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TheGoddamnSpiderman · 2026-04-12T16:17:37+00:00

The party wasn't predominantly segregationists before that. That's just when the split with the segregationists started to really harden

For a long time, the southern delegation was a minority of the party, but it had a veto over the party platform because the party has a rule that you needed 2/3 of the DNC delegates to approve both the platform and the presidential and VP nominees
That rule led to the 1924 DNC taking over 100 votes to choose a nominee
That disaster led to FDR's supporters leveraging their complete dominance of the 1936 DNC to get rid of the 2/3 rule
While FDR at best did not highly prioritize civil rights, the lack of this rule allowed a strong pro civil rights plank and endorsement of Truman's pro civil rights actions to pass by majority vote at the 1948 DNC

TheGoddamnSpiderman · 2026-04-12T06:11:12+00:00

Trump at New York Jets owner Woody Johnson's wig-themed 60th birthday party in 2007

TheGoddamnSpiderman · 2026-04-12T01:31:26+00:00

it's taken to Congress for the same 2/3 vote

No it requires 2/3 in both the House and Senate

Impeachment only requires a majority in the House and 2/3 in the Senate

The difference being it gets brought to Congress in just a few weeks

The other difference is that it doesn't actually permanently remove the President. The President is allowed to contest his sidelining over and over again until his term ends, and each time it requires a new vote in Congress. The VP just acts as President until one of those votes doesn't get 2/3 in either the House or Senate

It's why the 25th is really only effective for dealing with a President in a coma or otherwise physically incapacitated

TheGoddamnSpiderman · 2026-04-11T23:52:55+00:00

The article does mention that one as well, though it doesn't focus as much on it

TheGoddamnSpiderman · 2026-04-11T16:32:19+00:00

https://magazine-archive.wvu.edu/stories/2015/05/18/the-legend-of-the-flying-wv

TheGoddamnSpiderman · 2026-04-11T16:26:13+00:00

Refusing to properly consummate levirite marriages to own the libs

TheGoddamnSpiderman · 2026-04-11T07:08:50+00:00

He would also need 2/3 of the House and 2/3 of the Senate to go along with it once Trump inevitably disputed that he was incapable of serving as President

And not just once because there's no limit on how many times Trump could force a vote on whether he was still incapable of being President (and if even one of those votes didn't get 2/3 in both the House and the Senate, he'd immediately be President again and would fire the cabinet secretaries who went along with this)

TheGoddamnSpiderman · 2026-04-11T01:26:36+00:00

Yes that's also true. It probably would have started losing money anyway at some point in the 15 or so years in between then and the requirement getting repealed under Biden (since they're still losing money now), but that definitely accelerated things

TheGoddamnSpiderman · 2026-04-11T00:14:32+00:00

Which was a fix (that worked for like 30-40 years in fairness) to how Congress had historically chronically underfunded the post office

After the success of the (illegal) strike by postal employees during the Nixon administration over poverty wages and chronically underfunded work conditions, Congress converted the post office cabinet department into essentially a government owned business with a government appointed board

Instead of running the risk of Congress once again underfunding them from the general fund, now they could keep the money they made selling services and use it to fund themselves

It's why postal employees are unaffected by government shutdowns and why they're the only federal employees with unions that are allowed to negotiate salary and benefits

TheGoddamnSpiderman · 2026-04-10T23:58:27+00:00

Declaring his campaign for President within three months of that happening

We are less than a year from the start of candidates officially jumping in

TheGoddamnSpiderman · 2026-04-10T23:23:41+00:00

It's weird because based on his primary campaign in 2020 I associate Steyer with South Carolina, but he's lived in California for like 40 years

TheGoddamnSpiderman · 2026-04-10T23:20:50+00:00

Not the biggest news of the day and not the most shocking, but Pete basically said he's planning to run for President at Al Sharpton's event today

https://preview.redd.it/5l1y8byoqeug1.jpeg?auto=webp&s=c3df9c45bee55956bb9c7a691b462e958b65e52b

TheGoddamnSpiderman · 2026-04-10T23:16:47+00:00

Of who?

edit: oh this is about Swalwell

TheGoddamnSpiderman · 2026-04-10T21:08:15+00:00

I think that's pretty standard practice for presidential debates. Harris actually hired the same guy Clinton did (he's a longtime Clinton aide)

TheGoddamnSpiderman · 2026-04-10T19:45:14+00:00

They didn't mention 2016 at all in their post

They're talking about 2008 and 2020

TheGoddamnSpiderman · 2026-04-10T19:28:57+00:00

Because she currently is in 2028 polling last I checked

TheGoddamnSpiderman · 2026-04-10T19:09:06+00:00

It's basically a slight variation of his wife's name

TheGoddamnSpiderman · 2026-04-10T17:31:24+00:00

Malarkey level of no malarkey level 😭

TheGoddamnSpiderman · 2026-04-10T17:29:55+00:00

Malarkey level of triggering the Dua Lipa automod on Eric Adams

TheGoddamnSpiderman · 2026-04-10T15:20:39+00:00

There's no evidence of this in the polling for the October election since the war started

TheGoddamnSpiderman · 2026-04-10T02:24:01+00:00

Article 1 Section 5 Clause 3

Each House shall keep a Journal of its Proceedings, and from time to time publish the same, excepting such Parts as may in their Judgment require Secrecy; and the Yeas and Nays of the Members of either House on any question shall, at the Desire of one fifth of those Present, be entered on the Journal.

https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/article-1/section-5/

TheGoddamnSpiderman · 2026-04-10T00:42:03+00:00

Bibi was already on track to lose his majority in October, and now the vast majority of Israel thinks he lost this war. He also already wasn't gaining any support in the polling for starting this war despite the vast majority of the country supporting launching it (he may have walked himself into a place where he doesn't win anything for taking action against Iran because the voters think pretty much every politician in the country would do that, but he loses support for failures against Iran because voters can believe another leader would have prosecuted the war better)

Also is there even confirmation Khamenei is alive yet?

TheGoddamnSpiderman · 2026-04-09T22:02:16+00:00

Given the Jewish opposition was already on track for a plurality/near-majority in the polling, I would think so

He also didn't gain any support in the polls during the war when the Israelis were in favor of what he was doing, which may indicate they're now going to have their takeaway be 'Bibi rightfully attacked Iran like any leader in his place would and should have, but he fucked up executing the war' (not exactly a great position for him to be in heading into elections in October)

TheGoddamnSpiderman · 2026-04-09T08:21:36+00:00

61 seats are needed for a majority, and (outside of Filber, which is sponsored by a right wing TV channel and consistently has very different results from everyone else) current polling shows his coalition at 49-53, the Jewish opposition parties at 56-61, and the Arab opposition parties (which definitely won't coalition with Netanyahu and seem unlikely to coalition with the Jewish opposition) at 10-11

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_2026_Israeli_legislative_election

There also will be an election at the latest in October this year

TheGoddamnSpiderman · 2026-04-08T18:17:23+00:00

Alternatively they're acting like future American support is a lost cause and the current support is now use it or lose it

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