The 119th United States Congress

[romad1]

Poll: AOC leads Schumer in head-to-head New York primary matchup by double digits - POLITICO

[chasfh]

That’ll make someone here go open MAGA … 😉

[mtutiger]

The companion piece to the Grassley-Cantwell action.... makes sense coming from Bacon (Omaha + suburbs are quintessential swing territory, Nebraska is a huge ag state)

[chasfh]

8 hours ago, mtutiger said:

The companion piece to the Grassley-Cantwell action.... makes sense coming from Bacon (Omaha + suburbs are quintessential swing territory, Nebraska is a huge ag state)

It will be open season on RINOs for stuff like this, and I’m thinking it will be the Supreme Court that drives the final stake through this one.

[Tiger337]

On 4/2/2025 at 7:59 AM, Motown Bombers said:

 

Politicians almost never impress me because they are almost all full of ****.  I have heard her a couple of times and she impressed me.  

[Motown Bombers]

John James announced his run for governor. I definitely had things to say in my daily email to James.

-I let him know Benson will mop the floor with him
-I asked if he was going to campaign on something other than anti-trans
-Asked if he will go back to embedding swastikas in his ads like he did in 2018
-I reminded him of the tax money he took to create jobs he failed to create
-I asked if he was going to move back to Farmington Hills
-I suggested he resign and focus on his doomed campaign and let someone who actually isn't absent represent the district

[Tigerbomb13]

Four Dems that voted in favor of voter suppression 

[LaceyLou]

2 hours ago, Tigerbomb13 said:

Four Dems that voted in favor of voter suppression 

The way it's worded, this bill could cost millions of women their right to vote. Since many change their names when they marry, it means the name on their birth certificate will not match the name on their current id. 

The cynical part of me can't help but think that's the actual plan, though.

[CMRivdogs]

40 minutes ago, LaceyLou said:

The way it's worded, this bill could cost millions of women their right to vote. Since many change their names when they marry, it means the name on their birth certificate will not match the name on their current id. 

The cynical part of me can't help but think that's the actual plan, though.

I wonder how many Republican Congresswomen Wii be affected, or are they exempt. Marjory Taylor-Greene, for example, does that match her birth certificate? Is she even eligible to serve?

[smr-nj]

1 hour ago, LaceyLou said:

The way it's worded, this bill could cost millions of women their right to vote. Since many change their names when they marry, it means the name on their birth certificate will not match the name on their current id. 

The cynical part of me can't help but think that's the actual plan, though.

That’s not cynicism. You and I both know it’s the truth. It is the actual plan. And God dammit it. It’s working.

[RatkoVarda]

also aimed to naturalized Americans (that is, not REAL Americans) - who may not have birth certificate from country of origin. friend's mom fled Castro's Cuba. impossible to get any documentation, which would not even show her current name anyhow (single, married, widowed, remarried).

and these people will have no trouble voting, ... but if they were Dems?

Nikki Haley's birth certificate reads Nimarata Nikki Randhawa born Bamberg, SC.

Ted Cruz's birth certificate reads Rafael Edward Cruz born Calgary, Alberta.

Usha Vance's birth certificate reads Usha Bala Chilukuri born San Diego, CA.

[chasfh]

37 minutes ago, RatkoVarda said:

also aimed to naturalized Americans (that is, not REAL Americans) - who may not have birth certificate from country of origin. friend's mom fled Castro's Cuba. impossible to get any documentation, which would not even show her current name anyhow (single, married, widowed, remarried).

and these people will have no trouble voting, ... but if they were Dems?

Nikki Haley's birth certificate reads Nimarata Nikki Randhawa born Bamberg, SC.

Ted Cruz's birth certificate reads Rafael Edward Cruz born Calgary, Alberta.

Usha Vance's birth certificate reads Usha Bala Chilukuri born San Diego, CA.

They have nothing to worry about about since we have entered the era of special pleading and exemptions.

[Tiger337]

On 4/4/2025 at 10:17 AM, romad1 said:

Poll: AOC leads Schumer in head-to-head New York primary matchup by double digits - POLITICO

That is not surprising at all. Schumer is a coward and AOC is very likeable.  I think she'd do well in any blue state.  

 

 

[Motown Bombers]

Funny, Schumer did better in AOC's district than AOC. 

[Tiger337]

4 hours ago, Motown Bombers said:

Funny, Schumer did better in AOC's district than AOC. 

Has your party made a decision on who is going to get the Presidential nomination in 2028 yet?  

[Motown Bombers]

On 4/11/2025 at 2:34 PM, Tiger337 said:

Has your party made a decision on who is going to get the Presidential nomination in 2028 yet?  

The party doesn't decide. There will be a primary. If AOC decides to run, she will lose and then say it's rigged. 

[Tiger337]

3 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:

The party doesn't decide. There will be a primary. If AOC decides to run, she will lose and then say it's rigged. 

I think the Democratic party has pretty much decided their preferred candidate ahead of time the last two elections.  Then they decided another one on the fly in 2024!   I suggest they leave it wide open in 2028. Otherwise, it will be hard for many people to take their claims of "defending Democracy" seriously.  Let the people decide who they want.  

[Motown Bombers]

2 hours ago, Tiger337 said:

I think the Democratic party has pretty much decided their preferred candidate ahead of time the last two elections.  Then they decided another one on the fly in 2024!   I suggest they leave it wide open in 2028. Otherwise, it will be hard for many people to take their claims of "defending Democracy" seriously.  Let the people decide who they want.  

Explain in detail how the party decided on Biden in 2020 who beat Sanders by over 3 million votes. The only time they did decide a candidate was when they forced Biden out in 2024. 

Edited 6 hours ago by Motown Bombers

[Motown Bombers]

It's funny how candidates like Biden and Hillary mop the floor with the rest of the Dems when the primary shifts to the south and the blacks, the base of the party, starts voting and now it's rigged and the Dems are choosing the candidate and not letting the voters decide. 

[Motown Bombers]

lEt ThE pEoPlE dEcIdE. bIdEn WaS cHoSeN bY tHe dNc

[Tiger337]

50 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:

Explain in detail how the party decided on Biden in 2020 who beat Sanders by over 3 million votes. The only time they did decide a candidate was when they forced Biden out in 2024. 

That's easy.  A bunch of candidates left the primary trail at around the same time, so the entire party could rally around Biden.   

[Tiger337]

48 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:

It's funny how candidates like Biden and Hillary mop the floor with the rest of the Dems when the primary shifts to the south and the blacks, the base of the party, starts voting and now it's rigged and the Dems are choosing the candidate and not letting the voters decide. 

It's because the party decides on a candidate and puts all their resources into that person.  Clinton turned out to be a bad choice.  Biden may have been the right choice in 2020, but I think he won because Trump's idiocy was on display every single day during the worst public health crises of our lifetimes.  In 2024, people were mad about high prices, they blamed that on Biden and they forgot how much of a moron Trump is.  

[Motown Bombers]

12 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:

That's easy.  A bunch of candidates left the primary trail at around the same time, so the entire party could rally around Biden.   

Why didn't the voters rally around Bernie Sanders then? Klobuchar and Buttigieg got out because they knew they had no path. Literally two candidates left the trail at the same time. Klobuchar never finished above 3rd. Buttigieg was in the lead but was getting killed in the black vote. He was never going to win. 

[Motown Bombers]

10 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:

It's because the party decides on a candidate and puts all their resources into that person.  Clinton turned out to be a bad choice.  Biden may have been the right choice in 2020, but I think he won because Trump's idiocy was on display every single day during the worst public health crises of our lifetimes.  In 2024, people were mad about high prices, they blamed that on Biden and they forgot how much of a moron Trump is.  

How much resources did the party put into Biden vs the other candidates? Put a number on it because Biden was broke heading into South Carolina and closing offices. Elizabeth Warren's people were even bringing coffins to his campaign. 

[chasfh]

Here to remind people that over three million more people voted for Hillary for president than for Trump.