I favor this from Edward Norton

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[mr_lebowski]

1. He's got deuce seven off-suit in the hole ... crush him!!!! (nt)

[Towlie]

2. You didn't need all of those links, they all show up with the first link.

 
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[CincyDem]

3. Not to be grandiose...but Biden's challenge is no less daunting than Lincoln's.

Lincoln laid out the framework for post civil war reconstruction but never got to implement it.

Johnson, the guy who lost the election to Lincoln, stepped in and derailed the whole process...IMHO planting the seeds for where we are today. We'll never know if Lincoln's plans would have led to a better union but since then, starting with Johnson and leading to Trump - we have been struggling with decisions made by and kowtowing to aggrieved losers from that reconstruction period. It has been a cancer since our founding, more obvious and felt more acutely by minority groups in our community, and Trump has weaponized it...bringing it out into the cold light of day for the entire world to experience (not just those living in backwater rural southern communities that still yearn for a return of the confederacy).

I've often said that WWIII won't be fought be bullets and bombs but with bits and bytes. I'm starting to think the same it true of the Civil War, part 2...and I think Trump's purposeful disruption of the peaceful transition of government/power is our Manassas, the first battle of CW-2

I understand Biden's reticence to have his first term, maybe both, consumed by Trump prosecutions. I love Joe and would vote for him everyday and twice on Sunday if I could, but...respectfully...this isn't about his terms...this is about the next 150 years. And I get that this decision should rest solely in the DoJ but let's face it...just like every President before him...Joe's choice for AG will be colored but the degree to which the AG candidate agrees in principle with Joe on key issues. Joe won't pick someone without having some sense of how they're going to go vis-a-vis Trump.

I believe we need to fully prosecute Trump at the federal level to complete the reconstruction of the rule of law. It ain't personal. I think NY State is going to hammer him into the ground and leave him and the kids in a world of financial, social, and personal discomfort. This is about the More Perfect Union...a federal government that looks beyond the seditious behavior in the WH does not "heal the country" any more than putting a band-aid on a gangrenous limb "heals the patient".

There's the old joke about bringing a knife to a gunfight. The only thing worse is being in a war and not knowing it. My biggest fear is that in our desire to reach across the aisle and heal at a personal level, we lose sight of the fact that the war for the soul of our country is really that...war.