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Verdugo posted:Newsom appoints a temp replacement. Which is one of the reasons she was holding on because they didn't like who newsom was going to appoint so lol
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:No sweat, they can just prop up the corpse and have Schumer control it with a series of pulleys. she is in the house. she will probably get replaced by that progressive black lady that newsome wanted instead of schiff.
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Wait, which politician will be able to regale us with stories from her young adulthood during the Civil War now?
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Dapper_Swindler posted:she is in the house. she will probably get replaced by that progressive black lady that newsome wanted instead of schiff. Feinstein was in the Senate, not the house.
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Catastrophe posted:Wait, which politician will be able to regale us with stories from her young adulthood during the Civil War now? u kno who
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wilderthanmild posted:Feinstein was in the Senate, not the house. lol me dumb.
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Catastrophe posted:Wait, which politician will be able to regale us with stories from her young adulthood during the Civil War now? McConnell
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Anyone  ing Trump for his Feinstein eulogy?
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Seth Pecksniff posted:No it's not? VP is tiebreaker so it's functionally 51-50 It's not 51-50. It's currently 49 R, 46 D, and 3 I. The three Is mostly caucus with the D, but two of the three are Angus King and Kristin Sinema. Still, I think Chuck should be able to seat someone. Seth Pecksniff posted:No - House elections have to be decided by election I could see it not being Schiff, then, as he's actually useful in the house at the moment and won't be in the senate. I know he'll still run for the seat in 2024, but I don't know that he'll get appointed to it right now.
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Froghammer posted:My gut reaction was to shout "GOOD" so loud at my laptop that it woke up my cat Aw 
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Dapper_Swindler posted:she is in the house. she will probably get replaced by that progressive black lady that newsome wanted instead of schiff. Here's hoping. I think that's who Newsom promised, iirc. Jokes aside, I tend to feel sorry for Feinstein because she was clearly out of it and unable to take care of herself. I have a lot more contempt with all the people surrounding Feinstein that were fully aware of her condition and let it go on because of stupid power struggles. Maybe hers is/was a critical seat they couldn't lose, but that's why you a) don't elect to office people who remember President Arthur's term of office, and b) have substitutes in place.
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Sir John Falstaff posted:I was at Henry Rollins' spoken word show on election night. Mood on the metro was 50/50 dire and riot and cut right through that fog and oh poo poo here we go.
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Mr. Nice! posted:It's not 51-50. It's currently 49 R, 46 D, and 3 I. The three Is mostly caucus with the D, but two of the three are Angus King and Kristin Sinema. Still, I think Chuck should be able to seat someone. That's why I said functionally  Also idk California law but if Schiff doesn't win he may have to give up his House seat
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:Here's hoping. I think that's who Newsom promised, iirc. While I mostly agree, it is still insane to me that she ran for re-election in 2018. What the hell did she think was gonna happen as she broke down.
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:Here's hoping. I think that's who Newsom promised, iirc. yeah. i dont like feinstein but i just kinda felt bad for her. she was in a very safe seat. the issue is internal political poo poo which her solved against the people loving her over so. lol
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Mr. Nice! posted:It's not 51-50. It's currently 49 R, 46 D, and 3 I. The three Is mostly caucus with the D, but two of the three are Angus King and Kristin Sinema. Still, I think Chuck should be able to seat someone. What's the other open seat? Because 49+49=98. Do you mean it's 49, 47, 3?
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Seth Pecksniff posted:Also, the Majority Leader can place the new senator wherever there's an opening, which happens to be the spot where the late Senator Feinstein sat They’re gonna make the new guy sit in her wheelchair?!?
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Also in 2015 I drunkenly prophesied to an entire hotel bar that Trump would die in prison and it took a while but we're on decent track for it.
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but she was just officiating a wedding for Chris Evans and Alba Baptista!
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Late Unpleasantness posted:Also in 2015 I drunkenly prophesied to an entire hotel bar that Trump would die in prison and it took a while but we're on decent track for it. It was in this very thread, or previous iterations back in 2016 someone, I know not who, made the post that what Trump doesn't understand is that exposure that the presidency will bring as well as his mindset of criminality and greed will cause him to ultimately lose the business. That always stuck with me. And it was 100% accurate.
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My understanding is that in terms of officially held seats it was 47 D, 3 I, and 50 R, which meant Harris was a tiebreaker and there was effective D control because all the Is caucus with the Ds. I think we can reasonably assume that if Newson doesn't appoint an actual criminal or literal terrorist they will be seated, if potentially with some attempts at earned media from the rear end in a top hat caucus. It is possible the Republicans will use this to somehow try to take control of the Judiciary Committee which would slow down and potentially stop Biden from appointing more judges. "Making sure Republicans appoint the judges" is like Mission One for the GOP.
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There is something funny in a real dark way about someone getting weekend at Bernie’s for years only for it to not matter at all in the end
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Fun fact, Feinstein was voting yesterday. Literally working up until the day she died making decisions that she will never live to see the consequences of. I'm genuinely disgusted.
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Nelson Mandingo posted:Fun fact, Feinstein was voting yesterday. Literally working up until the day she died making decisions that she will never live to see the consequences of. I mean she only living to see the consequences before on a mere technicality
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Currently Sentate is D 50, R49 and Kamala as a tie breaker when needed. Once Fienstein is replaced, it will be back to D 51, R49 and Kamala as a tie breaker when needed. The Independents only caucus with Democrats.
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She's a former street cat that I'm still in the early stages of rehabilitating and she keeps stealing whatever she can fit in her mouth out of the fridge every time I open it. Any minor inconvenience she faced this morning is karma for me having chase her around my apartment trying to get back a bag of Aldi garlic naan
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I hope that if I make it to 90 I'm just genuinely out of the way and still have my brain so I don't turn into an rear end in a top hat or vegetable. Let me be a nice old lady that hangs out and makes everyone uncomfortable by suggesting I used to get it.
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:Maybe hers is/was a critical seat they couldn't lose, but that's why you a) don't elect to office people who remember President Arthur's term of office, and b) have substitutes in place. You don't even have to exaggerate to make Feinstein's age look bad: she would remember the Hoover administration and her first vote would have been for Roosevelt. Froghammer posted:She's a former street cat that I'm still in the early stages of rehabilitating and she keeps stealing whatever she can fit in her mouth out of the fridge every time I open it. Any minor inconvenience she faced this morning is karma for me having chase her around my apartment trying to get back a bag of Aldi garlic naan Garlic is extremely bad for cats so keep it out of her way.
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Nessus posted:My understanding is that in terms of officially held seats it was 47 D, 3 I, and 50 R, which meant Harris was a tiebreaker and there was effective D control because all the Is caucus with the Ds. Wikipedia page on current US Senate has it D47, I3, R49, and 1 vacant due to the untimely death of Senator Dianne Feinstein.
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Random Stranger posted:You don't even have to exaggerate to make Feinstein's age look bad: she would remember the Hoover administration and her first vote would have been for Roosevelt.  That really is nuts.
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Serious_Cyclone posted:Wikipedia page on current US Senate has it D47, I3, R49, and 1 vacant due to the untimely death of Senator Dianne Feinstein. 
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Grey Cat posted:I hope that if I make it to 90 I'm just genuinely out of the way and still have my brain so I don't turn into an rear end in a top hat or vegetable. Let me be a nice old lady that hangs out and makes everyone uncomfortable by suggesting I used to get it. I’m gonna be the most badass old man you have no idea
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I wish feinstein’s family could have just let her enjoy her last years instead of what actually happened. Grim
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Coolguye posted:I’m gonna be the most badass old man you have no idea Hell yeah. I'd say let's hang out but the legs and the ticker yknow? 
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Bismack Billabongo posted:I wish feinstein’s family could have just let her enjoy her last years instead of what actually happened. Grim
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Death to the gerontocracy.
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Late Unpleasantness posted:Also in 2015 I drunkenly prophesied to an entire hotel bar that Trump would die in prison and it took a while but we're on decent track for it. I once, somewhat intoxicated, loudly announced to a bar that they were all invited to my place for a huge party when Donald Trump finally dies and the following silence that fell over the place told me to STFU and return to my drink. My party plans have not been canceled. Maybe I'll show the restraint to not smile but I'm not going to frown.
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