“I’ll go ahead and vote to confirm this Himmler guy. I mean, after all, Goebbels and Goering said he was aces. 🙃”

It’s the Golden Age of Assholes. And for 99% of them it’s for no other earthly reason than because they got tired of the rest of society telling them we weren’t going to tolerate them being assholes any more. They’d rather watch the world burn than go to therapy and learn how to not be assholes.

At this point, the USA is reeling like a your ketamine-fueled alcoholic brother on a raging bender. The only way forward may be for the rest of the democratic world to stage an intervention.

Chuck Schumer is not the man for this moment and he never will be. His elevation to leader was predicated on him being maj leader to Pres Hillary. When neither of those things happened, Dems should have immediately scrapped him for someone else. He is not a wartime consigliori.

Because she’s the smartest person in congress and it’s not remotely close.