Best Schumer can do is write a strongly worded letter.

Your asking a lot of a depressed person. I don’t think I could ever be in the mood to kill myself after hiking out a couple of miles, but I love nature. Maybe it would work for someone else.

The counter argument is that great Representatives would and should be grooming future great Representatives. It would give more motivation for highly qualified staff to want to work under these Representatives if they know that in a few cycles they will have to step down and eventually support their campaign.

The higher quality staff that Representatives have, the more they should be able to accomplish.

It also should in theory provide more people to choose from come primary time too.

That’s kind of crazy because there was like 9% inflation between those time periods. So you would expect it to have grown to to like 55% naturally.

They are being directly bribed right now with no repercussions, so not sure how much of a change that would be.

I don’t understand why we even have men and women leagues. Make an A league, a B league and a C league. If A League is 90% men for most sports and C league 90% women, so be it.

There are “biological” women who crush their respective sports and I don’t know why they are viewed differently than a trans women who does the same.

I wonder if Trump realizes how much his low approval rating and midterm disaster is directly tied to Miller and his policies?

There are supposed leaks that he has medical handlers and is being treated for dementia symptoms among other things and that he was sedated the night of the election so he could actually sleep at a normal time.

Leaks from within the administration supposedly say that he is being handled like a dementia patient and that he was sedated for his own health on the night of the election.

That’s what I been saying. If Miller pisses Trump off, all it takes is one whisper from Natalie suggesting he doesn’t need him and Miller gets thrown to the wolves.

Green hat though…

Anytime someone goes to the White House to do this I always assume it was just a suicide attempt.

This ad in the article cracked me up…

True. But if Miller keeps putting people in front of him that he hates, it will just lead to him crashing out at Miller. I could see a scenario where after a big blow out Natalie whispers in his ear, while she places her hand on his upper thigh and says “sir, we don’t need him”

It probably is. It’s been just over a month since the law was inacted. It usually takes months for the court cases to even start. First someone needs to be “harmed” to have standing. So now this guy could sue and say it’s deteriorating his academic credibility. But it would be months, maybe a half year or more before it finally hits the state supreme court to be overturned.

Oh… Seems like she just didn’t get caught the first time now that I am refreshing my memory. So two times.

I thought it was a bowling alley? Or different person? Or same person and different time?

It certainly depends on who you are. If you leave your contact info and they look into it and your registered under the party they will take your threat more seriously. If a couple dozen Dems call after that saying the same thing, they will take your call MUCH more seriously.

True. I probably should have added that, although there won’t be good contact avenues for a lot of them until January. It’s something I do semi regularly and forget it’s not common practice for everybody else.

Although I think even more effective would be calling your representatives who aren’t newly elected and tell them you will primary them in the next cycle if they support Jeffries and Schumer for majority speaker positions.

There is a petition with half a million signatures on Change.org if people want to sign. I know it probably won’t do much, but it might feel more cathartic than posting on Lemmy. https://www.change.org/p/house-democrats-choose-a-new-speaker

Or better yet, call your representatives and tell them you will primary them in the next cycle if they vote for Schumer or Jeffries for Majority Speakers.