Fucking grifters.
Seriously. Do you know how hard it is to launder money with crypto if a major international terrorism bust causes the value to fluctuate wildly?
Jokes on them. Inflation ate up my savings account.
Hereās hoping a senior shoves a walker up his ass. The entire walker.
You first, Mike.
Wanna take odds that Mike made millions on insider trading the TACO in April?
Safest place for your money is under your mattress.
For what jobs? You mentioned AOC, Crocket, and Raskin, all of whom I like, but you didnāt say what leadership positions you would like to see them in. Some of the House Democratic leadership positions are kind of more organizational in nature, from what I understand. I donāt know if I want Jasmine Crockett wasting away as the 4th Chief Deputy Whip.
Oh, I mean capital-L Leadership. Minority Leader to replace the milquetoast placeholders currently holding those positions.
Ok, Minority Leader is Jeffries. I do think that the Leader needs to be someone who can work, or āwhipā the entire party, both the centrists and the progressives. Pelosi, as much as I donāt like her centrism, was able to do that. Crockett might be able to do that, but sheās young. I donāt think her as Minority Leader is realistic. Minority Whip? Maybe. But again, that position tends to go to more behind the scenes types. The current Minority Whip is Katherine Clark, who I am not that familiar with.
I would love to see all three you mentioned as ranking members of committees. Raskin is already the ranking member of the Judiciary Committee, which I think is a perfect fit for him. I really wish AOC could be made ranking member of the Oversight Committee, now that Gerry Connelly died, but sheās no longer even serving on that committee. Crockett is, though, and is currently the Vice Ranking Member. Iād love to see her replace the interim Ranking Member, Stephen Lynch.
I looked up all the Ranking Members of Standing Committees, and was kind of pleasantly surprised. 11 of them (out of 20) are members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. So we have our foot in the door, at least. I would love to see AOC as Speaker or Minority Leader someday. I hope that happens, if she decides to not run for President or Vice President.
Iām not sure who else I trust with the positions (Iām talking both House and Senate). Schumer has to go. Jeffries has shown heās almost as unfit for this moment as Schumer. Ever since he called the reps who walked out of the SotU into the Principalās office, he showed that control was more important to him than Democracy or representation of the people.
I agree, but I donāt think either of them are going anywhere anytime soon.
That is something we can influence, though. We arenāt powerless. Everyone needs to pressure their Dem House rep and senators to replace the wet paper bags with people who can actually do the job to resist fascism.
I can try, I guess, but my Representative is Emanuel Cleaver, who is right there ideologically with the Clintons, Pelosi, Jeffries, Schumer, etc. Iāve met him. Heās a nice guy, and I think he has good intentions, and he even grew up in my hometown in Texas. If heād been born a decade later, my dad probably would have been his junior high math teacher. But he does not respond well to challenges to the existing Party Leadership.
He should be responsive to constituents, though. At the very least, he or his staff should answer the question of why he isnāt pushing to replace Jeffries with someone more effective. And at that point, youāve made him think about it.
Iām not being flippant when I say that murdering Greta Thunberg would absolutely be a vote winner for the current US administration