But the problem is the exact opposite of what the progressive/left end of the party think it is. It’s socio-cultural, not economic. Biden campaigned on $15 an hour minimum wage and lost in Florida. He campaigned on the singularly most progressive platform in general election history and, after it all shakes out and we…

Texas resident here, and I assume that what Patrick is doing is trying to generate “leads” he can “investigate” while making a big show of holding press conferences to talk about those investigations so he can suggest that the same sort of fraud went on in the actual swing states.

I just really don’t get why the Republicans even believe the MAGA movement exists anymore. They clearly aren’t out in the streets protesting this “stolen election”. The real money came from the donors. The GOP has suffered more losses than wins under Trump.

Christ — just —

If you want to watch a sensitive character study about intergenerational trauma in Appalachia, there’s Barbara Loden’s Wanda.

I’m all in on the rather inane “Pandemic is an excuse for early Christmas decorating” trend. I feel like this is definitely something those of us with kids in quarantine doing remote learning are more likely to reach for as we grow increasingly desperate to provide any sort of novelty for the kids.

I mean, if it were actually going to cost $50 million dollars, that would be pretty irresponsible and extravagant. It’s not though. She’ll have her standard detail for outings, and they’ll have to spend some money doing background check work on some people at the college, all of which are tools the Secret Service has…

While climbing up a light pole so you can leave a gross turd at the top of it that is only discovered the next time a Philly sports team wins a championship.

Noonan’s been positively sane compared to Kim Strassel.  The WSJ newsroom felt compelled to publish a takedown article of her attempt to analyze the Hunter Biden documents because it was so loaded with errors, misinterpretations, and huge leaping assumptions.

The question is whether social or cultural issues or pure economic populism weighs heavier in the minds of voters in that particular quadrant in a general election where the candidates tend to be Liberal/Liberal and Right/Right as compared to heterodox.

They have “A LOT” but not infinite. I suspect that GOP lawyers would score easy wins litigating on the nature of those powers to address an “emergency” that is more of an intermediate term problem. They’ll probably find courts agreeable to their notion that even if today’s hurricanes, wildfires & other climate related…

Why do you think it would work out that way? Odds are that trying to spend trillions of dollars by dint of EO would simply not work. Courts, including liberal ones, would likely shut it down while the constitutionality was explored, it would be injuncted into nothingness. Not even Trump tried to stretch an EO that far.

I mean, yeah, that’s true, and it’s not entirely clear that precariously purched purple state Democrats will go for that in order to pass a bunch of 13 figure pieces of legislation.

EOs passed to spend trillions of dollars would prompt instant, headspinning judicial and electoral backlash.

A center left President without legislative power is going to wind up looking like FDR because by dint of doing even super basic shit he’s going to make things demonstrably better.

Even then, best case scenario is still having to get precariously position senators in purple states like Manchin & the two Georgia senators to sign off on legislation. Climate legislation that goes after emissions is DOA.

100% agreed.

Can’t stop COVID from spreading among others so I’m not going to let it bring me down tonight.  I know it’s not all rainbows and unicorns from here on out, but I also don’t care.  Life is struggle, unceasing and unending.  So when you have a victory, you celebrate.

We’ll have plenty of time for navel gazing about what this, that or the other tidbit of information about the election means. We’ll have plenty of time to go after President Biden for his many failings, I’m sure. But today ... today I am just happy.

Who would want to be?  I think even Kushner is smart enough to know it’s a doomed cause.