They demand absolute purity in the Democratic Party while ignoring Republicans. Thus the stunt with Feinstein.

“Not Aimed at Passing Right Now": Green New Deal Agitators Admit They're Not Interested in Immediate Climate Action”

“That is what has been happening with self-proclaimed champions of the “Green New Deal” and its principal activist backers, the Sunrise Movement. On Friday, February 22, a group of activists organized a number of children to show up at the San Francisco office of California Senator Diane Feinstein to deliver to her their demands that she vote Yes on the Green New Deal (GND). The Sunrise Movement then released a highly-edited 2-minute clip of the group’s interaction with Sen. Feinstein - with whom, I might mention, they did not bother making an appointment despite having planned it on their own calendar - to make it appear that Fenstein was a grouchy old lady yelling at kids to get off her lawn.

But then, somebody on Twitter - specifically, Mediaite’s Tommy Christopher - decided to do the job too many in our mainstream media can no longer be troubled to do: post the full video of the entire time Feinstein spent with Sunrise/GND activists, in six two-minute-and-twenty-second increments (must be Twitter’s video time limit). In Part 5, after the crowd had started to leave, we find this nugget.

Here, we hear a GND/Sunrise activists - one of the adults in the group that organized the children - shockingly admit the truth: the version of Green New Deal they want Feinstein and other members of Congress to sign on to is not actually a thing that is meant to pass. “I think the thing is that this particular resolution isn’t something that’s aimed at passing right now, obviously,” she says. She then goes on to say that the point of voting on their version of the GND is to “show the world what we really need.”

www.thepeoplesview.net/main/2019/2/23/not-aimed-at-passing-right-now-green-new-deal-agitators-admit-theyre-not-interested-in-immediate-climate-action

is going to pass right now. Um, duh? We have this Senate, and this preznit. I don't see anything wrong with taking a position "to show the world what we really need." Especially when we DO really need it.

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As there is a tactic out there which uses issues to fundraise where the solution is not actually the goal. This episode was a set-up and a dishonest one at that. It was admitted that the solution was not the primary focus. And as to the issue being an important one, of course, it is and lots of people are ringing that bell and have no need to ring a fake bell.

to say that a solution was/is not the primary focus of this group.

there is no chance of passage. I feel the same about Medicare for all. Run on fixing the ACA, possibly lowering the Medicare age and a public option. Let's not put targets on our backs.

They called Obama a socialist for dawg's sake. Also too Kenyan, Muslim, unAmerican, non-American, anti-American, blah blah blah.

We need to stop giving two sh!ts about what the pukes will do or say--the poor little snowflakes--and focus on what our side wants. And you know what? Bolder is better, because we've been running on incrementalism and moderation for decades and (aside from Obama)it is not working so well. Is it?

Income inequality is a disaster and getting worse daily. Skyrocketing debt and income stagnation are unchanged. Automation is threatening jobs across the economy and across the world. Climate change is LITERALLY an extinction threat, if left un-addressed.

Bold is needed, to fire up our side and especially young voters--the ones we always complain don't participate enough--they are the ones who will inherit the earth we are busily trashing.

for her being Speaker....

Change a losing game (as we did in 2018).

I read that yesterday and it was a good read.

but I am beginning to view the Justice Democrats with more and more suspicion. Why do they seem more interested in attacking Democrats than in uniting against a common enemy?

Why didn't the parents of those children explain to them that the Democrats in the Senate don't control anything and can't get any legislation passed?

is a concept beyond comprehension, more difficult to understand than space science or making it all the through "Ulysses" or keeping the Nixon administration criminals straight in "All The President's Men" (I saw it the other day and no matter how many times I've seen it, get confused because there are so many of them).

Everything Republicans are responsible for they project onto Democrats, as if there's a psychological blind spot. Why the lust to make Democrats the scapegoat when obviously the Republican Party is a perverse, enormously powerful movement conservative/Taliban-like/organized crime organization, highly organized and funded and single-minded in their war on America?

I suppose it's easier to take mild-mannered bleeding heart liberals who've worked their entire lives to achieve equality, better health care and education and opportunities for everyone, protecting the environment, funding and protecting the social safety net, etc, and turn them into cartoon villains.

is whether candidates take corporate cash. I personally believe that is a very worthwhile idea, and I also believe that we NEED our left flank.

We have a left wing of the party that is not aligned with Justice Dems though JD tries to pretend they own the progressive space. They need to spend more time fighting Republicans instead of Dems. I'm still fuming about JD, AOC and Bernie openly campaigning against Sharice Davids in her KS primary race.

so the Justice Democrats are tilting at windmills going after her 6 years from her having to run again if she chooses.

Who in the world dreams up these publicity stunts against someone who isn't even close to having to run for re-election?

Those individuals should be the most progressive and whatever you think of Di-Fi, she isn't that.

They want to rebuild the Democratic Party.

Their idea of what the Democratic Party should be or nothing.

Like the Bernie or bust crowd.

Obama didn't either, if you recall.

Cenk Uyger is an “ex” Republican. Went from an anti-Democrat Republican to an anti-Democrat “progressive”, all with $4 million from a Republican donor. Amazing work there!

Any one who is not them needs to be gotten rid of.


Well we are a big party. They can join and work with other Dems or they can pound sand as far as I am concerned.

in that history. Let's not kid ourselves.

At companies.

Actual Corporations are severely limited by campaign finance laws as to what they can donate.

As you know, if you work at say The University of Colorado, you are required to list your employer when you donate. Consequently Open Secrets lists your individual donation lumped under the University the University of Colorado.

But it is not the University of Colorado’s money or donation.

It is your money and your donation.

Open Secrets does spell this out, but not very well.

So I see tons of confusion and jumping to conclusions about “so and so takes corporate cash” from people who don’t get that how individual donations are reported on Open Secrets.

So somebody makes a meme that “Candidate X is in the pocket of Big University!1!” and dessiminates it on twitter etc. No, candidate X got a lot of donations from real people who work at CU.

when the old emperor recognizes his former teacher who is being paraded through the streets as a counter-revolutionary enemy of the people or whatever, and tells the young commie that the man is a good man. "Join us, comrade, or fuck off" is the response.

They want to rebuild the Democratic Party.

Their purpose is to damage our party.

the trump admin yet they target Democrats.

or Our Revolution.

gets suspicion from me.

I also don't like Democrats targeting other Democrats for not agreeing with them. The Republicans need to be the ones being used exclusively for TARGET PRACTICE...not 'more conservative' members of your own caucus.

It's COMMON SENSE.

Whoever is behind this effort is certainly not on the up and up.

Pelosi needs to exercise her authority and deal them, pull some committee memberships and transfer some offices to closets. The sad thing is we really don't need a fringe group manufacturing a division, especially this election.

n/t