Dozens of former Katie Porter staffers pen open letter defending her, months after backlash
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5841898-porter-gubernatorial-campaign-backlash/
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5841898-porter-gubernatorial-campaign-backlash/
13 Comments
Zaktor@sopuli.xyz · 13 pts · 149d
How is telling a staffer to get out of her fucking shot supposed to be a serious political issue? That's so mild.
rangber@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 149d
Has she considered run as Republican, committing inside trading, abusing her position for personal gain instead? She would have gotten away with it all.
Zaktor@sopuli.xyz · 6 pts · 149d
What are you talking about? She doesn't even trade stocks. She was one of the reps trying to ban trading.
PoastRotato@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 149d
I think they were trying to point out the double standard here. As a Democrat, she gets hung out to dry over a tiny infraction, whereas Republicans are openly corrupt and face 0 consequences. They're saying if she ran as a Republican this incident would never have been a problem because the bar is so low for them.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 148d
Democrats are expected to be as pure as the driven snow and Republicans are expected to be awful and disgusting.
And it's even worse than that: when the Republicans act in terrible ways, thanks to Murc's Law, often it is the Democrats who are blamed for not somehow reeling in the Republicans.
tomiant@piefed.social · 2 pts · 148d
Republicans: *shoot citizen in the leg\*
Republicans: "THE INCOMPETENT DEMON-RATS HAVE STILL NOT STEMMED THE BLEEDING!"
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 148d
It's bad enough when the Republicans do it, but they are often joined by a the supposed "liberal" media nearly always, not to mention just about every reactionary centrist you ever have the pleasure to know in your personal life...
tomiant@piefed.social · 2 pts · 148d
Liberal media? There's liberal media?
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 149d
Any one watch that debate? Porter the most polished but all the focus seems to be on Steyer.
StepUp2DaStreets@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 148d
Steyer can keep throwing millions at the race. I like Porter but she's got a long road to go.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 148d
Yeah I was in California visiting family who watch TV. I haven't had a TV with like, traditional local/ cable news on it, basically ever, and I've had practically no exposure since like, season 6 or 7 of the Simpsons. NGL, just seeing how far the brain rot has gone. Its like, actually mind-blowing and I feel like normies who aren't versed in media analysis or criticism are legitimately cooked.
Aaaanyways.. to the point.
Between episodes of Price is Right and other forms of propaganda, 100% of the ads were either for Steyer or against Steyer. The family member I was with could only name Steyer, in terms of name recognition. They couldnt name another single name of anyone else on stage.
StepUp2DaStreets@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 148d
The only live shows I've watched in years is sports. Lately some NBA playoffs have been entertaining, but the ads are insufferable. I've been adverse to ads for a long time but especially the gambling ones are just ridiculous.
If you haven't been exposed to this shit in awhile, then yeah, I could totally see it being overwhelming. Hopefully Steyer can't just buy enough name recognition to win, but sadly that seems to be one of the biggest drivers of turnout.
dditty@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 149d
So did Porter actually use the F word? It doesn't sound like it based on my reading of this. If not, that also drastically changes the severity of the criticism imo