We have a generation of Democrats who are horribly out of touch with reality.

That Schumer planned a book tour proves that. Someone had to make him aware that people like my buddy and me planned to show up and hassle the shit out of him before canceling.

HEY. Hey. hey. Gerry Connelly probably had some great ideas for government... -40 years ago. They're probably completely irrelevant according to the needs of today.

In the case of many GenX folks: “our turn” will never arrive. The Boomers refused to fucking retire and make room for us, and younger generations conflate us with Boomers because “old is old”.

Meanwhile we are working our asses off helping our elderly parents navigate an increasingly hostile health system (yay, capitalism) while giving our adult children a place to live or money to survive an increasingly impossibly expensive society. Can’t afford to save for retirement either.

“Hooray”

(fyi - I also think that term limits are the way to go here - finish your terms, then gtfo. None of this waiting around for 20 years for “my turn” and certainly none of that “just wheel the old corpse in and tell her how to vote” bullshit either)

they know the gop already all on board, and guaranteed a ROI, but dems probably provide a bigger ROI than the gop.

A lot has changed since December...

I think if AOC still wants it, she's got it now.

Pelosi and the rest of the senior elected politicians don't have the DNC behind them anymore. She was never good at convincing people to see her side, she wielded the DNC like a cudgel and had zero qualms turning it on incumbents who went against her.

Agreed, bur let's forget about her, and Dianne Feinstein, and Biden. Let's ignore everything that happened before the inauguration and pretend we're starting with a fresh slate. He's the third House Democrat to drop dead since January. In five months, three Democrats have been assassinated by time.

Yeah, but if Vegas ever starts taking odds on when these ghouls are gonna drop dead, or which ones are going to sell us out to the crypto industry, I'm gonna make a killing.

Not only that, but politicians are very concerned about their legacies, how they will be remembered

Which is why we need to start being honest even if it's not polite

Fuck Gerry Connelly. He spent his last years working against his own party and causing harm to the American people.

If he'd have spent the last decade in retirement, sure, we can limit it formalities. But up until the day he died he obstructed justice by taking an important political seat so that he could block someone else from doing the job.

Mike Donnelly would have gotten more done than Gerry did.

she was banking on hillary to win, and then when mitch became SENATE majority, he blocked all of obamas appointments.

Back in December...

That happened because Pelosi had the backing of the DNC and elected Dems knew the neoliberals wouldn't hesitate to torpedo an incumbent that went against them even if it meant a Republican got the seat.

She doesn't have that anymore, and all her threats are toothless. For her whole career she's never been effective at convincing people to see a different viewpoint to change a vote, she's just threatened her own party members.

With the "victory fund" they had financial control over a lot of states too, they could shut the tap off to your whole state, or making funds dependent on your state hanging you specifically out to dry.

Like, I think people dont appreciate how much got fixed in the last couple months, because they don't understand how bad shit really was

The tirelessly working on a ceasefire thing, and she is an opportunist at times. She is still better than most of her peers. I don't personal like her, but if it came down to it. I'll still vote for her over any corpo Dem.