You lack imagination - it's clear that the migrant hoards will start forming in July after early polls show the Dems are likely to take control of Congress. See how easy that is?
So does anyone actually believe the data being put out by the BLS under Wiatrowski? To his credit, the numbers aren't so outlandish that they can be dismissed out of hand, but these numbers are a good amount lower than expected. It wouldn't surprise me if they start pumping out 2.1% numbers even when it's clear that we're running closer to 4%.
Made the mistake of taking one of the last flights out of SFO on Friday. I don't give a shit what anyone is wearing, but if your body odor is so fucking foul you're making people gag as you roll by during boarding, I'd be on board with the airline dousing your ass with some Febreze / deodorant on the way in - take your pick. By my estimate, at least 1/3 of the people were reeking from jump. Layer in the folks in the rows ahead of me shitting themselves every 15 minutes, and I agree that we may need to revisit the social contract associated with mass transportation.
Hopefully the next president promptly renames it "The Fuck Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace" (ya know - to get our money's worth out of the signage ...) with instruction for it to revert to simply the Institute of Peace after 5 years.
If the non-MAGA contingent ever regains a majority on the Supreme Court, they should just issue a blanket opinion overriding every opinion that was decided from 2016 on without concurrence by any of Ginsberg, Sotomayor, Kagan or Jackson because the rest of them over this period have shown themselves to be utterly corrupt. (BTW - I understand that's not the way the SC works, but why bother trying to play by rules when the GOP has made up fact patterns and forced cases up to the Supreme Court to be heard as soon as the court's composition was just right ...)
Maybe - the only bigger mistake would have been to procure an extension through 2026, which would prevented the pain until after the election. I couldn't believe that they were actually discussing that option, but, hey - we are talking about the Democrats.
Phil Williams is not going to let go of this so it should get entertaining.
https://www.newschannel5.com/news/newschannel-5-investigates/tennessee-sheriff-defends-jailing-liberal-activist-for-posting-trump-meme-about-school-shooting
The hillbilly sheriff is obviously an idiot. How the fuck the courts decided to hold him on $2 million bail for this is the real question. Just a reminder - stay the fuck out of bugtussle, red state. Shit's outta control.
Best guess is this guy caught wind of some sort of DHS purchase under Federal Supply Classification (FSC) Code 1336, which includes:
https://mn.gov/admin/assets/DISP_h2book[1]_tcm36-281917.pdf
Could be something not so ominous; in this timeline, more likely that they're planning to transition their speedboat targeting operation from the military to DHS. Who fucking knows, but the decision to fund Trump's private police to the tune of $170B is going to go down in history as one of the biggest Congressional fuck-ups of all time.
I think you underestimate the stupidity of the average American voter. I fear that once they Democrats touched this thing focusing on the healthcare issue, they opened themselves up for the argument that they partially own it (which the Rs will absolutely push next fall). At this point, I think the Dems have to go all in and make the Republicans eliminate the filibuster and cram this thing through. That would be awful for the folks relying on the subsidies, but would allow (1) the Dems to look like they were actually fighting for everyone and (2) MAGA to finally touch the stove and feel the pain. That's why the Republicans are absolutely not going to make that move. Even if the Rs actually concede, the Dems will not benefit much, if at all - see opening premise. Politically, I think tying this to healthcare was a stupid move; morally right, but stupid if they're trying to stop the country's march to authoritarianism.