And that party has been cowed into irrelevance for far too long.
The Carville do nothing democrats need to be put out and replaced with people who believe in their duty to do something.
As Senator Whitehouse has said, it's time to wake up.

Republicans are entirely responsible for the crimes that have been committed against democracy and the constitution, much like the subway slasher here:

youtu.be/jAfUI_hETy0

was responsible for for slashing people.
But the obligation to oppose slashing is with the party charged to defend the law.

...if you ask anyone who has studied the corrosive effects of fossil fuel influence on the body politic.
This is a repudiation of David Shor 'popularism politics' which has held sway over democratic leadership and their donor class.

Pretty excellent challenge by @whitehouse.senate.gov on Democrats being driven by polls while Republicans drive them:
youtu.be/itcyQ8_wrzI
leaving Democratic Leadership in a constant state of being late to every fight - in particular the climate one, which is the connecting thread of corruption...

I see this as a soothing exercise. Like how the kids in Poltergeist used to count the seconds between the lightning and the thunder clap.
*Angry man with sign saying "Elon saved a little money, "Mother-in-law is moving in now, honey!"
"Paid. People being.."

These approaches mostly benefit republicans, BTW.

..while they were collecting EI and Larry Summers was insisting "We must respect the contracts of bailed out banks!" as he gave the finger to union workers.

The press sees their job as to be a wet blanket on hot protests that could affect corporations and to be gasoline on protests that help them.

This is just like when we had the tea party protests at the same time occupy was taking place.
The press wanted to talk about the clean protests of people who were just worried, in 2009, that their new government was going socialist...
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"We're not going to run a deficit..."
🙄
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He doesn't get that a country that consumes a good isn't being ripped off.
Like you don't ask your waiter, "Now what am I going to do for you so we can call this meal you served me even?"

Same thing happened with finance. Same thing happened with biodefense. Republican ever make the same mistakes and, lacking any accountability or consequence, they never learn A GODDAMN THING.

I'm starting to make this phrase my version of the Cheney joke.

And yeah, it appears the video could have saved me some typing, because that's what the latter half of the video was talking about.
"You took the inspectors off the roof inspection beat. How long do you give before the ceilings cave in?"

Yeah, it was just ironic because I was a big Lewis fan- wasn't a big fan of his SBF crypto work -so I hadn't thought of him much the last couple of years. Happened to use him in an argument I was making about DOGE cuts:
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and suddenly there's a John Stewart video on my feed.🤔

Hey @nytpitchbot.bsky.social!
Give poor @joshtpm.bsky.social his account back!

Stuff that has taken generations of extraordinary people to make.

...government (people that worked in gov? That used to be @driftglass.bsky.social, no?) and look for the bright spots. Good all around video and really puts into relief what the talentless Elon-bros are doing to the public service corps because they walk in the door thinking "Let's break stuff."

From my backup account, because my og bsky got a sick, a contrast between a John Stewart Ezra Klein interview where "Ezra Klien is looking for things that don't work," to this Michael Lewis J.S. interview:
youtu.be/79_n1FKZwHo?...
where M.L. is talking about the extraordinary people who work in...

And, from my backup account, because bsky broke my original account for the second time, speaking of Michael Lewis, just found a recent interview with John Stewart worth listening to on this subject:
youtu.be/79_n1FKZwHo

And, from my backup account, because bsky broke my original account for the second time, speaking of Michael Lewis, just found a recent interview with John Stewart worth listening to on this subject:
youtu.be/79_n1FKZwHo

I'll stick this one in here while I'm at it.
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