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Congratulations to the group of adventurers who successfully found and destroyed her phylactery. I hope you got a ton of XP from the final boss fight
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Cup Runneth Over posted:Congratulations to the group of adventurers who successfully found and destroyed her phylactery. I hope you got a ton of XP from the final boss fight
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Cup Runneth Over posted:Congratulations to the group of adventurers who successfully found and destroyed her phylactery. I hope you got a ton of XP from the final boss fight
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Thank you, it was really touch and go there for a second, but the cleric was able to keep us up long enough for the barbarian to finish the job.
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Sep 29, 2023 19:47
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I like to think she's playing pick up with Kobe right now. 
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Sep 29, 2023 20:10
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Kenning posted:I cannot loving wait until Feinstein dies. I'm really glad no one told me it would be 7 1/2 years, I would have lost my mind.
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Sep 29, 2023 20:24
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Hi I don't live here anymore but just popping in to say congrats, and thank gently caress. Looking forward to seeing who Newsom triangulates as his perceived best pick to get him 2028 election cred.
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Sep 29, 2023 20:42
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Cup Runneth Over posted:Congratulations to the group of adventurers who successfully found and destroyed her phylactery. I hope you got a ton of XP from the final boss fight
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Sep 29, 2023 21:18
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Hey Gerry, did you ever want to be a Senator?
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Sep 29, 2023 22:41
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He's gonna send all that water from up north to the dry parts and any extra he'll dampen the forests so they dont burn. https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1707867789107593333
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OgNar posted:He's gonna send all that water from up north to the dry parts and any extra he'll dampen the forests so they dont burn. Christ, Dianne Feinstein is more coherent than he is.
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Sep 30, 2023 00:55
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Christ, Dianne Feinstein is more coherent than he is. Can’t argue with this!
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Sep 30, 2023 05:42
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Muir posted:Yeah, that's kind of the point. There's very slim chance that she would decide to run for the seat, so she would just hold it for the end of Feinstein's term through 2024. Same principle could apply to Barbara Lee, who'd be a better pick than Boxer imo
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El Mero Mero posted:Same principle could apply to Barbara Lee, who'd be a better pick than Boxer imo Barbara Lee has already announced she's running for the seat, so if he really doesn't want to pick someone that is running in 2024, then he couldn't pick her.
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Sep 30, 2023 05:57
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I've beat this drum before. Newsom really should appoint a placeholder and let the people vote next year. Being able to fill two lifetime senate seats is rather much. The incumbency advantage one gets from a seat filling appointment is too great to overcome. Boxer and Feinstein were elected in 1992, since then, there has been only one open election, Harris in 2017... and her seat was filled by appointment when she became VP, so Padilla is likely to be there for the next 20+ years.
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And with one stupid remark he destroys any goodwill he had with a group of voters that were automatically in his court. "So when you meet someone with a beautiful house in Beverley Hills, you know that person is sort of disgusting." https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1707865898592207106
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Wheeljack posted:I've beat this drum before. Newsom really should appoint a placeholder and let the people vote next year. Being able to fill two lifetime senate seats is rather much. The incumbency advantage one gets from a seat filling appointment is too great to overcome. Boxer and Feinstein were elected in 1992, since then, there has been only one open election, Harris in 2017... and her seat was filled by appointment when she became VP, so Padilla is likely to be there for the next 20+ years. i challenge the california electoral process to, for once, convince me that the party does not, in fact, decide i look forward to this not being the case and once again submitting my vote for write-in candidate против всех
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fermun posted:Barbara Lee has already announced she's running for the seat, so if he really doesn't want to pick someone that is running in 2024, then he couldn't pick her. Ah my bad, I forgot she was running
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congrats to jello biafra on outliving feinstein
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Qtotonibudinibudet posted:i challenge the california electoral process to, for once, convince me that the party does not, in fact, decide Don't political parties sort of imply you're outsourcing control and planning to the party I forget on the California ballot, but in Texas you had the option to tick a box at the top that literally just said "vote straight party ticket: democrat/republican" I would love to see an amendment where all state wide elections are invalid unless independent or third parties get at least 7% (or whatever statistically significant amount) of the vote to break up the extremely disfunctional two party system As much as I hate the tea party and their questionable origins and dealings with the Koch brothers, and everything else, they appear to be functioning as a valid third party in generating legislative chaos that might force everyone else to be marginally effective at governing. Maybe.
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Hadlock posted:Don't political parties sort of imply you're outsourcing control and planning to the party yes, we just hold primaries to waste the office of the secretary of state's funds
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Qtotonibudinibudet posted:yes, we just hold primaries to waste the office of the secretary of state's funds I'm invoking Poe's Law, I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not
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Hadlock posted:Don't political parties sort of imply you're outsourcing control and planning to the party https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmPtfy9P714
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can we get a thread title update to "madame senator, this is hell"
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SolarFire2 posted:Madame senator, this is a morgue.
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SolarFire2 posted:Madame senator, this is a morgue.
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That is an extremely long wind up, but A+ on relevance 
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SolarFire2 posted:Madame senator, this is a morgue.
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"ding dong the lich is dead"Hadlock posted:I'm invoking Poe's Law, I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not in a way, both! our primaries are supposed to be competitive and open to the general public, else we wouldn't have them. parties may have recognized that they can often sidestep this and do, but that's not the intended outcome of the system they are kinda a waste of funds given that we know ranked choice and similar systems can be used for the same purpose without holding multiple elections, at the cost of internal party power brokers losing some influence. said power brokers recognize this, hence gavin vetoing it on the grounds of "voter confusion" despite evidence to the contrary
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wait gavin veto'd ranked choice? ranked choice got him elected as mayor lol
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Cactus Ghost posted:wait gavin veto'd ranked choice? ranked choice got him elected as mayor lol Gotta pull that ladder up behind yourself.
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https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/laphonza-butler-senate-18400669.phpquote:SACRAMENTO – Laphonza Butler will replace Dianne Feinstein in the U.S. Senate, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office confirmed Sunday night. Doing a favor for an important political player of the national party and someone who isn't in the running for the upcoming election
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Played a central role in Kamala Harris's 2020 presidential campaign AND was head of AirBnB's PR department? How inspiring! edit: and advised Uber on avoiding drivers being classified as employees, lmao
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Hadlock posted:Maxine Walters is 85 though? Hopefully they assign someone under the age of 70 at least, although I'm not holding my breath. Average age in California is ~36-37 would be great to see someone under 50 I guess she's 45ish years old? So not another boomer, that's cool. Her resume looks like she was Gavin and Kamala's political fixer on the campaign trail, and has had a number of unelected quasi governmental positions, so getting appointed senator for life makes perfect sense. It was either this or federal judge and she doesn't have the law degree so I guess Senator is it
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fermun posted:Played a central role in Kamala Harris's 2020 presidential campaign Hmm I know who's gonna die next
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fermun posted:Played a central role in Kamala Harris's 2020 presidential campaign AND was head of AirBnB's PR department? How inspiring! lol
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I mean he did appoint a real California senator, that's for sure.
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a scumbag that helped billionaires gently caress workers and tenants both. thats what we call a twofer
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