• Zephorah@discuss.online
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    I did a google search. Then followed it up with Kagi until I ran out of scroll.

    Every headline minus a couple fringe items, repeats that Jeffries will be the next speaker.

    Almost all of them.

    We are so fucked.

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      Not saying that is not a foregone conclusion but your method is flawed here.

      Every search and headline today would be parroting what he said yesterday. There literally has not been any time for anyone to say differently in public (even if asked, most would not voice an opinion on election day)

      If I search today, like you did, looking for the orange pedophile’s response to the midterm election, it would seem he will respect it and allow the transfer of power… however, he may change his syphilitic mind and throw another insurrection tomorrow

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        There has been time. There’s one UK opinion piece on infighting between Dems.

        There’s one Indian news site that brought up the change.org petition to not have Jeffries.

        There’s an ex Bernie campaigner site that has a “Progress stops with Jeffries” headline.

        That’s it. But if they’ve had time, everyone has had time. They’re choosing to rally behind Jeffries. But that’s corporate media working their damnedest after the fact, because he’s their dam on the tsunami. So, full headline support.

        Change.org is typically a point of interest. Note how the 450k signatures overnight are ignored by American media.

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          That’s it. But if they’ve had time, everyone has had time.

          You mean the 3 examples you found from people either not in the USA at all or one standalone campaigner? yes, how is it that the people running for a historic election are not already working and posting publicly about this specific thing?!

          Change.org is typically a point of interest. Note how the 450k signatures overnight are ignored by American media.

          The petition has 49K not 450K; but I think it’s typical to be ignored because I can sign it and I am Canadian… there is almost no legitimacy to these online petitions

          PS: turns out there are, at least 2, petitions against Jeffries.

          The one you point out with 450K signatures is 2 months old (so not overnight)

          The one I found, is from yesterday, and has 49K so far

          May I suggest that, if you are posting some backing evidence, post directly to it, not to an open repository

          https://www.change.org/p/house-democrats-choose-a-new-speaker

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      There was a good video put out by AOC last night about how the speaker is voted for, based on that I think the answer is finding out who the caucus leaders are and getting their attention, because the voting basically comes down to all of the cliques of Congress/Senate getting together to decide who is speaker/Majority Leader, so we need to get in the ear of the leaders of those political cliques within the Democratic party, because based on AOCs responses, the cliques have the power and the smaller cliques and independents are on the outside looking in.

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        They have such a commanding majority that they could leave 40+ members out. If the progressives have any guts they would hold their vote hostage to reconsider other choices. It would look pretty bad if there was a wave and then a fresh speaker battle so it might motivate them to reconsider.

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      Maybe it’s time for the Democrats to go through the equivalent of whatever internal civil war process put Mike Johnson in the chair.

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        They would sooner exile every progressive than let that happen, just look at the lack of alarm bells when one of the progressives is being unlawfully investigated for deportation.

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          “They” lost a lot of seats to the progressives, too. All these new representatives join forces with the returning progressives, and the corporate establishment won’t look quite so inevitable.