every time someone understandably goes "even if we get rid of these motherfuckers they have hand picked successors to take their place" i point to how dem seniority by and large do NOT have any succession planning, much less some basic mentoring or farming for talent. it's just Them, forever
Right. Pelosi only picked Jeffries because she could use him like a handpuppet, and even that's more foresight than Schumer seems to be operating under.
I wonder how specifically frightened they are to see healthcare returning as a campaign topic. like the momentum had cooled for a minute there but whoops, turns out people still like being alive and not dead,
The current Dem leadership’s plan is “après moi, le déluge”
Yep. Old pathetic losers desperately clinging to life and trying desperately to sacrifice ours instead to prolong theirs as they pathetically try to robotically demand our attention to vote for THIER causes and NOT our demands the people are supposed to be able to recieve. Healthcare,guncontrol ect.
It really is the nobles just constantly as always keeping power despite the clear inhumane practices their leaders commit and or call for unwell people to do through propaganda and the fact we do NOT have free healthcare of any kind to help them, just unlimited access to guns the whiter your skin.
A whole political class that thinks the world can't live without them (and doesn't much care what lives beyond them)
If a pandemic and a literal attack on the capital targeting them couldn’t get them to memento mori, I’m not sure what could. It’s 1993 forever, in both ideology and sense of self.
Late-stage dementia is a bitch. We really can't afford this parody of governance.
I am honestly surprised more don't die on office
Give them time
77. They really do think they're immortal.
a good litmus test for whether a politician should retire is asking them if they think they'll ever like physically die and they say no
wish i could remember who but a new york dem a couple years ago remarked on their fondness for how much cooler and better funerals are for people who die while still in office, get the state involved and everything
The DNC has no line of succession and the GOP has no (grassroot) donors. Seems bad.
Generation Kronos
jeffries was the unwanted b-plan after crowley, and even after handing speakership over it's incredibly obvious pelosi is still a true big wheel in the house. they don't actually like buttigieg or kamala even though they'd do everything leadership wanted. "you get this when i'm dead" and that's it.
pelosi is one of the few doing some basic succession planning in that's it's incredibly obvious she's been trying to set christine, her daughter, up to take over. however, counterweighing that, is the fact that christine is *59 fucking years old* right now, and nancy still ain't budged.
Imagine being that old and not getting out for your own daughter. The vanity is godlike.
And the bizarre thing is that she's trying to set up her daughter but her daughter has essentially zero presence in the city. Her first campaign is going to be her introduction to most voters. They really just think that being Nancy's daughter is enough.
this is the first time I'm hearing of her existence, lol
she's done two things, one gave an interview where she said her mother was 'an assassin' right before she did her clap for trump thing and the other when she said that 'some of your faves' may be implicated in the Epstein arrest
She may have snuck into your consciousness without you being aware if you've ever jokingly referenced the "some of our faves may be implicated" Epstein tweet
remembering people talking about chelsea clinton and potential political office for her
It'll at least be funny to see her "some of our faves may be implicated [by epstein]" tweet resurface!
I like how we managed to just recreate European aristocracy
Running into a queen Elizabeth/ prince Charles situation
no real infrastructure, no long term planning, no mentoring going on, not even for corrupt reasons, not even to maintain godawful american imperial hegemony and class interests. the 'plan', such as it is, is "we're gonna be here until the icy grip of time takes us out, what's after doesn't matter"
And the cherry on top is they get to live longer and healthier with the finest healthcare our money can buy, all while withholding that same privilege from us
That Clyburn article where he basically said "well what the fuck else am I gonna do" was so telling They'd rather die clinging to power than to learn how to go fishing or something
"history is over and we are its stewards. it will die with us." --the democrats
the saying goes is it's a big club, and you're ain't in it, and that is true. but there is a club within that club of people in their 70s, 80s, who see no reason why they should have to share anything or plan beyond themselves even for selfish reasons. even ghoulish asskissers get nothing from them.
there are even boomer dems in the house who can tell them "please, i wanna bomb iran and give the cops a trillion dollars, i think israel should get to do whatever it wants, i want crypto to be unregulated, can i please just get a leg up in the ladder" and leadership will still go "not your turn".