Please?

[markbark]

[niyad]

1. YES!!!!!

[DownriverDem]

20. Our Energy

Nancy Pelosi will be the next Speaker of the House. We need to work together. We will be fighting the repubs. That is where our energy needs to be.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

44. And we need to send Trump-trolls X-mas FISA Warrants w/ graphics

Be sure to read copy with these other gifs.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211453263

[msdogi]

2. so much this

[volstork]

3. Thank you

for being the voice of sanity.

[TheBlackAdder]

4. Some people just want to take anyone down, and soft targets are easier to meet that blood thirst.

[lunatica]

5. The media is stirring shit up by calling it a "fight"

This whole thing is just business as usual in the transfer of power in the House.

[DownriverDem]

22. Why Dems?

How come Dems are involved?

[lunatica]

30. It's not a fight in the House. It's a vote that happens every single

time the power changes parties.

The media are blowing it up as an ‘unnatural’ and ‘unprecedented’ fight when it is normal.

[Leith]

6. Thank You

This DOES need to be said.

It's weird to see threads on DU dedicated to hating on our own. Whoever starts one, and whoever contributes more hate to one, is automatically on the "suspicious" list - there is no getting off of it.

[smirkymonkey]

7. Thank YOU!

Thank you Ida! I'm with you! This internecine bickering has got to stop NOW! What is with this shit?

[DemocracyMouse]

13. OK, so about those Nazis....

New focus:

The “Proud Boys” have now been placed on an “extremists” list.

Talk about that please.

[rgbecker]

8. Jesus, I hope when the new Democrats take their seats in Congress...

They don't fall apart like the Republicans and get nothing done. Makes me nervous as hell to read about a Speaker fight right after the election.

All concentration should be on stopping Trump and his mob from doing any more harm to the country, to the fight against Climate Change, detaining of children and trade wars with everyone.

[SoCalDem]

9. Loose lips sink ships..

This is my MAIN gripe about our leadership.. They never seem to grasp how important the word "confidence" can be. Have your disagreements in PRIVATE...as in NO ONE TALKS TO THE MEDIA

Some of our folks are camera/microphone addicts and cannot stop themselves from "we're-gonna-do this or that..

Some things need to be hashed out in confidence until the final details are worked out..

We all know the press these days is OBSESSED with making everything confrontational..

Do not feed the beast

When asked, a simple.."We are in the process of working out the details..Let you know when we are done".. is all that's necessary..

[watoos]

10. I mean really,

The Republicans have Russians like Rohrabacher and Nunes, and reelected Nunes, and Nazis like Steve King who get reelected.

C'mon Dems, United we stand, divided we fall.

[lilactime]

11. This is so obvious. It's unbelievable how many don't get it.

[Pantagruel]

12. It's always so

leading Dems is like herding cats, not herd animals and noisy.

[lilactime]

31. Oh, I know. Just seems like we don't have that luxury right now.

[bluestarone]

14. COMPLETELY agree here!!

WE could end up with our own version of the (REPUG TEA PARTY) if we don't start coming together on lots of things!! For God sake We finally get control, WE can't BLOW THIS!!!!

[BamaRefugee]

15. So the answer is what? Just shut up and accept whoever the powers that be decide is the "leader"?

Doesn't sound very democratic to me.
And exactly WHO is going to make these decisions "for us"?

[DownriverDem]

24. Wake up

Nancy Pelosi is going to be the Speaker of the House. The majority of Dems want her. Get it? There is plenty of other leadership positions that Nancy is going to give to new folks. Thinking you can start at the top is how we got trump.

[BamaRefugee]

33. I've been AWAKE since I first voted in 1972, thanks. And where did I say she WASN'T going to be

Speaker???
I don't mind a lively Democratic discussion about it before she's sworn in though.
Get it?

[murielm99]

42. So you think you get a vote on who becomes

Speaker of the House? The Congress people decide that for themselves. They are the powers that be.

[BamaRefugee]

43. You think that I think I get to vote on that? WTF? I'm talking about THE ACTUAL PEOPLE INVOLVED.

And by extension, our discussions here on DU.

[murielm99]

45. You are speaking as though you do not

understand the process. The actual people involved are the elected Congress people, the powers that be.

How does that extend to discussion here? We voted for these people. They decide whom they want for leaders. End of discussion.

[BamaRefugee]

60. "END OF DISCUSSION". Spoken like a true authoritarian.

You’re saying that the only input we,the people,have, is BEFORE we elect someone as our Representative? After that, we’re not allowed to speak out to guide them in our wishes for the next 2 years?
Under your bizarre system of government, there’s definitely no need for something like DU, where people speak their mind, we should all just stfu for 2 years the day after Election Day.

[murielm99]

61. Take your anger elsewhere,

somewhere where it might do some good.

We do not get to tell them who to choose as THEIR leader. Nothing could be more simple to understand.

[BamaRefugee]

62. We DEFINITELY have input to them as to who they vote for! I'm not angry, just bemused.

It's called "THE PEOPLE'S HOUSE" for a reason. We can directly communicate anything we want to our Representative, doesn't mean we all get our way, but lively discussion is the very heart of Democracy!

WE *DO* GET TO TELL THEM! ANYTHING.
It's the American Way.

[demmiblue]

16. One of those is not like the others. n/t

[BamaRefugee]

17. The Allies defeated ACTUAL Nazis in WW2, but did they agree on everything all the time, in lockstep?

Hardly.

[NewJeffCT]

58. they didn't fight each other, though

at the end of the day, they realized the enemies were Germany and Japan, and to a lesser extent Italy.

This included the US, Canada, France, Britain, Australia and other countries, as well as the Soviet Union and China.

[BamaRefugee]

59. Not with guns, but intellectually. I don't see any Dems pulling out any pistols here!

[lambchopp59]

18. Strength from diversity

Eyes on the prize, we tend to share the same utopia-destined building goals, with some minor differences about the how's and the who's.
It's the bots who seek to pervert our intentions with "Cadillac welfare queen" regurgitations and the like. I haven't seen near the number and scope of those sorts of disruptions here on DU in quite some time, thank you moderators.
Let the sensationalist journalists make hay of our differences all they like, hash over the fakery of fake "fake news", it didn't change the outcome of the blue wave.
A few years back, posting the above would have elicited major bullying here, may still do so.

[StarryNite]

19. Exactly!

Stop the infighting! Please!

[lpbk2713]

21. And when it's not them it's AOC

or Sanders

or ______

Might as well get over it. There will always be someone to fill in the blank.

[DownriverDem]

25. About Sanders

Sanders is not a member of the Democratic Party.

[JonLP24]

47. I'd trade him for my Senator

He votes much better than a Democrat. He sure as hell isn't a Republican.

[Sunsky]

23. Yes 100%

Some learned nothing from 2016.

[mastermind]

26. The Democratic party is as close to a Democracy as you can get in this country

Democracies have descent, they have conflicting opinions, they have public forums for conflicts, opinions. In fighting is not what one wants but I believe it can be healthy and working out the challenges just makes us stronger, healthier. It is much better that the storm trooper republican party full of robots programmed to say one thing, do one thing, praise and protect their dictator.

[Heartstrings]

27. Yes...Yes...Yes...

Focus on the republicans and quit battling amongst ourselves! It's their playbook and has worked so well in the past.....

[The Liberal Lion]

28. indeed

[empedocles]

32. Good one

[Duppers]

34. A.f'n.men!

I'm sick of this trite infighting.

[ProudProgressiveNow]

35. KR NT

[malaise]

36. Yes

Rec

[LiberalLovinLug]

37. And one could also add Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders to that list

[SergeStorms]

38. Absolutely correct!

Stop letting the trolls dictate the debate. They've done this for the past 20 years and we always fall for it. NO MORE!

[Ferrets are Cool]

39. OH MY GOD!! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!

Let's fight some Nazi's

[Haggis for Breakfast]

40. To quote the imminent philosopher Rodney King

"Can't we all just get along ?"

[Honeycombe8]

41. Who is Ida, and why am I supposed to care what she thinks?

People post tweets by other people all the time, without saying who these people are.

Are people fighting about Avenatti?

The fight about Pelosi is not ours. It's something to be dealt with in the House. And they're not fighting, as far as I know....yet.

[RandiFan1290]

46. Who are you? nt

[Honeycombe8]

48. I am a 10 year member of DU, w/a history of laying out my views. Who is Ida?nt

[RandiFan1290]

49. Your opinion is no more or less important than hers.

No one cares when you signed up to DU.

[Honeycombe8]

50. Yes, it is, when someone posts a tweet by some unknown person.

It's appropriate to identify who the tweeter is, so we'll get a sense of how many years of pointed observation of political parties she has. And it's not just to get more followers in twitter.

Who I am is well known in this forum to the extent anyone can read my thoughts & views, and look me up. Plus, I'm not posting a tweet by myself around the internet, giving advice to people. Who Ida is...unknown. So it's bad form not to identify her, IMO.

There are plenty of famous people with cred and a history of supporting Democratic Party causes, w/o going to posting tweets by people looking for followers on Twitter. Or if she IS famous, why not identify her?

What did Ida say on the lead up to the Iraq War? There are people w/a view of history, who are famous and respected writers and thinkers. It'd be interesting to know what THEY think on the subject. She may be one of them. I don't know. Maybe served in the military in the Iraq War. It's a mystery. I'm just saying...why not identify her?

[USALiberal]

55. You are unknown to me, you could be her! Lighten the fuck up. Nt

[Honeycombe8]

56. You lighten up. I am well known, if you search my history here.

You will know my age, my viewpoints, who I voted for, and a host of other things about me.

Requesting that yet another tweet by yet another unknown person be identified is proper. And if I had posted it, I have no doubt I'd get chastised for not identifying the tweeter.

Lighten up and quit attacking me for a post that simply asks "Who is Ida?" Geez.

[markbark]

52. To paraphrase the immortal words of Gag Halfrunt

Zaphod Beeblebrox's private brain care specialist:
"Vell, Ida is just zis guy, you know?"

She's some ex-pat living in Norway who I started following on twitter 'cuz I liked a lot of what she was saying.
Not a pundit, not an authority and as far as I can tell, not a Russian bot. (YMMV)
Certainly no one to get in an argument over. Fight the Nazis, not each other.

[Honeycombe8]

54. Thanks. That's all I was wondering.

I see a lot of tweets here passed on by DU'ers, tweeters unknown, and the poster rarely identifies who they are. So I get tired of looking them up & wish instead that they'd just identify the tweeter, since they obviously know who they are. I would. It's just a courtesy.

I don't consider asking who someone is to be "fighting." But thanks...that's all I was wondering...who is this mysterious Ida?

[denvine]

51. Thank you!

We need to stay focused on the real enemies, they are the real threat to our democracy, our earth and our freedom.

[calimary]

53. PLEASE!!!!!

[malthaussen]

57. I couldn't agree more.

But the point of the Democratic Party is that it is not just a bunch of robots who vote in lockstep as the Leader commands. Hence, agitated discussion of issues is a healthy thing. Only when such infighting takes away from the energy needed to combat the real enemy do we have a problem. Right now, I suggest, the Party's biggest problem is that it still has not figured out how to keep the GOP from controlling the narrative.

-- Mal