This may be cynical but this just sounds like he wants to make people fall in line and adopt more Texas style right-wing politics.

The “we have to regain their trust” line could be copy and pasted from just about every corporate non-apology in existence. This instills little hope in me for the future of the Democratic party.

The man didn’t magically appear when you learned his name…

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Martin#Minnesota_DFL_chair

He wins elections with progressive candidates, because that’s what increases dem turnout.

What more do you want from a party chair?

If he’s dirty, where’s the dirt from the time he ran a state party?

Why the absolute about-face from you on the DNC over the last couple weeks?

I’ve been saying since the day Biden lost that the DNC chair election determines if I support the DNC as hard as possible or push for a third party.

Ken Martin was one of the candidates I consider “good enough”.

They’re seeing the trend from the DNC over the last few decades and seeing more of the same in his statement.

It would be easier to see that side of it, if there was more than one I cident of him saying something “bad”.

Dude was campaigning in an election where voting members of the DNC were the only ones who could vote. A “hard no” would have prevented him from becoming chair.

And what does that tell you about where their allegiance lies?

Who cares?

Their only power is electing a chair in years a republican is president.

That’s all the DNC is really, some people who vote on who the chair is, and around 20 people in other leadership positions the chair appoints.

The DNC is not some huge unchangeable monolith, don’t blame fresh leadership for last 30 years of shit decisions.

Now, I answered all your questions. So if you’d be so kind I’m legitimately interested in this:

And why did so many people all discover this comment from over a month ago about 48 hours ago?

Where and when did you first see that comment?

Why are so many people stuck on a single comment he made during the DNC chair campaign when he was asked if he’d take donations from billionaires?

Do you legitimately think he’d have won the chair election by answering no?

And why did so many people all discover this comment from over a month ago about 48 hours ago?

I’m legitimately asking because I followed the chair election pretty damn closely, and even at the time it was made it just wasn’t a big deal…

But most importantly:

I really want to include the new DNC chair in that list.

I didn’t say he should be, I said I want to include him.

He has a long and respectable history at the state level, and I have no reason not to be optimistic that he’ll stay that way…

Yet.

So I want him to keep doing the right thing and earn on a spot on that list.

Welp, that’s on me for over-estimating American voters in 2025…

I should not have done that, that’s my bad.

Vice President Kamala Harris was asked by the co-hosts of The View on Tuesday whether she would have done anything differently than President Biden, responding “not a thing comes to mind,” before coming back to the question and adding that she plans to appoint a Republican to her Cabinet if she is elected in November.

“I’m going to have a Republican in my Cabinet,” Harris said. “I feel burdened by letting pride get in the way of a good idea.”

“You asked me what’s the difference between Joe Biden and me, well that will be one of the differences,” she added

https://www.newsweek.com/kamala-harris-view-republican-cabinet-1965824

Now, she does say she’d have a Republican in the cabinet and that makes her different…

But Biden went as far as saying he was considering a Republican as VP…

While campaigning in New Hampshire, Biden said that while he couldn’t think of a specific Republican off the top of his head, there are “some really decent Republicans” but the more “well-known” members of the GOP need to “step up” against President Donald Trump.

https://www.businessinsider.com/joe-biden-would-consider-republican-running-mate-unity-ticket-2019-12?op=1

So I don’t see much of a difference between the two claims

Because for 30 years Republicans have dismantled the American education system…

And no one has really tried to fix it.

Humans are animals, we don’t just innately become well adjusted humans, we need to be socialized. The focus on STEM and standardized testing meant all that shit got thrown out the window.

How many times and how many ways did she need to say she would be exactly like Biden?

Like, there’s some irony in you being unaware of what voting for Harris was voting for, in a thread about trump voters being unaware of what their vote meant…

So far only AOC, Sanders, Pritzker, and a handful of others are showing they have the guts to stand up on the bullshit the administration is pulling.

I really want to include the new DNC chair in that list.

“We’re calling it the ‘Organize Everywhere’ tour,” Martin told ABC13. “It’s a simple premise that if we’re going to win throughout this country and get back into power, we have to organize everywhere. We’re visiting red states, purple states, and blue states on this tour. And Texas really is the future of the Democratic Party. This is such a critical battleground state as we move forward in the 2026 elections – of course, the 28 election cycle and beyond.”

And

“We have to earn their trust back, and part of that is not just showing up a few months before the election and asking them for their vote,” Martin said. “We have to get back to organizing year-round where we’re building trust with communities around shared values.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/abc13-has-1-on-1-with-new-democratic-national-committee-chair-ken-martin/ar-AA1zI1f4

Like, he’s had the chair a month, and he’s going out and doing local station news interviews already.

For the past 30 years every other chair would have been grifting huge dollar donors in exchange for more conservative policy positions right now.

despite the fact that most liberals have an aversion to guns.

I was surprised they linked 2017 data…

But I was even more surprised to see that up to 2024 nothing changed.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/07/24/key-facts-about-americans-and-guns/

Really expected to see a spike for “lean Dem” who owned guns over that timespan, but numbers are steady.

Newsweek has contacted the United States Department of Health and Human Services, via email, for comment.

As soon as Lil Bobby finishes dropping off another bear carcass in Central Park he’ll look right into this…

Blame politicians for not stopping number spoofing.

It’s insane that someone can pay to use existing numbers, and today it’s only really used by scammers.

If all these calls showed up as coming from a random foreign country, no one would ever answer them.

There’s a very easy solution to this.

In many cases the call ends after that. But why?

Because they auto call thousands of people, expecting very few people to even answer.

If they have 5 scammers crammed in a closet somewhere, and they’re all on a line, there’s nowhere for you to go, so the call disconnects if it can’t be transferred. Keeping you on hold costs money.

In some cases, I get someone with an accent I’d identify as Indian. But often the call is disconnected after just a few words.

Number spoofing and auto calls are cheap…

It’s a very low barrier of entry even in countries with low costs of living. It’s not like a scam center has to be on the ball and know what they’re doing.

Lots of them are just bad at it. But that’s still good enough to trick 80 years old enough to make it worth it.

Really good article that people should read, but…

TLDR:

Cops thought a backseat passenger put drugs up his but during minor traffic stop.

Got a warrant and tried to make a (Catholic) hospital to pull it out

They refused and said it would be incredibly dangerous.

Cops retaliated by no longer stationing police at the hospital, so the hospital is suing the cops.

So it’s interesting but also important. No one wants to live in a country where being in the backseat of a car that fails to single means cops can do cavity searches. And cops intimidating medical professionals is an issue that’s been going on for decades, and neither party seems authentically interested in reigning in police.

The plans would revive a border measure known as Title 42 that the first Trump administration enacted at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 to authorize summary expulsions of migrants. The Biden administration kept that policy in place amid record levels of illegal crossings at the U.S. southern border until letting it expire in 2023.

I was pissed the first time Trump did this, and so was every other dem voter.

I was pissed when Biden refused to end it and wanted to give himself and future presidents the ability to shut the border indefinitely, but it was Biden so lots of people said that made it ok…

At least now that trump is doing it again, other people will care again.

Small victories and all that I guess. If it’s gonna happen regardless, at least less people will defend trump for doing this than Biden.

But a Dem that agrees with trump as much as Biden, is always going to be a tough sale to Dem voters. So hopefully our next candidate tries to differentiate from trump rather than imitate.

Denny’s said it would not share which specific regions or locations would see surcharges due to the situation being “fluid.”

Translation:

We’ll charge as much as people will pay because that’s literally the definition of capitalism.

There is going to be an increase in costs, but from the second the chicken who shits out your egg is born to the second your empty plate is picked up off your table…

Every single person in the process will charge as much as they can.

And that’s how a $0.02/egg increase due to Bird Flu leads to $0.50/egg charge added on top of normal pricing. Every single person will raise prices to what the highest the next link in the supply chain will pay.

It’s literally capitalism working as intended, which is why capitalism is the problem and can’t work unless it’s heavily regulated. If a capitalist country were to strip away regulations, capitalism always ends in an oligarchy…

No one is supposed to send any emails like that…

The way it’s supposed to work is the president tells his cabinet what to do, and it trickles down the chain of command.

If agencies refuse, the president can force senior leadership to resign. Which is why Biden was able to force agencies to do a partial RTO when he somehow thought that would get him Republican support a few years ago.

What is happening now is like if the manager of a KFC ordered the manager of Taco Bell to start staying open 24/7 again.

They might all have the same parent company, but that doesn’t mean one can order the other around.

And the CEO of the parent company (Yum foods?, doesn’t really matter) could say Taco Bell should be open 24/7, but he’d likely tell the Taco Bell CEO to do it instead of texting every Taco Bell employee in America.

Found the guy renting chickens:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pDTiFkXgEE

/s

The judge, who heard arguments on the request last week, said her order doesn’t prevent President Donald Trump, a Republican, from “effectuating the administration’s policies.”

Meaning:

Trump can order agencies to downsize, and if they don’t he can replace senior leadership, and wash and repeat.

It’s what Biden threatened to do when he forced part time RTO.

But Elmo is circumventing the chain of command, and trying to tell employees from every agency what to do, which he can’t. Even if he was a government official in charge of a different agency.

trump being in charge of agency heads isn’t the same thing as being in charge of every federal worker. It’s an important distinction he just doesn’t understand.

I’ve been saying it since the first HR@opm email…

You couldn’t pay me enough money to work on a Settlementa team now, those poor fucks are going to be dealing with this shit for years.

The only thing I think Elmo will get away with is the inevitable rugpull on people who took the “fork”.

The government can’t legally promise to pay money past the budget and the CR ends literally a pay period after everyone leaves. And what they had to sign to take it says “if parts are found illegal the rest stands”. Meaning they’re gonna get the axe under false pretenses.

I’ll be surprised if they get more than a single extra paycheck.

and the fake department he does lead wasn’t created by congress and is thus illegal.

DOGE is unfortunately real.

They changed the name of a small existing team to DOGE and fired (I think) everyone who already worked there.

But the rest is correct, DOGE and even OPM have no authority over any other agency. And Musk does not hold any position in the US government. Likely because he’s never been able to pass a background check.

There’s no confusion…

OPM has zero authority over other agencies, some agencies are doing what he wants anyways.

Other agencies (even ones headed by trumpets) are pushing back because even worst case scenario, they want to be in charge of their own fiefdoms.

If Hegsworth is going to cut dod because Trump said to cut dod, he’s not going to let musk take the credit.