Just saying, if she doesn’t want it, I’ll take it.
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It is somewhat satisfying seeing folks that debased themselves for Biden eat shit. But then I remember that I voted for him 🤷
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Save the shame for those who whole scale whitewashed his record, both here and other places. Shameful is freaking out when someone calls war criminal Joe Biden a war criminal on an internet message board. Shameful is sitting in a country with universal healthcare and spending every waking moment telling Americans how it’s not possible.
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I’ve been thinking about this theory of who Biden should be appointing to his Cabinet, which I don’t endorse, but which I can see as possibly being predictive.
The Trump administration wrecked all sorts of institutional norms. I think there’s an argument for installing experienced government hands possessing the institutional memory of each department to know what government agencies should look like in “normal” times and who can recognize what has been broken.
It would be doubling down on the biggest difference between Trump and Biden, while stressing continuity with Obama.
Democrats have generally respected the ideas of tenure and seniority, so that a very mainstream Democrat like Biden will operate this way should come as no surprise. This suggests that the real fight is in getting progressives appointed to the sort of resume-builder jobs that position one to be on the shortlist for Cabinet appointees in the next Democratic administration, that this is a long-term fight.
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Post too hopeful. There is no hope here, no resume building, not possible. A bottom up movement is literally the only solution/hope. Anyone who did enough resume building would be as ghoulish as the rest when their time came.
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My theory is that Canadian identity is tied up in not being American, so Canadians secretly, and perhaps subconsciously, don’t want Americans to have universal healthcare as a way of differentiating the two, even if they say otherwise. Having universal healthcare when we don’t is a way of allowing them to feel superior towards Americans.
It was meant to be more of a pessimistic post.
Given the structure of American politics, I think a bottom-up movement has a bigger chance of success if it seeks to build up the Democratic Party then tries to capture it from within than if the goal is to tear down the Democratic Party and replace it with a new party.
His words have pushed left a bit but until you see his actions who knows.
Savett is on the transition team. He later added that UK was decided, ofc
Haven’t seen this mentioned but apparently Nina Turner is running to fill Marcia Fudge’s seat, since Fudge will be Biden’s HUD Secretary
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/529558-nina-turner-files-paperwork-for-congressional-run
I vaguely recall Turner got cancelled for something a while back, I think it was she had a shady adviser who she wouldn’t fire, but still, this seems like good news. It gonna be a crowded field, and Fudge is gonna endorse somebody else, so I don’t know if Turner is favored. She will have a lot of money, though.
Can we assume that this is a lock Dem seat? Because if it’s not putting this woman in the cabinet seems suboptimal. The majority in the house is small enough that I don’t think chipping away is wise. The extra seats may come in handy for some controversial stuff.
Fudge is in a majority black district where she normally get over 80% of the vote.
Ok, that seems fine then.
I don’t know, they are both considered progressive, though Turner obviously more so.
I don’t think an endorsement is outside the realm of possibility.
No I read somewhere else that Fudge has been working with the person she wants to fill her seat for a while now, like some protege in the County Council. Shontel Brown was her name.
Nina Turner isn’t a democrat, get her the hell out of here
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Fuck Democrats.
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She tried but that hilariously failed.
The morons winning is nothing new. I’m quite used to it.
eta: Some mod should probably tell me to be nicer. That’s the new policy.