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

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94. Here is an example of "ignoring" what Democrats "are doing" right here on DU

Demands have been made continually that "Democrats should hold a press conference (or hearing) with the Epstein victims".

So when one such an event is announced and posted about, it gets a yawn -

Khanna and Massie to hold press conference with Epstein victims

And yes Massie is a retiring GOPer but Ro Khanna is a Democrat, and both are trying to keep the EPSTEIN FILES issue "in the news" while the GOP is furiously trying to bury it. And this is especially since it is at the core of the loon QAnon CT nonsense, and had been used as a RW and corporate media cudgel against Democrats for the past decade, with "pizzagate" and other crazy stuff.

I search through at least 3 dozen news sites daily to post about what Democrats ARE doing. The M$M often refuses to publish anything our elected officials do (or even anything about those organizations that affiliate with us and/or with causes that we support), and it falls on local media to do that. I.e., those local broadcast and print media outlets DO often report on those town halls that Democrats host in red districts, but the likes of AP or CNN or even MSNBC, ignore these because they would rather spend half their column inches and air time on 2 multimillionaire entertainers (Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce), who have been foisted into the news cycle once again, in an obsessive and unhealthy way to "distract". Their idea of "Bread and Circuses".

And as a local note here in Philly, right now a young, black gay firebrand elected PA state House member - Malcolm Kenyatta - (who has been posted about on DU a few times) is literally walking a 105 mile route from Philly to PA's state capital in Harrisburg, to protest the loon GOP state Senate here, who are not only holding up passage of the PA state Budget (that was overdue for passage since June 30), but who refuse to help fund the state's biggest mass transit systems - notably here in Philly, where dozens of bus, trolley, trackless trolley, subway, commuter train routes have been eliminated and fares increased (yesterday a judge put a TRO on the latest set of cuts/fare increases for now but the earlier stuff remains). And this applies to the current federal government that has slashed and burned funding for transit systems as well.

THIS is a Democratic elected official "doing something" that doesn't "make the news" outside of the local media markets.

It's time for some of these "pundits" to get out of their comfy studios and cozy condos and actually go out on the streets. I doubt any of them have attended or reported from any of the thousands of rallies that have been held since the election, where MANY elected Democrats are "guest speakers" and marchers, including those who show up from "out of town" at particular rallies and protests around the country, to talk about what they ARE doing and where we can go from here.