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  • Jeffries didn’t even whip the vote. He told people to ‘vote their conscience,’ and 11 members of his caucus didn’t show up,” writer Laura Bassett wrote on social media. “This is why people want a stronger leader.”

    Jeffries is a piece of shit and shouldn’t be anywhere near any leadership position…

    But whipping votes is the job of the second in line…

    A job with the literal title “minority whip”…

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Clark

    We can’t just focus on two popular names, we need to flush all the neoliberals out of leadership.

    All that being said, votes just happen whenever with no warning. It’s way past time that these votes need to be scheduled in advance. Instead of “vote starts now” at least “vote starts in 24 hour, exactly at ____ o’clock”

    Once the main vote happens, there can be exceptions for follow ups, like “next vote in one hour”

    The current way shit is done is fucking stupid







  • Fucking arrest them when they fuck around in your state…

    We literally fought a civil war over federal agents raiding states with laws they don’t agree with.

    People simplify it as “slavery”, but it’s worse. The Southern States wanted federal agents to literally do slave raids in Northern states, calling every Black American in free states stolen property to be auctioned off in the South.

    Lincoln was explicitly fine with Southern slavery, just read his inauguration speech, it’s 99% about how he’s cool with slave states…

    The line was he wouldn’t enslave everyone in the North against the wishes and laws of that state. That was why the South started a civil war, the fact that they couldn’t force states to do what they wanted.

    Eventually outlawing slavery federally, was an economic sanction more than anything else. Back to Lincoln’s inaugural speech, when he was elected he didn’t even think the Fed should be strong enough to do that even if it wanted.

    Shits always more complicated than what we learned in 6th grade history class.





  • I didn’t watch this, but saw someone (one of the night show hosts) bring up how conservative podcasters kept bringing up that post made by an anonymous twitter account with an anime profile pic…

    People laughed at how ridiculous it was, and the only reason anyone saw it, was Republicans bitching about it.

    Actually it might have been that podcast that Cody Johnson from oldschool Cracked that I saw it.

    Either way, the original tweet was something rightwingers latched onto immediately, it’s just a dumb twitter joke, literally what the right said was totally cool and Elon explicitly said was why he bought twitter, “to make comedy legal”