The move would extend her 36-year House career and continue to freeze her would-be California successors in a long-standing holding pattern.

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    The point is that unlike with SCOTUS vacancies, there’s zero chance that Newsome appoints someone with radically different politics from Pelosi, so the analogy kind of sucks regardless of what you think of him.

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      110 months ago

      That’s part of my point: another Pelosi would be AWFUL. Not anywhere near as bad as a GOP fascist, of course, but still absolutely AWFUL.

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          I wasn’t the one making a comparison. The only thing I was saying was that there’s no reason to trust Newsom to appoint someone who’s not as immensely corrupt as himself.

          THAT point (which, again, was the only one I was making) still stands, so you can stow your smugness where the sun doesn’t shine.

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            010 months ago

            I wasn’t being “smug,” I was merely trying to disambiguate the point under discussion.

            The fact that you took it that way says a lot more about you than it does about me.

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              110 months ago

              He said, smugly.

              You weren’t trying to disambiguate anything, you were asking a smug rhetorical question and then smugly drawing a false conclusion that you’d already made before I clarified and wouldn’t change for everything.

              You’re being both smugly condescending and stubborn, which says nothing about me 🙄