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If the tragedy in Texas had happened on Bidens watch, the HOUSE hearings would have started today! This would have made Bengazi look like childs play. The Republicans and Fox News would be on this like a dog with a bone.
The gutting of our national weather service, the gutting of all security agencies to protect us from terrorism etc.
Its time for the Democratic Party to start pounding the table on these issues. Political theater can be very effective, but only if you use it.

BannonsLiver
(19,420 posts)And the servile GOP corporate media (Fox, NYT, WaPo, CNN, Politico etc.) would be beating that drum hard.
malaise
(286,821 posts)😀
B.See
(5,904 posts)a buncha sick bstrds.
Sick
tableturner
(1,803 posts)Fighting hard enables Republicans to take a nothing lie and turn it into a big something in the minds of the public, while our party fights like wimps and takes a big, real something and turns it into a forgotten nothing!
betsuni
(28,109 posts)and they should be because that's "fighting"? When did Democrats take a "a big, real something" and turn it into nothing?
What does "fighting" mean?
tableturner
(1,803 posts)Fighting hard does not necessarily mean the fight is based on lies. That's what Republicans do. Democrats have the truth on their side, so they need to push the truth, but with more ferocity, more repetition, and more volume, in other words "with more fight".
Democrats turn a real something into a nothing by not making their honest arguments with "more ferocity, more repetition, and more volume" than they now do (as noted in the prior paragraph). That's true over a range of issues we lose in the public square because of our relatively weak messaging.
Emile
(36,011 posts)blaming Joe Biden.
W_HAMILTON
(9,343 posts)...time for you and everyone else to start pounding the table on the rightwing bias of our corporate media that amplifies Republican propaganda while tamping down Democratic truth.
Democrats Are Calling For Probe Into National Weather Service After Deadly Floods In Texas
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) wrote a letter Monday to the Department of Commerces acting inspector general asking him to investigate whether staffing shortages at San Antonios National Weather Service office led to any delays, gaps, or diminished accuracy when forecasting Central Texas deadly floods over the holiday weekend.
Following the disastrous and deeply devastating flash flooding in Texas this weekend, I write to urge you to immediately to open an investigation into the scope, breadth, and ramifications of whether staffing shortages at key local National Weather Service (NWS) stations contributed to the catastrophic loss of life and property during the deadly flooding, Schumer wrote in the letter.
In the letter, Schume cited a New York Times article that reported positions at the San Antonio and San Angelo National Weather Service offices were vacant because President Donald Trumps administration encouraged retirements and put a freeze on hiring.
The roles left unfilled are not marginal, theyre critical, Schumer wrote. These are the experts responsible for modeling storm impacts, monitoring rising water levels, issuing flood warnings, and coordinating directly with local emergency managers about when to warn the public and issue evacuation orders. To put it plainly: they help save lives.
Taken from: https://uk.news.yahoo.com/democrats-calling-probe-national-weather-224641900.html
Diraven
(1,455 posts)🤦
W_HAMILTON
(9,343 posts)...in the lead-up to last year's elections and ever since, yes, sadly, international news media is probably our best bet at this point.
Buzz cook
(2,748 posts)I don't know how many videos and articles there are showing a republican condemning a thing and then later excusing it. I think it's reached the point of ubiquity.
SoFlaBro
(3,571 posts)Gimpyknee
(370 posts)They wont listen to fake network news. Theyre not going to hear this on Faux News.
AllaN01Bear
(26,525 posts)calimary
(87,116 posts)Then change the name Biden to Trump. That will turn most if not all of the real AND imagined items on the list into trump attributes.
SocialDemocrat61
(5,206 posts)Biden 24/7 for weeks
JI7
(92,338 posts)and his cult is just shocked and outraged at people bringing politics into this.
So It's another case of " thoughts and prayers" and then go on with your life for them.
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Tribetime
(6,730 posts)Fox news and c n n would go crazy on the democrats... Imagine obama doing ice raids... The double standards of republicans is ridiculous