US Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (Democrat, New York) isn’t fazed by Congress’ failure to move forward with the impeachment of Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth.
From her perspective, Democrats have almost too many people to investigate once they gain control of Congress in January.
“There are so many criminals in this administration, it’s hard to figure out who should be, you know, the order of operations,” Ocasio-Cortez said in an interview with CNN’s Manu Raju on Tuesday.
“There are going to be many, many, many investigations,” she added. “I imagine many subpoenas, and we have to follow wherever the evidence takes us.”
Tier 1:
Tier 2:
Tier 3:
This is by no means an exhaustive list, but they need to get results on Tier 1 ASAP in order to maintain progressive and MAGA turncoat votes.
People need their food stamps back too, the ones Trump kicked off. Disabled people kicked off other aid too.
The EC will quite likely be effectively ended by states before Congress gets to it. The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact will make the EC follow the popular vote, not the stupid state-based voting currently being done.
No it won’t.
States with an opposition majority can simply exit the Compact. SCOTUS can rule the Compact invalid as soon as it becomes a hinge point for a presidential contest. State parties can send up electors that refuse to abide by the compact’s accords.
The only real solution is abolition. Any relic of the system that remains is a loaded gun left in the hands of a cynical bureaucracy.
They can’t just simply exit. They’ll need to pass a new bill to exit, at minimum.
This is potentially true. It seems constitutionally sound from SC precedence, but it’s not like the current SC cares about that. Hopefully the court gets repaired before they have the chance to shoot it down.
You’d need a Democrat in the White House to do that. At that point, there’s no longer pressure to reform the EC.
Why is there no pressure to reform the EC then? Are we not holding any more elections after that?
There’s plenty of pressure. Just not in the direction you’d prefer.
This was an underreported part of Project 2025, which lead off with a new wave of unscheduled redistricting in red states… leading to the Dummymander of 2026.
There was also the attempt, in 2020, to award EC votes by state legislative fiat rather than statewide popular vote.
But the bottom line is that when you’re winning (and Republicans have had a built in EC / Senate advantage since 1968, thanks to their popularity in smaller rural states) there’s no big incentive to change the rules.
And when you’re losing, there’s no opportunity to change them.
Continue winning?
Not putting SC reform in tier 1 is an immediate L
SC reform can’t happen until 2029, so no it doesn’t belong in tier 1 on pragmatic grounds alone
If there is a 2029 lmao
… Sorry, off topic, but why is your icon the buc-ees mascot? Those guys chug maga cock like their life depends on it.
Icon? I use Voyager btw.
Irony. Think punks and John Lennon rocking Mickey Mouse tees. Buc-ee’s is the height of MAGA brain rot culture. A gas station treated as some sort of cultural identity.
That said, they are great rest stops…
Nothing says being punk and ironic like having to explain to everyone you’re being punk and ironic.
The place college kids stop at in between home and college? The venue all those city kids eat at on the way to a camping trip or summer vacation? The spot RV driving liberals fill up at while visiting all the national monuments they can find on a map? The physical embodiment of urban gentrification of rural neighborhoods?
This Buccee’s?
My husband brought me bucees sweat pants from his business trip to Austin, we both had a laugh. Then we read up on the owners 😳.
The fact that they won’t sue him means we should all be able to safely use this.
Put it on a bunch of gas stations.
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You know I hate tankies as much as anyone else, but I’ll honestly say JoMiran is one of the few .ml users who doesn’t seem to be one.
As in, they’re actually capable of rational thought/discussion and has some decent takes from time to time, which a tankie would be utterly incapable of
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Wait what, when did anyone mention swastikas? I must have missed that part of the conversation. What I saw is that they said punks wore mickey mouse shirts. Which is a completely different thing.
I’m not here to defend .ml as an instance, I think it’s garbage and most of its users are disingenuous trolls and accelerationist edge lords who would rather see the world burn with no plan to rebuild after rather than contribute in any meaningful or reasonable way to any sort of productive discussion whatsoever.
That being said, I’ve seen JoMiran around on different threads and they don’t act like the usual .ml user. There’s a couple others too, but they’re very much the exception rather than the rule over there. That’s all I’m saying.
And I never listened to the sex pistols, but there are plenty of punk bands who hate nazis, and honestly the punk ethos is diametrically opposed to fascism, so that weird subgenre of nazi punk is not only an oxymoron, but they’re also just a bunch of posers appropriating the aesthetic and not really punks. They would get chased out of any regular punk venue. Call it gatekeeping if you want but nazis are not punk, even when they try to call themselves that.
Sigh. Anti-NATO and pro-China is not pro-Russia. If anything, we agree with you libs that China and the USA are fighting a proxy war using Russia and Ukraine as condoms.
The US provoked it, Russia started it, then China stepped in and used the opportunity to make Russia completely economically dependent on them.
Russia sucks in so many ways. Ukraine sucks way less because they were the ones who got invaded, and I’m far more on their side, but they have problems too. The people of both countries are being used and thrown away by unaccountable foreign bastards (and domestic bastards in Russia’s case).
It’s just a game to the people at the top. China wants to limit Western advancement on their western flank, and the US/NATO wants to kill Russians and advance their economic influence into countries previously dominated by Russia.
It’s two capitalist markets trying to gain power over each other. We at ml think the solution to this is to bring down capitalism, and the major other communist faction on Lemmy is to do that but bring down the state as well.
Now, does any of this sound like we are pro-Russian to you?
To your final question, yes.
Which part?
Are they big fans of gas stations over there?
They’re tankies. So they’re big fans of obvious fascism and authoritarian ideas claiming it’s basically anything else.
Meanwhile the US is evil incarnatez and absolutely everything they do is bad, without exception. Russia and China do no wrong. Even when they do the exact same things.
They’re not big fans or critical thinking over there, and aggressively ban anyone not participating in the group think.
You just replied to me to explain, in answer to my question “Why does dou9m think that I can expect every ml user to be a fan of a gas station brand?” is that its because they are authoritarians? Like I was making a joke obviously, but your response doesn’t actually make any sense.
Don’t worry, we all know what tankies are, and we all think they are very silly and unimportant people. It’s hard to spend any time on lemmy without knowing about them. I find the people who follow them around screaming about it to be just as annoying as they are.
So for future reference: We get it, my dude.
I guarantee you a gigantic chunk of people on this site, and even more importantly, all of the people who will end up migrating to Lemmy over the following year, are going to have no idea how to even slightly define what a tankie is.
Give me a call when they hold any political power whatsoever <3
The world’s most virulent one is literally POTUS lol