There were two positions remaining, and one of them had to be male. From the description, I think everyone had 2 votes and one had to be for a man, so if votes were split evenly and no one voted for both men, the men would each get 50% and the three women would get 33%. A real vote isn’t going to be perfectly split, but it puts the neutral expectation for the male candidates much higher than the women. If the men went head to head and then there was a separate vote with the second place and the women, there wouldn’t be the same bias.

They have a story that the challenge started before the “tension”, but there’s no way both this vote and the revote (assuming it goes through) are not being driven by it. There’re probably too clever by half strategists thinking they’re being sneaky by using an “unrelated” vote to take him out, but no one except the shill types on Twitter is going to parse the process in that way.

People get that the vibe is hostile to Hogg and young activists in general and someone saying “technically the challenge started before the PAC announcement” doesn’t mean jack shit when it’s obvious a lot more is going on. Hell, even if it were all on the up and up, the vibe is still there and no one that matters cares about the minutiae of voting processes and challenges. Voters aren’t robots.

I don’t think the challenge is bullshit, but it’s also not clear that the result was definitely impacted or in any way planned. Seems like a situation of “whoops, let’s be more careful in the future” (the position held by Christine Pelosi of all people) rather than inviting a party schism by using this to try to eject Hogg. Because there will definitely be people lobbying voters to explicitly do that.

And those jobs weren’t good because they were in a factory, they were good because they were union.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FWD.us

It’s a Zuckerberg-funded lobbying organization focused on increasing H1B immigration to work as a desk-serf for the tech-lords. They neither care about electing Democrats nor managing immigration over the southern border.

I love that two of the (very few) countries in which the US is more popular than China are BRICS members.

It doesn’t matter how he wants to frame it or even if California liberals like it, it’s still going to end up with him defending videos of people having their possessions thrown away by a black-clad goon squad.

People may look the other way to that sort of shit when it’s their neighborhood and they’re tired of all the noise and obstructions, but NIMBYism only really holds strong when it’s your backyard. When it’s elsewhere you can pretend you have better morals and get offended.

And notably, if the beds are better than literally sleeping on a sidewalk, you don’t need a law to criminalize the latter. The law only becomes useful if you need to make living on the street worse because you don’t want to make living in a shelter better.

And they’ve stated in advance that the Air Force won’t continue to own it after Trump to benefit the United States.

“Don’t get in my way” works when you’re actually doing something yourself. But this guy isn’t going to do shit, he’s an acting manager. If people get out of his way and do nothing, he’s going to accomplish nothing. The order he’s looking for is “do what I say”.

“I, and I alone in FEMA, speak for FEMA,” Richardson said.

Ok, you’re going to be doing the press briefings and writing the releases then? Go for it big man.

“…I took my Marines to Iraq, eleven of them”

Oooooh, ELEVEN whole marines! Wow, what a prestigious career in leadership.

“We’re going to find out how to push things down to the states,” the acting leader later added. “That should be done at the state level. Also going to find out how we can do more cost sharing with the states.”

I assume this is the royal “we”, as your only instruction is to not get in your way.

Read the whole article, there’re more dumb statements. This guy is a big old clown. I’m sure many people there care deeply about their jobs, either for the mission or for maintaining a steady paycheck, but like the petulant doge pups, I think I’d just openly mock a boss who acted like that.

Also, many times you’re not supposed to stop at yield signs. I assume he means “ever, including when someone else is in the roadway”, but it’s just a muddled statement.

Casey Means has no government experience and dropped out of her surgical residency program, saying she became disillusioned with traditional medicine.

She was probably told she wouldn’t pass residency, because paying the expense of medical school and then not getting licensed to practice medicine is insane.

He was prevented by language in bills he signed, and that was only after the Republicans took control in 2010. The failure to close Gitmo was just the same dithering and cautiousness that doomed or degraded many of his other optimistic goals. The whole reason Gitmo is bad is because it can be governed by unilateral executive decisions. It’s one of those situations where he had real power to decide how things worked, but wanted everything to process through a slow bureaucracy rather than taking a more active role.