The reason they want to stop a Special Election, is in one of those Maise can run despite losing the Republican primary

He might not win, but he’d suck up enough votes from the other Republican to give it to a Dem

Yeah, because “normally” the feds have like a 99% conviction rate…

That has completely gone to shit already.

Youre operating under the assumption that the people running the DOJ would tell trump they couldn’t get what he wanted.

If it goes to trial and doesn’t get what trump wants, then trump is mad at the judge.

If it never goes to trial because they stopped trying to force it past a grand jury, trump is mad at the person who stopped trying to push it past the grand jury…

So they’re not gonna stop till a grand jury indicts.

Does any of that make sense?

There’s really no way to explain it any simpler without coming off incredibly condescendingly

“A grand jury would indict a ham sandwich” undersells it, because they’d indict the sandwich for being a giraffe…

It’s not exactly a high threshold, and going off memory, they can just keep trying till it happens.

It’s not like a grand jury can say “no” and that’s the end of it, it’s just a matter of how motivated the feds are and how long they’re willing to keep doing it. They only need “guilty” once, even if it’s on the 101st try.

A former Olympian

Minor point, but I feel like if you make it to the Olymbics at any point in your life, you always get to be an Olympian

The only thing that can stop a primary candidate with a platform like Mamdani, is depressed Dem primary turnout…

The DNC chair didn’t endorse him in the primary, because this chair will never even glance at the scales during any primary.

But literal days after Mamdani became the candidate, he gave a PBS interview talking about how if Dems want to win, we need to run candidates like Mamdani.

We’ll get a fair primary with nothing holding us back, and voting in the Dem primary comes with zero obligations in the general. There is absolutely zero reason to stop voting in Dem primaries now. It’s more important than it’s ever been, because it’ll be the first fair one in at least 30 years.

But all the stuff Mamdani is doing in NYC today, can be done nationwide in just a couple years if we don’t give up right before the finish line of a marathon

I was curious from the domain if this was some shitty satire, site…

Unfortunately it’s 100% serious blog by a centrists political strategies.

Just tone deaf.

Simon Rosenberg (born October 23, 1963) is a Democratic political strategist and blogger. He was the founder of New Democrat Network (NDN), a centrist think tank and advocacy group based in Washington, D.C.[1] Rosenberg shuttered NDN in March 2024.[2]

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

The author of this blog post is literally one of the pieces of shit who sold the Dem party out to the oligarchs:

According to the 2002 book How to Hack a Party Line: The Democrats and Silicon Valley, Rosenberg and NDN were instrumental in shifting control of the Democratic Party away from labor unions and toward Silicon Valley businesses.[3] Rosenberg said in 1999, "Our problem as a party is that the biggest source of our venture capital now comes from labor, which is a group that’s becoming less and less important, and representing less and less of a percentage of American voters. … We have to replace labor’s investment in the party with investment from another source, and hopefully from a source that’s growing."[3]

He handed the party to tech ros, and now that the techbros used it up and moved on, he demands to be in charge of it again

Fuck this fucking guy and all the other conservatives who pretend to be on our side.

I don’t like Jackson and I hate the way this went down…

But he’s not “pro-Israel”.

He hasn’t been outspoken against them, but he hasn’t really held an office where his opinion on it is relevant.

And he did sign “the peoples pledge” when he was running for Governor.

Hopefully Troy Jackson can catch up…

Unfortunately I think he either has hit, or is close to hitting the tipping point and returning to his more conservative views.

He’s almost 60, started as a Republican around 40ish? And kept conservative views even after switching to D.

Like, he’s just at that age where the brain starts losing critical thinking. When that happens the brain falls back on younger habits and patterns instead of trying to solve every new thing as a new thing.

It’s just how the brain works.

Bernie is an outlier because when he was 20 he was in the civil rights movement, him falling back on old habits and patterns isn’t that bad, because we still have the same problems.

If/when Jackson returns to his initial political views…

He entered politics as a Republican to protest against immigrants.

Maine deserves better. And they just got fucked.

Playner could have won the election, then stepped down and Maine could get a special election.

Instead the state party (run by Florida fuckups) picked a candidate that’s going to only get more conservative over the next 6 years of the term he was handed.

Dude almost 60 and was anti-abortion and anti-LGBTQ even after he switched to being a Democrat.

He’s hitting that age where people naturally start acting like when they were 20 again, falling back on habit and assumptions.

Doesn’t matter for Bernie because when he was 20 he was protesting for civil rights. What got Jackson into politics was complaining about migrant worker.

Jackson will only continue to become more conservative thoughout the 6 year term he just got handed despite failing miserable at anything bigger than state senator.

I hope this works out, but it’s almost a certainly not going to.

There’s three boxes…

They don’t have to be sequential, but if you skip any then it’s harder to get people to feel like they have to show up at the last one

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.

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

Claims there are far more non-citizens on voter rolls than known before

I mean, this is one of those things that has to be true…

Every known non-citizen would be removed immediately. The known number of non citizens will always be zero, and it would be foolish to think mistakes don’t happen occasionally and some non-citizens are on the rolls, even if that number is 1.

That also doesn’t mean their ballot would go thru and be counted. It would likely be flagged at which point they’d be removed.

Someone actually intelligent came up with that one, it sounds like a bombshell and reinforces their beliefs, but is actual sound logic. A trumpet would have never read this far to understand why it’s meaningless.

He’s still very easily manipulated…

And I can’t stress enough how much he wants a Hunter Biden esque “any and all crimes past and future” pardon.

Trump will never resign.

A full pardon for past and future crimes from JD would do it.

If trump like either of his sons he’d want to hand it to them, but JD is the only one that could offer an immediate pardon.

JD keeps him around as a figure head, and can run off trumps image.

It’s a very likely scenario, don’t forget Trump’s brain is mush, if his handlers think it can save the midterms they’ll gaslight him into doing it

8/4/26 or later

Before that and they “waste” one of JD’s hypothetically terms

If they boot trump before that, it counts towards the two term maximum.

It might not be August, but I bet it’s before midterms in an attempt to undercut a blue wave against trump

They may “float” the idea and depending on how midterms shake out he might resign or he might stay in.

But no one is making a move till after 8/4/26

Walking right up to the line of mandatoring “gender hormone therapy”…

While the screenings will be mandatory for eligible service members, Hegseth said that any resulting treatment would remain voluntary. “If treatment is recommended, it’s entirely your choice to receive testosterone replacement therapy,” he said.

Fuck that geriatric piece of shit, his do-nothing presidency is why trump was able to get a second term.

And obviously dude didn’t write any of this book himself, his handlers wrote the book just like they ran the country while he was in office.

He realized it’s easier to take direct bribes them somehow force ships to pay a protection racket…

Based on highly productive conversations with Middle East leadership, I have decided to replace the 20% United States Reimbursement Fee with Trade and Investment Deals that the various Gulf States will be making into the United States,” Trump said on social media.

The president said the investments “will be MASSIVE,” though it’s unclear if these would be new commitments relative to what Trump announced after a visit last year to the Middle East.

We can’t afford another Bitch ass neoliberal like Biden, we need the next president to be one that will finally acknowledge we’re in a class war and have been for generations.

We need to hold oligarchs responsible, seize their money and throw them in gen pop federal prisons for decades

“At the time I had no idea who he was, and I only figured it out because another group or twinks leaked Lady G to the media,” Rose continued. “Some queer tried to grandstand critique this, saying we shouldn’t ‘out’ people. I believe bigots with power deserve no peace or privacy, especially when they hold public office. I’m glad they did it. Icons forever.”

There’s at least one blahaj account running around trying to defend Graham…

They really need to read this article and maybe they’d finally figure out not everyone LGBTQ is an ally and not all allies are LGBTQ.

It’s fucking wild to defend Lady G just because they were closeted LGBTQ.