One of the biggest barriers to a functioning democracy is inertia (name recognition), which is why we need term limits so badly. Ask any democrat, for example, and they’ll tell you they want younger, more diverse candidates. But when asked to check a box in the spring of 2020 for president, the majority (plurality?) bypassed the female candidates, candidates of color, and the non-CIS candidate(s) to choose an old white man as their champion - and not even the liberal old white man at that. We need these old-ass MFers out of the way, for our own damned good.
Rather than term limits on elected office, I’d like to see term/time limits on how long a senator or representative can sit on the same committees. If legislators were being termed out of the powerful committees, I think the parties would not try so hard to keep people in office past their functioning years.
“Why can’t we all just live forever so she’d never lose the seat?”
That’s not reality, and if your argument for pulling a Weekend At Bernie’s is that everything is fucked if even one 90 year old person dies, then my brother in christ we’ve got bigger problems than losing 1 senate committee seat.
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Senator Dianne Feinstein, the trailblazing Democratic power broker who served in the Senate for 30 years, died on Thursday night, according to a family member.
In recent years, Ms. Feinstein, 90, had suffered from frail health and memory issues that made it difficult for her to function alone and prompted calls for her to step down, which she consistently rejected.
Her staff was being informed at 9 a.m.
A spokesman for Ms. Feinstein’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Are they sure? Has anyone tried discussing government contracts that will have a huge impact on the stock market in front of her to see if she perks up?
She should have retired over a decade ago. She’s responsible for her part of all this mess because she kept a seat that could have gone to someone younger for over a decade longer than she should have.
yeah I sorta feel bad as Im almost happy just because that seat needs to be vacated. I wish she had just retired so that I could be sadder and have more of a feeling of how great this representative had been. But she made a situation where its like a relief that she died.
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She will still be running for reelection, though.
If on the ballot she would win, too.
One of the biggest barriers to a functioning democracy is inertia (name recognition), which is why we need term limits so badly. Ask any democrat, for example, and they’ll tell you they want younger, more diverse candidates. But when asked to check a box in the spring of 2020 for president, the majority (plurality?) bypassed the female candidates, candidates of color, and the non-CIS candidate(s) to choose an old white man as their champion - and not even the liberal old white man at that. We need these old-ass MFers out of the way, for our own damned good.
Rather than term limits on elected office, I’d like to see term/time limits on how long a senator or representative can sit on the same committees. If legislators were being termed out of the powerful committees, I think the parties would not try so hard to keep people in office past their functioning years.
Or, ya know, we could just implement term limits directly instead of trying to use some scheme which likely would backfire.
May she rest in peace and vacate her seat.
Yeah, Republicans’ wish finally came true. Wanna know why there was such an online campaign push for her retirement?
Because she was the tie-breaking vote in the Senate judiciary committee, and Mitch McConnell had already blocked her replacement.
If she had retired, all of Joe Biden’s executive or judicial nominations, would’ve been dead in the water.
Well, she kept going until today, and now, watch the shit show happening. Republicans are celebrating.
“Why can’t we all just live forever so she’d never lose the seat?” That’s not reality, and if your argument for pulling a Weekend At Bernie’s is that everything is fucked if even one 90 year old person dies, then my brother in christ we’ve got bigger problems than losing 1 senate committee seat.
Well if you people hadn’t given Republicans so much power for the last decades, you wouldn’t be in this mess.
It not dems fault, but the voters.
Who exactly do you think the “you people” you’re talking to right now is?
We need proper governance in the US Senate, not geriatric puppets for either Democrats or Republicans (like you-know-which-lich)
I hope they didn’t leave her in her seat.
Wouldn’t be surprised if they did.
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Senator Dianne Feinstein, the trailblazing Democratic power broker who served in the Senate for 30 years, died on Thursday night, according to a family member.
In recent years, Ms. Feinstein, 90, had suffered from frail health and memory issues that made it difficult for her to function alone and prompted calls for her to step down, which she consistently rejected.
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Are they sure? Has anyone tried discussing government contracts that will have a huge impact on the stock market in front of her to see if she perks up?
It is sad that she is dead, but she should have retired a while ago.
No, she shouldn’t have. Wanna know why there was such an online campaign push for her retirement?
Because she was the tie-breaking vote in the Senate judiciary committee, and Mitch McConnell blocked her replacement.
If she had retired, all of Joe Biden’s executive or judicial nominations, would’ve been dead in the water.
You should be glad she kept going to confirm as many of his picks as long as she could, because now problems are on the way.
She should have retired over a decade ago. She’s responsible for her part of all this mess because she kept a seat that could have gone to someone younger for over a decade longer than she should have.
That is if she was in the committee. What would happen if she was no longer a senator? Is the Senate going to keep an unbalanced committee?
Yeah like shes had physical and mental issues for a long time now, you’d think retiring to focus on her health would be a thing.
yeah I sorta feel bad as Im almost happy just because that seat needs to be vacated. I wish she had just retired so that I could be sadder and have more of a feeling of how great this representative had been. But she made a situation where its like a relief that she died.
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The major difference is, I think California will replace Dianne with someone similar … not Amy Coney Barrett.
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Old people dying reminds me of other old people that died too.
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May her memory be a blessing.
Can we get term limits now?