We kept hoping that somewhere behind the scenes, someone was doing SOMETHING…turns out in Booker’s office, they were.

Gallego and Slotkin confirmed way too many Trump nominees, and I think Gallego is ambitious enough.

Take Slotkin and Gallegos.

that means

49 R
43 D
8 NP

not filibuster-proof, not 2/3 but maybe like…the most peaceful outcome here.

Okay so let’s say we find four. as we are the democrats and we always play nice, give them four from our side for their new non-Russian party?

So yeah, who has been voting to confirm? Fetterman, Klobuchar…they’re both power-hungry enough and voted to confirm too much.

Maybe Bill Cassidy has a sliver of a soul left? and he sees now that babies are literally dying of a preventable disease? I think if we have a major outbreak, he might actually be willing to flip.

And fuck Susan Collins. I wouldn’t trust her to tie my shoe.

He could get some plum committeeship if he sees the way the wind is blowing and takes the true populist turn he’s been sort of teasing. MO is gonna be hit hard, and I think something like a natural disaster could tip him into play.

Thom Tillis is up for reelection and he needs the R apparatus

I think both the power-seeking and the amnesty-seeking aged might be good targets.

So McConnell. One last chance to do the bare minimum of what he should pay, but alas. We need numbers.

Maybe Josh Hawley is craven enough? Because look, it’s fucking politics. There will be considerations.

(also I’m aware I’m talking to myself over here but I had to talk this out)

So. We need four Republican Senators with a spine and a willingness to accept that this is ultimately a huge risk w a HUGE payoff.

Obviously Murkowski, but who else?

I’m gonna stream-of-consciousness profile.

So like, they can fuckin HAVE Fetterman as their “liberal” pal. Obviously Murkowski — I genuinely think she’d switch to Ind. in a heartbeat if it wouldn’t mean ceding so much power. So we make it so she doesn’t cede power. (wow, I’m high & I need an editor lol — shoulda led with that, huh?)

3/?

That means we go full magamaniac in harassing a handful of R senators to form a 3rd party that will caucus with Ds specifically as a check on Trump.

But we MUST be as ruthless and disconcerting as they are to us. I’m not joking — we have to go fucking FERAL as far as LEGAL HARRASSMENT

2/?

YES, I definitely am! Also, Leo Mars is a vibe. We’re crazy 😝

painfully, excruciatingly aware 😂

I watched it at the Cheri and had an absolute blast. Face/Off and Scream are two of the best movie memories for me, going with my college friends and the vibe of the movie just being so awesomely fucked up. God bless the mid-90s. Truly the last of the good times lol.

So the last Mars retrograde in Leo-Cancer was…46 years ago. How do I know? Well, my spicy lil Leo Mars is actually post-shadow of that retrograde.

So once Mars decides to get off 17° Cancer, I’m heading back toward a Mars return. Yay?

Ben and I thought we should watch that one again before we show it to her bc we can’t remember if it’s so bad it’s good, or just bad, and have determined our college-student recollection of it might not be PERFECT lol