one bizarre thing is that the Senate apparently not only lacks any courage but also any preening Walter Mitty type who has always dreamed of resisting authoritarianism
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getting rid of earmarks and pork barrel was a mistake since I'm pretty sure having shit named after you was incentive to keep yourself differentiated and unique from your fellow senators
every single gop member has fully adopted southern conservative talking points (despite a good chunk of them being from the midwest and mountain states) and that's LAME
i want to see the Billiam Johnstone Center For Cow Tipping exist
And we about to get some more laws favorable to those who like to use crypto for a criminal enterprise. Because it is the preferred currency of criminal enterprises.
Adam Schiff was literally this guy during Trump 1.0, used it to vault over into a CA Senate seat, and... now helps the GOP enrich themselves with crypto legislation?
Being a Senator is a cushy gig where you get to do legal insider trading, have a ~95% chance of being reelected, and just have to occasionally show up to vote along party lines.
There’s only one job they want more than the one they have and most of them know they’re never going to get it.
Was just going to say this — his going after Rubio today was another good sign, the regretting my vote for you (as they all should!) and you have no principles.
Was it grandstanding? Sure. Does that mean it wasn't useful? No!
i mean, cory booker did that but then went and voted for charles kushner to be ambassador to france; you need both the spectacle and then the actually walking-the-walk (and both are sorely lacking...)
I mean speaking for 25 hours straight is a hell of an achievement but I think we need to consider going a little bigger. Get the ICE goons to beat you with a baton on camera or something
I have lost count of the number of times I've called his office to explicitly ask for him to bring back the "Street Fight" era, "sleeps in a tent" guy even though I know it's all press strategy, not moral conviction
We've got a government being run, not by the James Stewart characters from Capra films, but the James Stewart characters from Anthony Mann and Hitchcock films!
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i want to see the Billiam Johnstone Center For Cow Tipping exist
the bet is that that's what this is, that you can poke hard enough, and that it doesn't explode in your face
There’s only one job they want more than the one they have and most of them know they’re never going to get it.
Was it grandstanding? Sure. Does that mean it wasn't useful? No!