If these people showing up at repuke townhalls only to find an empty chair we need to drop a Dem candidate

in that chair, not just current members. We are being handed free campaign stops for Dem candidates who could be running against these house repukes. To hell with it even if it's a solid repuke seat. Someone from our party who wants to run could show up, fill that chair and promise those pissed off voters they would always show up and listen. While it may not work sometimes if it worked 10 times it could give us the House next election. Never pass up free publicity no matter what it's for.

So Schumer tried to explain it again tonight on Hayes. He is not good at communicating on a a laymen's level

If someone on this board can say I'm wrong in my interpretation here please do, but as of yet, in many of my replies on this nobody has.
Please, I welcome it. I'm no Schumer fan, never have been. But as much as my pea brain understands this he made the right decision because we're drowning and we only have a twig to hold onto.

The repukes were hoping the Dems would shut the government down. Proof was they had the Alien Enemies Act cued up that night. They were ready to declare a national emergency. They were/are ready to shut the courts down. People need to understand that out of the shit choices we had the shutdown removed the guardrail of the courts. These fuckers are itching, drooling for any damn reason they can to declare a national emergency nationwide due to the disfunction of congress or whatever reason they can get away with. If that happens the Executive takes control until congress can agree. THAT WOULD NEVER HAPPEN IF WE SHUT DOWN! A shutdown could very well have put the courts on the sidelines. That single thing was the deciding factor.

I have looked and looked and as far as I can find Schumer is absolutely correct on that. The shutdown could go on for at least 6 months if not longer. During that time the courts would be virtually knee capped, null.

Schumer's problem is he is short, condescending and a poor communicator. As much as he grates on my nerves (so much I've damn near been banned for attacking him before) he made the ONLY decision that keeps our head above water... for now.

I agree with calls for Schumer to step down as leader. I have been calling for the younger upcoming progressives to be allowed to step up. There is too much and too many corporate swinging Democrats running the show in the Senate for too long. Its time to shake and consolidate damn it!

Like I said if my reasoning here is wrong please explain why. Not gonna hurt my feelings and if I'm wrong I'm wrong.

Peace and Carrots

This is my opinion but I believe a big reason for DOGshit is to collect information for use against citizens

in the near future. With Heil FatLips Fuckwad threatening to impose the Aliens Enemy Act amongst others I truly believe any and all information Muskovites robots children collect whilst they crawl around through everything supposedly protected by every privacy law, including the Bill of Rights, ever implemented since the beginning of this Republic will be used to classify, track and report on every facet of every individual in this country probably group isolating those deemed to be likely threats to this incoming Dicktatergarchyship.

It sounds like Orwellian science fiction but there is historical precedence and these billionaires have access to AI tools that make ChatGP look like the toddler it is. IMO we are being pre soaked for an all out fascist bloodless take over in which war will be the only escape.

Maybe I'm nuts, but what if I'm not.

Ongoing large tornado outbreak from IL all the way down to MS. This is a big dangerous nightime outbreak. Heads up n/t

Strong damaging tornado in St. Louis. Not looking good n/t

We must demand FUTURE Congress go through and revise the Emergency Powers granted to a President, it's insane

It is not all that difficult to turn a president into a dictator today. The emergency powers that have been slowly expanded over the last 100 years have never been rescinded as they were meant to be so they just sit there, waiting, for some traitorous fuck like the orange Anus to abuse, and he's already started by declaring emergencies at the borders out of the gate. People don't understand that a lot of what he's doing is under the purvey of these emergencies.

Over 150 are listed at the link. These are tools at a presidents fingertips that will scare the shit out of you...

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/guide-emergency-powers-and-their-use

We had an outside chance to at least come close to possibly becoming carbon neutral by 2035. Think thats over

I confess, I stopped buying into us being able to save ourselves from Climate Change 25 years ago. The better the science got the worse the reality got. I know with my kids I tried to get them ready for the shit hole we left them. I had a little hope with Joe but very little, a candle burning its final puddle of wax.

Modern society is way to entrenched into the fossil fuel game now and this AssHat and his cronies world wide are going to cut the brake lines on any brakes we had. His cronies in this administration are not blind to what caused the temporary rise of the right (thus far) in Europe and it was all climate generated. Climate migrations into Europe were a canary in the coal mine of what's to come. These greedy bastards will burn and starve (its already starting in Syria AGAIN) people into moving in masses from these extremely impoverished (mostly brown or ethnically charged) areas into "first world" areas to destabilize governments and wretch control from liberal thinking peoples.

Drill Baby Drill really means Burn Baby Burn.

This is how the few are going to corral the masses in this, the beginning of a new dark age. No where is safe IMO.

I will be watching season 2 ep.13 of The West Wing, "Bartlets 3rd State of the Union" with a mouthful of Gummies

as I further retreat from this horrible reality we are living in.

Remember when MAGAt's were all hair on fire that Covid vaccines contained little nano radical left yellow submarines?

Inserted by that evil billionaire Bill Gates for mind control?
And now their hero hired a true life comic book sociopathic supervillain that really really does own an experimental brain implant company.

Things that make you go hmmmmm..... WTF!!!

I am happy for the Eagles for one reason, Defense wins Super Bowls. A lot of people have forgotten that

From the beginning of the game before the Super Bowl era and all the way through the Super Bowl era and no matter how much the league tries to make the game damn near impossible for a defense to play to satisfy the NFL's desperate grab for more viewership by satisfying viewers insatiable (and ridiculous) demand for 400 yard passing games, no matter how much they fuck with the game, DEFENSE wins football games, full stop. It's why Detroit wasn't there, their defense was decimated with injuries. It's why Baltimore wasn't there. Arguably Buffalo was one call away from being there as their defense was better than the Chiefs. It's what gave the Commanders their shot.

Mahomes didn't play bad, none of the Chiefs actually played bad. That Philly's defense kept them off the field and when they were never let them play. Loved it. Not as Chiefs hater (I've been an Andy Reid fan for decades) but I just love perfection in defensive play and the Eagles pulled that off.

Congrats to that the Eagles and especially that smothering absolutely marvelous defense and their defensive coach, probably the best coach nobody's ever heard of, Vic Fangio.

I love the game and this game was won from purity of the games intent. Once again DEFENCE WINS IN THE END!!