Porter is a Warren lib who was just photographed reading The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck in the middle of some congressional session where the republicans were being highly uncivil. “I guess she DOES actually give a fuck—about advancing her career!” (Laughter and applause)
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck
It's sad how easy it is for a politician to create an "authentic" moment that goes viral.
“She’s so funny and relatable, just like me! I too do not give a fuck about living on stolen land and guzzling at every moment of every day the blood of the global proletariat!” — libs
I think the plan for Senators in California is "literally stay in office till you die of old age so the Governor can appoint a centrist who is a sitting Senator so we don't have a competitive primary and accidentally have a progressive sneak in." Porter is an Orange County Democrat so I assume she's not great.
Porter is an Orange County Democrat so I assume she’s not great.
don't make your judgement just from her being from Orange County! She's like a normal California democrat. That does not mean great though
Irvine today is different from Ronald Reagan days. It has a giant university in the middle and had tech and medical jobs and stuff. Earlier it was mostly financial companies out here
Irvine is hell on earth for architectural design, ugliest big city I've ever seen. I've worked in Irvine before and yes it is most certainly to the right of LA city politically. Irvine is home to endless suburbs and business parks and the staff at UCI are most likely PMC liberals or outright conservatives.
I'm saying that Katie Porter is like a normal lib Democrat and isn't someone like Joe Manchin. An Orange County Democrat a few decades ago would be a Manchin type probably
yeah Irvine is a suburban hellhole. But much of California is!
As far as California representatives go she is a good choice. She mostly gets attention for questions people in the House Oversight Committee
Will certainly be more attentive to the going ons of the Senate than Feinstein
Lmao Feinstein says she's running in 2024 so good luck getting the donors necessary for a statewide campaign.
Feinstein says she’s running in 2024
When did she say that?
Last year her office did bullshit PR that she filled for technical reasons but she wasn't actually planning on running. And DC reporters are so fucking useless that they didn't put her feet to the fire.
she’s almost 90
She's older than the Golden Gate Bridge. I wonder how much access the media gets to her. Any at all? If she speaks for more than about a minute it must be clear her brain is rancid clam chowder.
Like I said, I'm sure the plan is for her to die in office so Gruesome Newsom can appoint a neolib heir. Porter is a decent choice for them.
Kevin De Leon (LA City Council Pres) was the "progressive" challenger to Feinstein in 2018. Of course he didn't win and his most recent news story is a leaked recording of his conversation with other LA City Council members where they use racist language and plan a racist redistricting to oust progressive candidates. https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2022-10-14/kevin-de-leon-city-council-racist-recording
His most recent news story is getting into a fight with an activist at a Christmas party.
https://deadline.com/2022/12/los-angeles-councilman-brawls-activist-christmas-party-kevin-de-leon-1235195410/
The "jungle primary" system means a centrist Dem will always be elected. The general election is always between 2 Dems so all the Republicans end up voting for the more conservative of the two.
It'll be funny to see her try to fight that Weekend at Bernie's campaign
