you'll be less than impressed with all of this, but it all works for me!)

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blm

(112,919 posts)
10. Hey, I can snap witcha going back to Napoleon Lajoie
Thu Feb 20, 2020, 09:17 PM
Feb 2020
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
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RVN VET71

(2,686 posts)
12. I remember Lajoie!
Thu Feb 20, 2020, 09:50 PM
Feb 2020

As a reader of baseball history, though, not as a spectator or fan. He was a bit before my time. I recall he had the highest batting average in the 20th century -- I think Hugh Duffy beat him out for the all-time, but in the late 1890's when the Boston Club he played for were the Beaneaters or Pilgrims or some such. And I saw somewhere that Cy Young called Napoleon Lajoie the most dangerous hitter he ever faced -- high praise from a guy who won more than 500 games! He was sort of a Cleveland Icon, but hit his 426 working for Cornelius McGillicuddy's Athletics.

But my serious fandom was with the B'klyn Bums. Jackie Robinson remains my all time hero, matching incredible talent and a level of self-control and courage seldom seen in sports. And he stole home on Yogi Berra! And then the Bums left B'klyn for L.A. and I lost most of my passion for them, but followed Sandy Koufax's career as he became the best southpaw in the history of the game.

I could go on and on and on. Baseball, and baseball lore is soft spot.

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blm

(112,919 posts)
13. You're good. I read a lot of baseball history when I was a schoolgirl in the 60s.
Thu Feb 20, 2020, 09:54 PM
Feb 2020

Napoleon Lajoie was my favorite figure.

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RVN VET71

(2,686 posts)
14. I loved baseball history, too
Sat Feb 22, 2020, 11:35 PM
Feb 2020

Tris Speaker stands out, as does Ole Hoss Radbourne, Pie Traynor, Shoeless Joe Jackson, Big Ed Walsh, Willie Keeler, Cap Anson, Spalding, Candy Cummings and on and on and on. My favorite aunt used to take me to NYC on my birthday -- no, not a baseball game. She was, I think, fastidious and didn't want to expose me to the cussin', cigar-smoking and beer drinking. But we'd see a movie and the Natural History museum. One year she took me to a book store that sold used as well as new and I picked up a copy of an 8 by 10 soft cover book memorializing the long career of Connie Mack, loaded with pictures and anecdotes. Next to White Fang and Call of the Wild, it was my favorite book and it still bothers me that it got lost in the shuffle of moves from one place to another. That book showed my Connie Macks original monicker: Cornelius McGillicuddy and was full of revelations about the old era as well as anecdotes about the fade of the Philadelphia Athletics from glory.

One of my favorite odd facts: When the 7th Cavalry was being massacred at the Little Big Horn, the Chicago White Stockings were playing a baseball game against the Cincinnati Red Stockings.

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marieo1

(1,402 posts)
11. Great Gal
Thu Feb 20, 2020, 09:23 PM
Feb 2020

I have heard her a few times and she is great!! She sticks to the facts and never gets her feathers ruffled!!!

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