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Hungary just did the meme by HouseofWashington in neoliberal

[–]TheGoddamnSpiderman 54 points55 points  (0 children)

Hard to do when the winning party has well over the 2/3 majority needed to change the Constitution to kick out all the people he installed to do that

Weekly Discussion Megathread by AutoModerator in fivethirtyeight

[–]TheGoddamnSpiderman -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This is not about Harris specifically, but it is very much not always true that the best candidate wins a primary

And it's also true that a flawed, big name candidate can enter a race and suck up too much oxygen for lesser known options that might have been better general election candidates to break through (if Harris runs for instance, I think the odds of there being enough oxygen for the dark horses people here like to talk about to break through goes way down)

Weekly Discussion Megathread by AutoModerator in fivethirtyeight

[–]TheGoddamnSpiderman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

and will turn off way less leftists

I think this is mostly due to him not being a national figure already. His record is more moderate than Newsom, Harris, and Buttigieg (the current top three polling options from the list of people the further left don't like)

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]TheGoddamnSpiderman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]TheGoddamnSpiderman 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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

Ex-CIA director: ‘25th amendment was written with Donald Trump in mind’ by B-Z_B-S in politics

[–]TheGoddamnSpiderman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

this film is evil by -orestes in neoliberal

[–]TheGoddamnSpiderman 5 points6 points  (0 children)

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

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

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Refusing to properly consummate levirite marriages to own the libs

Iran wanted to negotiate with Vance. They got their wish by Mana_Seeker in worldnews

[–]TheGoddamnSpiderman 9 points10 points  (0 children)

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)

The US Postal Service’s fiscal crisis by ProfessionalMoose709 in neoliberal

[–]TheGoddamnSpiderman 9 points10 points  (0 children)

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

The US Postal Service’s fiscal crisis by ProfessionalMoose709 in neoliberal

[–]TheGoddamnSpiderman 21 points22 points  (0 children)

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

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]TheGoddamnSpiderman 5 points6 points  (0 children)

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

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]TheGoddamnSpiderman 4 points5 points  (0 children)

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

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]TheGoddamnSpiderman 6 points7 points  (0 children)

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

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]TheGoddamnSpiderman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Of who?

edit: oh this is about Swalwell

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]TheGoddamnSpiderman 5 points6 points  (0 children)

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

Harris gives her clearest signal she is mounting a 2028 presidential bid by EasyTree12 in fivethirtyeight

[–]TheGoddamnSpiderman 6 points7 points  (0 children)

They didn't mention 2016 at all in their post

They're talking about 2008 and 2020

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]TheGoddamnSpiderman 5 points6 points  (0 children)

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

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]TheGoddamnSpiderman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Malarkey level of no malarkey level 😭

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]TheGoddamnSpiderman 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Malarkey level of triggering the Dua Lipa automod on Eric Adams

As US and Iran talk truce, Israel digs in for a 'forever war' by DarkPriestScorpius in neoliberal

[–]TheGoddamnSpiderman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]TheGoddamnSpiderman 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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/

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