Senator Dianne Feinstein's career was filled with firsts, including first woman mayor of San Francisco and one of two of the first women elected to the U.S. Senate from California.
Don’t mean this is a gouache way, but this needed to happen. It really seems like she lost her cognitive abilities a long time ago, and whomever has been keeping after her was manipulating her for their own benefit, and possibly using her as a puppet in her frailty, and it didn’t seem it was going to end anytime soon.
RIP and condolences to the family. But yeah I agree. ll the seats need that. We need regular, young, honest, decent people running for office and tossing out the out of touch fossils that have sold out to too many favors and donations from giant corpos and billionaires.
Good luck finding honest decent people, seems like only the psychotic grifters are interested in politics. All the decent honest people run grassroots orgs it seems and they can’t get the funding to do politics or are interested in helping directly not in fighting dinosaurs on policy
Decent people want to solve problems. They may disagree on what is a problem and they may disagree on the solution but they at least have the intent to solve a problem when they see it. Unfortunately while politics SHOULD be about solving problems these days its primary purpose is playing power games.
It’s why so many fresh Representatives and even Senators start out with big plans and enthusiasm. They see a problem that they want to solve. It’s also why they are mostly ineffective. They arrive on The Hill and quickly realize that solving problems isn’t really what their peers want to do. So their either abandon their plans or start “going along to get along” and get co-opted into the game.
I’d say you hit the nail on the head. I’d love to be more active in politics, this next election I thought about trying to help organize some rallies or just work with the locals on setting up informational events.
Before this year, I didn’t have the time or money to do anything like that. If I didn’t live in the cheapest possible place, I’d still not have the money or time. To make it worse, running against conservative in the Midwest, especially places like Indiana, is a surefire way to just about waste your time.
Unironically this would help. The ones enforcing regulatory capture are the ones who have been in their positions the longest.
If the corporations have to constantly introduce themselves to the new politicians, it greatly increases the cost and lowers the lifetime value of the money they’re spending on lobbying.
It might help, but not in isolation, imo. I think there is value to both having new people with new ideas as well as having people with knowledge of how institutions work. If you have entirely new representatives every term, then everyone is learning things anew (from the corporate lobbyists who are their same jobs for every legislative session). If we did away with private money in politics and publicly funded campaigns, then I think the case for strict term limits is stronger
This had been implemented in some places, and it’s only caused corruption to go up and the quality of politicians to go down. Term limits aren’t the silver bullet we need, they’re actually bad.
I’m for term limits but one term is a bit short. Like with any job, it takes some time to really learn the way the system works and to be effective in the position.
Gauche, French for left, because left handed people are awkward according to the French, who we took the idea from (but at least they’re not sinister).
What the fuck was up with people not liking left handed people? Best guess I have is that it fucked up writing on clay tablets during the early days of civilization and just kinda stuck.
I understand where you’re coming from, but you don’t need to have lived the life to empathise with people who lived the life. Biden seems to be pretty spry for an 80 year old, with most of his problems being problems he’s had his entire life, rather than new things that are coming up now that he’s almost 80.
The question right now is who can replace Biden? He’ll be term-limited out in 2028, and Trump or his kids will be around to tap the MAGA movement. Now is the time to replace Biden, and yet the only people who are running against him on my side of the aisle is an anti-vax almost MAGA idiot who is 69 years old himself, and a 71 year old woman I’ve never heard of until now, and a convicted felon, who, UNLIKE the clowns over on Team Red, is NOWHERE near sniffing any qualification to be considered a major candidate. Hell, Biden isn’t even interested in shifting gears on his Veep, meaning the person with the largest chance of getting the Dem nomination in 2028 is Kamala Harris, who will be 63 when she starts her term in office, and is as huge of a question mark as anyone else on the Dem side. I think this is a huge part of why Biden is running in 2020 rather than handing things off. Nobody is rising the ranks below him. Nobody is making the effort to get themselves in front of Americans, and speak to issues that affect ALL Americans, and thus we don’t have a ready POTUS candidate. If that isn’t fixed by 2028, even if Biden wins in 2024, we’re going to leave an opportunity for a Trump to slide into office then.
He is fine, and I can’t see Trump as president again. I might have a mental break if he gets elected again, but it would be great to get some younger candidates.
Don’t mean this is a gouache way, but this needed to happen. It really seems like she lost her cognitive abilities a long time ago, and whomever has been keeping after her was manipulating her for their own benefit, and possibly using her as a puppet in her frailty, and it didn’t seem it was going to end anytime soon.
That seat needs new blood and energy.
RIP and condolences to the family. But yeah I agree. ll the seats need that. We need regular, young, honest, decent people running for office and tossing out the out of touch fossils that have sold out to too many favors and donations from giant corpos and billionaires.
Good luck finding honest decent people, seems like only the psychotic grifters are interested in politics. All the decent honest people run grassroots orgs it seems and they can’t get the funding to do politics or are interested in helping directly not in fighting dinosaurs on policy
Decent people want to solve problems. They may disagree on what is a problem and they may disagree on the solution but they at least have the intent to solve a problem when they see it. Unfortunately while politics SHOULD be about solving problems these days its primary purpose is playing power games.
It’s why so many fresh Representatives and even Senators start out with big plans and enthusiasm. They see a problem that they want to solve. It’s also why they are mostly ineffective. They arrive on The Hill and quickly realize that solving problems isn’t really what their peers want to do. So their either abandon their plans or start “going along to get along” and get co-opted into the game.
I’d say you hit the nail on the head. I’d love to be more active in politics, this next election I thought about trying to help organize some rallies or just work with the locals on setting up informational events.
Before this year, I didn’t have the time or money to do anything like that. If I didn’t live in the cheapest possible place, I’d still not have the money or time. To make it worse, running against conservative in the Midwest, especially places like Indiana, is a surefire way to just about waste your time.
We should only allow the people who don’t want to be in politics to be in politics lol
Limit every office to one term. Problem solved.
sets the revolving door to max speed
Look y’all, i fixed regulatory capture!
Did you really just call a 90 year old woman who was in the Senate for 31 years a “revolving door”
Unironically this would help. The ones enforcing regulatory capture are the ones who have been in their positions the longest.
If the corporations have to constantly introduce themselves to the new politicians, it greatly increases the cost and lowers the lifetime value of the money they’re spending on lobbying.
It might help, but not in isolation, imo. I think there is value to both having new people with new ideas as well as having people with knowledge of how institutions work. If you have entirely new representatives every term, then everyone is learning things anew (from the corporate lobbyists who are their same jobs for every legislative session). If we did away with private money in politics and publicly funded campaigns, then I think the case for strict term limits is stronger
I mean obviously the best solution is to remove private money entirely. It’s disgustingly biased against the majority of citizens.
A one term limit is silly, for the reason you mention. But 3-4 seems plenty to get a mix of seasoned representatives and new ideas.
This had been implemented in some places, and it’s only caused corruption to go up and the quality of politicians to go down. Term limits aren’t the silver bullet we need, they’re actually bad.
Interesting, you have any examples of where they’ve tried this?
Truthfully? No. It’s something I’ve heard many times but that’s it.
I’m for term limits but one term is a bit short. Like with any job, it takes some time to really learn the way the system works and to be effective in the position.
We limited the presidency to two terms. As a thought experiment, do you think Trump could have beaten Obama?
Nope. I also don’t think trump could have beaten clinton prior to Obama. I think trump was a reaction to Obama.
New problems created though.
Gauche, French for left, because left handed people are awkward according to the French, who we took the idea from (but at least they’re not sinister).
What the fuck was up with people not liking left handed people? Best guess I have is that it fucked up writing on clay tablets during the early days of civilization and just kinda stuck.
Ugg smudged Trogg’s cave drawing back in ye olde caveman days because Ugg was left-handed, and thousands of years of bitching has been the result.
Ok?
My understanding is that Katie Porter is running for that seat.
She is, and she’s fucking awesome.
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Biden is up in front of crowds almost daily addressing questions just fine. Don’t know what you mean.
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I understand where you’re coming from, but you don’t need to have lived the life to empathise with people who lived the life. Biden seems to be pretty spry for an 80 year old, with most of his problems being problems he’s had his entire life, rather than new things that are coming up now that he’s almost 80.
The question right now is who can replace Biden? He’ll be term-limited out in 2028, and Trump or his kids will be around to tap the MAGA movement. Now is the time to replace Biden, and yet the only people who are running against him on my side of the aisle is an anti-vax almost MAGA idiot who is 69 years old himself, and a 71 year old woman I’ve never heard of until now, and a convicted felon, who, UNLIKE the clowns over on Team Red, is NOWHERE near sniffing any qualification to be considered a major candidate. Hell, Biden isn’t even interested in shifting gears on his Veep, meaning the person with the largest chance of getting the Dem nomination in 2028 is Kamala Harris, who will be 63 when she starts her term in office, and is as huge of a question mark as anyone else on the Dem side. I think this is a huge part of why Biden is running in 2020 rather than handing things off. Nobody is rising the ranks below him. Nobody is making the effort to get themselves in front of Americans, and speak to issues that affect ALL Americans, and thus we don’t have a ready POTUS candidate. If that isn’t fixed by 2028, even if Biden wins in 2024, we’re going to leave an opportunity for a Trump to slide into office then.
Swallwell, Schiff, Porter, AOC, there are choices.
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Beto maybe?
In 1885? Far out!
Stop the nonsense. Biden is fine.
He is fine, and I can’t see Trump as president again. I might have a mental break if he gets elected again, but it would be great to get some younger candidates.
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What a stupid comment.
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