Category: Just Plain Crazy

That’s more like it

~ susie

Hakeem Jeffries weighs in on the Elon-Trump plan to shutdown the government

— MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) 2024-12-18T21:49:36.131Z

Johnson has no path left, it looks like. He can’t pass through rules without Jeffries and senate Rs are already saying no. Jeffries doesn’t want a clean CR while musk wants it. Unless Dems cave and they better fucking not, we are heading towards most glorious inauguration ever

— Jack (@jackisjake.bsky.social) 2024-12-18T22:02:38.814Z

If Trump and Elon toss Mike Johnson under the bus, they'll open a Pandora's box that could ultimately hand the gavel to Speaker Hakeem Jeffries.

— Grant Stern (@grantstern.bsky.social) 2024-12-18T22:02:40.590Z

How to stop Kennedy nomination

~ susie

Via Greg Sargent:

On Monday, Donald Trump issued some rambling, tortured claims. He bent over backward to reassure people about Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and vouched for the polio vaccine—while bizarrely clarifying that he sees “problems” with vaccines and even opposes vaccine mandates in schools. We think this reveals a surprising political vulnerability: Trump knows RFK’s extreme views are a serious problem, but also seems aware that being supportive of vaccine mandates might alienate constituencies in his base. We talked to Anne Shoup, a senior adviser for the Democratic-allied group Protect Our Care, which is running ads against RFK, about whether stopping him is really possible and what more Dems should do to oppose Trump’s nominees. Listen to this episode here. A transcript is here.

Really helpful.

Three dead

~ susie

I’m sure all the insurance CEOS will start lobbying the NRA to protect children now.

Police in Madison, Wisconsin, said they're investigating a shooting at Abundant Life Christian School.Multiple injuries have been reported and the shooter is "down," according to authorities

— Phil Lewis (@phillewis.bsky.social) 2024-12-16T17:49:56.847Z

At a school called "Abundant Life," no less. The miserable, uncontrollable perversity of it all. The one and only time I ever remember Obama welling up and despairing at the podium was over Sandy Hook. Our president clearly felt powerless to change this. And he was.www.nytimes.com/live/2024/12…

— Jennifer Senior (@jennifersenior.bsky.social) 2024-12-16T19:19:08.451Z

I KNOW, RIGHT?

~ susie

Right now the prevailing ethos in DC is "Trump won so the law is immaterial and he can rule as dictator." He's not allowed to appoint his own FBI director, but everyone has decided to let him. He can't unilaterally create an agency for Elon Musk, but we're just going to treat it as real. Appalling.

— Will Stancil (@whstancil.bsky.social) 2024-12-11T19:58:01.223Z

Biden, who won with a MUCH larger majority than Trump, was not permitted to govern as an autocrat. He was expected to obey the law and respect norms, he was resisted frequently and immediately, and his efforts were often blocked. But the DC power class has decided Trump's win simply makes him king.

— Will Stancil (@whstancil.bsky.social) 2024-12-11T19:59:47.742Z

This discrepancy is largely of Democrats' own making. In their endless idiotic quest to be savvy, they've decided that the smart prediction is that nothing will stop Trump, that the country doesn't care about his abuses, and have "savvily" moved out of the way for him. Their voters should torch them

— Will Stancil (@whstancil.bsky.social) 2024-12-11T20:02:10.069Z