Today's a good day

I wish this news made me happier. It ought to but all it reminds me is that in 2032 people will probably vote in mecha-hitler Grok Musk for US president because Americans have the collective memory of a goldfish.

Its political education too.

California passes Prop 50 in a landslide.

Honestly, this is arguably the most significant thing for America for the night. Countering Texas’ Gerrymander is big, but it’s not as sexy of a story.
- Yeah, I agree, that is also very important. But I still think that getting rid of Pelosi and the other ghouls in the DNC would/could be the most important thing right now. The Democratic Party desperately needs a renewal, a progressive reform and to embrace real left-wing, socialist politics to save the middle class from sliding down and help poor people to break out - as opposed to give in to every wish and whim of billionaire oligarchs who are stealing literally all wealth from the rest of society.
  The whole 'let's follow the republicans further and further to the right to grab the centrist's votes' idea clearly is not working. It is not making peoples' lives better (except for the oligarchs). And it is not even helping democrats win elections and secure power any more.
  Appeasement didn't work against the nazis, why would it work against MAGA?
  But unfortunately Pelosi, Schumer, Jeffries and the rest of these cronies are all absolutely hellbent on keeping up with the appeasement. They all need to retire or get primaried, or the US is lost to fascism for who knows how many decades.
- I find it very interesting that it was put up to a vote in California. In Texas, the legislators just took it upon themselves to cheat. "Going high" is going to bite the dems in the ass eventually, though.
- and its encouraged other blue states do thier own prop 50 too if the gop decides to "fully gerrymander" thier states.
I am glad that this passed in California, but this whole thing makes me feel terrible for the outlook of the country. I've been interested in counter-gerrymandering and alternative voting methods like ranked choice voting for a while now. I had loved seeing some states like California and Colorado taking steps to better elections.
But of course, having better and better elections in blue states just allowed red states to have worse and worse elections to seize control at a national level. I don't know how you fix this problem, other than to do what California did and beat them at their own game. I don't see a constitutional amendment being passed to help any time soon.
- allowed red states to have worse and worse elections to cease control at a national level
  If only they'd cease 🥲
  Americans, I highly encourage you to do everything you can to seize the means of federal elections, and put it in the hands of an independent federal electoral commission, instead of the nonsense state administration you currently have.
  Maybe one day you'll have a voting system as good as ours (one point we are very proud of).
  Love from Australia

Tbf, Nancy didn't announce her retirement. The voters finally did it for her.

Schumer needs to be next and Jeffries can join him for early bird specials and get the hell out of politics - this is a serious time and you have nothing to meet this moment.

Yes, Schumer next please.
I think Jeffries is a good rep but bad leader. He doesn't need to retire, just let someone else take the leadership role.
- Jeffries voting record on Israel is not good
  On 4/20/2024 he voted yes on H.R.8034 to give $26.38 Billion in Additional Weapons “Aid” to Israel
  9/23/2021 he voted yes on H.R. 5323 to give the Israeli government $1 billion more for their Iron Dome military system
  7/23/2019 he didn't vote on H.Res. 246, which passed - H.Res. 246 - Opposing Global Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement targeting Israel

Spanberger is ex-CIA, and a party selected candidate (she went through no primary). Expect no substantial changes.

That's why I've put her only on second place from the top. It's a nice thing that she's flipped a seat, but it's not gonna start a reform of the party. The reform is gonna come from Mamdani's win and Pelosi's retirement.

Dick Cheney was among the worst in an administration that disrespected human rights, international law, honesty, trustworthiness and set the US reputation as well as the fight against global warming way back.

Usually, that probably would have been my last thought of him.

Except, we have this crazy timeline. This timeline, in which he was able to stand out just by pointing out that he is still in favour of free elections. At least that was still a given in his time, even though the decision about the loss of Al Gore was considered controversial by some back then.

A low bar, a low bar indeed. But here we go, on this positive note: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6Nq9SpGzic

administration that disrespected human rights, international law, honesty, trustworthiness and set the US reputation as well as the fight against global warming way back.
Dick Cheney and George Bush the guy who said "fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame m--, you can't get fooled again".
I thought was the lowest point for America. But Trump made George Bush seem like a rocket scientist, and yearn for the good ol days.
- I remember when I earnestly believed it would impossible to have a country with an elected leader that was dumber than George bush.
Didn't he shoot a guy in the face once too? That was a fun time
- Yep, but here's the kicker. He got the guy he shot to apologize to him!
- Not only did he shoot somebody in the face, he probably never apologized.
  In a 2010 interview with The Washington Post, when asked if Cheney had apologized, Whittington declined to answer.[6]
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Cheney_hunting_accident

I really dislike the fact that this pos has a meme format. His wife literally works for pedonald on destroying the education system.

Drop an alt with maybe your cartoon franchise of choice and we can see about getting it to catch on
So is it pronounced pedo-nald? Or Ped-onald?
That last one sounds more like he has a foot fetish than a small child fetish that he actually does but rolls of the tongue easier than the first one.
Maybe Peed-on-Ald? He does like getting pissed on.
- Just call him pedo. Streamline it.
galaxybrain is always an option
tbf, this meme isn't particularly painting him in a great light
- Do people actually admire people in memes?
  I've always thought of them as like stock photos.

The only way shit could possibly get better than this would be if we got all three of the very specific front-page obituaries that shall not be specifically named all happening in very short order.

I'll name them, though I don't condone violence since that almost always martyrs them and makes things worse. Just will be happy when they die of old age or McDonald's.
USA edition:
Trump
Stephen Miller
Russell Vought
Int'l edition:
Trump
Putin
Xi
- You missed one potential party who MAY be referenced in this context:
  Netanyahu is literally inflicting a Holocaust upon the Palestinian people, and his would definitely appear on the front page.
This isn't reddit, you're allowed to name them. I'm guessing you wanted Trump, Miller, and Hegseth?
- Alright alright that's a fair point, the mods here aren't corpofascist stooges like on Reddit.
  Trump, pedophile and protector of pedophiles.
  Putin, butcher of multitudes of his own people.
  Netanyahu, inflicting a Holocaust on Palestine.
- Hegseth derives all his power from Trump, so if Trump's gone, he's rendered irrelevant. None of the GOP establishment likes him. Miller can definitely continue to do damage on his own, though.

Dear diary, today wasn't shit. Thanks!

Oh cool, it's my turn to find out someone died from a meme.

Honestly this is just how I receive all my obituaries now
Glad I could help

An old San Francisco Bay Area emmigrant, I hadn't heard about Pelosi. That's such good news.

I really expected someone would have to pry her office titles from her cold dead hands the way we had to with Feinstein.

Let this be a beginning that will spread across the globe.

Btw, congrats, Americans!

The dutch had an election last week and seemed to shift from extreme right to more middle ground parties, with "dutch trump" losing his majority and two center parties gaining loads of votes. Now they just need to find a way to form a working government with 4 (or even 5) different political parties needed for a majority.
- That was such great news! I had already been bracing for an overtly racist NL, so happy they didn’t go that far right!

All im seeing is speculation on pelosis retirement, and apperantly shes set to talke about it. Did it already happen?

It's speculated that she'll announce it very soon now that prop 50 has passed.
- Thanks for confirming.

I need Nancy Policy dies by falling down the fucking stairs and I'm throwing a party.

is pelosi actually retiring? i thought she said a couple days ago in some interview that she's considering running for reelection!

LET'S FUCKING GO!

WE ARE SO FUCKING BACK BABY!

It's giving me the best kind of whiplash.

About damn time that old bitch retired.

Let’s hope every time one of the old shriveled turds kicks it things like this happen.

Mikie Sherril won as goober of NJ, too.

EDIT: Obligatory: DingDong the Dick IS DEAD

too bad hakeem isnt any better.

Wait did she really? Of all the news today I missed that one.

It’s sweet to see you all getting so happy like there’s hope.

If there wasn’t hope they would spend so much money on propaganda.
- What does that even mean?
Defeatism is not helpful. Oppose what’s happening, don’t appease the executive. Allow there to be some way to betterment before all you can do is say ‘there’s no hope’
- Actually, it’s quite helpful.
Why do you feel the need to discourage people? You sound like a propagandist.
- Sometimes discouragement is encouragement.
Yeah man! Tell them losers!
Y'all are so uncool; living and shit. You should all be dead like me.
- Haha. I love how sad y’all get when you’re reminded of reality.