Our JPR friends have turned on "Squad" member Ayanna Pressley for endorsing Warren

[brooklynite]

“Pressley was part of the Boston political establishment before she won her seat in Congress.”

No surprise. Pressley is a PINO, Progressive in Name Only.

No surprise there – never saw her in the league with Omar, Ocasio-Cortez and Tlaib.

https://jackpineradicals.com/boards/search/pressley/

[George II]

1. Disgusted, but not surprised.

[melman]

11. Oh yeah

I'm sure you're really disgusted.

[George II]

15. Your point? We're talking about people "turning" on Ayana Pressley. Did I? But it truly is....

....amazing that you pull up posts from months ago for some bizarre reason.

Tell me something, do you do an advanced search each time you do this or do you have my posts cataloged and cross referenced?

[melman]

17. Bizarre reason?

The reason is to show how you're feigning outrage when the reality is you've bashed for Pressley months. Not bizarre at all.


And btw, you've done plenty of Warren bashing too. so not really sure where the "disgust" is coming from.


answer: No and no.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

18. Bazinga!

[George II]

26. Thank you.....

“Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.....”

― Oscar Wilde

[Cha]

29. lol!

[George II]

19. Well, just show me in that four month old post where I bashed Pressley? I don't see it....

You'll have to do a deeper search to find one in which I "bash" her. And while you're at it, be sure to pull up all the posts where I actually compliment and praise her. In fact, I admire the job she's doing overall. Not perfect (none are), but she's very very good.

I also have not bashed Warren, either. I may have disagreements with her or criticized how she approaches other candidates, but I certainly have NOT bashed her. Surely you can find one of those, too?

BTW, I think I even praised Pressley when she endorsed Elizabeth Warren (an exacta of non-bashes!!!!). See if you can find that one in your catalog of my posts, I'm not going to look for it.

Finally, just what is behind your obsession with me?

[melman]

20. That thread

is perhaps the single ugliest one in DU history. You know exactly the intent behind it and I'm not going to play the game of explaining.



I don't catalog your posts and I'm not obsessed with you. That is beyond ridiculous.

[George II]

21. So you can't show me where I bashed her. I didn't think you could or would.....

[sheshe2]

38. Really?

melman
20. That thread

is perhaps the single ugliest one in DU history. You know exactly the intent behind it and I'm not going to play the game of explaining.

I guess you never read WillieT's 'Stockholm Syndrome' threads

Or Will Pitts 'POSUCS' threads.

Or Manny Goldstein's (a self proclaimed Republican at the end of his stay) 'Watermellon and Fried Chicken' threads on MLK Day.

Or NYC SKP slyly calling Hillary the 'C' word.

I guess you missed all those. None of those people are here anymore. They went to JRR. They are gone but not forgotten.

Unbelievable. These threads are perhaps the single ugliest ones in DU history.

[melman]

39. Yes

Really. Calling these four congresswomen unprofessional for responding to Trump's racist attack is the worst thing I've seen here.

YMMV

[George II]

42. Of course, since you're great at pulling up my old quotes and posting them months later....

....you'll be able to find one where I called any of our Congresswomen, much less as you put it "these four congresswomen", unprofessional, right?

[sheshe2]

45. Calling someone "unprofessional"????

melman
39. Yes

Really. Calling these four congresswomen unprofessional for responding to Trump's racist attack is the worst thing I've seen here.

Calling someone "unprofessional", which George did not, is far far worse than calling a female candidate for President a "C**T". Racist comments about black people have Stockholm Syndrome because they voted for Hillary. Calling President Obama a POSUCS because he was to lazy to research his and his wife's healthcare before he moved to NH. Then the racist watermelon and fried chicken post Manny made on MLK day is far far worse than calling someone unproffessional?

I can't believe you are calling out a racist attack that did not happen and calling true racist and misogynist attacks nothing.

[melman]

47. A racist attack that didn't happen?

What in the fucking fuck! Are you seriously saying Trump's "go back to where they came from" wasn't racist? UNREAL!


As for the thread:


You know perfectly well what the intent of that thread was. If not, you can always reread it as there are plenty of others that got it.


Either way, I'm not going to play this game with you any further. It's offensive and infuriating and I'm just not doing it.


Done.

[sheshe2]

48. You were not calling out trump.

You were calling out George.

I also find your lack of comment on former DU members racist attacks disheartening, yet sadly, expected.

[George II]

50. And yet you STILL can't direct anyone to where any of this happened. Who was talking about trump...

....or that vile comment of his? Only YOU, certainly not I.

Yes, what you did in a failed attempt to go after me yet again is indeed "offensive and infuriating"!

[sheshe2]

53. Welp.

When you have nothing.

[melman]

23. bonus content

"Ayanna Pressley is the least outspoken of them all, thankfully, but tomorrow morning...

....she should go to her office, close the door, look around, and remember who occupied that office long before she did. Then think of the example she set."


you are quite welcome!

[George II]

24. Yet another four-month old, July OP (not even mine this time) dug out of the archives....

Again, where is that a "bash"? Do you know whose office she occupies? HER CHILDHOOD HERO Shirley Chisholm. In the context that you left out, my post is a compliment. Why can't you recognize that?

[melman]

25. Of course

Being sneeringly condescending and dismissive is always meant as a compliment. Everyone knows that.

[Cha]

30. Thank you again, George, for the OP

recognizing the new WOC Congresswomen, who aren't in the limelight all the time, but are doing excellent work for their constituents all the same.. and making us proud

Without all our new Dems in Congress.. we would not be in the Impeachment process of the psycho in the WH NOW!

[UniteFightBack]

34. That was the weakest example of a 'bash' if I ever did see one.

[George II]

35. .

[sheshe2]

40. Hey!

Love Stephen and James Corden here~

[George II]

43. Well whaddaya know!

[sheshe2]

46. Love Stephen.

[TidalWave46]

33. Very interesting that they do this to you...

And not a peep about the scum highlighted in the op. Attack a DU member while glossing over the words of truly sick people.

It doesn’t seem to be by accident. Seems to be a tactic.

[sheshe2]

58. Yes.

That would be a yes, very interesting.

[Cha]

72. It's a predictable tactic.. "auto-kill the messenger".. anything

to distract. I've seen it time and again and had it used on me.

[NYMinute]

54. Disgusted is the key word nt

[Hassin Bin Sober]

2. Wow. Those attacks are brutal! Thanks so much for bringing them to light!

I can’t tell you how grateful we all are that you spend your days keeping an eye on other websites.

I know I sleep better at night!

[TidalWave46]

14. Clearly Bin a long long time. NT

[sheshe2]

51. You don't need to go to JPR to read them, Hassin.

So much worse was posted right here on DU. I assume you missed them all.

However everyone of them are on or were on JPR. Manny himself along with Miriam ran the place.

melman
20. That thread

is perhaps the single ugliest one in DU history. You know exactly the intent behind it and I'm not going to play the game of explaining.

I guess you never read WillieT's 'Stockholm Syndrome' threads

Or Will Pitts 'POSUCS' threads.

Or Manny Goldstein's (a self proclaimed Republican at the end of his stay) 'Watermellon and Fried Chicken' threads on MLK Day.

Or NYC SKP slyly calling Hillary the 'C' word.

I guess you missed all those. None of those people are here anymore. They went to JRR. They are gone but not forgotten.

Unbelievable. These threads are perhaps the single ugliest ones in DU history.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1287355980#post38

[NYMinute]

55. You're not a stalwart on JPR?

I am shocked.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. Are those fools still around?

Are they still supporting Bernie or are they all in for Gabbard?

[brooklynite]

8. They seem to be split...

[Wellstone ruled]

16. They never went away.

Watch how this crew pumps the Russian Talking points from now on.

[riversedge]

27. I did not know they were still spitting out their hate.

[demmiblue]

4. I don't care what they are doing over at JPR...

Free Republic, Discussionist, etc.

[sheshe2]

49. Well fact is, many are still here.

Some left placeholders. They are among us.

[AllyCat]

5. I liked Jack Pine Radical when he was still with us.

I struggle to see that he would have approved of this lot and what they are doing. When they first started, I joined. After about 2 days, I realized how completely demented they were. It is folks like this that brought us DJT and now they are undermining Democrats that they don't deem worthy in FAVOR OF helping the corrupt and criminal GOP. Unbelievable.

Yes, I posted a "suicide" post at JPR once I realized they were about insanity and they tombstoned me. Sorry for my error in thinking they might be on to something. Ugh.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

10. I remember him. He seemed like such a gentle soul,

and what JPR has become is an insult to his memory. I joined up when it first started, just to get away from the DU primary wars, but it wasn't long before I figured out that they weren't going where I wanted to go. I never went back until today, and what I saw was pretty bad. I never bothered to get tombstoned. Maybe I should.

[eilen]

79. I joined that board too when it first started up

I then pretty much forgot about it. I checked in once during 2016 and was appalled. They are conspiracy nuts. They were actually pushing pizzagate. I back away slowly, no sudden moves. I felt like another part of the world went crazy. I felt very disappointed. I was also kicked off someone's FB page for telling them by allowing people to post conspiracy theories unchallenged--which made them look and sound like wingnuts and not mentally competent was irrational and unwise--it lowered the quality of their discussions and basically like arguing with the religiously converted, you just end up being called names. I mean, when you accuse a person of being the antichrist -- I got nothing.

[ritapria]

6. Microsoft News Post Debate Poll

Pete 21% (+5) …. Biden 20% ( -6 ) ...Warren 12 % (-3) ... Bernie 12% (+1 )….Harris 3% (+ 1) ... Others 6%

[crazytown]

32. Pre Debate: Biden 26%, Pete 16%. Nope.

Pete is nowhere near 16% nationally, let alone GA.

[NYMinute]

56. Those are fleeting polls

in time, they will all support Biden.

[empedocles]

7. trump will beat trump - if Dems don't screw up

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

9. So I got curious and looked. I shouldn't have.

The insults heaped on Buttigieg (which I won't repeat here but are pretty awful, sounding like something straight from Breitbart), Warren and everybody else but Bernie and Gabbard, told me everything I need to know. Sometimes the political continuum becomes a circle.

[NYMinute]

57. JPR - a site supported by Russian money nt

[sheshe2]

61. I tried to find the link.

It has been posted here.

[ismnotwasm]

12. I like poking at those fuckers once in a while

I have this RL vision of barely functioning adults that are a little touched, with a shit ton of drama, like a website for histrionic/borderline personality disorder.

[TidalWave46]

13. Very sick people. NT

[Gothmog]

22. Who is surprised by this?

[BlueMTexpat]

28. I never go to JPR.

They can "nasty" themselves to death for all I care.

[Cha]

31. LOLOLOLOLOL.. "Establishment" Establishment" "Extablishment"!

The tired ol DIVISIVE alleged "insult" that means absolutely Nothing.

[oasis]

41. American voters will always choose "establishment" over maverick lefties.

Take that to the bank.

[Cha]

44. The "Establishment" has Accomplshed so Much!

those who throw it out as an insult only talk about it.

Aloha, oasis!

[sheshe2]

62. Just a thought.

You need to add the sarcasm tag from time to time.

I know what you are saying, yet others might not.

[crazytown]

64. I'll delete. Inflamatory.

I still get angry about it all

[sheshe2]

65. I get it. nt

[ecstatic]

36. PINO? Are you f*cking kidding me?!

I'll give whichever troll coined that term a C+ for his/her effort. Thanks for the laugh.

[Blue_true]

37. JPR, Freepers by another name. nt

[OAITW r.2.0]

60. No, they are different than the FR....

FR posters wear their ignorance proudly.

JPR is a collection of Republican operatives / Russian trolls dedicated to dividing the Democratic Party by riding the candidate(s) who would get destroyed in the GE.

[sheshe2]

63. Many were long time DUers. nt

[OAITW r.2.0]

67. I know, I remember the 2016 primaries 'discussions' well.

It was so obvious the games being played here....

[sheshe2]

68. Yep..

I will never forget what we lost.

[Blue_true]

69. I will carry the bitter taste of that 2016 presidential loss to my death.

But in every dark cloud is a silver lining. Trump has ignored the rule of law in a huge number of cases, and the Supreme Court has backed him in many cases. Here is the silver lining, I don't think that a President Biden or President Buttigieg, or President Booker, or President Klobuchar would use that silver lining, but all to the left of them certainly should. The silver lining is that Trump ignored the rule of law by doing a tweet or writing and executive order doing what he wanted in spite of what laws said. Our President should do the same thing, if the SC rules against him or her, point to what the SC allowed Trump to do, then ignore the ruling and do what he or she feels is right. The SC can't enforce anything, it depends upon the President obeying laws, which Trump is not doing.

We have to stop seeing republican presidents like Reagan, Bush II and now Trump ignore laws and do what they want to do and our Presidents don't respond in kind. We need to do a mirror image of what they did except for the good, then tell the conservative SC to go guck itself once it rules.

[sheshe2]

71. I was and did not wear my ignorance proudly because I am not ignorant.

You were not here in 2016. I know what you are saying.... Fact is we are not allowed to talk about it.

I know exactly who the JPRers are.

[OAITW r.2.0]

73. I was Old and In the Way back then. Due to a closed email acct, I got locked out

and had to create a new DUname.

[sheshe2]

75. Okay.

Thank you.

However we are not allowed to talk about 2016. So I cannot fully reply.

[OAITW r.2.0]

77. No problem...

I think George Santanaya had it about right....

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

[fleabiscuit]

52. Wow. I'm experiencing flashbacks. And it pisses me off.

[Cha]

66. I know that.. I've been

continually pissed off.

flea

[LAS14]

70. So endorsing Warren means you're not a progressive??? I don't get it. nt

[betsuni]

74. Yes, it means you aren't a progressive because in JPR World Warren isn't a progressive.

In JPR World, Warren's original sin was endorsing Hillary Clinton (BETRAYED). Other sins: saying she was capitalist to her bones (she will not fight against the corporate elite's corruption, is traitor to the revolution), backtracking on saying the primary was rigged (proof that Warren puts her career over beliefs -- opportunist!), backtracking on PACs (status quo), waffling on Medicare for All, something bad about foreign policy, the DNA thing (and she didn't go to Standing Rock), she used to be a Republican (suddenly this is a problem), she should've ran in 2016 (we totally would've voted for her, we swear!). That's all I can remember right now, but she has definitely been excommunicated.

CANCELLED!

[Hortensis]

82. :) In JPR world, probably 990 out of every 1000 who

believe in progressive government aren't "progressive." And if they talked to the rest, they're no doubt weed out most for not falling completely in line with their current leader. Deviant beliefs not allowed inside an embattled and passionately loyal group .

Lol, of course Warren's endorsement of Hillary was unforgivable. Sanders courted her for months and she always refused to support him for president. Emphatic rejection. We may understand why, but they don't and never will.

[Mike Nelson]

76. How weird...

... I was thinking most Bernie supporters would find Elizabeth happily acceptable.

[Kurt V.]

78. this a fairly long thread about nothing actually important. :)

[progressoid]

83. But I have hands to wring and garments to rend!!

[Hortensis]

80. Attacking each other, and everyone else of course, is why these groups

can't gain real power and make the changes they're supposedly so committed to. They're so narrowly passionate about so many things that, inevitably, what should be workable issue differences become divisions, typically hostile, and they destroy themselves. As we see here. They're not just driving away Pressley but voters who aren't ardently narrow enough.

Nothing new. Because of this dysfunction, the rescue of our nation after the Great Depression essentially happened without them, in spite of initially strong support for socialism from a very hurt and worried populace. They actually managed to form a party because of it, which they promptly destroyed.

So, many will spend the next 11 months angry and depressed yet again, seeing victories of almost all Democratic candidates, including Pressley, as proof of corruption and stolen elections, because they know the people really want them. I wouldn't live my life doomed to fail over and over, taking what bitter satisfaction I could glean from Democratic losses, for anything.

[ehrnst]

81. Because of course they have.

And that she's a minority and a woman is just gravy.

They can pat themselves on the back for being SO PROGRESSIVE that they will trash a black woman as a "corporatist."