Why, oh why, didn't they walk out when Al Green was booted?

Set the time machine for 1953, Sherman.

Good news. I suspect, though, that this was a ploy to expose potential Senate Republican opposition. This increases the likelihood that the rest of Trump's bizarre cabinet picks will sail through as the "enemies within" the Senate line up to kiss the ring.

I'm new, too; just learning to navigate. Refugee from FB, old Twitter. I'm a retired labor historian but volunteer with labor ed. for unions and classes when I get a chance. (John Hennen, emeritus professor of history, Morehead (KY) State University). Nice to meet you.

Musk has already warned that folks will suffer from Trump's economic agenda, but "only for a little while." I seem to recall Milton Friedman saying the same thing before imposition of the Shock Doctrine in Chile.