22 minutes ago, ClashAndBurn said:

Well… yes, actually. That is what the Democratic base wants to hear. They don’t even see RBG’s failure to strategically retire as a failure on her part really. It’s still “the Bernie Bros” that are the problem. They still haven’t let go of 2016, and assume that Hillary would have gotten judicial picks with a McConnell-owned Senate. Somehow, Dianne Feinstein blocking Democrats from making judicial appointments will be Susan Sarandon’s fault.

 

I mean, this is what you get when your political advocacy extends to trending #RuthkandaForever on Twitter. You get KHivers with Bee Emojis in their name thanking Chris Murphy for defending Feinstein on cable news.

I disagree a little bit. Portions of the Democratic base? Yes. Majority? I would say the majority of the (at least engaged) democratic base probably wants Feinstein to GTFO. 
 

Terminally online Khivers don’t represent the majority of the base. Let’s not act like Kamala is popular among democrats, polls continually show she’s not  someone like Gretchen Whitmer appeals more to the wine moms and mainstream Dems, while it’s Bernie who’s popular among progressives and still kinda liked among mainstream Dems as well 

 

I am SCREAMING 

Can’t blame the Dems for slow walking Feinstein’s resignation. This comes in a long string of “recommendations” from the leftist wing of the party to get rid of people (except Bernie or Ed Marky of course ) just cause they’re ~old~. We saw the same calls for Pelosi in 2018, despite her being the most effective progressive legislator of our time, and Biden in 2020, despite him having the most progressive policy agenda since FDR and ending Trump.

In both cases, they would have been self-inflicted wounds with Democrats flailing against Trump for 2 years or even losing to him in 2020, assuming a socialist like Bernie got the nomination.

 

All that to say, it’s not always cut and clear when political leaders should succumb to calls to resign. But yes, in this case, Feinstein is hopelessly useless and doesn’t bring anything unique to the table. And RBG’s move was a miscalculation. 

Lol, of course. The US media is an arm of the state. They are aggressively pro-CIA, pro-FBI, pro-Pentagon, and pro-State Department. They’ll even knife Biden in the back if he does the slightest thing that The Blob doesn’t approve of.

 

The fact that Fox News is even obeying the government’s wish to not report on the leaks is extremely telling

She lost the edge that made her seem special back in 2018.

 

I wasn’t fooled though. I knew she’d be a sellout. They always do.

Given her hugging of Lindsey Graham after he got Barrett forced through to replace RBG (still an unforced hubristic disaster on her part!), my guess is Feinstein is another Biden moderate that believes in the power of bipartisanship and didn’t think Republicans would be so underhanded as to block judicial nominations in her absence.

 

it’s no accident that this is happening.

 

Dick Durbin on the other hand should know better. Feinstein needs to be yeeted from the Senate. It’s so obvious she’s not going back anytime soon 

20 minutes ago, ClashAndBurn said:

Given her hugging of Lindsey Graham after he got Barrett forced through to replace RBG (still an unforced hubristic disaster on her part!), my guess is Feinstein is another Biden moderate that believes in the power of bipartisanship and didn’t think Republicans would be so underhanded as to block judicial nominations in her absence.

 

it’s no accident that this is happening.

 

Dick Durbin on the other hand should know better. Feinstein needs to be yeeted from the Senate. It’s so obvious she’s not going back anytime soon 

Dick Durbin has quickly became one of my most hated people in all of D.C. A truly horrible representation for the state he represents (along with many senators In D+10 states like Colorado, Washington, Delaware, Virginia, etc) the man’s on the record for basically saying “we have so much important work to get done before we potentially are shut out of power for years, but we have our 20th vacation of the year coming up, and I’ll be damned if I miss that for anything that might actually help the country”! 
 

Ironically enough, your state actually has 2 of the better dem delegations in the senate, and your state is a lot redder than Illinois 

15 minutes ago, Bears01 said:

Dick Durbin has quickly became one of my most hated people in all of D.C. A truly horrible representation for the state he represents (along with many senators In D+10 states like Colorado, Washington, Delaware, Virginia, etc) the man’s on the record for basically saying “we have so much important work to get done before we potentially are shut out of power for years, but we have our 20th vacation of the year coming up, and I’ll be damned if I miss that for anything that might actually help the country”! 
 

Ironically enough, your state actually has 2 of the better dem delegations in the senate, and your state is a lot redder than Illinois 

I agree about Durbin. He was passable when all he had to do was oppose Trump, like most Democrats in Congress. But... when they've actually been placed in the position of governing, him and all the other moderate Dems have really dropped the ball.

 

Yeah, but it's going to be a tough sell to get the Georgian public to keep them beyond their next re-election bids. Candidate quality is what did them in with Herschel, as I've said before, and Warnock would be back to filling pews on Sunday mornings if Trump hadn't gotten behind the worst possible choice, thinking cynically that a black man with some semblance of fame and renown would be enough to peel black men away from Warnock  

 

Which also goes back to the fact that it's not the issues that lost them their bid to unseat Warnock. Marjorie Taylor Greene is infamous, sure, but she's representative of the average GOP viewpoint on everything but January 6. She aligns with Kemp on everything that matters. That's why I think she wins enough votes to beat Warnock.

 

That said, she's likely to run against Ossoff in 2026, who would be a much easier opponent to beat if I'm being honest. Him not being black means he loses out on a couple thousand votes that Warnock would otherwise get, and no that isn't a joke. Ossoff got around 19k fewer votes than Warnock did.

 

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Jon Ossoff  50.6%    2,269,738
David Perdue   49.4%    2,214,506

 

Raphael Warnock   51.0%    2,288,923
Kelly Loeffler   49.0%    2,195,373

 

 

7 hours ago, ClashAndBurn said:

I agree about Durbin. He was passable when all he had to do was oppose Trump, like most Democrats in Congress. But... when they've actually been placed in the position of governing, him and all the other moderate Dems have really dropped the ball.

 

Yeah, but it's going to be a tough sell to get the Georgian public to keep them beyond their next re-election bids. Candidate quality is what did them in with Herschel, as I've said before, and Warnock would be back to filling pews on Sunday mornings if Trump hadn't gotten behind the worst possible choice, thinking cynically that a black man with some semblance of fame and renown would be enough to peel black men away from Warnock  

 

Which also goes back to the fact that it's not the issues that lost them their bid to unseat Warnock. Marjorie Taylor Greene is infamous, sure, but she's representative of the average GOP viewpoint on everything but January 6. She aligns with Kemp on everything that matters. That's why I think she wins enough votes to beat Warnock.

 

That said, she's likely to run against Ossoff in 2026, who would be a much easier opponent to beat if I'm being honest. Him not being black means he loses out on a couple thousand votes that Warnock would otherwise get, and no that isn't a joke. Ossoff got around 19k fewer votes than Warnock did.

 

 

The problem for the GOP in GA is that the longterm trends for them based on demographics and the makeup of people that are now voting for democrats (minorities, suburban voters) are shifting faster than any state in the nation. Like we can (rightfully) bash Stacey Abrams for being a bad candidate, but she still won Cobb county by 4 points (against a good candidate too), and with those kinds of trends, it spells trouble for the party there. 
 

Having said that, Ossoff would be an underdog against Kemp. But by 2028 the trends that keep happening to GA might actually be what tips GA from a red leaning purple state, into a blue leaning purple state like MI Is now. 

Another Democrat Senator exposing herself as politically illiterate.

 

 

I guess the Democrats don’t want judges then.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Womp womp  

 

 

7 minutes ago, Espresso said:

Womp womp  

 

 

I’m sure the 3 people who were gonna vote for him are absolutely devastated 

Cross Ukraine thread...

 

 

This field hearing is really....quite something....