“One of the things that we heard last night, resoundingly across the country, is that we are in … a new movement in this country,” Flanagan said. “Many of us were elected who refused corporate PAC money, who are beholden only to the people who elected us and are ready to fight for bold change. And so I think it’s time for new leadership.”
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Don’t we all.
So do I! What a coincidence!
Peggy Flanagan is far from alone in wanting this.
The Senate majority leader should have a fucking pulse.
I find it important because she’s relatively moderate and from a safely blue state this election. I’m glad to see it’s not just Bernie, El-Sayed, etc. calling for it
Also she’s my senator, so I’m proud of that
How is the Senate Democratic leader selected? I thought it was an elected position.
it’s an election by the members, so if Democrats have a majority, they get their candidate
Someone should let Peggy know.
The Senators from the majority party vote on it.
Shumer can retire and spend time with the imaginary family he’s been talking to for decades.
And yes, that’s true. Look it up.
And you know the Baileys went MAGA in 2016. Fuck those marketing persona assholes.
I can’t get over the fact Schumer’s fake family that he regularly pretends to talk to for years didn’t even vote democrat
If you can’t convince your imaginary average family to vote for your party, how in the hell does he expect to be able to whip together senate votes?
Voters across the board are sick of the status quo. Fuck Jeffries and Schumer’s establishment grip on our Democratic Caucus! It’s time for new leadership that delivers BOTH real justice and real economic relief for ALL citizens! Leaders like Peggy Flanagan prove they actually understand why this moment demands real change.
As one of her constituents, I’m happy she understands why she won. We don’t want the same Democratic party we’ve been getting. They actually have to start improving things.
so, if ms flanagan would’ve been a status-quo democrat, you would’ve voted for the zero qualifications media personality who praised and defended the fed’s assault on the nation’s cities to the point of using ice footage in her campaign ads and only changed her tune after they murdered two minnesotans?
ms flanagan won because she is well liked, well respected, and has done a good job wherever she’s been… and was the most qualified person on the ballot
ms flanagan won because she is well liked, well respected, and has done a good job wherever she’s been… and was the most qualified person on the ballot
No, she won because she’s the Democratic candidate in fucking Minnesota. After what Trump did here, there was zero chance any Republican was winning a state-wide election this year
You seem like a person who is searching for reasons to be mad. I don’t see any point in engaging with that attitude, so this will be my only response: I hope you get a handle on whatever is causing you to lash out like this; best of luck to you [Tone Indicator: Genuine].
ms flanagan won because she is well liked, well respected, and has done a good job wherever she’s been… and was the most qualified person on the ballot
None of those necessarily determine the outcome of elections.
minnesota’s electorate is different than many other parts of the country.
I think a lot of people don’t understand how true this is, so they instinctively downvote you
As an example: Minnesota doesn’t actually vote for the Democratic party. We have an affiliate coalition party, the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party
Woof, salty downvoters here tonight.
Because their comment doesn’t match what’s being said. Everybody is praising Peggy.
If you have a Dem House rep, contact them and say no to Jefferies
If you have a Dem senator, contact them and say no to Schumer
We can’t waste time on neoliberals
What if my Senator is Schumer? How do I politely tell him to retire already?
Something brief that starts with “Off you” and ends with “fuck.”
Sir, as one of your constituents I do not feel as though you have acted in accordance with the needs or the will of the people who elected you into office, but rather submitted to the demands of private interests and corporate donors. Your actions, or often lack of action, have caused harm at worst and at best kept positive change from happening. I respectfully ask that you step down and allow the next generation of leadership to enact the will of regular Americans.
Sincerely, dhork.
Extra points for actually signing it that way lmao
He’s openly suggested that he’s more loyal to Israel than to the united States. Tell him that’s borderline treason and he’s despicable for supporting genocide. Tell him you want a new rep and a new leader.
Tell him you want a more progressive leader in the senate. He should know his constituents don’t want him in charge either
Tell him your an average white middle class republican couple and you definitely think he needs to step down for the good of the country.
Sign your letter “Joe and Eileen Bailey”.
Well, shit, if his imaginary Baileys are asking for it…
Honestly, a campaign signed that way might demoralize him
Why be polite?
Honestly, because it’s staffers that receive communications; they can either delete it or log it, and coming at them with (too much) spite might tip them over to ignore you. So politely tell their boss to fuck off, so that message might actually get logged.
Edit: good (but old) article – Wired: What It Takes to Make Congress Actually Listen
They work for a piece of shit. You gonna be polite to a Nazi general because he’s just doing his job? Making all his staff quit would go a long way toward making him actually fuck off, rather than getting your polite “fuck off” message politely delivered to the nearest trash bin so they don’t get fired.
Making all his staff quit would go a long way toward making him actually fuck off
Except that’s not how it works at all. The staff will just delete your message. They’re used to getting death threats and all sorts of fucked up things that they have to report to law enforcement. Nothing you can say would make them quit without also risking prison for yourself
You’re not wrong. My point is that lots of staffers work for shitbags, and to be fair, lots of staffers are shitbags. But if you want your voice to be logged and show up on a chart that might tip the scale, one path might work better than the other.
I don’t think anybody on his staff is concerned with that chart, but do whatever you feel is best. Maybe I’m just too cynical.
MAGA wasn’t worried about that chart. This is the result of that. Hopefully Democrats have gotten the message by now, after this and 2024
What if my Senator is Schumer? How do I politely tell him to retire already?
Dear Chuckles,
We have decided it is time for you to make way for more capable leadership.
Sincerely,
the Bailey family
Politely tell him he had his turn, and now it’s time for a different democratic leadership and approach.
If he hasn’t already felt how incredibly unwelcome he is, you can politely figure out a way to tell him to “go fuck himself”.
Bully tactics is how people like him ended up in power. Start there. End with a hug and make sure it doesn’t happen again. Better yet, give what’s left of this land back to the natives. They did it better. #LANDBACK
Electing some natives to high offices like New Mexico did is a good start, as long as it’s not done blindly. Power corrupts and they’re just as corruptible as any other human beings are. It’s about deeds, not words, but even dishonest words often contain red flags warning of future deeds. Don’t feel too bad if you get scammed by any given politician, they’re crafty devils, but it doesn’t matter how regularly or how badly you get scammed by the best of them, you’ve still got a responsibility to try to figure out which ones have some truth and respectability left in them.
“I would prefer the democrats to be led by a being not suffering from intellectual unsustainable disparity.”
(Edit: forgot a not, thats pretty important)
Tell him that he’s as good as a politician as his daughter is a comedian.
At least politely tell him to step down from the leadership position.
Tell him to step down 🤣 maybe he’ll listen
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What if you live in Nebraska 🫠
(JK I know Omaha elected one D I just hate this state rn)
Doing it today… And tomorrow… And the next day… AND THE NEXT DAY.
And while you’re at it, suggest who you’d like to see in those roles instead!
I hereby declare that I too want a new Senate Democratic leader to replace Chuck Schumer.
I hereby declare my penis to be the largest penis in this land.
Thank you for that inspiring piece of wisdom, Satan’s Maggoty Cum Fart.
We all do Peggy. We all do. While your at it, could you back seat Jeffries too? His blue sweater has WAY too much red bleed through. His viewpoints are out of date and not in line of what needs to happen as soon as our new civil servants hit the ground running.
Also he held secretive meetings with Jared Kushner. Jeffries is corrupt
Bernie Sanders or we riot.
Bernie isnt a Democrat
I don’t care do it anyway.
He’s also old AF.
They don’t understand that. Bernie was never going to be the Dem nominee for president because he’s NOT A DEMOCRAT! They aren’t giving it to an Independent any more than they’d give it to a Nazi.
Eisenhower wasn’t a Democrat or Republican but they both wanted him to be their nominee for president.
I don’t know why you’re getting downvoted: it’s true, as a matter of Senate rules. Majority and minority leaders are picked by party caucus, not the Senate as a whole.
Bernie is a part of the Senate Democratic Caucus, even in the leadership, but they’re not going to hand the chair to an independent.
Quick reminder that Minnesota is a state with a left party independent from the DNC.
They caucus with, and accept money from the DNC, but the DFL has always been slightly more to more progressive than the DNC.
Wow, never had heard of the DFL, but now I read the wiki, and that is a pretty cool history…at least before they got a bit more conservative in the post-war period, but still cool!
I think its neat because progressivism isn’t a faction, its the platform.
And the person who ran Minnesota’s DFL for a decade has been the DNC chair for like 21 months…
A big reason why this wave was not only huge, but full of progressives…
Minnesota is a unique state looking at it. Something about it.
Significant rural population that almost exclusively votes conservative (for reasons that don’t entirely make sense). From what I hear, there are a LOT of anarcho-communist groups throughout the state. They take education and hunger seriously. There’s a LOT of really rich people though.
I strongly believe thats why Walz and the State were targeted so hard by Trump. A state that naturally opposes authoritarianism is an anathema to the regime.
It’s not natural…
It was a red state when Martin started running DFL
He turned it purple then blue because he stopped standing in front of progressives and focused on fair primaries so the candidates most popular with dem voters made it to the general…
And what happened Tuesday nationally, was what happened in Minnesota.
It’s not a fluke, it’s not anything “natural” about Minnesota, it’s the simple fact that progressive policy is what voters want.
And the voting members of the DNC realizing that, is why they picked Martin for DNC vhair. To do nationally what he did in Minnesota: stand back and let voters pick their candidates.
Very proud of my state
Contact your representative and tell them you want them to not endorse Schumer’s leadership nor Jeffries’ ambitions to run for Speaker of the House. The more messages they get from their constituents the more likely the establishment’s goal of doing nothing will be thwarted. It doesn’t take very long!
I know my rep isn’t gonna vote for either of them, because he’s a raging MAGAt.
Mike Kennedy (UT) - wait, sorry - DOCTOR Mike Kennedy 🙄
I may have intentionally referred to him as “Mr. Kennedy” in my email to him today. I know it pisses off some doctors when that happens.
It’s clear that the Democratic Voters are loudly demanding a new direction in America, and that starts with new leadership who understand their mission, and Israel is not part of it. We didn’t go through all this trouble to get rid of MAGA control, to just fall under Israeli control instead. We thought we’d have to fight one enemy, only to find out there’s another enemy right behind them.
Bernie Sanders is basically an Honorary Democrat by now.
