SCOTUS flipping this election would not just be a naked coup; it would be firing on Fort Sumter. Game on. Or game over. Maybe THAT would be enough to finally wake people up to the fact that this unholy confederation has been held together by spit and shine wax from the beginning and needs to be finally put out of our misery. There is no winning in our current configuration--only deck chair rearranging.
They still wouldn't cancel amazon. Something is seriously wrong in this country. I have been in third world countries where average citizens with way less education, if any, are still far more astute and understand a lot about politics.
Trump is already screaming fraud in the CA primary elections, it’s just going to get louder (& again normalized) over the next few months until they (the GOP & his cabinet) figure out a way for either elections to be put on hold by the regime or rigged to the point Dems can’t win a majority.
Republican states are already working overtime to purge Dem voter rolls, establish voter intimidation squads in Dem voting locations, making mail in much more difficult, just to name a few tactics already under way.
If the Dem Party doesn’t start fighting back against this now, thinking they’ll have the law on their side they’re going to lose.
What I notice is dems are not working overtime to register voters, get people to polls, or connect with groups that have elluded them. Republicans have been kicking our ass in those areas, as well as media, for decades. At least in CA it is just more of the same, and what I see tangentially across the US it appears similar.
That the entire Democratic Party isn’t busting their asses to reach and engage with young voters everywhere is not only insane it’s self defeating.
There are millions of new and/or non voting 18-25 year olds who are just waiting for someone to listen to them about what they want their lives and futures to look like and a big percentage of them hate Republican policies.
The under 30 crowd, spanish speakers, and I am finding even gen x is checked out and apathetic. Boomers don't seem to know much about candidates from what I am seeing this year; probably getting info from tv. So right now I have to assume this is intentional, ie dem establishment [and republicans who have switched sides] are avoiding some groups. I have given some thought as to why that would be, and can only sumise that perhaps they are concerned other groups are possibly more progressive. Or we are just idiots and like losing, also an option.
Some rather arcane questions if anyone can answer them.
Could a Dem controlled Senate (I assume this means not counting on Fetterman) simply refuse to seat Paxton without seating Taliricho? Not just during any disputed election litigation but after Paxton might be wrongly declared the winner by the Sec. of State and the courts. How might that work? Can it be done with a simple majority.
Could VP Vance swear in Paxton anyway? And if he did, could the Dems do anything about it?
Given Brian's suggestion that the courts might not be as reliable as they were in 2020 election disputes, it seems these are the types of contingencies Dem lawyers and Dem leadership ought to be prepared to deal with.
Everything depends on voters who take the time to sort out what is truly the most important reason to vote: Its not just removing MAGA from power but understanding where to go from that accomplishment. The Dems are failing to answer that question. There is much doubt the current situation will improve.
Why are we giving up Maine? In no way do I expect Democrats to reverse even half of this even if they hold all 3 for the next 12 years. It will be more of the same. There are not enough progressives to get the other democrats to do anything. They didn't bother to fix anything available during the last 4 years.
Oh I’m definitely not! There are several different scenarios in which Dems win four net seats, including Maine. I wrote the hypothetical this way to refer to breaking news and because I enjoyed the poetic license.
Justice Roberts and his 5 sidekicks are racists and hate America. But they love money and they are corrupt. They’ve been taking bribes, not recusing themselves when they should and they have made horrible decisions against the best wishes and needs of the American people. These racists are carrying out a Heritage Foundation’s racist awful policies. They will be shamed in history. But corruption and greed won’t stop here. Political hacks they are.
First of all, I don’t believe Platner will lose. Many of us are sick of our Democratic “holier than thou” attitudes, even those of us who could be defined as furious old women, when we are watching the incredible protection of Trump and his Epstein friends.
But you are absolutely right about Texas. If Paxton loses, he will pull a Trump and deny that. That will move our country one step closer to active revolution.
The Republication corruption is historic and wipes the history of Nixon’s own efforts to cheat and lie. Our original mistake was not putting Nixon on trial and having a real example to show what happens when politicians lie and cheat.
100% agree. When Ford pardoned Nixon, he did not “end our long national nightmare,” he actually started the longest nightmare in our history. From that point, it took 50 years to get us inexorably to this point. Trump is just the inevitable result of half a century of the GOP attack on our democracy!
The "Supreme Court" of America has been taken over by people (the Roberts 6) just as Corrupt as Trump and his Regime. John Roberts, Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Barrett, are in the pockets of the Billionaires and Trump and will do whatever they want them to do. The U.S. Constitution and America and the future of America matter nothing to them. They helped set the stage with granting Trump immunity and now they are repaying him with any case he brings to them to rule in his favor no matter the issue no matter the arguments. Oh Trump brought this case to us --- We rule IN FAVOR of Trump --- next case..........The only fix for them is to tear it down and rebuild it.......and hold the Roberts 6 personally accountable......
In a partisan attempt to keep Republicans in power, SCOTUS voted to encourage red states to disenfranchise People of Color. Alito leads the corruption. Thomas voted with five White justices in favor of the racist decision.
In addition to Alito’s manipulations, and those by other corrupt Justices, Chief Justice Roberts ignores his own conflicts by failing to disclose $Millions of income from his wife’s business of suggesting lawyers for Corporations to use when trying cases before her husband and the other eight members of the Supreme Court.
Brian, I will try to remember to add this question to the mailbag when the time comes, but I’ll add it here as well: let’s say Republicans steal the midterms, and one or both chambers are thus illegitimately held. How should Dems at all levels of government respond? Establish a shadow congress? Blue state impoundment of federal tax revenues? Commandeering of federal property where possible and expulsion of federal agents? The situation would be so unprecedented it’s difficult for me to imagine what an appropriate response would be, TBH, but pretending that it’s all regular order seems untenable.
SCOTUS flipping this election would not just be a naked coup; it would be firing on Fort Sumter. Game on. Or game over. Maybe THAT would be enough to finally wake people up to the fact that this unholy confederation has been held together by spit and shine wax from the beginning and needs to be finally put out of our misery. There is no winning in our current configuration--only deck chair rearranging.
They still wouldn't cancel amazon. Something is seriously wrong in this country. I have been in third world countries where average citizens with way less education, if any, are still far more astute and understand a lot about politics.
We are there, trust me. Nov 3 is the day. The day of the Reckoning.
I'm more cynical than you. I think mobilization by Democrats would spark counter-mobilization by Republicans, a game Democrats would certainly lose.
Sorry you have so little faith in your countries future 🤯😨🫠🫠🫣
Trump is already screaming fraud in the CA primary elections, it’s just going to get louder (& again normalized) over the next few months until they (the GOP & his cabinet) figure out a way for either elections to be put on hold by the regime or rigged to the point Dems can’t win a majority.
Republican states are already working overtime to purge Dem voter rolls, establish voter intimidation squads in Dem voting locations, making mail in much more difficult, just to name a few tactics already under way.
If the Dem Party doesn’t start fighting back against this now, thinking they’ll have the law on their side they’re going to lose.
What I notice is dems are not working overtime to register voters, get people to polls, or connect with groups that have elluded them. Republicans have been kicking our ass in those areas, as well as media, for decades. At least in CA it is just more of the same, and what I see tangentially across the US it appears similar.
That the entire Democratic Party isn’t busting their asses to reach and engage with young voters everywhere is not only insane it’s self defeating.
There are millions of new and/or non voting 18-25 year olds who are just waiting for someone to listen to them about what they want their lives and futures to look like and a big percentage of them hate Republican policies.
The under 30 crowd, spanish speakers, and I am finding even gen x is checked out and apathetic. Boomers don't seem to know much about candidates from what I am seeing this year; probably getting info from tv. So right now I have to assume this is intentional, ie dem establishment [and republicans who have switched sides] are avoiding some groups. I have given some thought as to why that would be, and can only sumise that perhaps they are concerned other groups are possibly more progressive. Or we are just idiots and like losing, also an option.
I think maybe,you are Not watching the REAL NEWS, which is ALMOST impossible to get the truth from .Try MS,MSNBC,PBS, RUETERS
AND DEFINETLY NO CBC,NBC, FOX, CNN,THEY ALL SOLD OUT TO GRUMPY TRUMPTY.PLEASE STAY FOCUSED ON THE TRUTH
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Fabulous piece!
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Great article thanks
Some rather arcane questions if anyone can answer them.
Could a Dem controlled Senate (I assume this means not counting on Fetterman) simply refuse to seat Paxton without seating Taliricho? Not just during any disputed election litigation but after Paxton might be wrongly declared the winner by the Sec. of State and the courts. How might that work? Can it be done with a simple majority.
Could VP Vance swear in Paxton anyway? And if he did, could the Dems do anything about it?
Given Brian's suggestion that the courts might not be as reliable as they were in 2020 election disputes, it seems these are the types of contingencies Dem lawyers and Dem leadership ought to be prepared to deal with.
Everything depends on voters who take the time to sort out what is truly the most important reason to vote: Its not just removing MAGA from power but understanding where to go from that accomplishment. The Dems are failing to answer that question. There is much doubt the current situation will improve.
Why are we giving up Maine? In no way do I expect Democrats to reverse even half of this even if they hold all 3 for the next 12 years. It will be more of the same. There are not enough progressives to get the other democrats to do anything. They didn't bother to fix anything available during the last 4 years.
Oh I’m definitely not! There are several different scenarios in which Dems win four net seats, including Maine. I wrote the hypothetical this way to refer to breaking news and because I enjoyed the poetic license.
Planter…the gift that keeps giving.
I’ll counter with Ken Paxton, who has never shown remorse or transformation.
remorse is for the weak (they say)
I Will not stop posting this below repost if you think it is true
“Always remember the Epstein files”
Justice Roberts and his 5 sidekicks are racists and hate America. But they love money and they are corrupt. They’ve been taking bribes, not recusing themselves when they should and they have made horrible decisions against the best wishes and needs of the American people. These racists are carrying out a Heritage Foundation’s racist awful policies. They will be shamed in history. But corruption and greed won’t stop here. Political hacks they are.
First of all, I don’t believe Platner will lose. Many of us are sick of our Democratic “holier than thou” attitudes, even those of us who could be defined as furious old women, when we are watching the incredible protection of Trump and his Epstein friends.
But you are absolutely right about Texas. If Paxton loses, he will pull a Trump and deny that. That will move our country one step closer to active revolution.
The Republication corruption is historic and wipes the history of Nixon’s own efforts to cheat and lie. Our original mistake was not putting Nixon on trial and having a real example to show what happens when politicians lie and cheat.
100% agree. When Ford pardoned Nixon, he did not “end our long national nightmare,” he actually started the longest nightmare in our history. From that point, it took 50 years to get us inexorably to this point. Trump is just the inevitable result of half a century of the GOP attack on our democracy!
The "Supreme Court" of America has been taken over by people (the Roberts 6) just as Corrupt as Trump and his Regime. John Roberts, Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Barrett, are in the pockets of the Billionaires and Trump and will do whatever they want them to do. The U.S. Constitution and America and the future of America matter nothing to them. They helped set the stage with granting Trump immunity and now they are repaying him with any case he brings to them to rule in his favor no matter the issue no matter the arguments. Oh Trump brought this case to us --- We rule IN FAVOR of Trump --- next case..........The only fix for them is to tear it down and rebuild it.......and hold the Roberts 6 personally accountable......
SCOTUS—THE ROBERTS COURT—IS HOPELESSLY CORRUPT.
In a partisan attempt to keep Republicans in power, SCOTUS voted to encourage red states to disenfranchise People of Color. Alito leads the corruption. Thomas voted with five White justices in favor of the racist decision.
In addition to Alito’s manipulations, and those by other corrupt Justices, Chief Justice Roberts ignores his own conflicts by failing to disclose $Millions of income from his wife’s business of suggesting lawyers for Corporations to use when trying cases before her husband and the other eight members of the Supreme Court.
SCOTUS IS HOPELESSLY CORRUPT.
Brian, I will try to remember to add this question to the mailbag when the time comes, but I’ll add it here as well: let’s say Republicans steal the midterms, and one or both chambers are thus illegitimately held. How should Dems at all levels of government respond? Establish a shadow congress? Blue state impoundment of federal tax revenues? Commandeering of federal property where possible and expulsion of federal agents? The situation would be so unprecedented it’s difficult for me to imagine what an appropriate response would be, TBH, but pretending that it’s all regular order seems untenable.
Tendentious? Accurate.
had to look that one up in the google dictionary
Don’t think for a minute it’s not going to happen
If we don’t wake the hell up won’t be any country but Trumpville
That vile ass hole will do ANYTHING to stay in power