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Elizabeth Warren once again calls for reform on inconsequential shit. She sits on the Finance committee, how about you pass some real fucking fiscal policy instead of yelling at the Fed because of their legally required monetary policy.

That woman is really high up there for useless Senators.

He won’t buy it with his money. He’ll buy with our money. DOGE not being an official department and mostly being a independent contractor means they don’t have to have the same level of accountability for funds that the Government has (or in the Pentagon’s case should have, but nobody in Congress seems to have a spine about stopping the flow of funds until a successful audit happens).

When they talk about shrinking the Government, they aren’t talking about getting rid of services, they’re talking about privatizing the services. Everyone who keeps thinking “Oh shits going crash if they do that” is forgetting, they’ll just turn those services over to private companies that receive tax dollars for providing that service to the public.

I’m pretty Liberal but:

Republicans lack a clear mandate

Is utter bullshit. Republicans were handed very clear victories. Narrow, but clear. All western democracies sent a clear message, the current state of affairs is not good. Every western NATO country that had elections unseated the incumbent government.

Trump’s plans for deportations, ending birthright citizenship, political retribution, and tariffs

This is Trump’s fluff that the powers that be will entertain until they hold up more pressing priorities for the Republican party. My take on each one is:

• Deportations — That’s going to happen. They’ve played the blame game too long on it. But it’s likely that the admin will find it’s Elian Gonzalez moment, wave that as victory and then put the whole thing in the rear view. As “the worse case” has serious economic effects that won’t fly high among the others in the party without some Congressional stomach for expanded H-2A, which detracts from more pressing concerns for them.
• Ending birthright citizenship — That’s not happening. It is stupid that we’re even talking about this. Denaturalization, maybe, but nixing the 14th Amendment? No. The momentum isn’t there, people have bigger fish to fry.
• Political Retribution — The people he’s targeting aren’t idiots and have access to a wide variety of legal counsel. Trump’s under the impression that it’ll cause them the same amount of headache he had in 2021 to 2024, but the reality is Trump picks shitty lawyers because only shitty lawyers want to represent Trump. Trump routinely doesn’t pay people and that’s made his legal issues magnify by 10,000 fold. Everyone else doesn’t have nearly the same headaches Trump has with legal affairs and it’s mostly because Trump stiffs people. Other people actually pay their lawyers.
• Tariffs — I mean it’s likely to happen. It’ll be a FAFO moment for Trump for sure. But if it gets out of hand, his party might be able to reach concessions with Democrats to end any declaration of an emergency Trump tries to use to authorize the tariffs without Congress. It’s going to suck, and I will absolutely enjoy the schadenfreude that comes from it but not really enjoy the jacked up prices of things, but I mean things suck as is. So if it get twice as bad as it is now, I’ll only care about half as much as I do now. We all just refuse to address the crux of the issues with inflation so we’ll just keep on, keeping on. All of us are too busy blaming political people for inflation to really solve the issue, so maybe in another ten years or so everyone will finally chill the fuck out and we can work on the actual issues. But I’m not holding out hope.

There’s likely to be backlash as voters realize the gap between what they wanted and what Trump plans to deliver.

That’s almost a given. It’s one of the reasons Republicans are trying to get their ducks in a row for the 119th Congress. But with the narrow majority in the House, it will only take one or two asshats from the Freedom Caucus to fuck it up. And I absolutely feel that they’re going to do their usual asshattery at least once during the session. Mike Johnson isn’t some visionary, he does well to plan his lunch for the day. With all the to-dos the GOP has, it’s going to run into the too much water going down a narrow drain issue.

It’s one of the reasons the transition team is trying to break things out into sole EO, requiring law, and direction. It’s also the reason Trump doesn’t want to deal with the 300 day window on his appointments. He wants them hitting the road right away. People want to think Trump wants recess to avoid hearings. Trump just wants recess appointments so that they can get to work on day one, avoiding the hearings is a nice bonus. They have a lot of things they want to get through and it only goes so fast and they’re pretty much betting on midterms being hard to them.

But all that said, THIS:

Republicans lack a clear mandate

Is utter trash. They swept the fucking floor. Us Democrats need to take the L, look around, and figure a path for midterms to make a wide enough push in both chambers. But it ain’t going to happen just running around and yelling “TRUMP BAD! TRUMP BAD!” Democrats need to provide a clear policy agenda that is easy to articulate.

If them going through Hunter Biden’s dick pics while the price of everything was going through the roof wasn’t enough to show Republican voters they don’t care, them being bullies to the 1st transgender member while the price of things still remains high isn’t going to change those voters either.

In fact, they may enjoy watching members of Congress gang up and bully this new member.

Not surprising as some will likely think this is. McMahon ran the SBA from 2017 to 2019.

Additionally, she served as a member of the Connecticut State Board of Education for about a year until a legal opinion was given that she couldn’t solicit for campaign money, which apparently using your position to solicit for bribes er donations was just a bridge too far for her.

She’s also a chair for A1P a SuperPAC that unsurprisingly gave heavily to Trump in the 2024 elections.

That said, she’s absolutely getting the position as a reward and so that she can wet her beak. I would say she has zero morals or ethics, but I think that’s putting way too positive a spin what she’s likely going to do while in office.

Literally there is no case. The filing fails to name single real person of harm and fails to establish any real material harm.

Additionally it is using a consumer protection law and citing an FCC ruling, of all things, to establish cause, which is insane.

This entire filing is like what law student would write as a joke. I mean they could have save some pages by just writing, “CBS is a big meanie and I don’t know who, but I’m pretty sure someone lost $5 for some reason because of them being so mean! I am asking for $30 decillion in judgement.”

Don Jr appears in there several times and there are rumors JD Vance might show up in the next ad. Those are both deaths that poll extremely well across party lines.

I would be laughing at how ridiculous that is, but I’m mostly just laughing to assuage my low level concern that keeps trying to take control of the wheel that is my mind.

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Some unsolicited comments on this:

• I would absolutely trade Dr. Bunsen Honeydew with Dr. Mario.
• The Dr. Pepper position is just pure slander.
• Dr. Horrible and Doogie Howser, MD is the true duality of humanity.
• Zoidberg is suspiciously much higher along the Y-axis than I would personally prefer.
• Dr. Dre, like I would forget, is absolutely a quadrant II candidate. There’s just no way I’d put Spin Doctors high along the Y-axis than Dre.

You have to understand how Vance views the issue. For him abortion isn’t a meet in the middle stance. Abortion to him and folks similar see the matter as only having one possibly correct solution.

Thus for him, “Americans instinctively mistrust us” doesn’t mean that his position would evolve, it’s that “to him”, he’s done a “bad job” making your stance evolve.

The hard line Republicans aren’t interested in finding common ground, they’re more interested in what you will change your opinion to or at the very least what unacceptable positions you’ll tolerate. There is never going to be an evolution or common ground to be found with these folks because that’s distinctly not the position that they are looking for.

Cycloheptane, the only way I’m getting a boat or a car.