Legendary US Senator Diane Feinstein has passed away at the age of 90.  :\'(

https://abc7news.com/senator-dianne-feinstein-dead-obituary-san-francisco-mayor-cable-car/13635510/

As sad as this is, I can't say that it is surprising. She hasn't been well for a long time. She had the shingles earlier this year that hospitalized her. She fell in August. She wasn't quite there for a while, too when people asked her questions.
It was sad to see her in the condition she had been in in the last few years.

She secured her place in history as a trailblazer.

R.I.P.


Cat

I haven’t seen anything about cause of death yet. I wonder what happened?  :-\\

I haven’t seen anything about cause of death yet. I wonder what happened?  :-\\


How about the fact that she was old as dirt. That'll do it every time. :o

As sad as this is, I can't say that it is surprising. She hasn't been well for a long time. She had the shingles earlier this year that hospitalized her. She fell in August. She wasn't quite there for a while, too when people asked her questions.
It was sad to see her in the condition she had been in in the last few years.

She secured her place in history as a trailblazer.

R.I.P.


Cat

She certainly did. And she'll be remembered for a plethora of accomplishments in her long-running career.

Dianne Feinstein (1933-2023) was a stalwart of progressive politics for 50 years. She was the first woman elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors (city council). She became Mayor when Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk were murdered by a right-wing homophobe in 1978. She was Mayor through the worst years of the AIDS epidemic in the city. In 1992 she was elected to the Senate and became California's longest-serving Senator.

https://i.postimg.cc/hPCjz2gZ/difi-dead.jpg

Dianne Feinstein (1933-2023) was a stalwart of progressive politics for 50 years. She was the first woman elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors (city council). She became Mayor when Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk were murdered by a right-wing homophobe in 1978.


Dan White (murderer of Harvey Milk and George Moscone) must have been one of those ultra right wing Democrats then (he was a Democrat). Curiously White invited Harvey to attend the baptism of his first daughter.

While “historians” have tried to frame the murders of Moscone and Milk as some sort of homophobic rampage, the reality was that for various reasons, White was your basic disgruntled politician (he had recently resigned as a councilman) who wanted to get revenge on his perceived enemies, all fellow Democrats. He had planned on also killing California Assembly Speaker Willie Brown (who would later serve as Mayor of San Francisco, and famously partied with Kamala Harris whilst still married to his wife), and Supervisor Carol Ruth Silver, whom he also blamed for whatever his grievances were, but neither Willie nor Carol were at City Hall when White showed up.

White managed to largely get off the hook for these murders, with his famous “Twinkie Defense”, and was convicted of a lesser offense of voluntary manslaughter. He got outta the slam after roughly 5 years (he was sentenced to 7 years but got let out 2 years early) despite murdering the Mayor and and a Councilman in cold blood. Such is the justice system in San Francisco and California, and people still wonder why that town is majorly screwed up.

Details here: https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/ca-court-of-appeal/1834395.html

Milk did not deserve to die but because of what he caused to happen to a person who saved President Ford's life - and purely because the colossal political wanker decided gay rights needed a positive role model for the general public, regardless of whether said person wanted to be outed, it's harder to say he deserved to live, either.

Dan White (murderer of Harvey Milk and George Moscone) must have been one of those ultra right wing Democrats then (he was a Democrat). Curiously White invited Harvey to attend the baptism of his first daughter.

While “historians” have tried to frame the murders of Moscone and Milk as some sort of homophobic rampage, the reality was that for various reasons, White was your basic disgruntled politician (he had recently resigned as a councilman) who wanted to get revenge on his perceived enemies, all fellow Democrats. He had planned on also killing California Assembly Speaker Willie Brown (who would later serve as Mayor of San Francisco, and famously partied with Kamala Harris whilst still married to his wife), and Supervisor Carol Ruth Silver, whom he also blamed for whatever his grievances were, but neither Willie nor Carol were at City Hall when White showed up.

White managed to largely get off the hook for these murders, with his famous “Twinkie Defense”, and was convicted of a lesser offense of voluntary manslaughter. He got outta the slam after roughly 5 years (he was sentenced to 7 years but got let out 2 years early) despite murdering the Mayor and and a Councilman in cold blood. Such is the justice system in San Francisco and California, and people still wonder why that town is majorly screwed up.

Details here: https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/ca-court-of-appeal/1834395.html


I don't really think it was politically motivated. The "Twinkie Defense" was totally absurd but I do think he had a mental breakdown.


Cat

Milk did not deserve to die but because of what he caused to happen to a person who saved President Ford's life - and purely because the colossal political wanker decided gay rights needed a positive role model for the general public, regardless of whether said person wanted to be outed, it's harder to say he deserved to live, either.


Yeah, ol’ Harvey really did Oliver Sipple dirty.  >:(  If Oliver wanted the world to know he was homosexual, he would have outed himself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Sipple

Milk, like MLK Jnr and Gandhi, makes a great hero now that he is safely dead.

At the time of the Colston statue incoident, many people rightly pointed out that Gandhi was a sheesh too but BLM leaders in Britain vowed to form a human ring to protect the Gandhi statue in Leicester. Apparently, a sheeshty person of the past can be excused as being "of their time" if it's a sheeshty person you *like*.

Milk, like MLK Jnr and Gandhi, makes a great hero now that he is safely dead.

At the time of the Colston statue incoident, many people rightly pointed out that Gandhi was a sheesh too but BLM leaders in Britain vowed to form a human ring to protect the Gandhi statue in Leicester. Apparently, a sheeshty person of the past can be excused as being "of their time" if it's a sheeshty person you *like*.


And what does all of this have to do with Diane Feinstein?


Cat

She's going to be replaced in the Senate by Laphonza Butler. Yesterday, California governor Gavin Newsom made that announcement. Ms. Butler will take office later this week (on Wednesday, I think). She will become the first LGBT member of the U.S. Senate from California upon taking the oath of office.