II think it’s significant that Martin won even though Schumer, Jeffries and Pelosi endorsed Ben Wikler. You can interpret that as a turn away from business as usual for Democrats.
Ben Wikler actually molded his strategy in Wisconsin from Ken Martin. In a HuffPost article detailing the accomplishments of the MN state trifecta in 2023, they made sure to single out Martin’s accomplishments in the state. Ben Wikler also made some statements in that article that when he was crowned WI state party D chair, in 2019, he met with Martin and embraced a lot of his ideas.
It IS time for the Democratic Party to return to its roots. We need to help America’s workers make union protection strong again. We need younger candidates running for office—candidates who know how much a week’s worth of groceries cost and how tight a family’s budget can get when hit with an expected health crisis. End Citizens United and get political support from people, not corporations.
But Trump's wrecking ball was years in the making. Hillary Clinton was right: There WAS a "vast right-wing conspiracy. Long-term planning along with patience -- and money -- brought Project 2025 to fruition.
It took President Musk and his lackey a week to “launch” their nefarious plans… they’ve been planning, scheming for much longer. Yes, I say “give him a day or two at least.”
Go after trump. Put roadblocks in his path at every turn. Keep the public informed on all of the illegal things that he is doing that will hurt us! Study Project 2025 and be ready to block his each and every move!
Not his job to block Trump. What specific mechanisms do you think he has? Do you think he hasn't absorbed every page of Project 2025 because I assure you he has.
Those were suggestions for him and anyone else such as Congressmen and Senators. He said they were going to fight trump. How do you suggest the Democrats fight trump? By raising money? A lot of good that did in 2024.
David, Even without a majority the Dems in the House can demand impeachment proceedings for Trumps high crimes: Pardoning 1500 convicted criminals many violent and white supremacists, firing FBi agents and Inspector Generals and many long time Fed employees with zero evidence of wrong doing. And allowing Musk to download all financial info of private citizens. Martin can enlist Raskin to lead this effort and exposure of Trump's abuse of power and obstruction of justice.
He can get the DNC to hire lawyers to bring countless suits against Trump for defamation of Democrats in office, such as "Newscum".
He can organize all the name brand Dems with 24/7 access to the media to use it to expose what Trump and Musk are doing. They should be on the air 24/7 attacking Trump.
He can attack the courts, and Trump's lawyers and complain to bar associations about Trumps intimidations and extortions against the legal systems used to hold Trump accountable and for all their frivolous lawsuits used as extortion tactics.
I'm sure there is a lot more things. Dems have to go on the offensive 24/7, and recapture the political dialogue. He must find those missing 81 million votes that fired Trump in 2020.
If the Democrats do not behave like Bolsheviks, and stop with pearl clutching about “descending to their level,” and if we do not ignore Michell Obama’s lofty but politically irresponsible counsel “when they go low, we go high,” we’ll get our balls handed to us every time. Martyrdom is NOT our goal, power is. We need to meet the Republicans in the basement with a switchblade and an AK-47 and make sure none of those traitors emerges alive.
Martin’s mantra when he was building back up the Minnesota DFL after 2010 was “the state party takes the low road so our candidates can take the high road.” That eventually culminated in the bare MN state trifecta where Ds managed to push through almost everything on their wishlist from 2023-2024.
Imagine that kind of leadership for all 50 states.
I found a guy on YouTube and he found an old band from 1950's, The Stick Sweethearts, they have the made a perfect song for DJT and his administration, the name of the song is:
Again, the guy hasn't even had the job for 2 hours yet, and there technically has been no party leader, because Harrison was on his way out and Democrats control nothing in the federal government. Trump hasn't even been in office for yet for two weeks. The world is not ending, so just give it a minute, and try to show some patience.---Jason
World close to ending. Musk may now have access to treasury & all payment, can cut/slash/steal/tie social security to voter records & start by stopping those SS payments along with Medicare to DEM voters to get all used to it. There is really no time left to stop this & must act.
This business with Musk is I believe very dangerous! We need watch dogs on him at all times. He seems to think he can interfere in our government any time any where he wants. When have we ever had a civilian like this guy with his incredibly BLOATED EGO interfering in our government. God knows Trump is not the sharpest knife in the drawer but he thinks he is! That’s why he keeps his college transcripts hidden and told both universities that he would sue if they ever released them. He’s actually quite EVIL rather stupid but very crafty. Now he’s set Musk loose on our government who knows what he’s been doing? I say he should lose his citizenship or back off! Big deal so he has more money than anyone else that doesn’t entitle him to be snooping around in our government! Trump is so foul, he’s a total Narcissist and likely Musk may be too. The entire Republican party owes us an apology because when they ran for election they ALL LIED! All they care about is shifting money around for themselves and their friends. I think it’s already past time to have Trump removed from office! Felonies, rapes why does he get a pass when others have not for far less offenses? There is something ROTTEN IN WASHINGTON DC, a large amount of illegality all started byTrump administration.
I hear people are calling immigration offices and urging that he be deported. Naturalized? Who cares — Trump said he'll even deport native-born citizens, right?
And if it leads to us pointing fingers at each other and complaining because someone didn't "do something" but we ave no idea what they can or should do. We should be looking fore what WE can do.
Stop with the alarmism. Do they want to phase out Social Security? Sure. Are they going to stop payment on our checks? Only if they want to make January 6 look like a playground skirmish. It would be the instant end of the Trump administration and although he's not smart, he knows enough know that.
As for me. I’m off the couch streaming rom-coms all day. I’m now spending my free time calling congressional representatives, writing to corporations that I no longer support because they have kissed the tyrant’s ring. I am asking our elected representatives to stand together against all of Trump’s nominees, legislative initiatives and Executive Orders. Corporations have made a poor business decision to end their DEI programs. It’s been difficult to find enough qualified candidates for jobs and now they want to shrink the potential employee pool.
I encourage everyone to sent emails, make phone calls, write letters and boycott the businesses that have betrayed us.
Musk has all your PII and banking information (yes, if you have ever received a payment from the government via Direct Deposit, they have your bank's routing number and your Checking Account number.)
Find a street corner to stand on with a friend, with a poster with a simple message. Amplify how talented journalists describe Elon eyes looking at our SS account and private information.
Patience isn’t exactly what we need right now when Trump is already destroying our country, and citizens lives. It’s not the time to wait. That said, I’m glad someone is finally doing something. Let’s hope they do more than the bare minimum.
Since when is it up to voters to tell them what they should be doing? They’re the leaders. They need to lead. That’s what they should be doing and they should put a stop to this dictatorship that’s about to happen.
I love this comment. Our hair is collectively on fire, but panic and being a screech monkey doesn’t help. I am not thrilled with the Democratic Party, at all. But they’re what we have, along with lots of people doing their best to power the resistance. Thanks Jason.
I get why in his speech he said they wanted to take that night to “enjoy the moment” but quite frankly I could have gone without that part. Things are so extremely critical there is no time to lose. Boots on the ground folks!!
He said he was using tonight for unity and wants to consider all the ideas that came out of the election. I think that’s reasonable. While the candidates are all together, let’s give them a chance to share ideas and begin the process of strategizing.
I expected that either he or Ben Wikler would win. But working together is very important and their combined talents and ability to unify is so important. We need them help to win the 3 vacant House seats and must counter the money the billionaires will spend and lies they will spew to take those seats to put Hakeem Jeffries in the Speaker’s chair. We must not be afraid of hard work as Kamala said during the election. Ken Martin knows what he’s doing and will do to flip the House, Senate and ultimately wrest the White House from the garbage party and oligarchs.
How he deals with corporate pac money in primary elections and corporate lobbyists in party decision making will see if there is real progressive change.
You must have no understanding of how we lost to Trump twice. We have lost a big piece of our natural base, the working class, by allowing too much corporate money and lobbyists to infect our politics. Maybe you are corporate democrats or neoliberal democrats. Not much difference and both played right into Trumps pseudo populism. Do you understand that NAFTA cost several million union jobs to leave the rust belt and since Clinton pushed it through Congress and signed it that is one of the main reasons HRC lost those states and the election in 2016. The workers that lost their union jobs and had to take a job for half the pay and much less or no benefits were not going to vote for a Clinton. One man interviewed after the Dem convention last year was asked what he thought. He had lost his union job in Wisconsin. He said the convention was OK until Bill Clinton spoke and he had to turn it off. There is so much more. Later.
Joe, are you for real? How can complaining about too much corporate money infecting the Democratic Party’s politics be a sign of shilling for corporations? And signing NAFTA into law was shameful, shilling for corporations and anti-union/working families.
I lived in an area directly impacted by NAFTA and I can tell you the corporate shift was legalized by that agreement. The shift had already begun. My hometown has never recovered from it. The corporations made the decision to abandon American workers for an extra dollar!
Not my choice. I prefer Wikler, fresh ideas, fresh perspectives. He gives ideas and ways to oppose now!
I want the DNC to be in Detroit with Mr. Martin and I want a list of at least a dozen steps we can do to stop our current situation. I want to hear and see his agenda and immediate steps that he will take with the DNC to create the "Offensive" he is spouting. Talk is cheap, I want action, and I am not advocating funds, I am advocating movement. We will be there on the 22nd so I expect to see Mr. Martin. Offense now.
He talks the talk, now let’s see if he walks the walk. I’m glad he wasn’t endorsed by Schumer or Pelosi, because those two are ineffectual empty vessels who have enabled Republican victories and should never be listened to again. After I saw Schumer laughing and joking with Trump at that farcical Catholic prayer bullshit he was out in my book forever. And Pelosi should be in an assisted living facility. I’m surprised at Hakeem not getting behind Martin. We’ll see who gets shit done against the Nazican party.
II think it’s significant that Martin won even though Schumer, Jeffries and Pelosi endorsed Ben Wikler. You can interpret that as a turn away from business as usual for Democrats.
Was Martin endorsed by AOC, Jasmine Crockett, and Liz Warren? He sounds like a fighter, like those wonderful ladies.
That was exactly my thought. I think I’m happy he wasn’t endorsed by those 3. Those 3 have done nothing for us.
Very telling, but a great sign. I hope there is change.
Why aren’t those three seeing a new day?
Schumer, Pelosi and Jeffries need to be aggressively primaried. We have had enough of the mild Dems.
Jeffries and Schumer are completely ineffective.
Ben Wikler actually molded his strategy in Wisconsin from Ken Martin. In a HuffPost article detailing the accomplishments of the MN state trifecta in 2023, they made sure to single out Martin’s accomplishments in the state. Ben Wikler also made some statements in that article that when he was crowned WI state party D chair, in 2019, he met with Martin and embraced a lot of his ideas.
Also, going with younger opinions.
It IS time for the Democratic Party to return to its roots. We need to help America’s workers make union protection strong again. We need younger candidates running for office—candidates who know how much a week’s worth of groceries cost and how tight a family’s budget can get when hit with an expected health crisis. End Citizens United and get political support from people, not corporations.
Ya think??? If Dems do not get to it NOW, they might as well give it up🙄🫤
Dude has had the job for less than an hour. You might want to give him a day or two at least.--Jason
It took less than a week for Trump and Musk to do insane damage. Asking for patience is asking for him to do even more in the meantime.
But Trump's wrecking ball was years in the making. Hillary Clinton was right: There WAS a "vast right-wing conspiracy. Long-term planning along with patience -- and money -- brought Project 2025 to fruition.
Republicans have been working towards this goal since Reagan.
With massive help from Newt Gingrich. Scumbag.
It took President Musk and his lackey a week to “launch” their nefarious plans… they’ve been planning, scheming for much longer. Yes, I say “give him a day or two at least.”
And what do you want him to do?
Go after trump. Put roadblocks in his path at every turn. Keep the public informed on all of the illegal things that he is doing that will hurt us! Study Project 2025 and be ready to block his each and every move!
Not his job to block Trump. What specific mechanisms do you think he has? Do you think he hasn't absorbed every page of Project 2025 because I assure you he has.
Those were suggestions for him and anyone else such as Congressmen and Senators. He said they were going to fight trump. How do you suggest the Democrats fight trump? By raising money? A lot of good that did in 2024.
David, Even without a majority the Dems in the House can demand impeachment proceedings for Trumps high crimes: Pardoning 1500 convicted criminals many violent and white supremacists, firing FBi agents and Inspector Generals and many long time Fed employees with zero evidence of wrong doing. And allowing Musk to download all financial info of private citizens. Martin can enlist Raskin to lead this effort and exposure of Trump's abuse of power and obstruction of justice.
He can get the DNC to hire lawyers to bring countless suits against Trump for defamation of Democrats in office, such as "Newscum".
He can organize all the name brand Dems with 24/7 access to the media to use it to expose what Trump and Musk are doing. They should be on the air 24/7 attacking Trump.
He can attack the courts, and Trump's lawyers and complain to bar associations about Trumps intimidations and extortions against the legal systems used to hold Trump accountable and for all their frivolous lawsuits used as extortion tactics.
I'm sure there is a lot more things. Dems have to go on the offensive 24/7, and recapture the political dialogue. He must find those missing 81 million votes that fired Trump in 2020.
We must have a fighter at this pivotal time in our country. I like what I see!!
No, we don't need "a" fighter — we all must be that fighter.
Hey, let's fight about it...
I’m a Wikler person but this is a message I love! Congratulations Mr Martin and I am so ready to work with you!!
🖐️
If the Democrats do not behave like Bolsheviks, and stop with pearl clutching about “descending to their level,” and if we do not ignore Michell Obama’s lofty but politically irresponsible counsel “when they go low, we go high,” we’ll get our balls handed to us every time. Martyrdom is NOT our goal, power is. We need to meet the Republicans in the basement with a switchblade and an AK-47 and make sure none of those traitors emerges alive.
Martin’s mantra when he was building back up the Minnesota DFL after 2010 was “the state party takes the low road so our candidates can take the high road.” That eventually culminated in the bare MN state trifecta where Ds managed to push through almost everything on their wishlist from 2023-2024.
Imagine that kind of leadership for all 50 states.
I found a guy on YouTube and he found an old band from 1950's, The Stick Sweethearts, they have the made a perfect song for DJT and his administration, the name of the song is:
I Glued my Balls in My Butthole🎤🤣😂
YouTube check it..🙏👏
AGREED!
I get it.
I’m beyond ready to go after those scoundrels!
Getting a party leader in place is a good start.---Jason
It’s WAY past time.
Again, the guy hasn't even had the job for 2 hours yet, and there technically has been no party leader, because Harrison was on his way out and Democrats control nothing in the federal government. Trump hasn't even been in office for yet for two weeks. The world is not ending, so just give it a minute, and try to show some patience.---Jason
World close to ending. Musk may now have access to treasury & all payment, can cut/slash/steal/tie social security to voter records & start by stopping those SS payments along with Medicare to DEM voters to get all used to it. There is really no time left to stop this & must act.
This business with Musk is I believe very dangerous! We need watch dogs on him at all times. He seems to think he can interfere in our government any time any where he wants. When have we ever had a civilian like this guy with his incredibly BLOATED EGO interfering in our government. God knows Trump is not the sharpest knife in the drawer but he thinks he is! That’s why he keeps his college transcripts hidden and told both universities that he would sue if they ever released them. He’s actually quite EVIL rather stupid but very crafty. Now he’s set Musk loose on our government who knows what he’s been doing? I say he should lose his citizenship or back off! Big deal so he has more money than anyone else that doesn’t entitle him to be snooping around in our government! Trump is so foul, he’s a total Narcissist and likely Musk may be too. The entire Republican party owes us an apology because when they ran for election they ALL LIED! All they care about is shifting money around for themselves and their friends. I think it’s already past time to have Trump removed from office! Felonies, rapes why does he get a pass when others have not for far less offenses? There is something ROTTEN IN WASHINGTON DC, a large amount of illegality all started byTrump administration.
Musk has to be arrested
Class action suit? Toss Elon out of the country for being here illegally by dropping out of college when here on a study visa??
I hear people are calling immigration offices and urging that he be deported. Naturalized? Who cares — Trump said he'll even deport native-born citizens, right?
The world is only close to ending if we give in to panic and fear.
And if it leads to us pointing fingers at each other and complaining because someone didn't "do something" but we ave no idea what they can or should do. We should be looking fore what WE can do.
Definitely, we must hang together...:)
World as we know is it in US is on the edge
Stop with the alarmism. Do they want to phase out Social Security? Sure. Are they going to stop payment on our checks? Only if they want to make January 6 look like a playground skirmish. It would be the instant end of the Trump administration and although he's not smart, he knows enough know that.
He'll send the military after those who object, then declare permanent martial law.
My fear exactly
Based on last 2 weeks, they are set to steal & cut SS & Medicare, prob after Medicaid & ACA, VA Healthcare
As for me. I’m off the couch streaming rom-coms all day. I’m now spending my free time calling congressional representatives, writing to corporations that I no longer support because they have kissed the tyrant’s ring. I am asking our elected representatives to stand together against all of Trump’s nominees, legislative initiatives and Executive Orders. Corporations have made a poor business decision to end their DEI programs. It’s been difficult to find enough qualified candidates for jobs and now they want to shrink the potential employee pool.
I encourage everyone to sent emails, make phone calls, write letters and boycott the businesses that have betrayed us.
Musk has all your PII and banking information (yes, if you have ever received a payment from the government via Direct Deposit, they have your bank's routing number and your Checking Account number.)
Find a street corner to stand on with a friend, with a poster with a simple message. Amplify how talented journalists describe Elon eyes looking at our SS account and private information.
Patience isn’t exactly what we need right now when Trump is already destroying our country, and citizens lives. It’s not the time to wait. That said, I’m glad someone is finally doing something. Let’s hope they do more than the bare minimum.
Again, can you explain what they should do, and also share what you are doing?
Since when is it up to voters to tell them what they should be doing? They’re the leaders. They need to lead. That’s what they should be doing and they should put a stop to this dictatorship that’s about to happen.
I love this comment. Our hair is collectively on fire, but panic and being a screech monkey doesn’t help. I am not thrilled with the Democratic Party, at all. But they’re what we have, along with lots of people doing their best to power the resistance. Thanks Jason.
Did he not pay attention to the goings on of focus and his minions for the last two weeks? He's had time to observe
Don’t disappoint us Mr Martin. Attack trump, win this fight
We have to win this fight. No party leader can fix things on there own.
I get why in his speech he said they wanted to take that night to “enjoy the moment” but quite frankly I could have gone without that part. Things are so extremely critical there is no time to lose. Boots on the ground folks!!
Will you at least give them time to drive to the office and find the bathroom?
Not to be rude, but he's been the Vice Chair of the DNC so hopefully he already knows where the bathroom is.
You know what I mean. Give them a chance to get things going
He said he was using tonight for unity and wants to consider all the ideas that came out of the election. I think that’s reasonable. While the candidates are all together, let’s give them a chance to share ideas and begin the process of strategizing.
Dems should have had Plan B ready. Shoe stores, are expected to have a plan B. I have no patience with their inaction! Do Your Job Now.
Comments duly noted. Thanks!
I expected that either he or Ben Wikler would win. But working together is very important and their combined talents and ability to unify is so important. We need them help to win the 3 vacant House seats and must counter the money the billionaires will spend and lies they will spew to take those seats to put Hakeem Jeffries in the Speaker’s chair. We must not be afraid of hard work as Kamala said during the election. Ken Martin knows what he’s doing and will do to flip the House, Senate and ultimately wrest the White House from the garbage party and oligarchs.
Yes! Gloves off! PLEASE! These bullies must be stopped! They have zero respect for the rules, so it's time to stop playing nice.
How he deals with corporate pac money in primary elections and corporate lobbyists in party decision making will see if there is real progressive change.
No, that's not relevant. Until campaign finance laws are changed, unilateral disarmament is defeat, and purity has no role in politics at this time.
Amen!!
You must have no understanding of how we lost to Trump twice. We have lost a big piece of our natural base, the working class, by allowing too much corporate money and lobbyists to infect our politics. Maybe you are corporate democrats or neoliberal democrats. Not much difference and both played right into Trumps pseudo populism. Do you understand that NAFTA cost several million union jobs to leave the rust belt and since Clinton pushed it through Congress and signed it that is one of the main reasons HRC lost those states and the election in 2016. The workers that lost their union jobs and had to take a job for half the pay and much less or no benefits were not going to vote for a Clinton. One man interviewed after the Dem convention last year was asked what he thought. He had lost his union job in Wisconsin. He said the convention was OK until Bill Clinton spoke and he had to turn it off. There is so much more. Later.
Oh for Pete's fing sake!
Clinton signed a damn piece of paper. It was the greedy REPUBLICAN CEOs who chose to sell out our jobs by shipping them to Mexico!
Clinton did not hold a gun to their head and make them leave!
Stop shilling for the corporations.
Joe, are you for real? How can complaining about too much corporate money infecting the Democratic Party’s politics be a sign of shilling for corporations? And signing NAFTA into law was shameful, shilling for corporations and anti-union/working families.
I lived in an area directly impacted by NAFTA and I can tell you the corporate shift was legalized by that agreement. The shift had already begun. My hometown has never recovered from it. The corporations made the decision to abandon American workers for an extra dollar!
Great speech… let’s put those words into actions. I will be armed and ready if need be. Fuck the billionaire class. And our shit stained president.
Not my choice. I prefer Wikler, fresh ideas, fresh perspectives. He gives ideas and ways to oppose now!
I want the DNC to be in Detroit with Mr. Martin and I want a list of at least a dozen steps we can do to stop our current situation. I want to hear and see his agenda and immediate steps that he will take with the DNC to create the "Offensive" he is spouting. Talk is cheap, I want action, and I am not advocating funds, I am advocating movement. We will be there on the 22nd so I expect to see Mr. Martin. Offense now.
He talks the talk, now let’s see if he walks the walk. I’m glad he wasn’t endorsed by Schumer or Pelosi, because those two are ineffectual empty vessels who have enabled Republican victories and should never be listened to again. After I saw Schumer laughing and joking with Trump at that farcical Catholic prayer bullshit he was out in my book forever. And Pelosi should be in an assisted living facility. I’m surprised at Hakeem not getting behind Martin. We’ll see who gets shit done against the Nazican party.