I love jam on my bacon egg and cheese sandwiches.

Just refusing to give that soundbite seems like politics 101. There are reality TV stars with better media discipline.

This isn’t driving a wedge on the left because Jefferies is not on the left.

It’s entirely possible that with the GOP control of the voting and procedures, there was no way that we could get a different outcome. If the dems had their shit together and were all present, then the vote would have been delayed until the GOP were all present.

That said, Jeffries is still doing a piss poor job at the politics. He acts like he 100% has the speaker role and there is no way it is in jeopardy and he gives zero fucks what any of the voters think about it.

He could have pushed everone to do maximum effort and be available any time when a vote could potentially be called - not because it can change the outcome - but because it would signal to the voters that the house is on the job and takes the people’s concerns seriously.

He could have crafted a statement about how the GOP would only close the vote when they were ahead so this was an un-winnable fight (more tricky and messy than the 1st option but maybe chaining them all to their desks is too hard?).

He’s had a series on unforced errors like saying very directly, the day after the election, that he doesn’t support medicare for all and doesn’t think impeaching the president should be a priority. There may be valid stratigic reasons for those stances, but saying it like that is just a fuck you to at least a third of the Democratic voters (actually, probably more like 2/3 for M4A)

In short, the party is divided and he is to the right of the majority on some key issues (M4A). An effective leader for 2027 needs to be able to keep the party together, not by bullying incoming members, but by managing public opinion and delivering on the items that the voters largely support.

Ah! Of course! 🤦🏾

Thanks

Do you think those millions of dollars of corporate cash came without strings?

No. I do not. And I never said otherwise.

I was not in any way saying that this was a good thing.

Before the Clinton sellout we had one corporate party and one moderate party. After the sellout we only have 2 corporate parties to choose from.

Are you talking about Bill? Cuz the DNC has been all about the donors for a long time. Hillary definitely made it worse (as did citizens united) but they’ve been pretty mid (at best) almost my whole life.

A bit more context on Clinton: The DNC was pretty much broke and their finances were a mess. Clinton came in and cleaned house and raised a bunch of money and basically saved the DNC from total insolvency. In return for saving their asses, her campaign was given a lot of control over the DNC. She had control of finances and hiring and firing.

How did the DNC get in such bad financial shape in the 1st place? Was it just incompetance or was there also fraud? If you’re a high level DNC leader, do you owe Clinton for saving your job or do you owe her for preventing a scandal that could land you in jail?

All this to say, from the outside it looks like “she put in her time, it’s her turn” but from the inside it’s more “we’ve totally fucked up and if we don’t let her take the wheel we will be jobless, disgraced and possibly sued or jailed”

What is ND in this context? I tried a quick web search and only got daying sites for North Dakota.

I don’t think a stranger can get a great read on his intentions just based on this post. I don’t see any glaring red flags, but that’s a really low bar.

I don’t think that the guy is a player because players don’t usually stick around for 5 dates with no sex. But it’s hard to calibrate that without knowing the norms of your slice of society?

I don’t see anything indicating that you’re really into this guy (someone being respectful and showing interest is a minimum requirement, not a ringing endorsement) and I’m seeing a lot of little indications of incompatability. You seem to be a bit mismatched sexually, liking different things and liking different pace. It sounds like you may have different tastes and values, but it’s hard to tell just from the post. None of this seems insurmountable, but there should be something you’re excited about to make the hassle of working through the little incompatibilities worthwhile.

If you’re not really into this guy, if there is no spark, maybe it’s not a good match? You’ve been on 5 dates so it’s not like you have so much invested that you can’t walk away. But take this with a huge grain of salt. I haven’t been single in decades and I hear that dating is rough these days so maybe it’s worth hanging onto someone who’s main qualification is that they aren’t terrible?

Hegseth intentionally scuttled the promotions of senior officers who … played a role in implementing the Pentagon’s Covid-19 vaccine mandate

https://www.history.com/articles/smallpox-george-washington-revolutionary-war

Hegseth is a fucking clown. George Washington had to deal with smallpox back when the only innoculation technique had a 5-10% mortality rate and a one month post innoculation recovery.

Maybe they should start with firing Trump?

Out of a canon? Into the sun?

FWIW, in her victory speach the other day, Jayapal said she’s heading the immigration subcommittee and that there WILL be investigations and people WILL be going to jail. 🥰

I love that you can binge a TV show from 5-10 years ago and then go to Reddit and see all of the post episode discussions. The next time I watch a trashy reality TV show, I will miss not having Reddit post episode analysis. When I’ve looked in the past, the best I could find on Lemmy was someone posting nudes of contestants from past seasons. The makeup and skincare subreddits were super informative. IDK if they’re still good since I’ve been mostly Reddit free lately.

Yup. And our radio and TV and internet and schools are throughly polluted.

Not making excuses but just so you know why so many of us are so ignorant of our history: Texas was, until a few days ago, completely controled by unhinged conservatives. They insisted on getting batshit crazy textbooks. For example, people in the US get textbooks describing the Civil War as “The War of Northern Agression” and portray it as not about the South fighting to keep slavery and force Northern states to enforce their runaway slave laws but rather some other complete bullshit. Texas is the biggest textbook consumer in the country so publishers try to put as much of the Texas appeasement as possible into books for the wntire country, rather than incur the expense if maintaining multiple editions. Tens of millions (maybe hubdreds of millions) of kids over the last few decades have been taught absolute crap at school. It’s sad and scary and frustrating and I’m hopeful that it’s finally hoing to change.

If the Democrats wanted to set things right, they would expand the size of the court and dilute the votes of the corrupt and partisan, conservative justices. They could also impeach the most blatently corrupt ones, but that would take 2/3 of the senate while changing the size of the court could be done with a simple majority. I think they could also , with a simple majority, change it from a life appointnent to some reasonable term, like 8 or 10 years, but i could be wrong about that. Will they actually have the balls to make things right? Will their donors allow them to fix our very broken supreme court? 🤷🏾

How To Cook Without A Book by Pam Anderson describes the basics really well and each chapter goes over the general principles of a kind of dish (like seared meat or steamed veggies) with a general master recipie and then describes variations (like different pan sauces for the different seared meats).

I found a PDF of what looks like the whole book: https://cdn.bookey.app/files/pdf/book/en/how-to-cook-without-a-book.pdf

Even if it’s a kid using your phone, they still aren’t trying to type “ducking”.

Is a 16 consdered ancient? I def know people who reup every year or two but that seems crazy wasteful.

Is the keyboard on iOS getting worse every year or am I in the early stages of some horrific degenerative disease?

When it’s a criminal matter, the assigment of blame is absolutely a public matter. If you or I caused a car accident with irresponsible use of an RC car or a consumer drone, we would be facing criminal prosecution. The fact that no one is likely to face charges in this case is a huge failure of public policy.