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That's why Biden canceled Keystone.

 

Even if I were one of protestors/rioters, who thought they had good reason to storm and invade the Capitol, I would have have been embarrassed to show up there and be seen there dressed and looking the way these people do.

 

It never went away not in the least.

 

Lots of euphemisms, States’ Rights meant slavery was good for me so fuck you.

 

You can’t negotiate with fanatics, and you can’t negotiate with people who believe they have no choice but to serve fanatics.

So don’t.

To talk about normality, civility, reaching across the divide and healing at a time like this, when millions have rejected that offering at the polls and hundreds marched on the Capitol, is pointless. For the duly elected Democratic party to feel it needs to reassure voters that it comes in peace is an act of weakness – as if it has no radical plans to take on foundational issues and reorder economic and racial relations in the country. This conciliation is a win for the American right – not only for its Capitol-insurrectionist wing, but for its longer-term scaremongering about the “radical left”. This is already evident in the backlash against Biden’s first executive orders that, in merely undoing what Trump established, are seen as “culture war aggression”.

Biden should be leading a government ready to take on the twin challenges of rooting out white supremacy and rebalancing the economy, yet it risks being one that aims only to fix the leaks of the past four years. This should be a government that stops papering over the cracks, and finally confronts the causes of divisions and embeds permanent reform. Otherwise, though Trump may be gone, the nightmare will be ongoing.​

 

That’s why Pelosi and Schumer want to use budget reconciliation for the COVID bill
They will save the scrap the filibuster talk until they put the Voting Rights act up

 

Saw this ...



And wondered - did Trump ever eat at a DC restaurant not located in his hotel?

 

The GOP in Arizona censuring Cindy McCain is a disgrace. She was never an elected official and her big sin was showing disgust for a guy who demeaned her late husband's status as a POW? In all honesty though - please proceed with the wingnuttery GOP. Please proceed.

 

I read somewhere that he never did, not even once.

 

Trump never ventures far fro a secure, private and comfortable location. Even on foreign trip, it was short and confined meetings and locations.
In case he needs his diaper changed he needs to be near a location that can accommodate that in secure privacy.