If fully armed soldiers in combat gear are posted along every corridor and strategic junction, it's bound to bring in the shoppers.

folks, I think we have enough data from our little "what would happen if the stupidest person alive were president" experiment, can we try something else now

Too many of us love the idea of billionaires, the truly obscene and immoral accumulation of wealth, much more than we care about human decency.

The ICE agents should be identified and charged with assault.

And leaded gasoline.

"A total of 824,097,690 million IQ points were lost because of childhood lead exposure among the US population by 2015. This number equates to an average of 2.6 IQ point deficit per person."

Here's the actual research paper:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Oh wow.

"...and that's why I surrendered with nothing to show for it." What absolute BS.

It's been obvious for a long time that in order to beat the Republicans, we'll first have to beat the establishment Democrats.

That's because so much of the Dem base are robotic VBNMW voters, and will proudly tell you so. They've accepted that they can never demand anything from the politicians that supposedly represent them. You can't convince them otherwise.

You lost. You had the advantage and surrendered (again). You either lost control of your caucus, or you allowed this to happen.

You need to resign, not just as Senate Minority Leader, but from the Senate altogether.

Led my ass. They work for us. Fire the incompetent spineless traitors. (Image from @jules.su)

Alt text for the image: "Image with title "8 Traitors", shows the 8 Democratic Senators who voted with the Republicans to pass their CR: Dick Durbin (IL), John Fetterman (PA), Tim Kaine (VA), Angus King (ME), Catherine Cortez-Mastro (NV), Maggie Hassan (NH), Jeanne Shaheen (NH), Jacky Rosen (NV)."