Hey DU - good local Dem (Houston area) Dayna Steele is being attacked on Twitter for this tweet.

[Lisa0825]

Anyone game to help fight back?

Link to tweet

[Mersky]

1. Flarge! I'm not on Twitter!

There's a parade of winger dumbass-ery needing to be shut down.

[VarryOn]

2. Anyone that wants to make a point...

Using rhetoric like that can defend herself. Notwithstanding all the vile, disgusting discourse and actions Trump and his enablers subject the country to on a daily basis, good people should not even wonder aloud whether molestation and starvation of children might be a means for punishing their parents. But, that's just me.

Perusing her Twitter feed, this one seems to be an abberation. Deleting it would be advisable.

[Duppers]

3. She was making a good "slap-back" point.

Not at all a serious suggestion to actually do it. These racists need a mirror to put themselves in others' shoes.

[BigmanPigman]

4. Exactly. I thought it was obvious.

[Duppers]

5. Thanks! Just read something Peter Fonda wrote...

"In June 2018, Fonda went on Twitter to criticize ... Trump's administration's enforcement of U.S. immigration policy..."We should rip Barron Trump from the arms of First Lady Melania Trump and put him in a cage with pedophiles."

There. Again there's that mirror they should look into.

Some of us get it. Stop our mere words and spare their precious feelings?

[BigmanPigman]

6. Speaking of mirrors and hypocrites...

The Con was fat shaming a supporter last night at his rally. Unbelievable!

[SharonClark]

7. Is this the tweet you referenced?

"Deleted the original tweet because ignorance and hate do not recognize irony. The threats my followers were receiving just shows the actual problem domestic terrorism actually is to the USA."

[Lisa0825]

12. No, it looks like she deleted the one I had linked to.

I didn't save the text or screenshot, but it was basically turning the tables on the white supremacists - why not do to them and their kids what they have been doing to kids at the border - caging, molesting, etc. How would they feel if it were their kids, IOW.

[pecosbob]

8. Now I remember why the name was familiar to me

She was a rock DJ that started in Houston back in the eighties.

[KatyMan]

10. Hah

I knew I recognized that name! Rock 101 KLOL!

[panader0]

9. Dayna is a friend of my sweetheart Jeannie

who worked radio in Houston for twenty years.
Jeannie donated heavily to Dayna during her run in '18.

[Mersky]

11. Was appalled by the antisemitic responses in that Twitter thread

Was annoyed and saddened, too, by the comments taking her tweet literally, then throwing their faux pearl-clutching outrage over to hatemongering trolls.

She ran for office in 2018, and had a successful career in radio. I'd say she deserves a Wikipedia page as much as Dan 'look at my truck' Patrick. Her page was deleted on July 15, 2019. Annnd, the page for the 36th district does not list election results for 2016 or 2018... No mention of her or the vote breakdown - which would be pondersome against the demographic makeup of the district.

I'd say the 36th needs some sunlight shone upon it, as I reckon voter suppression is rampant... Is an area historically notorious for hate crime.

Otherwise, I hope her family and friends circle her with loving support today... That was some awful shit to witness.

[Lisa0825]

13. Agree on all points.

Dayna is a wonderful person. I was sad to see her getting that treatment.

[Mersky]

14. I wanted to do more. Really frustrating to see that happening.

If you're in contact with her, send her my regards. I think she's awesome for, among other things, taking on the 36th.