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This Week in Dave is our quasi-weekly podcast where David shares what's going on behind-the-scenes in his life.

On this week's episode, David, @joyofnapping, and David Cho share more of their reactions to this year's midterm elections. We discuss:

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Ink Ribbon

Can you imagine how beautiful (politically and physically) an Ossoff/AOC ticket would be? The media would have a field day and it would definitely bring in new young voters. 🤭

Warpstone

As an Aussie I'm curious what can the Dems do with control of the House and Senate?

David Chen

Primarily pass federal legislation (that may or may not get vetoed by Trump), and launch a ton of investigations. I think on the state level they will have even more of an impact as they have definitive ability to shape state laws.

Warpstone

Nice. Hope the Dems can get some shit done then.

Joy o Napping

The US government fiscal year runs October 1-Sept 30. Congress did not pass a budget for this fiscal year that already started because it’s extremely contentious each year. The GOP can try to get it done in the remaining month of this Congress (very difficult) or the Dems will do it and can restore a lot of the devastating funding cuts to our government services. There will also be a huge defense authorization bill. The amount being requested by the White House is well over $1 TRILLION.

Warpstone

Thanks for the explanations, I am happy for you to have this great moment.

John Halski

The French quote Chen read reminds me of a line about WW2, the source of which escapes me: “People forget that the very first victims of Hitler were the German people.”

Jordan Cohen

Your two updates this week have been SO enjoyable. Thank you for making the time to create them! Joy mentioned Seattle politics on the first but unfortunately there wasn't time for follow-up in this one. I'm really disappointed at the "trans girls in sports" aka "force girls to go through horrific violations if they want to participate in sports" ballot measures. You've also briefly mentioned disappointment with Katie Wilson, and I'd love to hear more on that. She seems ineffective but I'm honestly not deep enough into Seattle politics to understand what is the truth, and what is just the media blowing things out of proportion, and what Wilson has tried to do but not been effective at. Especially compared to Mamdani's success so far.

Kendrick Martin

Oregon also is entirely mailed in ballots. It’s so nice to take my time to review my choices in the pace of home

Ralf Haring

They can stop the appointments of new judges & new cabinet ministers. They can impeach some of the existing ones (which may cause them to resign if it looks likely to succeed). They can vote on war powers, to try and claw back some of Congress' power to authorize & end military conflicts (the president effectively has a blank check since 9/11).

Ralf Haring

I need to see more from Ossoff before taking any attempts to annoint him seriously. He's off to a good start with his recent pugnacious streak.

Ernest Calderon

Amazing conversation. Loved the excitement and rage coming from Joy so much. Would listen to as many political pods as you're willing to make.