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DeSatan decreed thus. No more DEI, including DEIties like Jesus Christ! You’re only allowed to say Happy Holidays from now on!

How bout we turn it into a public grocery store instead?

In Canada it’s on ranked choice, proportional rep or other alternative voting systems. Every time someone campaigns on implementing it, and occasionally they get in but as soon as the first-past-the-post system lets them through the door, they chicken out.

You’re right. Basically Democratic voters are asking for someone in the party to take one for the team in ousting Jeffries, itself an uphill battle but also even if they are successful, stymies their chance of advancing to the Senate or Presidential cabinet, or even some House positions for several years. And if they fail, they risk internal consequences of being labelled an outsider or splinter-party rebel. Not an easy thing for any of them to simply stick up their hand and volunteer for.

If you want to hear AOC talk for 1 hour and 40 minutes in a livestream recording about how a Democratic House Leader worked conventionally based on her experience, why it’s difficult to replace Jeffries, and answering some other questions, here you go.

She went over the fact Jeffries is running unopposed but the rest of the TLDW is:

• The House Majority Leader has to spend their time herding 200+ legislative cats with the whip, and also be the public face for the caucus, leaving little time for advocacy, organizing and taking leadership roles on committees (which sounded like the main reason why AOC doesn’t want to volunteer herself)
• The Majority Leader has to mobilize lots of financial resources for the next election and the DCCC (she said the DNC is the fundraising arm for presidential and state races, the DSCC for Senate races and DCCC for House, they are weirdly not integrated).
• Many “campaigns” for House Leader start years in advance so that you can develop relations with individuals, regional subgroups and identity subgroups and class subgroups across the Democratic party spectrum.
• The Democratic party has long let seniority be valued a lot higher than, in AOC’s opinion, needs to be.
• The Majority Leader election is followed by the Whip then the Chairs and members of various House Committees. So there is a lot of horsetrading going on because many house reps have a particular committee they want a seat on. They will often voice to a speaker candidate, they will support their speakership, if that candidate will recommend the rep for the committee position. Some are more highly visible positions, some committees get way more bills than others, so there is fierce competition for some seats and others may feel shunned if put in a committee that feels irrelevant to them.
• Any challenger would have to rally all this support, make hundreds of calls and hundreds of deals in the span of a few weeks. Which is why Schumer is easier to replace than Jeffries.
• The Republicans took dozens of tries to elect a Speaker and landed on Mike Johnson who was very ineffective, and thus was really only able to get one major bill passed in two years. The Democrats don’t want to emulate that.

He never saw the sexual abuse going on because he’s Gym-Pants-on-Head Jordan.

I’ll just put it out there, that it was the Chuck Schumer who, as the leader of the DSCC in 2006 endorsed Bernie Sanders and helped ensure no other Democrat challenger would appear on the ballot to split his vote. So Schumer hasn’t really been outwardly anti-Sanders over the decades they knew each other since his time in Brooklyn.

I still think that at present he stands to just rot in the Senate leader’s chair ala Mitch McConnell, and this moment calls for change and a movement away from the age-old familiar practices in order to meet it.

Roberts’ Corrupt Court: The Constitution didn’t say nuthin’ about free rhetoric!

Most members of Trump’s cabinet bring enough political spectacle they could each run their own travelling circus.

This is orientation week. Some political commentators I listened to were talking about how this is supposed to be the time where more senior folks try to brainwash the newly electeds to fall in line with the Democratic Party™ way of doing things, like catering to donors and “showing unity” in the face of an assault on democracy itself.

So it’s no surprise, but all the more important to keep reaching out to your electeds if you’re American, even if you live there but have no voting rights, to help them keep their resolve if they are trying to stand against leadership, or help convince them to move against them.

Showing chest cleavage: 👍

Showing the word for chest cleavage: 😱

What if Democrats manage to investigate and refer evidence to state criminal trials (so they are safe from pay-to-pardon) all of Trump’s corrupt appointees, and let Trump pick more corrupt people to repeat the cycle, like flies to a piece of crap?

Why is my company’s cybersecurity training limited to simulated phishing emails and online courses?

Maybe next year’s cybersecurity budget should include some for hot-looking models (of every gender).

To quote him directly: “You gotta be able to walk and chew gum at the same time”.

Y’all aren’t looking at Gov. Shapiro’s position from where he stands. PA government is going to get to work, now that PA Senate Republicans have been kicked out of the majority for the first time since the 70s. They have lots of progressive legislation on deck, and going by the gov’s and state leg leaders’ post election speeches they’re prepping to get lots done.

From that POV what the state would want first and foremost from the feds is money put/restored towards food security and healthcare supports so that they don’t have to dig through emergency reserves to cover what Trump and Republicans took away in 2025.

He literally said in that article he wants Democrats not to forget to hold Trump and his cabinet accountable for crimes. Yet people ITT are acting like he didn’t say anything about it and wants Congress to ignore the issue altogether.

It can’t be either/or,” he said. “It has to be both/and.”

I want to make clear that I support trans people participating in any recreational activity, I support their rights as much as anyone, and that this initiative throws a burden on all female children for the sake of a punishing a few, the competitiveness argument is totally based on assumptions and prejudice not backed by fact-based evidence, the issue is pushed by conservative culture war propagandists, and all that.

That all said, I don’t think most WA voters who voted for I-638 did so because they hate trans people, or think they shouldn’t exist as people. Hateful and spiteful people do exist but they are a minority. Rather, on this specific wedge issue, again based on flawed prejudice pushed by conservatives, opinions seem more to be framed around something similar to why 40 year olds can’t compete in an Over-50 bracket of a tournament.

The “unusual voting pattern” is people actually realizing that Republicans suck, for once.

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Tbf, the title is talking about the interstate popular vote compact, which is state legislation to assign electoral college votes according to the popular vote result, if the signatories have a collective majority of them. So technically this isn’t landing on Schumer or Jefferies’ desk at any point.

But yes to your point on Citizens united repeal and stock bans and just cautiously optimistic that Jeffries/Schumer will allow anything to change.

Yimbyfornia can’t come soon enough