Kyle

You could quote post her

If you look at the photo, lots of those generals had their command sergeant majors (or equivalent) with them, and they were equally unimpressed

Is there a reason you're not just reposting them directly?

So, you're having an 8th grade, or even a 5th grade, civics discussion?

You missed Trump turning the GOP into a cult of personality, so that this time around he's surrounded not by half-competent people who respect the constitution a few days out of the week, but by sycophantic yes-men who don't get in the way of Miller and Trump

one can (and probably should) fault Clintonian/Blairite "triangulation," but "if we do this, the left will yell at us" was part of the strategy! if the left yelling at you is bad then it is a bad strategy!

Military rule? No

ICE as an instrument of state terror? Totally

*looks across border into Indiana* They hadn't done that already?

Folk in Pennsylvania voted for John Fetterman because they thought he was a progressive and found out he was just Kyrsten Sinema in a funky hoodie and unwashed basketball shorts.

“I don’t think the Democrats want to shut down either,” Rep. Mike Simpson (R-Idaho), a senior appropriator, told Bloomberg Government. “Their concern right now, and it’s a legitimate concern, is that, how can we agree to any deal when our OMB director will just impound the funds and say we’re not going to spend them there?”

“If you’re a Democrat — even just like a mainstream Democrat — your predisposition might be to help negotiate with Republicans on a funding mechanism,” said Rep. Steve Womack, a senior GOP appropriator. “Why would you do that if you know that whatever you negotiate is going to be subject to the knife pulled out by Russ Vought?”

Two senior Republican appropriators agree it doesn't make any sense for Democrats to agree to a government funding deal unless Trump actually adheres to the deal.

The Democratic alternative CR had language that would address this, but the White House came out strongly against.

There are nonviolent militaries?

Supporting fascism is voting your conscience?

It should be about separation of powers and constitutional order, but sure, go ahead and use your focus-group messaging

Hundreds of generals and admirals had to fly in from all over the world so Pete Kegseth can live out his Patton fantasies.

And since when is Jeffries the Speaker?

Yes, he kisses the asses of reactionary centrists, but he also doesn't have the votes to start impeachment

60 votes to invoke cloture

May they only ever be served Malört to drink

"Dems will get blamed for a shutdown" as opposed to what, all the friendly coverage and positive credit they'd get for caving yet again? This whole premise is built on a delusion about what the alternative is. There's no cowering in the corner and being so inoffensive they won't still attack you.

As I've said elsewhere, direct action involves actually doing things that disrupt and draw attention, not just sitting around doing nothing and letting things get worse

I think everyone deserves rights, and I also think that without a functioning democracy no one's going to have them. Doing things that end up supporting the fascists leaves us without a functioning democracy

If you think that the outcomes would have been the same if Harris had won, I have no idea where you parted with reality

...not only are you doing an excellent job of putting words in my mouth that I never said, I don't even know what you're talking about

Direct action is not sitting with your thumb up your ass

"Direct action" is not taking action that furthers fascist aims

Direct action is going to businesses that will refuse you service for who you are and refusing to leave, it's organizing a peaceful march where you know the police will brutalize you, it's voting where you know they will come for you

And you've not been taken

Can you think of how that reason doesn't apply to you? Your ability to participate in electoral politics is not systematically denied from the ground up

I have read it, and MLK wasn't encouraging actual voters to sit out elections