82 years old lol
Love that!
I am still vote bue no matter who in the general, no matter how much I hate Schumer and his ilk, but I am only donating to, or campaigning for candidates who want fire and brimstone retribution to those responsible for the state of our country. If good wins the current battle over evil (seems unlikely tbh) then we cannot make the same mistakes as Joe Biden or the reconstruction era. Any Democrat who hints that âhealing the countryâ is more important than purging the federal government of Trump flunkies or packing the courts or eliminating the filibuster or using the justice department to go after everyone remotely complicit in Trumpâs crimes is a no go for me.
I donât trust guys like Beshear at all. Heâs too aww shucks. As much as I find him more personally distasteful Iâd rather have a narcissist like Newsome who I think is more likely to use the levers of power to fight conservatism.
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If weâre stuck with eDem geriatrics, then I wish they were all angry DGAF geriatrics like her.
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The willingness of many Dem voters now, and some Dem leaders too, to play hardball with the gerrymandering gives me a sliver of hope.
25 years to late to notice whatâs happening but, I guess, better than Schumering it forever.
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Republicans were hoping to take his Louisiana state house seat in a special election. The Democrat had left and the area was Trump +13
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This should go in the other Dem thread
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Oh no. Not this shit again
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Not sure how that applies. Based on some quick searching: Florida is about 7% Cuban-American. Florida voted for Trump over Biden by about 3.5%, but Cuban-Americans voted for Trump over Biden by about 20%. If Cuban-American turnout was similar to the general population, that would mean Cuban-Americans netted Trump about 150k votes in that election, which, ok, wasnât enough to make the difference as Trump won by about 360k, but maybe 2028 will be close enough that that would make the difference - that beingâŚICE not letting Cuban-Americans vote in Florida.
(and, of course, when I said it would really be leopards eating faces if Cuban-Americans werenât allowed to vote, I didnât mean that I think itâs likely that Cuban-Americans, and only Cuban-Americans arenât going to be allowed to vote)
I just meant to say that Florida democrats have been absolute shit at courting the Latino vote and in general pick really bad candidates.
If the Dems massively win Congress in 2026, Iâm going to worry a lot about Trump declaring it all fraud and not letting any Dems take office.
I mean if they donât get to 2/3rds it doesnât really matter
As far as overriding vetoes goes and the 60/40 filibuster thing tooâŚbut a broad effort by the fed to invalidate results in 2026 is going to at least threaten a lotâŚthe stability of the governmentâŚof society.
Evelyn Normielib will storm the Capitol if that happens
What a weird name. Oh ha ha
Agreed on the bit about if he does that, but would they do that when they have the presidency on lock? They got a lot of power just with that.
Johnson sets record refusing to swear in Adelita Grijalva for 36 days after she won election | Arizona Mirror https://share.google/8U7hpTB9KtP8oE7uM
Iâm not sure what the precise odds are, but, if House control flips and Trump muddies the waters by claiming voter fraud and election interference, the chance that Johnson cooks up some excuse to not seat some Ds from contested seats is not zero.
That was more to do with congress not being in session. Would need some other mechanism to not seat Congress.
He had sworn in other special election winners at times when Congress wasnât in session, so citing that as the reason for not seating her was pretextual. I know he probably wonât cite the same reason, Iâm saying (a) it is within his range to cite pretextual reasons to not seat people and (b) there is already a foundation being laid for one possible pretext (Trump administration allegations of voter fraud in blue states/cities)
[Also, keep in mind that Johnson had put the House into an early recess at that time because he was trying to delay a vote on the Epstein files, so letâs dispense with the fiction that Johnson was just following the rules. Heâs willing to manipulate the rules and act in bad faith when it serves the White House and preserves his power]
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