Comments by "wvu05" (@wvu05) on "Jimmy Dore FINALLY Gets It Right?" video.

What things were Jimmy Dore right about? Certainly not the Supreme Court, or that Tulsi Gabbard is the One True Lefty.
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The Progressive Caucus did implement some changes, including having actual changes: 1) Having only one chair now. (A lot of people are saying that Jayapal will keep the chair.) 2) Anything with a 2/3 majority vote in the caucus is binding. 3) You must vote with the bound position at least 2/3 of the time. It's certainly a start.
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@tim211292 Not if Jayapal is chair.
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@Junebug89 Other than the Freedom Caucus, who really demands 100% purity? I think that in many ways it took a very long time for the caucus to grow past its beggars can't be choosers roots. The original group was only five. I think that we will also see how things go in the 117th to see whether or not the obvious fake lefties of the Tulsi Gabbard strain will decide that they want to go through with the hassle or if it will give room for the actual lefties to really start putting their stamp on things.
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@superdupeninja8149 He used that idea to trash Nina Turner for not going to one of the M4AM4A rallies outside of her district ten days before the election. Force the Vote was just another way to dump on people who don't agree with his ridiculous strategy.
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@InternetMameluq He didn't take down the Seth Rich video or demonetize it, did he? No, he is still making money off it any time someone watches it, so he doesn't get credit for saying Oopsie a day later.
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@unevilGenius The Supreme Court, whether or not Trump would be a real threat, 9/11 truth, Seth Rich, Hillary has Parkinson's, Assad, Tulsi, Medicare expansion, and Force the Vote.
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@unevilGenius They did get concessions. The most relevant one is the loophole to the Paygo rules that makes any big bill even possible. Why was it a stupid idea? We already have a sponsor list, and are you familiar with the idea of catch and release? As far as some of the others, he has repeatedly tried to convince people that Trump isn't that bad and that it won't matter if he gets multiple Supreme Court picks. He is a 9/11 Truther, he pushed the Seth Rich conspiracy, and pretty much everything he told Sam Seder in 2016 was proven wrong. And Tulsi has taken off any vestiges of her lefty mask that should have been totally obvious by 2019.
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@unevilGenius Okay. You didn't answer the question about Catch and Release. It was a tactic pioneered by Tom DeLay. It involves making sure that you get the desired result while allowing members a chance to keep up appearances. In his case, it was about letting "moderate" members appear to be. Barney Frank famously described it as "There is no such thing is a moderate Republican. They might say that they vote with the President [Bush at the time] 70% of the time, but they vote with the President 100% of the time when he needs their votes." So, there are one of exactly three possible results relative to the sponsor list. 1) The sponsor list is accurate, and the bill falls 100 votes short, killing any possible momentum. 2) The Soft Yes members become Hard No, and now you're even farther away than when you started (considering that at least one sponsor in the 116th who is still in the House isn't on the list in the 117th, this may have already happened). 3) Pelosi uses Catch and Release to let a few members in lefty districts to vote Yes in order to avoid another AOC/Bowman, so you have deflated the momentum against someone like Hakeem Jefferies, and now you have someone who'll never vote Yes if it really is possible. Tell me, please, how any of these are good if your goal is to actually get to 218 votes in the House?
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