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TheProle

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10. This is some pie in the sky

Reply to Figarosmom (Reply #3)

Mon Oct 6, 2025, 01:51 PM

15 hrs ago

We'll need someone that will pack the Supreme Court and term limits on the judges and will prosecute the criminals in this administration. And get rid of the electoral college. And those two I think would do it without qualms about it.

Yeesh.

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Newsom and JB have become the Democratic leaders I Guess [View all] Figarosmom Yesterday OP

I could see that Oregon Attorney General in a Democratic DOJ Captain Zero Yesterday #1

He IS leadership, he's governor of California, doing his job. betsuni Yesterday #2

I mean for 2028 Figarosmom Yesterday #3

Please. The EC is in the Constitution & will need a Constitutional Amendment to get rid of. Hekate 15 hrs ago #8

Superman did his supernatural feats all by himself, so we know anything is possible without worrying about votes betsuni 14 hrs ago #12

The Supreme Court has ALREADY BEEN "PACKED" by the right-wing. Adding justices Jack Valentino 8 hrs ago #23

What I think is reasonable and what I think can actually be done are two different things... Hekate 5 hrs ago #24

The problem with adding justices to the Supreme Court is that there would be tit for tat escalating responses each time Midwestern Democrat 5 hrs ago #25

This is some pie in the sky TheProle 15 hrs ago #10

Newsom has been onto trump since COVID. Trump was being a 100% ahole toward California... C Moon Yesterday #4

I'm not saying he's the best candidate for 2028, because California is very blue. C Moon Yesterday #5

California is blue on the coasts, with a very red interior. Nothing is easy or guaranteed. Hekate 15 hrs ago #9

The interior of CA is red, but it also lightly populated. maxsolomon 11 hrs ago #16

That's what saves us, when we get out the vote sufficiently Hekate 10 hrs ago #18

Agreed. But I was saying for the rest of the country Newsom could be a hard sell for a Democratic gov from California. C Moon 2 hrs ago #26

Newsom has absolutely done the best he could against Trump, who hates us like poison Hekate 15 hrs ago #11

A lot of it can be attributed to ideological purity. Some are trolls, of course. BannonsLiver 12 hrs ago #14

Indeed that is so Hekate 10 hrs ago #19

You guess? ancianita 23 hrs ago #6

Nope, it's still early and still watching Figarosmom 15 hrs ago #7

Not really. IMHO, at this point it's ancianita 13 hrs ago #13

Your last sentence is definitely not me Figarosmom 11 hrs ago #17

Yeah, it is. You just mistakenly think Dems are running "too early." ancianita 10 hrs ago #21

❤️ your reply Hekate 10 hrs ago #20

Bernie isn't a Democrat. ananda 11 hrs ago #15

Yet his record of voting WITH Democrats is higher than some Dems in the Democratic Caucus. Fact. ancianita 9 hrs ago #22