GOLDIE.

There is an age-old poker adage: If you can’t spot the fish at the table, you are the fish. My friends, Josh Barro, is and has always been the fish.

L'arc moral de l'univers tend effectivement vers la justice. Mais cette courbure est d'autant plus marquée que trop peu se rangent du côté du bien.

Ce que nous savons, c'est que les dernières vies ne sont pas encore perdues. Beaucoup souffriront, d'autres seront plongés dans le deuil. Si vous attendez le combat, il a déjà commencé.

Au final, la république survivra peut-être, peut-être pas. Mais nous ignorons à quoi ressemblera la nouvelle normalité. Nous n'avons jamais connu d'ère post-autoritaire.

Beaucoup trop de gens pensent que cette situation est surmontable. Ils croient que nous reviendrons simplement à la normale après les élections de mi-mandat et présidentielles.

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#np

Amen.

Baby, that’s the Auntie Done Had Enough of Y’all Shit bundle. No ice or bras necessary. Fucks sold separately.

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I missed watching KNIVES OUT when it debuted some years ago. Watching the first installment now and, well:

C'était un moment incroyablement laid de notre histoire.

Labor?!

The day is young.

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mignonette, but not mignon?!

If they win, Democrats will have to use their newfound authority to rethink, even dismantle, agencies like U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection. They may need to walk back the Bush-era decision to consolidate those agencies and others under a single department, given the wild abuses perpetrated under this administration and its predecessors. It will need to give serious thought to major political and social reform, including D.C. statehood, a federal ban on partisan gerrymandering, a new voting rights act and federal protections for reproductive rights and bodily autonomy, including the rights of gender and sexual minorities. Democrats will also need to embrace the legislature’s constitutional authority to structure the executive branch and the judiciary, up to and including Supreme Court reform. If they win next year, Democrats will need to treat the next Congress not as a return to the status quo ante but as the beginning of a new era in which the principal task is to roll back the president’s effort to create and consolidate a personalist dictatorship. They’ll need to fortify the American political system against future attempts to play dictator and lay out a project of genuine democratic renewal. None of this is possible without a willingness to use power rather than just hold it. What we’ve seen this week is that there are still too many Democrats whose instinct is to retreat to normalcy rather than face the conflict at hand.

Jamelle was cooking.

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Somewhere tonight, a national political correspondent is hoarding critical information to for yet-to-be announced book deal.

C'est grotesque. Ces révélations devraient tous nous révolter. Quiconque a contribué à garder ce secret est également coupable.

It’s All Her Fault.

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C’est tres bizarre.

Yup.

Now, the House GOP could say “go to hell” on all of this. But, that’ll be far more costly in district-level than statewide seat. Dems will say: These jokers picked a gold-plated ballroom over you.

My guess is Schumer doesn’t care that this gambit may cost him the speakership.

Win SNAP legal fight. Get an ACA vote in Dec. If no vote or it fails, shutdown Jan. 30. Everybody gets to go home for the holidays. Midterm messaging: (affordability) They don’t give a damn ‘bout you and yours.

Okay, so I ran the calculus. There’s an end game and it’s positively Machiavellian.

Shenanigans.

…or maybe they found a way to turn the lights back on and preserve the filibuster w/o outright defying the WH. That means they effectively threw in the towel on healthcare. There is no road left to kick the can down.

Senate Democrats had the power to do one thing: This shutdown. And this is what they did with it. Maybe this is some brilliant political calculus, in which case I'll happily eat my words. But right now, it feels like the beginning of the end of the party in its current form--and by its own hand.