El-Sayed said he wants Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., to challenge Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., during the December leadership elections. Van Hollen, a 67-year-old progressive, made headlines in 2025 when he traveled to El Salvador to visit Maryland resident Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was wrongfully deported by the Department of Homeland Security without standard due process.
“He’s willing to take risks when it matters — flying down to see Kilmar Abrego Garcia was a real risk,” El-Sayed said of Van Hollen’s trip to El Salvador. “I want folks to sort of think about what it means to earn that mandate that we just got. To me, it means taking righteous risks and righteous fights.”
Guy is cool and all but 67 is too old. Get a 40-50ish in there.
One big problem is that no other senator wants the job.
Senators used to have a lot more power than they do now. They have ceded much of their individual power to leadership over the last 3 decades and I’m afraid this has made them too comfortable in their jobs.
That’s a tough one. From what I hear there are reasons you don’t give Senate leadership to a new senator and pretty much all the senators not elected this election are of the super old variety AFAIK.
The former Detroit public health official even floated the idea of naming major healthcare legislation after Trump.
“Put his name on it,” El-Sayed said. “He’ll probably pass it. I’m not above doing that. I don’t care what it’s called.”
I have been saying this. Pass Trumpcare and Trump bucks. He will love to sign shit with his name on it. He will be really happy to replace Obamacare with Trumpcare.
World leaders have known that one weird trick for a while. Trump’s ego is a backdoor to all sorts of things. I imagine others have used it before he got President too. It’s the ones that forget how they got on his good side and do something to piss him off that lose. Some of them only take days to find that out, like the last press secretary.
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Here’s how you get stuff done with a Democratic majority in Congress and Trump as president. Draft a bill to shut down ICE operations, enact Medicare for All, etc… and name it the Trump is the Greatest President Ever bill.
Add in a Triumphal Arch and maybe even authorization to convert Stone Mountain into a bust of Trump. Hell I’d trade a stupid arch for MFA.
The mental anguish it would cause Trump to even contemplate vetoing a bill named Trump is the Great President Ever bill would be too much for him to bear.
It’s worth trying.
As far as the Iran war is concerned, draft a bill that stops the war, pays reparations and begins a normalization process and call it the Trump won the Iran war bill, or something like that.
He’s so demented and diminished now that, this could actually work.
The “Trump Brilliantly Fixes the SCOTUS” bill, expanding the court, should be the last one in December 2028. Just in time for the new Democrat president to nominate justices.
This would actually probably work. Trump is a raging narcissist, and the best way to manipulate narcissists is to stroke their ego.
That’s so cool. Thanks!
Whoever won the longest maga held seat should be the new leader or can pick, as long as it’s a progressive.
Damn Muslim advocating for disenfranchised laborers across every aisle. I was going to crush those into paste, you son of a bitch!
