Screw all those who say we should respect the recently dead, etc. This “pioneer” in the US Senate should be remembered for the same thing Bilary, Bummer and Barney Frank did. They proved that Non-White, Straight Men don’t have a monopoly on being shitty elected officials. Besides overstaying her welcome by over 12 years, this crone voted for domestic spying, defended right-wing shit bags (her comrades in the Senate) and lacked the courage to vote against Dubious’ illegal invasion of Iraq; she chose to ignore the facts presented by real intelligence gatherers.
We can also thank her tremendous ego on par with McCain and Bader-Ginsberg as she clung to death to the power she had to keep Amerika on track (and the world) toward the impending doom we’re certain to meet. Her pedantic responses to those children regarding the Green New Deal demonstrated how tone-deaf she was and that the Senate’s rules demand reform and change. Fuck tradition! Fuck seniority! We need people on the key committees according to their smarts and expertise, not because Bumblefuck Nowhere keeps re-electing a racist who delivers the welfare to keep them alive; see Kentucky, the Dakotas…well, all the Red States really. It was the Establishment’s excuse to keep electing this worthless bag of bones; then CA would lose its clout on key committees. Seriously? If you recall, about a month ago, she was so brain dead, we all know her aides were making the decisions; one is Nancy Pelosi’s unqualified daughter, what a coincidence! Oh yeah, how did it work out with her being sick, paralyzing the Judiciary Committee from OK’ing Biden’s court appointments, in a weak attempt to balance all the assholes the Republicans rushed through under Trump and Bush 2? This one wasn’t entirely her fault. Schumer’s balls are in Big Pharma’s purse as the real response as per Dave Anthony should’ve been, the Democrats put in a sub and tell the Republicans, go eat shit; you succeeded in your stunt to deny Obummer his right to replace Scalia during an “election year,” despite Saint Reagan did in 1988.
Yeah, yeah, I’m an angry Lefty and how can I bring this up? The poor old lady died. Sure, but the poor old lady was fucking 90 and wielded influence over millions. Something no other Western democracy allows since they know a tiny few at best have mental faculties beyond pudding. If anything beyond getting rid of her via the Grim Reaper happens, let us hope it strengthens the movement to pass laws forcing mandatory retirement at 67 like we peasants must do. The Gerontocracy must end now!
Meanwhile, Newsom, discount Mitt Romney, who is going to run in ’28 is pivoting to the Center, aka shitting on trans children, union workers and the environment; can appoint a crony. He promised a Black Woman, I’m confident he’ll easily find one as hypocritical and incompetent as veep Harris. The rumor is Barbara Lee. Well, at least she’s also old, 77. The better, more forward-looking choice is Katie Porter yet she’s automatically disqualified despite her politics. She’s more progressive than Feinstein, Lee or Schiff ever were and a Honky CIS Protestant. You see, the Establishment needs a female and/or non-Protestant Kleptocrat of “color.” Ergo, when you point out their immoral behaviors such as insider trading (see Pelosi, Menendez), their apologists get to use their knee-jerk, lazy accusation script to change the subject by calling you a Bernie Bro, racist, homophobe, anti-semite, transphobe and/or misogynist. This is Feinstein’s true legacy when she used Harvey Milk’s murder to climb the ladder and kick it down for everybody else.