Chipper

Fun fact: The Boss is from Freehold & still lives nearby, a few miles from me

Freehold is the seat of Monmouth County, very red & arguably the center of MAGA in NJ

MAGA Gov candidate is Jack Ciattarelli. His ads praise Trump, embrace MAGA, etc.

So far, no word from Jack on Trump v. Boss . . .

Low information voters. A feature of most modern democracies. Long ago, he figured out a way to activate them while maintaining the information vacuum.

Obviously not an easy fix & not the only reason we're here, but certainly enough to get him over the top.

Non-MAGA must decode this. And fast.

3/ in other words, the premise that "if enough citizens speak-up, Congress will listen and act accordingly," while being procedurally valid simply doesn't reflect the reality of what motivates these "creatures of Washington" to act.

Disheartened, not defeated. Need more options.

2/ "Part of what's frightening to me about this moment is you've got a lot of creatures of Washington who haven't had to be responsive to people in a while being coupled with creatures of enormous wealth who haven't heard no in a long time. And now they're just feeding off each other, right?"

1/ Sadly - and reluctantly - I think your "pragmatism" is spot-on.

I keep going back to something @petebuttigieg.bsky.social said about a month ago on @weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social: (from transcript - see next post):

So, does that mean you consider DOGE to be a legitimate cabinet-level Agency, Congressman?

He's way ahead of Kerkering. So, that's something.

Every time I see this guy, I just assume he got the gig because Puck wasn't available.

Thank you, Senator, for alerting voters to this latest overtly corrupt attempt.

How do you plan to stop this growing abuse of power?

Wait for Midterms?

There's the black-and-white of the Constitution. And there's 21st Century Politics.

Don't get me wrong, am a huge proponent of pressing forward.

But the reality of D's mindset must be considered. Seems to me that, despite growing constituent outcry, D's are focused on midterms. Am I wrong?

Ugh.

Impeach him already.

Why so accommodating?

Again, the notion of stopping his behavior is predicated on a belief that there are enough votes to do so.

Am I the only one worried about securing enough D votes almost as much as R votes?

C'mon. Norm! Absent all D's supporting Impeachment, do you really think he'll take any of this seriously?