Excellent takedown of Velshi's "WTF are the Dems!!11" rant yesterday

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I’m so tired.
I’m so very very tired

I put in so much work and yet you still say this shit

— Ariella Elm (@ariellaelm.bsky.social) 2025-08-31T16:32:13.602Z

Yeah, I did watch it. For starters you didn’t acknowledge that Wall Street Journal wrote an article about how successful Schumer is with blocking Trump’s judicial nominees.
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— Ariella Elm (@ariellaelm.bsky.social) 2025-08-31T18:11:10.381Z

Or how hard the Senators worked to get the worst of the worst out of the big ugly bill and yeah, Schumer played a huge role in making that happen.

You didn’t acknowledge how the DNC has organized 138 town halls in Republican district that our democratic lawmakers have hosted
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— Ariella Elm (@ariellaelm.bsky.social) 2025-08-31T18:11:10.382Z

You also talked about Iowa, but you didn’t talk about the fact Ken Martin sent 30,000 volunteers there. In fact, every time we have won one of these elections, the DNC has been there. Every single one of these local wins the DNC has been there asking the campaign: hoe can we help?
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— Ariella Elm (@ariellaelm.bsky.social) 2025-08-31T18:11:10.383Z

You didn’t acknowledge how Jefferies created the rapid response task force and litigation working group and they are doing some incredible work I mean, did you even acknowledge the amicus briefs? Congress doesn’t normally get involved in cases like that.
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— Ariella Elm (@ariellaelm.bsky.social) 2025-08-31T18:11:10.384Z

Or the fact that the house Dems were 100% united against the CR and against the big ugly bill and against the rescission package. There are so many different voices in the Democratic Party to get all of them to do the same thing is a huge lift. You know this because you said it in your piece.
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— Ariella Elm (@ariellaelm.bsky.social) 2025-08-31T18:11:10.385Z

For instance, you could’ve named @vanhollen.senate.gov who is in Israel as we speak, trying to get them to end the war to stop the famine. And who is the main reason that El Salvador is no longer housing American abductees
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— Ariella Elm (@ariellaelm.bsky.social) 2025-08-31T18:11:10.387Z

You could’ve mentioned @jimmcgovernma.bsky.social who is the best ranking member we will ever have on the rules committee. I mean the fact that he found a loophole because the Republicans filed the rule wrong so he was able to have every Democrat ask for unanimous consent. That deserves praise.
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— Ariella Elm (@ariellaelm.bsky.social) 2025-08-31T18:11:10.389Z

I’m tired. I’m tired of posting about this day in and day out and having people who have a lot less than a lot larger audience than me saying the same damn thing. Maybe our Dems aren’t doing everything humanly possible but they are doing a hell of a lot more than you’re giving them credit for.
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— Ariella Elm (@ariellaelm.bsky.social) 2025-08-31T18:11:10.390Z