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Love me some Katie Porter. (Original Post) LakeArenal Sep 2024 OP
Porter is a national living treasure Wild blueberry Sep 2024 #1
She is super! Calling out the older white men who dominate congress. erronis Sep 2024 #2
Me too! whathehell Sep 2024 #3
Katie has got to be one of congress's hardest workers. oasis Sep 2024 #4
And, Katie brakester Sep 2024 #14
Everyone should watch this--Highly Recommended Picaro Sep 2024 #5
"... a couple hundred more Katie Porters' in Congress so we could get some of this done." wordstroken Sep 2024 #9
yes please nt et tu Sep 2024 #19
I wish more people had an awakening like you've had, Picaro! calimary Sep 2024 #22
I had a secret advantage Picaro Sep 2024 #25
Hope she finds a place in government after her term ends tinrobot Sep 2024 #6
Secretary of Education would be a nice fit. rubbersole Sep 2024 #7
Or HHS - nt TBF Sep 2024 #13
Maybe President Harris can give her the government Submariner Sep 2024 #11
I love Katie Porter skydive forever Sep 2024 #8
She will definitely be missed ;(. LauraInLA Sep 2024 #10
I wish she hadn't quit her House seat to run for Senate. SunSeeker Sep 2024 #12
If they ever do an SNL skit geardaddy Sep 2024 #15
This woman is awesome. What a role model. Biophilic Sep 2024 #16
I got to see her speak at one of the last Senate campaign appearances she made. She was awesome. ificandream Sep 2024 #17
Thanks for sharing. LakeArenal Sep 2024 #20
she's great. wish she was staying in congress. nt orleans Sep 2024 #18
But she isn't done yet. Not by a long shot!🇺🇸🗽🇺🇸 LakeArenal Sep 2024 #21
Porter is fantastic Warpy Sep 2024 #23
She wore I am Smart glasses, too. 🤓 LakeArenal Sep 2024 #24
It's such a pity she made the disastrous decision to run for the Senate, this is yet more proof of how much a loss she OnDoutside Sep 2024 #26

Wild blueberry

(7,308 posts)
1. Porter is a national living treasure
Thu Sep 19, 2024, 10:53 AM
Sep 2024

Hope Harris finds a place for her in her administration.
Thank you.

erronis

(17,380 posts)
2. She is super! Calling out the older white men who dominate congress.
Thu Sep 19, 2024, 10:54 AM
Sep 2024

Usually quite wealthy. And don't see the personal benefit to supporting childcare.

Picaro

(1,862 posts)
5. Everyone should watch this--Highly Recommended
Thu Sep 19, 2024, 11:14 AM
Sep 2024

Especially those who fit my profile: older white male.

I have two daughters--both very successful in their fields.

They and my wife have re-educated me at this point. And I'm grateful.

I wish we could get a couple hundred more Katie Porters' in Congress so we could get some of this done.

The slogan: "We're not going back!" has tremendous meaning to me.


wordstroken

(686 posts)
9. "... a couple hundred more Katie Porters' in Congress so we could get some of this done."
Thu Sep 19, 2024, 11:51 AM
Sep 2024

Yes!! Let’s get “… a couple hundred more Katie Porters' in Congress so we could get some of this done.“

Spread the word!!
Thank you, Picaro.

calimary

(84,866 posts)
22. I wish more people had an awakening like you've had, Picaro!
Thu Sep 19, 2024, 01:39 PM
Sep 2024

Ironically enough, I just found an old protest sign I made a few years back, with that message on it: “WE WON’T GO BACK.”

Picaro

(1,862 posts)
25. I had a secret advantage
Thu Sep 19, 2024, 02:23 PM
Sep 2024

My mother was, in many ways, a conformist. She never worked. She was a classic 50’s housewife.

But she read and thought. My father and mother had wide ranging discussions about every topic imaginable.

She and my father were horribly flawed. But if you wanted a debate about almost anything my Mother would take you on.

Now that I look back I realized what was different about my house and every other house wherever we lived.

In my house, women were people. That’s the core difference. Many men (and women) in our country don’t view women as full people. This is from thousands of years of religious dogma. Christianity explicitly defines females as lesser than men.

Due to this and other noxious Catholic dogma I left the church at 13. Since the Protestant denominations were not any better there was no refuge to move to. So, I became a full apostate.

My daughters and wife helped complete a process that began long before.

Submariner

(12,751 posts)
11. Maybe President Harris can give her the government
Thu Sep 19, 2024, 12:07 PM
Sep 2024

checkbook and let her star shine as the Economy Czar.

Keep the flagrant spending of these white guys in check!

skydive forever

(477 posts)
8. I love Katie Porter
Thu Sep 19, 2024, 11:51 AM
Sep 2024

But something about the young lady behind her just fascinates me. I wonder who she is.

SunSeeker

(54,219 posts)
12. I wish she hadn't quit her House seat to run for Senate.
Thu Sep 19, 2024, 12:09 PM
Sep 2024

Hopefully she will run for Congress again.

geardaddy

(25,375 posts)
15. If they ever do an SNL skit
Thu Sep 19, 2024, 12:28 PM
Sep 2024

Kate McKinnon would be a great casting choice for Lindsey Burke.

Biophilic

(5,119 posts)
16. This woman is awesome. What a role model.
Thu Sep 19, 2024, 12:41 PM
Sep 2024

We need to keep her out in front where she can be heard and make a difference. Go Katie!

ificandream

(10,904 posts)
17. I got to see her speak at one of the last Senate campaign appearances she made. She was awesome.
Thu Sep 19, 2024, 12:59 PM
Sep 2024

I am so very sad she is not going to the Senate. She would have been incredible. I hope she runs for either the House or the Senate again down the line. We need her so very badly.

Here's a picture I took of her the day I saw her.

Warpy

(113,131 posts)
23. Porter is fantastic
Thu Sep 19, 2024, 01:40 PM
Sep 2024

All Miss Heritage has going for her is a lot of makeup and that acidulous, plastic smile that all right wing women affect when they know they're completely in the wrong but they're paid to spout nonsense.

OnDoutside

(20,677 posts)
26. It's such a pity she made the disastrous decision to run for the Senate, this is yet more proof of how much a loss she
Thu Sep 19, 2024, 03:30 PM
Sep 2024

will be for at least the next couple of years. I'd love to see her in the Harris administration but I wonder if she has burnt some bridges with the California set ?

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