Checking in post Nov election results and this inflection point of Epstein Survivors. How's your optimism meter?

As Ken Burns is reminding us, "militia" had a very particular meaning in 1789 America: it was the civilian home guard of ordinary citizens. The Amendment simply affirms the right of these individuals to posses a firearm for personal use & to support their participation in these "home guard" forces.

The disintegration of the Trump facade. Hopefully new voter registrations will be sufficient to counter any lingering affinity which might persist between now and the Midterms.The gilding is off the Lilly to mix a metaphor....

resolving shutdown and restoring SNAP benefits is now on Speaker Howdy Doody Johnson & his POTUS padrǒn. Residue of Sen Dem caucus now has clean hands if Republicans welch on ACA subsidy vote. Other items in Senate approved measure all good for citizens...perhaps a cagey win here!

Today's revisionist view of last night's Senate vote: The Sen Dem caucus selected 7.99 "insulated" members to take the heat for the Caucus' consensus position that the media & public will celebrate ending the shutdown, but the stain/blame will remain with Trump/MAGA. Burden of going forward --->

It was bad, but YOU are pathetic 🖕

The basic rule in Washington conflict USED TO BE "...if you've got them by the Balls, DO NOT LET GO TO GET A 'BETTER GRIP' !!!" Trump's absurd deflections since Election Night have multiplied to panic levels: Filibuster, Obama, Trump's Elysian Field...now it's "why wait til Election Day to loose?"

These complicit big firm equity partners have little to distinguish themselves from Trumps tech bros billionaires. Except if they paid any attention in Con Law they should know better than being complicit with a POTUS attempting to divert our democracy into the trash bin.

Palantir CEO should have taken a bit more U.S. History in school. Learned about origins of our Civil Liberties guaranteed by our Constitution. Protected by millions of servicemen/women who fought, bled and sometimes died to protect those freedoms. We must do both things: protect CL & defeat China.

Your ?-like many previous--proceeds from a false/oversimplified premise; indicia of "socialism" & "capitalism" are NOT on a linear spectrum; at best they may be analyzed/compared in a MATRIX allowing comparison of many simultaneous variables. We already cling eagerly to many "socialist" practices.

First they take them away from their parents. Then they tell them they are not entitled to prayer? WOW...

For those who find the delta between POTUS 47 words and their actions/positions in legitimate policy arenas like Congress. State legislatures. the U.N. And other plurilateral treaty bodies and NGOs ironic if not hypocritical, I offer this anecdotal example of our incumbent DNIs saccharine palaver.

So why is anyone losing sleep over the East Wing?. After all. It's where the First Lady's staff offices are. No one has done the Nations business in those rooms since Jan. 20; trashing the West Wing with comical cabinet meetings & dressing down allied heads of state is far more damaging to us all.

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And by the way since it's a weekend, it will be time and a half!