Ayanna Pressley Endorses Ever-Living F*** Out Of Elizabeth Warren's Plans
Dream ticket assembled!
Democratic superstar Ayanna Pressley has ended the suspense and officially endorsed Senator Elizabeth Warren for president. I also officially endorse a presidential ticket with two candidates from Massachusetts.
Big structural change can’t wait. https: //t.co/8Sanof9COD
— Ayanna Pressley (@Ayanna Pressley) 1573061616.0
PRESSLEY: Elizabeth has made it her life's work to pursue justice for working families and put economic and political power in the hands of people. We find ourselves in a fight for the soul of our nation, and I know Elizabeth can win it.
People guessed this might be coming when Pressley didn't endorse Bernie Sanders along with fellow "Squad" members Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, and Rashida Tlaib.
FRIENDSHIP! It means you still love each other even if you have different votes in the primary! (That includes in the comments, let's not chase people away, hey?) Not in the general though, let's get it correct.
Pressley is the first black woman from Massachusetts elected to Congress. She was the first woman of color to serve on the Boston City Council. So, obviously, some folks on Twitter felt it necessary to ask Pressley if she knew Warren stole all her ideas from Kamala Harris or that Warren was once a Republican and used to eat black babies at Federalist Society potlucks. C'mon, guys, why are we doing this? It's silly.
Warren, Sanders, and Joe Biden all reportedly sought Pressley's endorsement but our girl was won over by Warren's plan-making kung fu. Warren's opponents have taken to mocking her plans, which is admittedly easier than coming up with different ones. (No, sorry, but doing nothing is not a plan!) But as Pressley points out, Warren's "plans are about power: who has it, who refuses to let it go and who deserves more of it."
Pressley believes "big structural change" can't wait until Republicans decide to play nice or stop nominating corrupt racist demagogues. We agree. Oh, and y'all remember when Pressley read Trump his ass on the House floor before they'd even finished painting her office? We've included it below for your viewing pleasure.
Rep. Ayanna Pressley pushes back against President Trump youtu.be
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I had to call Ayanna's office in October (actually it may have been September) and tell her assistant answering the phone to back the fuck off publicizing her bill she was introducing to the House to impeach Kavanaugh because we had a Govs race here in Kentucky and that shit would be like Kim Davis all over again and we didn't need that shit in the last month of a Gov. election in KY. All for impeaching Kav, but G-damn Massachusetts, we're not all Massachusetts out here in the hinterlands! Guy I spoke with in her office was very nice, actually knew who Kim Davis was because he went to college in KY at the time she was grossing us all out with her BS and helped give us Bevin in the first place. Her bill was going no freaking where until after Nov 2020 and I faced palmed all over the place with WTFs. I am grateful that we didn't hear any more about that during our election where we did the damn near impossible and beat Bevin. Had her bill gotten more attention, it could have meant the Gov election for us. So....I love the newbies in congress too, but they still need experience to realize (TIMING!) and what goes on in the country outside their own bubbles, especially in important elections in parts of the country they are apparently not familiar with politically or otherwise. Rant over. Carry on Ayanna, go get 'em now.
Last week at work I was bullied in staff meeting by our site admin, not for the first time, for shit that this person had mismanaged (not for the first time). I'm spending this week at a week-long statewide meeting of co-workers, including this person and the co-workers who sat in the meeting with either their heads down or their jaws hanging open, and who stayed silent. In a way, I didn't blame the administrator so much any more, because it is consistent with who this person is. But I find myself avoiding my co-workers, and thinking things like "complicit" and "tacit agreement", which I have decided perhaps is unfair on my part. The truth is that I don't know what they were thinking and I'm not holding them responsible for failing to speak. That's history, in the past, and unchangeable. But I know this about myself now: if it happens to someone else in my presence, I will not sit silent. I don't care if I lose a job over it. I will not allow people to be verbally abused and bullied in my presence, because if I do, my silence is giving them cause to think I agree with that behavior, and that's not something I'm willing to have anyone believe about me. Now that I've had a chance to think this through and make a decision, I have a plan in place. You cannot change what happened, although I suspect that if there was a day in your life where you could have a do-over, that one would be on the short list. All we can do is change what we do from here on out, and make a commitment not to let an opportunity like that pass us by. When we know our hills, we know ourselves, and that's one worth a last stand.