• corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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    29 minutes ago

    This isn’t an airport, my dude, and you don’t have to announce your impending departure when you’re already so far gone. Beat it, quietly, and wait for the next primary.

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    4 hours ago

    How does one stumble across townflex? A ‘global news, breaking news, entertainment news, financial insights, music review, and lyrics breakdown’ company based out of Ghana with a single employee.

    This “reporter” has no existence that I can find outside of this website. No photo, but she does have a green checkmark beside her name on her reporter profile page though. Townflex verified, I guess.

    There’s very little chance that this site isn’t AI regurgitation of real reporting.

    Edit: answered my own question. This user is from this website and seems to be here exclusively to promote it.

  • stermy4u@lemmy.worldOP
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    8 hours ago

    This system is a pile of shit.

    If you get into office and change your tune to the opposite of what you ran on, we have to primary you? Shouldn’t that be cause for removal in its own? You work for me, idrgaf what your opinions are.

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      7 hours ago

      John Fetterman is also a piece of shit.

      Edit: you said pile while I only mentioned piece. He certainly is multiple pieces so apologies for not piling on.

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      7 hours ago

      Lower levels have “recall elections” for this explicit reason.

      They’re not built into Senatorships, because people weren’t even supposed to vote for Senator’s, state governments were supposed to just appoint them as the states representatives

      The house was for the people to have representation, not the Senate.

      We’re way past the point of salvaging our system, there’s a reason the founder’s wanted to redo the constitution every 20 years

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        7 hours ago

        Lower levels have “recall elections” for this explicit reason.

        States have rolled a lot of that back, or made it so prohibitively expensive to attempt that only billionaires can oust a state politician they don’t like.

        I might argue that the problem isn’t Fetterman specifically, but the stakes at play when someone like Fetterman is a singular representative for 13M people. One Fetterman in a sea of politicians would be annoying but incidental. One in a tiny cabal that’s on a tipping point of partisan control is glaring in it’s corruption.

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      7 hours ago

      If you get into office and change your tune to the opposite of what you ran on, we have to primary you?

      You have to wait six years, and then you get to primary.

      This is because the Founding Fathers, in all their wisdom, determined that loud patriotic farting noises

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    7 hours ago

    “Any party switch risks shifting the balance of power in a closely divided Senate.”

    No, no it does not.

    53 Republicans
    45 Democrats
    2 Independents that caucus with Democrats.

    Assuming Mitch is really dead and they are holding that announcement until 8/3 to avoid a special election, that would vacate the seat:

    52
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    Fetterman flips:

    53
    44
    2

    No actual difference.

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      7 hours ago

      The threat is an excuse for other neoliberal senators to say:

      See! We have to support genocide so we don’t lose numbers, it’s not that we want to…

      The only correct answer to threats like these is:

      We don’t negotiate with terrorists

      If he’s gonna leave, make him do it.

      As a Republican no one will care about him, all his lobbying money goes away and he’s just another Republican crazy lost in the crowd.

      All his money and attention comes from the D by his name. And he can’t beat a maga Republican in a Republican primary.

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        You also have to love how PA Democrats are like “Don’t threaten us with a good time!”

        “Polling indicates 57% of Pennsylvania Democrats want Fetterman to exit the party.”

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      Those 2 independants caucus with Democrats and would vote for their candidate for Leader, so the current margin once Mitch departs is 52/47 (or, 2 1/2 seats).

      The real problem for Fetterman “flipping” is after the election. While there’s every possibility the Democrats will snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, if they claw back a few Senate seats then the balance may end up 50/50 (or even 51D/49R). That’s when Republicans will put on a huge pre$$ure campaign to get someone to defect and promise them all sorts of shit to bail them out of election consequences.

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    8 hours ago

    Well as I understand hes been voting Republican since the beginning so…true colors?