Newt Gingrich did that years ago, when he spearheaded the movement to purge the party of moderates. The progression to full blown insanity got its start there.

Not that the Democrats have been that much better in recent years. Ask Seth Moulton about that, when he said he didn't want his daughters run over by men playing on their girls teams. The Democrats tried to force him to admit he was wrong, that he supported men on women's teams then step down. The party faithful demanding his cancellation.

And before the usual suspects decide I'm trolling.. https://www.nbcboston.com/news.... https://www.wbur.org/news/2024... https://www.foxnews.com/sports....

I merely report facts. Looks like today, when you have an opinion your party will tell you what your opinion is, or be banished.

It's weird how the Pedophile Trash always want to argue the definition. Sex trafficking of minors means pedophilia, you disgusting subhuman worthless kidraper.

REPUBLICANS demanded the date, and Trump promised to veto the law without it. Shut up and shoot yourself you Lying Treasonous America Hating Klan Shitbag Retardican.

This is false, you Lying Klan Fuckface. REPUBLICANS insisted on the timer and Trump promised to veto unless the timer was in the law. This is very clear from the record, just as clear as the fact that every one of you America-Hating Retarded Repukelikan Klan Shitbags is incapable of honesty.

The Pro-Lie Nazi Republicans are incapable of being honest. It's that simple. Every one of them is a disgusting, inhuman malignant sociopath.

If they want to win, the people need to see and experience the true impact of the laws passed by the Republicans.

That has been happening. More importantly, people need to see that Democrats are willing to stand up and fight rather than just rolling over for every nasty thing the Republicans are doing.

The Democrats are just terrible at strategy. Really, really bad.

In the sense that the elder Democratic Party leadership kept trying to play by the rules while the Republicans proved they are dishonest sociopathic fucks incapable of fair and honest behavior, you are correct. What we are seeing right now is that the younger Democratic leadership are taking charge and not playing along with Republican dishonesty any more. And again, part of the Democratic Party regaining support is proving by action that they are willing to fight.

Add to that, government shutdowns are just stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid. The laws have already been passed, and now we just have to write the check to pay for what was already done. And trying to use it as a tool to force Republicans - many of whom would be happy if the government were shutdown forever - to negotiate? Not going to work.

Democrats negotiated and the party consensus is that Schumer "caved" last March during the prior budget negotiations. And what happened right after March? Republicans promptly RENEGED ON THE AGREEMENTS anyways, first canceling many promised policy votes and then using "rescission" to remove approved funding from various programs. The Republicans proved that they cannot be trusted.

So now the Democrats are actually fighting. And they're making it clear that this time, they're not just going to cave. And the proof that it's actually working? Look at Tuesday's election results.

EVERY open governor's race went Democrat, and not only that, all three beat the polling predictions by a pretty big margin.

California voted to redistrict and say "Fuck Texas" by an almost 2/3 majority.

Pennsylvania retained all 3 Democratic supreme court members by double-digit margins.

Dear Retarded MAGA Fuckwit and Likely Pedophile:

Why aren't the victims naming the people who victimized them? Because they are scared for their safety since many of the offenders are in powerful positions, like Treasonous Pedophilic Sack of Criminal Shit Donald Judas Trump.

Oh, and BTW, was Epstein accused of pedophilia? The official charges were: sex trafficking of minors and conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of minors. Read that again and again until you understand it, you Dishonest Fucking Lying Pedophile.

You're talking facts to a MAGA garbage-cultist. He'll just run around making his false claims again and pretending that nobody responded to him. It's what those inbred fucking white-supremacist klan retards do.

It needs just one. This is why Ku Klux Klan Member Mike Johnson is holding the House out of session and refusing to seat Adelita Grijalva (for over 40 days now!) despite her election being fully certified. She will be signature #218.

Keep in mind that when there were GOP members available (Jimmy Patronis and Randy Fine) after special elections he RUSHED to get them sworn in even before the full vote counting had finished.

Klan Member Mike Johnson needs to be removed from office and prosecuted for all of his corruption.

It goes Way beyond parasocial into the realm of madness.

GOP/"MAGA" is a cult. A white-supremacist, bigoted, horrific, dangerous cult.

They think that if they just idolize their "glorious leader" hard enough, somehow all their misogynistic, racist, bigoted wishes will come true. Remember what they were saying the last time Trump and his America-hating GOP flunkies shut the government down: "He's not hurting the people he's supposed to be hurting."

They literally voted for him in hopes of harming others. Every member of the dangerous MAGA cult is a malevolent sociopath.

Oh man - Green Acres. What an experiment in surrealism. That show never got the credit it deserved. And Twilight Zone does get credit, fortunately. One of my favorites, was the one with Bill Shatner as a nervous guy who was on a plane, and kept seeing gremlins. I was just a little kid the first time I saw that one, and when he pulled back the curtain and the Gremlin was looking at him right outside teh window, I darn near pissed myself.

Or "Two" with Charles Bronson and Elizabeth Montgomery.

Has she given you one of the TikTok "tests" yet? Like the "Ignore your Husband for a month" or "fake breakup in public" tests? Be careful.

Get outa my head! Damn, I could have written your post. Love Fall of civilizations. Love the history of the earth shows. Sabina Hossenfelder's channel. Even some oddball stuff, like I Do Cars, and Uncle Tony's Garage. Or Jennings Motor Sports, a pseudo good old boy and his bringing long dead cars back to life.

So let's contrast that with television offerings. Never ending crime shows, Shows about a woman banging several men, then picks one. Real Housewives of fill in the blank. Sassy women of African descent fighting with each other. One Judge Judy type show after another, people taking off their clothes to run around in the woods, but with their naughty parts fuzzed out. I mean really, when the best thing is probably the Hallmark channel?

And the drugs. I have terrible concerns about the wholesale drugging of women with anti-depressants and now actual anti-psychotics. Hit 50, go to the doctors and they push that shit on you.

Wife puts TV on to have some sound, so I get most of my data from commercials. She surfs Youtube on her tablet. Hooked on body cam videos of police pulling over drunk women, and old movies.

Password Monster rates that as a weak password.

But hoooolld on a second. TIL there are sites where you can just type your password into!?!?

Jeebuz K. Ryste on a trampoline. We're lost, we're so lost.

For that, you have to assume that the people who voted for Trump wanted exactly what Trump brought us. They didn't. And it was pretty historic that a terrible candidate and person such as Trump managed to win over what should have been a slam dunk. Blue wave.

You do understand that a large subset of people vote against a candidate, don't you? And those people contributed to the eroding demographics once solidly Democrat. Elections are almost always close. so demographic erosion is a bad thing. And some Democrat positions, as one example abandoning the working class telling the Teamsters president directly that the Democrats were going to win with or without them - surely didn't resonate, especially when the working class was once a given to vote Democrat.

You don't like what I have to say, too bad. I've made a number of posts of an introspective analysis. I'm a troubleshooter by nature and employment. You might disagree, but ....

Your reply is Blah blah blah. And yes, Virginia, sometimes we can take a big portion of the blame for our failures. Simply blaming the "enemy" and maintaining your own innocence can lead to a repeating pattern of failure.