There is, of course, much to be concerned about. But not to despair over. That’s what Rs want, for Ds to feel helpless, even permanently owned. We, however, want the best of everything for everyone, even those who don’t want it. And we know how to give it to them.
Texas and SCOTUS have cast a pall of gloom over women’s rights, summed up in the Twitter hashtag #AmericanTaliban. The CA recall seems to be on a knife edge, although Newsom’s polling has been moving up for the last two weeks. Joe Biden’s polling is down over Afghanistan (but pay no attention to the recent Rasmussen poil linked below). The Cognitively Dissonant are rejoicing over the myth of taking back Congress, and much worse. Ida hit with hospitals all along the Gulf Coast overflowing with covid and ivermectin poisoning patients. People are dying of treatable diseases for lack of ICU beds.
Yadda yadda yadda.
But.
We have a short list of good trouble, necessary trouble, to get through, and then, as I said, the dam breaks, the temple falls in ruins on their heads, and the prophecies fail so hard that only a rump remnant will be able to keep the faith and double down.
So let us review our eeeevil Soshulist agenda.
But first, just for fun, we have The Day The Dam Broke, Part 1 - Thurber Reading - 2010-09-17 Countdown with Keith Olbermann
The Day The Dam Broke, Part 2 Thurber Reading - 2010-09-24 Countdown with Keith Olbermann
I miss Keith. He is doing a lot of tweets for dog and cat rescues, especially pets about to be killed.
Hate radio is in despair over President Joe the Coolest of His Name Biden, who is just too darn likeable and reasonable to demonize.
Hate radio is also losing anti-vaxxer hosts to covid at an astonishing rate. Four have died in the last month.
But never mind them.
They have their reward.
Jesus
The Critical Path
- #EndTheFilibuster, or carve out sufficient exceptions for the moment.
- Pass the #ForThePeopleAct and the John Lewis Voting Rights Act.
- Pass both infrastructure bills.
At the very beginning this path runs straight through the Kabuki Theater of the Senate, starring Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema, and their Wrong-Wing donors trying to hide behind the scenery.
Manchin is an expert at talking out of three sides of his mouth at once. As Rachel Maddow insists, watch what he does, not what he says.
Some say that Manchin will never give in. I say that Manchin cannot do right until the last possible second, as in any good Victorian melodrama, Harry Potter, or the aforementioned kabuki. President Joe is showing us the necessary patience.
Please be patience. The hurrieder I do the behinder I get and impationer become.
Anonymous
Everything else starts to follow all at once.
- Start passing the hundreds of bills that have been backed up behind the McTurtle dam.
- Get through the 1/6 Committee process.
- Continue the current criminal indictments and prosecutions, and start a new round higher up the chain.
- Statehood for DC, to begin breaking the power of the Constitutional gerrymander of the Senate.
- Get enough states to pass the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, to break the Constitutional gerrymander of the Electoral College.
- Court reform. Enough courts and judges and public defenders and whatnot to handle the caseload on taxes, torts, immigration, innocent defendants...
- Flip Florida and Texas and a few other states the way we did Arizona and Georgia the last time.
On the other side, the agenda is
- Break Roe v. Wade at SCOTUS, preferably by stealth, leaving no visible fingerprints, as in the midnight Texas non-decision.
- Gerrymander every Red state to Hell and gone.
- Put in as much voter suppression as possible.
- Take over Congress next year.
- Elect Trump or someone worse in 2024.
- ??????
- Profit!
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