r/worldnewsvideo • u/PlenitudeOpulence Plenty 🩺🧬💜 • Mar 21 '24

Live Video 🌎 Rep Jasmine Crockett: “I haven’t asked you a question...When I ask you a question, that’s when you answer. Otherwise, I’m talking.” Tony Bobulinski: “Excuse me?”

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u/loztriforce Mar 21 '24

I love her, Katie Porter, and AOC. Three ladies that can serve it up!

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '24 edited Mar 21 '24

Seeing a well spoken, informed, and aggressive assertive* black woman call out these heathens and their corruption makes my heart happy. We've come a long way. We've even longer yet to go.

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u/villain75 Mar 21 '24

She's not even aggressive, just assertive enough to not let him talk over her.

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '24

While often confused, the biggest difference between aggressive and assertive communication is that assertiveness includes respect for yourself and the other party, while aggressive communication quickly disrespects and often insults the other party, leaving yourself feeling guilty or angry.

TIL lol thank you for prompting this discovery:)

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u/Dry-Importance1673 Mar 21 '24

Where did you quote from? I’ve dealt with the ramification of the confusion several times but never thought to define the difference and like this a lot. I have always held important to myself the primacy of respect in all communication which may be why it resonates, but regardless I like it. Thank you for that

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u/regular_gnoll_NEIN Mar 22 '24

If you google assertive vs aggressive it pops up at the top for me haha

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u/apropo Mar 21 '24

You rock Stella!

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u/janet-snake-hole Mar 22 '24

Oooh thanks for sharing this!

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u/villain75 Mar 22 '24

No doubt!

We had it drilled into us back in middle school. We were pushed to be assertive and not get walked over, but to not be aggressive and walk over others. I hope they still teach it, it was really helpful for me, as I tended to be afraid to assert myself out of fear of bothering other people.

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u/aguynamedv Mar 21 '24

She's not even aggressive, just assertive enough to not let him talk over her.

There is a 0% chance Blobinski is unaware of committee rules. He was speaking out of turn on purpose and she shut him down beautifully.

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u/lizzyote Mar 21 '24

I super appreciate the fact that you crossed out aggressive in order to correct yourself to assertive instead of just editing. 10/10

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u/DaddyDontTakeNoMess Mar 21 '24

“Well spoken” is an odd expression for a congress person. There are very few who aren’t, especially on the Dem side. Why we gotta use this adjective for black people? “The highly educated and high achieving black person was well spoken”. Of she is, she’s a freakin congress woman, and is likely a lawyer. It’s not surprising. It’s the norm.

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u/Erisian23 Mar 21 '24

They expect all of us to sound like we on B.E.T.

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u/RhodyGuy1 Mar 21 '24

Hahahaha (45M white)

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u/limitlessEXP Mar 21 '24

This comment is ironic.

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u/villain75 Mar 22 '24

Just know it was likely intentional, we often codeswitch between dialects.

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u/procrastinator2112 Mar 22 '24

You weave in and out of your well spokenness seamlessly. You may just be invited to a Civil War reenactment and infiltrate the southern army. Very clever.

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u/BaraGuda89 Mar 21 '24

I’m mean sure, most Dems are ‘well spoken’ but considering what we see coming out of congress from some of the loudest talkers, it IS nice to know that some of our representatives can articulate their positions instead of spouting off nonsense. I’d say this of Katie Porter as well

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u/aguynamedv Mar 21 '24

Of (course) she is, she’s a freakin congress woman, and is likely a lawyer. It’s not surprising. It’s the norm.

Not only the norm, but a comfortable majority of Congress are either lawyers or have had legal education (ie: they have a JD, but are not bar admitted).

Just shy of 3/5 of the House and just shy of 60% of the Senate are attorneys.

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u/MightFew9336 Mar 22 '24

I 100% get your point and try to avoid that term for that reason (I'm not the person you're replying to), but as a former litigator and current judge, I think I can comfortably agree that she's incredibly well spoken, beyond the norm. Not everyone with her education and in her position has such a facility with (spoken) words, so the ones who do tend to be the ones who come to mind for comparison.

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u/SirCollin Mar 22 '24

Playing devil's advocate here, it could be just that so often when people see congress in the media it's of the ones making buffoons of themselves and that's a lot of people's exposure to them. I've seen people use the same line for Jeff Jackson on his TikToks. Most of the time congressional videos go viral it's because they're looking stupid, like when they are asking stupid questions about if "TikTok accesses the WiFi network" or congressmen bringing snowballs in to disprove climate change.

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u/streetwearbonanza Mar 22 '24

"well spoken" as if black women usually aren't well spoken or something?

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u/bzbeins Mar 22 '24

well spoken? What is your bar?

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u/thekingcola Mar 21 '24

Really going to miss Katie Porter

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u/tango_41 Mar 21 '24

I’m gonna miss her whiteboard. She uncaps that marker you know some shit’s about to go down.

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u/Clammuel Mar 21 '24

She better run for her old seat as soon as she’s able. As much as I’d love to have another progressive in the senate, it was so fucking stupid for neither Porter or Lee to rally around the other once it became obvious Schiff was in the lead. To be perfectly honest Porter shouldn’t have tried running for the seat at all once it became clear Barbara was going to run for it. Now we’re down two strong progressive voices instead of just one.

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u/trueprogressive777 Mar 21 '24

Too bad Adam shift and the other corporate Democrats fucked over Katie Porter in California. Now she’s not even in government. Thanks to Adam Schiff. Adam Schiff spent 20 something million dollars getting Republicans to come out to vote in California elections to beat Katie Porter.

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u/PrimalForceMeddler Mar 21 '24

That was the will of the Democratic Party as a whole, not of any individual. The party is bought and sold by billionaires and they will never allow progressives to successfully be progressive in their party. Hence the constant rightward shift of every squad member who wasn't already a centrist to begin with.

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u/ckb614 Mar 21 '24

They were running against each other... What would you have had him do, try not to win as much?

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u/tinacat933 Mar 21 '24

What? What happened

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u/Clammuel Mar 21 '24

He helped to fund his presumed Republican opponent because he didn’t want the general to come down to him and another democrat. California runs an election system (all states should do the same, honestly, in the absence of ranked choice voting) where the two candidates with the most votes face off against each other in the general election regardless of party affiliation.

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u/DX_DanTheMan_DX Mar 22 '24

I will admit I don't know the whole story and hell I guess I could look it up before commenting haha, but I think "helping to fund" the republican candidate sounds like he gave money to their campaign. I thought it was more, by painting the repub as his main opponent he gave him free marketing which raised his profile and got republicans to come out and vote. A political move for sure but not as egregious as giving money to the repub campaign.

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u/Squirmin Mar 21 '24

LMAO Katie Porter lost to a Republican by 1 million votes. How many of those million votes would have voted for Porter or Lee had Schiff not run negative ads?

2.2 million people voted for Schiff and those people were not going to vote for Porter or Lee in any case. So tell me, how would those Republican voters have voted?

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u/Clammuel Mar 21 '24

They literally helped fund the Republican opponent in order for the general to come down to one democrat and one republican because they feel more confident going against a Republican in the general rather than another democrat. But go ahead and obfuscate and pretend that it’s okay to help elevate republicans.

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u/neodymium86 Mar 21 '24

It's not okay to run attack ads against your opponent? Cause that's what Schiff did. Those ads were sp benign. But Porter raised good money, you mean she didn't run an effective campaign?

You see, nobody actually wanted porter. She bombed with literally every racial demographic. Thats not a good candidate for a statewide office. Shes barely been in the House and thought she was entitled to the Senate seat, despite never having made inroads with the appropriate constituents or members of her own party. She should've thought about that before getting her head blown up. Now shes potentially abandoning her seat to Republicans. She's not a team player and signed her own political death with this stunt. She has the political instincts of Elizabeth Warren, and that's not a good thing.

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u/Clammuel Mar 21 '24

You totally ignored what I said about him contributing to the funding of his Republican opponent. Which is pretty clearly what I was criticizing him over, rather than any attack ads he may have ran against Porter.

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u/Squirmin Mar 21 '24

He didn't contribute any money to his opponent's campaign. You're just lying and mad. https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2024/02/29/adam-schiff-katie-porter-steve-garvey-california-senate-race/

The ads argue that Republican Steve Garvey — a congenial former pro baseball player for the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres who voted twice for Donald Trump but won’t say if he will do so again — is too conservative for California

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u/Clammuel Mar 21 '24 edited Mar 21 '24

Paywalled

EDIT: I think u/squirmin literally just blocked me after their incredibly classy, thoughtful, and respectful response.

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u/Squirmin Mar 21 '24

Sucks to suck

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u/idkwthtotypehere Mar 22 '24

Those three are the model of what we need more of. Intelligent, informed, confident, and always prepared.

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u/MadeFromStarStuff143 Mar 22 '24

Too bad Katie Porter was kept out of the running by the Dems pulling for Schiff’s Republican opponent. You just know Schiff feels entitled to the senator position.

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u/BeanBagMcGee Mar 21 '24

Katie Porter is unfortunately Pro Genocide :(

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u/loztriforce Mar 21 '24

How so?

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u/Status_Basket_4409 Mar 21 '24

Did a quick read and i don’t see anything condemning. She supports the creation of a duel state so that Palestinians and Israelis will govern themselves.

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u/ShadyCrumbcake Mar 21 '24

Doesn't seem like it. I'm not much for reading though.

https://porter.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=585

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u/RogerianBrowsing Mar 21 '24

She does seem like she’s more on the side of Israel and Palestinian civilians while she is highly critical of Hamas, somewhat baselessly in part of it, but I wouldn’t call her pro-genocide.

This purity test shit where anyone calling for a permanent ceasefire, a two state solution where Palestinians have rights, and for there to be aid getting to Gazans who should be kept safe, but doesn’t say Israel is responsible for Oct 7th or avoids direct accusations of genocide to avoid the ire of AIPAC is “pro-genocide” is nonsensical and only makes us lose allies.

You catch more flies with honey and if she’s riding the fine line without AIPAC investing hundreds of millions of dollars against her that’s not something to hate on her for even if it’s frustrating. If she votes the way we need and is critical then show appreciation while asking for more.

Honestly, I think a lot of this hyperbolic vitriolic shit is being pushed by trolls with the goal of promoting democratic voter apathy in an election year where if Biden/dems lose then Palestine is basically donezo, as is the American experiment, Ukraine, etc..

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u/trueprogressive777 Mar 21 '24

AIPAC is 10000% pro genocide. They are right wing as can be. They spend millions of dollars every single election, trying to beat progressives.

They should be registered as a foreign agent, the way they meddle in our elections

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u/RogerianBrowsing Mar 21 '24

I agree, the problem is that so long as aipac is considered lawful (🙄) that it’s going to make progressive candidates be very careful about the words they choose so as not to be screwed over by hundreds of millions of dollars of ads and psyops being used against them

Aipac already goes after progressives, but if they really piss off aipac there’s a good chance they won’t be re-elected

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u/BeanBagMcGee Mar 21 '24

There's only one US Senate Candidate that supports a immediate end to the genocide and that is not Katie Porter.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C3suQoRvrkH/?igsh=MXJnam02M2JxNmQwMg==

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u/Don-Gunvalson Mar 21 '24

You took a clip from this debate why don’t you watch the entire thing and hear what she has to say

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u/BeanBagMcGee Mar 21 '24

Correct!

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u/Don-Gunvalson Mar 21 '24

That’s weak sauce. Have a backbone

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u/BeanBagMcGee Mar 21 '24

I'm fine with my responses lol. But I do appreciate your comments!

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u/Don-Gunvalson Mar 21 '24 edited Mar 21 '24

She wants Palestine to exist…..watch her say it during the debates

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u/BeanBagMcGee Mar 21 '24

And yet doesn't support an immediate end to the genocide of the Palestinians people 🤷🏾‍♂️

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u/Don-Gunvalson Mar 21 '24

I’m being sincere, where has she said she is ok with Palestinians people getting murdered? Was she talking about Hamas? The last thing I could find from her was in dec 2023

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u/BeanBagMcGee Mar 21 '24

Just checking you read what I typed?

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u/Don-Gunvalson Mar 21 '24

Did I read the 14 words w an emoji? Yes. Just checking you read what I typed?

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u/VibraniumRhino Mar 21 '24

Go re-educate yourself please. Calling someone ‘pro-genocide’ for your reasons, is both inaccurate AND extremely dangerous.

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u/BeanBagMcGee Mar 21 '24

I disagree and I think your line of thinking is dangerous and inaccurate. 🤷🏾‍♂️

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u/VibraniumRhino Mar 21 '24

Way to pull up a mirror to a conversation lol. I surely hope you weren’t the one who triggered the suicide watch message in my inbox 🙄

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Select "I want to report spam or abuse" > "This is abusive or harassing" > "It's targeted harassment" > "At me" and then copy paste the permalink to the private message and write a quick response that it was sent to harass you.

The person who sent it will get suspended, probably permanently.

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u/BeanBagMcGee Mar 21 '24

I don't know who you are. Not to be mean but you are very unimportant to me.

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u/VibraniumRhino Mar 21 '24

Cool beans, sis, thanks for explaining your value of internet strangers to me lol.

And my first sentence was me poking fun that you basically copied my comment last time, AKA “holding up a mirror”.

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u/BeanBagMcGee Mar 21 '24

I'm he/him

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u/VibraniumRhino Mar 21 '24

Irrelevant

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u/trueprogressive777 Mar 21 '24

She called for a permanent cease fire. But she did go and and hobbnob with racist Netanyahu.

AIPAC spent a lot of money along with the corporate dems and Adam Schiff in California to BEAT Katie Porter.

All the Israel lobbies were completely against her for some reason, even though she tried to suck up to them