Democrats win in historical landslide we finally have opportunity to have government to listen to us and we are falling for effort to divide us and result with weak Democrats that are fighting against each other and Democrats didn’t even start working.

You want Congress to act certain way instead of micromanaging who is the leader contact your senators and representative and say what your stance is.

The speaker and majority leader in Senate’s job is to make sure that all Democrats vote together. If Democrats are all aligned then the job of leadership is easier.

Here is HCR explanation of it that says it much better: https://youtu.be/Eqjm4avbvdw?t=2011

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My theory is that the main reason they fight so much against releasing these files is that besides billionaires there likely also judges, politicians and other people in power there.

The fact that after the election Republicans didn’t start to think that maybe they should start to distance from the 80y senile old man that people are clearly against and instead decided to double down tells me that there must be either blackmail or bribes. It makes no other sense.

If you worry about policies, pay attention to who will be chairs of various committees, they will guide what the House and Senate does.

The goal of the majority leader in the Senate and the Speaker in the House is to make sure that Democrats vote together. Bringing bunch of bills and then having Democrats voting against them is exactly something that should be avoided. This be definition means this position shouldn’t be held by someone on one side of spectrum

It requires some skills and also be someone that everyone respects.

I don’t think Schummer has that skill and there are also some questionable actions that he did. I also don’t think we should decide for them, as senators are better aware who they respect and are likely to follow. We should make sure that committees are filled with people with teeth (figuratively as well as literally, heh).

You are building a crib, so they assumed you have a wife.

Yeah, he doesn’t look like much, but compare him to the rest of the cabinet.

To be fair when he was nominated he looked like one of very few people that were somewhat qualified. Turns out that requirements of this position changed to be the White House jester.

Not every father would spent this much to make his son happy. /s

But seriously, why is he even holding this position? It is not like he is doing anything important.

They stopped populistic pandering since November 6, 2024. Now even with voters overwhelmingly showing dissatisfaction they decided to double down backing 80 year old senile man.

At this point I think it is either bribes or blackmail.

Unfortunately you are right. trump selected Steven Miller for Chief of Staff, Republicans choose Gym Jordan for minority leader.

Those are clear signs they don’t look for compromises.

Side note, one has to wonder… People are overwhelmingly are dissatisfied, and they still hang to the senile 80 year man, who isn’t even hiding that he is destroying America and creating a room to our enemies to get stronger.

What is it that they willing to stick with him even with clear pedophilia connections? Bribes, blackmail? I’m very interested what is in the other 3 millions Epstein documents. I’m starting to think many prominent congresspeople are there as well.

If you look at the answers to surveys people were providing during voting it looks like top issues were affordability and corruption/concerns about democracy.

Progressives are given a chance and need to deliver on it otherwise they will be treated like trump (remember he promised a lot of that too)

The 2028 might not get the same boost, although I hope it will.

True, but it also says:

In most sessions, the speaker of the House takes precedence as house leader and party leader, with the majority leader being irrelevant and largely powerless outside the fact they might be speaker of the House one day.

This is why most people doesn’t know it. It seems like it is just a good trivia fact.

I love her, but Congress needs to change its makeup first to be all progressive and pass progressive legislations that will turn successful before she has any chance of presidency.

As of right now if she would run I expect she would lose. I think people want to give progressives a chance but likely would still be hesitant until progressives prove themselves.

Doesn’t move at all. Republicans simply calling permanent vacation and the people who won the last election can’t start until January 2nd.

Looks like all the big fishes withdrew now the suckers who own stock or have their retirement tied will pay it when shit hits the fan and investigations start.

Agree, but let’s be fair, they can’t do shit until January 2nd.

It’s hard to imagine in normal condition but if we put pressure on them, contact our senators and representative we might be able to achieve that. I already contacted mine, please contact yours.

This is so Democrats don’t vote for them to lead the party. They are not fit for current landscape and are not what people want. Even ignoring their “centrist” positions, they aren’t even skilled for those positions. They showed us this past 2 years. I forgot the name but I think he was assistant to Jeffries, he was so much better at speaking.

Edit: looking up, maybe it was Joe Neguse

Edit2: yeah that was him: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/84taa_D99sQ so much better speaker than Jeffries

She is a politician. We should concentrate on her competency and whether she shares values with voters that voted for her, not how she looks.

Side note, LA mayor doesn’t have as much power as NY mayor does and who we chose for the city council matters a lot, maybe even more, but that seems to receive less attention.

Edit: https://laist.com/news/politics/mayor-elect-nithya-raman-council-colleagues-cooperation

Why I’m not surprised.