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Hekate

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8. Please. The EC is in the Constitution & will need a Constitutional Amendment to get rid of.

Reply to Figarosmom (Reply #3)

Mon Oct 6, 2025, 01:47 PM

Oct 6

Even FDR couldn’t pack the Supreme Court. As for term limits on the judges — you’d have to check where that resides as well.

We need to focus on a To Do List that is possible, not on a Wish List with unicorns in it.

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Newsom and JB have become the Democratic leaders I Guess [View all] Figarosmom Oct 6 OP

I could see that Oregon Attorney General in a Democratic DOJ Captain Zero Oct 6 #1

He IS leadership, he's governor of California, doing his job. betsuni Oct 6 #2

I mean for 2028 Figarosmom Oct 6 #3

Please. The EC is in the Constitution & will need a Constitutional Amendment to get rid of. Hekate Oct 6 #8

Superman did his supernatural feats all by himself, so we know anything is possible without worrying about votes betsuni Oct 6 #12

The Supreme Court has ALREADY BEEN "PACKED" by the right-wing. Adding justices Jack Valentino Oct 6 #23

What I think is reasonable and what I think can actually be done are two different things... Hekate Oct 6 #24

The problem with adding justices to the Supreme Court is that there would be tit for tat escalating responses each time Midwestern Democrat Oct 6 #25

This is some pie in the sky TheProle Oct 6 #10

Newsom has been onto trump since COVID. Trump was being a 100% ahole toward California... C Moon Oct 6 #4

I'm not saying he's the best candidate for 2028, because California is very blue. C Moon Oct 6 #5

California is blue on the coasts, with a very red interior. Nothing is easy or guaranteed. Hekate Oct 6 #9

The interior of CA is red, but it also lightly populated. maxsolomon Oct 6 #16

That's what saves us, when we get out the vote sufficiently Hekate Oct 6 #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 Tuesday #26

Newsom has absolutely done the best he could against Trump, who hates us like poison Hekate Oct 6 #11

A lot of it can be attributed to ideological purity. Some are trolls, of course. BannonsLiver Oct 6 #14

Indeed that is so Hekate Oct 6 #19

You guess? ancianita Oct 6 #6

Nope, it's still early and still watching Figarosmom Oct 6 #7

Not really. IMHO, at this point it's ancianita Oct 6 #13

Your last sentence is definitely not me Figarosmom Oct 6 #17

Yeah, it is. You just mistakenly think Dems are running "too early." ancianita Oct 6 #21

❤️ your reply Hekate Oct 6 #20

Bernie isn't a Democrat. ananda Oct 6 #15

Yet his record of voting WITH Democrats is higher than some Dems in the Democratic Caucus. Fact. ancianita Oct 6 #22