Perez did not lie, so he should not apologize. Republicans don't care about people. People are merely the fodder for their dreams to become reality. Without the peasants, there is no joy in riches.

In a perfect republican world the poor peasants are dead or slaves and they can dive and swim into pools of money while they listen to the sweet, sweet sounds of people suffering.

and the outrage was fake. You know they say a lot worse than "shit" when they talk about us, but it's that right wing, patronizing chivalry toward fluttery little church ladies that pretends those ladies have never heard such a rough word before in their lives and wouldn't say it if they had a mouth full of it and need to be protected from it.

Fuck them all with rusty chainsaws.

The sensitive, delicate little flowers! So distressed are they because Tom Perez doesn't appreciate how their proposal yanking health insurance away from 24 million Americans shows how much of a shit they give about people.

maybe we can give them some cheese with their whines?

If the president can brag about grabbing women by the pussy, then the DNC chair can damn well say "shit" and tell the GOP that they don't care about people.

It's about damn time we had leadership with some fire and backbone who didn't retreat at the sound of a fart or the word "liberal."

... of various conservative talking head blowhards but with their words replaced by fart sounds.

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I am constantly looking for tiny silver linings in all of this clusterfuck that we may have to endure for a long time, and that is one. No longer can they dismiss any criticism that is laced with strong, even vulgar, language to make a point. They wanted to be big boys and girls and dismiss vulgarity as "locker room talk" for their own, even for the President of the United States of America. Insisting during the election that we shouldn't be so judgemental about descriptive expletives.

I have a particular disdain for the Evangelical Christian big church community, as it is the background that I escaped from. The blatant hypocrisy of purporting to follow in the humble footsteps of someone called Jesus, and for years, decades, used their influence, and even their pulpits, to demonize Obama and Democrats as foul mouthed worldly creatures that they were better than. And then proceded to encourage their flocks to vote for that pig. They now have zero credibility to demand apologies for appropriate strong even expletive language back at them. They have already relinquished that ground after championing a twice divorced, sexual abusing, narcissistic, self aggrandizing, vulgar piece of shit that he is.

Let them throw a tantrum like the always do! They NEVER apologize for anything!

There is an old saying in politics: One dollar at the beginning of the campaign is worth ten dollars on Election Day. Ok, I made that saying up, but it's consistent with my experiences. Please vote EARLY with your wallets.

I already got my form and envelope ready. $30 bucks isn't much, but not sending anything is a shame. It takes money to win and we need to win big in 2018. Every time I have some disposable income during a month between now and Nov. 2018, I'm going to send them a check, even if it's just $10 dollars.

Especially on a national scale, "small" contributions add up when thousands of people take the time to contribute.

For now, Im placing my tiny bucks w ACLU, particular campaigns, Planned Parenthood and the Sierra Club.
Anyway, we all have to put it where we think it does the most or is most needed.

The thing is, if we are all putting what we can toward the resistance in some way, it all adds up.

because it's true.

Yeah no shit! It does indeed just happen to be true.

And THEY DON'T WANT TO HELP YOU. That's the reason. Because they don't give a shit about you.

Their fee fees will get over it.

It's Democratic leader.

goes back to the days of Joe McCarthy. "Democratic" polls a lot higher than "Democrat"

I thought it was an issue, but I was too lazy to research it. I shall mend my ways.

I just came across it, cold, and had the same reaction. That "Democrat" as an adjective is an old Joseph McCarthy trick. It's the Repub equivalent of throwing a gang sign.

Edit, please!

I'm easily distracted with a 5 month old in the house, and my brain hasn't quite adjusted to sleep deprivation brought on by, ironically, sleep training.

Something has to get the people who constantly vote against their own self interest to snap out of it...

Hilarious.

I mean, why should he? If the shoe fits and all that. What have the Republicans done recently or over the past 8 years to prove that statement wrong? They blocked or filed lawsuits against tons of stuff that President Obama proposed or signed and everything they've been pushing and the Obama polices they've undone with Trump as POTUS will be harmful to the vast majority of Americans. They haven't done "Thing One" to prove that they care about anybody who isn't the "right" race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, etc. For a group of people whom claim to be "strong" and unapologetic and "non-PC" and are now being lead by a guy who unabashedly likes talking about grabbing women by the genitals, they seem to act like a bunch of crybabies the instant somebody stands up to them to their face. Get over it, Pubs!

Won't someone please think of the children???

Just a little reminder of Cheney's response to Leahy when asked about conflicts.

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/549100

Remember how outraged republicans were in response? No, because there wasn't any.

What else are you supposed to say when they are going to kick 24 million people off their health insurance?

Peace

NOT apologize! And why should, or would, he? It's the truth! Fuck that phony, balcony outrage! Some of them must've thought "damn, he does know what's in our Black heart."

it's okay to grab 'em by the pussy wants Perez to apologize for pointing out that they don't give a shit about people. Sounds legit...

There's a lot to be said for telling the truth and standing by it.

Call it out. Repubs overstate and lie, in general.
Dems are so bloody careful that we understate, usually because the Repubs go nuclear on us if we tell it like it is.

Im ready for the Dems to just fucking say the truth, plainly without wincing words. Sometimes we yah yah all around trying not to offend anyone w the blunt truth.
We tell the truth, but we have often understated it so much or even just implied it, that it makes us look like our case is weak, instead of strong.

Thanks, Perez, for being out w it!!

We need someone to tell the truth, bluntly.

No need to apologize for the truth.

and I was about to go off on a huge rant. I had been a bit doubtful of Perez after the whole DNC debacle, but I saw this speech and thought FINALLY! This is probably the first thing all year so far from the DNC that has given me some hope that the party might actually make some internal changes and start turning things around. I hope he never apologizes for speaking the truth, and no he should NOT tone it down. Not one bit. This is the sort of thing that is desperately needed all throughout the party.

our message.

Not that we want to be like Trump and say stupid shit all the time. But we need more fire breathers.

Hopefully Perez's speech was just a warm up to even better things to come!

dispositions and the fact that we like to fact check out statements, unlike them.

I say Squash them like bugs, every chance we get.

A Dem who fights back!

leadership and public positions. I just hope if he's asked in front of a hot mike his reply is along the lines of "did I stutter?"

They don't give a damn about common Americans, or people of color. Republicans can go fuck themselves!

He speaks the truth, and definitely shouldn't apologize. He should say it again and again.

And others, of course.

Then we might be able to talk. Until then, Perez's language is perfect and exactly what the brainwashed need to hear.

What he said is the absolute truth and is so much less offensive than any of the dumpster's cabinet appointees, legislation being proposed/passed by the "Red" side of the aisles in both the House and Senate, the fact that the Senate Reds (that suits them better than "Republicans&quot didn't give Merrick Garland a vote and are now playing stupid hypocrite on the Gorsuch nomination, the possibility (likelihood?) that we have traitors serving in all areas of our government, ... I could go on ad infinitum but I won't. THEY HAVE REPEATEDLY SHOWN DO NOT CARE ABOUT OUR COUNTRY OR US. THEY ONLY CARE ABOUT THEMSELVES, THEIR PERSONAL WEALTH, AND THEIR DONORS!

Remember Luntz said this was the GOP weak spot - hammer their pro-wealthy, anti-regular people agenda.

Nice work Perez!

If Dems are smart they will amplify this message by having Ellison say exactly the same thing. On TV!

Republicans have an excessive fondness for rich people. But they also have a disdain for the rest that goes well beyond "don't give a shit".

....too. And it got coverage. And it's not that carefully scripted, "reasonable" way of talking that the vast middle finds inauthentic.

What's the problem?

No need to apologize. What else do you call kicking 24 million people off their health insurance, for starters? They don't give a sh**.

Sorry if you like to breath air!! bye-bye EPA. Like an educated populace? Sorry about Betsy DeVos.


The got a lot of 'splaining to do.

just telling the truth, something repigs know nothing about.

Repigs are obstructionists and don't know how to govern.

Now that's funny!

repugs. Professional victims.

simply by, you know, caring about people. Of course, that would completely uproot their platform, their values, and their agenda, so they probably won't go for it.

What's "dangerous"?

Your party has not done ONE GODDAMNED THING TO BENEFIT THE CITIZENS OF THIS COUNTRY IN FOUR DECADES. NOT. ONE.

It's no secret that the GOP doesn't want to govern, they want to control, to rule. Authoritarians just want us to shut the fuck up and let them conduct upward-flowing grand theft as usual.

Rock ON, Chairman Perez!

Now if we can just give milk toast DINOs the boot we will be golden.

I don't care how salty Perez' language is. He told the truth about repukes and right away, conservos are clutching their pearls and demanding an apology.

He's absolutely right--repunks don't give a fying fluck about people--only about getting and keeping power, even at the expense of the Constitution. Hell will freeze over before he'll apologize for telling the truth.

The GOP that is