Check out this video for how to get Schumer and Jeffries out! They have a petition already with half a million signatures and are talking about how we can build public pressure to kick them out of leadership! Also talking about who we should support instead. Very encouraging! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0quVb4r7y8

So what are the ways to boot him and Jeffries out now? Not in 6 months, that’ll be too late.

The leadership positions are elected at the beginning of each term, which will happen at the beginning of January. Between now and then, we can write our Dem Senators and Representatives (be polite and clear–staff tally these), and we can hold demonstrations as two ways to express our demands directly. The more who do this the better.

Bloggers, columnists, and podcasters should be writing articles and conducting interviews publicizing what the people want.

We can’t let the old guard redefine goals and set a false narrative. For example, Jeffries just came out and said,

“The American people don’t want us to get even; they want us to get things done on their behalf, because life is way too expensive”

He’s trying to frame our expecting accountability as just petty “wanting to get even”–don’t let him!

When you write your representative, you could include this quote (or one from Schumer along the same lines if writing your Senator). Say that enforcing the Rule of Law is not “getting even”, rather it is the only way to cure corruption, which thrives when people in power who break the law are not held accountable. We demand a leader who understands this. Say that he is also implying that we have to choose between holding bad actors accountable or tackling the other issues. We demand a leader who can deal with multiple issues at the same time (or “walk and chew gum at the same time”).

IMO we also have to continue with the demonstrations, holding signs that state our demands. If we don’t they’ll think we’re complacent now that the elections are over, and that they can just go back to business as usual. But if we do, they’ll realize we are serious and have certain expectations of them. The newly-elected Dems are going to be paying a lot more attention to us than the others (at least for a while!), so we should take advantage of this window of opportunity to make ourselves heard.

Well, so much for that! The Dow is up over 1100 this morning (as of 10:20 ET)

Bear in mind that besides just Democrats winning, the market reaction could be related to the fact that there were many ballot measures on limiting or putting moratoriums on data centers across the country, and it looks like all but one have passed. The message is clear that they’re going to be met with huge resistance to building them pretty much everywhere.
https://stateline.org/2026/11/04/voters-across-the-country-reject-data-centers/

TIL!

1. 100%. Obviously. That’s what he has done (culminating in Jan. 6, 2021), is still doing, and will continue to do. Get ready for hundreds of lawsuits, illegal confiscation of ballots, rhetoric that the Dems rigged the elections, etc. Supposedly Dems have been preparing with an army of lawyers, but Dump and minions are sure to come up with stuff they aren’t ready for, including outright refusal to seat the winners and saying “Who’s gonna make us?” And before that, we still have to get through Election Day first.

2. Very high. He has already been saying for some time he’s waiting until after the midterms to escalate in Iran. Of course you never know exactly what he’ll do when since he’s easily manipulated by Putin, Netanyahu, Stephen Miller, etc.

3 & 4) Not very likely, especially #3 which they should have done sooner if they were going to. Also remember this buffoon is mostly a drooling dotard signing whatever papers are put in front of him, so better to ask what the technofascist broligarchs and the fascists running the administration have planned, not him. It may depend on the margin of victory at the polls. Larger margin/more states won = less chance the people will go along with their rhetoric. Low margin = higher chance. They’ve set it up for challenging Alaska already, but if enough other states go Blue, that shouldn’t matter.

Haley made a nice chunk of change today.

“White mainline non-evangelical Protestant” is not MAGA, those are the more liberal protestant denominations, though some of them are more conservative than others, so there are some magats in that group as well. But it’s the "White evangelical Protestant (the one on the last line above) that is the heart of MAGA.

What’s even weirder is that they gave the mother 7 consecutive life sentences, but the father who actually impregnated the child only got 1 life sentence + 42 years.

“People, understandably, are having trouble believing in the polls,” Nate Silver acknowledged

Especially Nate Silver’s interpretation of them.

More like “substitute intelligence” because you substitute it in place of using your own brain any more.

Demento Don doesn’t remember that his term was shithole country.

Why do you think not wasting resources introducing legislation that’s guaranteed to fail is “rolling over and pissing themselves like whipped puppies”?

It’s very important to demonstrate your party’s values by introducing and passing bills that reflect those values so that you have a record of where you stand that people can see, regardless of whether those bills get vetoed or not. Saying you should wait until you have full power, or assuming they are “guaranteed to fail” is self-fulfilling prophecy and is capitulating in advance.

1. It demonstrates exactly what the Dem party’s priorities are and what they will do when they have power. People will clearly understand what they will get if they elect a Democratic president and congress.
2. People will clearly understand what the Repub party’s priorities are when they vote NO on bills that they personally want passed, and when a repub POTUS vetoes them.
3. The Dem party will receive positive feedback from constituents when they pass bills that constituents want, and that will make them more likely to continue passing even more bills that people want.
4. It gets publicity and (if popular) builds more public support, which puts more pressure on both reluctant “moderate” Dems and even the Repubs, to get on board with voting for popular legislation if they realize they are more likely to get re-elected when their constituents like what they’re doing, but less likely to get re-elected when a lot of people see them kowtowing to their donors and voting NO on popular legislation.

“I do not think it is time to propose things that the president of the United States is guaranteed to veto,” Schatz said. “I think that is somewhat of a bit of wasted energy. And then if we want to be more aspirational, if we want to make more bold policy changes, we’re going to have to take the presidency and both chambers and that’s for 2028.”

Schatz, you ignorant slut [old people will get this reference]. You don’t think it’s time? Why do you think anyone would even vote for Democrats in 2028 if they roll over and piss themselves like whipped puppies in 2027? JFC will Dems ever show some fucking courage?! Do you have any idea what the assignment is for gods sake?!.

Thank you Rep. Khanna and those few other Dems who get it, and please may enough other actual progressives get elected this cycle to join you and do something for a change. Show us you’re willing to pass legislation that actually helps people and they will vote for you. Act like Schitz and you’re out.

There aren’t even enough open seats for them to win that many.

I figure he resigned because that was the deal to get off scott free for the murder. No problem though, he can (and will) easily get hired at some other police dept.

What about a tortoise? Don’t they live longer?

I hope he lives a while longer, so he can watch in horror as the DSA wing takes over the Dem party just like MAGA took over the Repub party.