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Don’t be fooled by all these subpoenas from the House select committee to investigate the 6 January 2021 terrorist attack on the Capitol. There are only two things to come from these subpoenas: Empty seats and assertions of the Fifth Amendment. In other words, silence! Do not think for a second any significant, germane witness is going to show up to testify. Not! Going! To! Happen! Sure, you might have a few low-level worthless errand-boys or errand-girls testify about acquiring some stupid permit to protest or organizing buses for travel, but people like Mark Meadows, Dan Scavino, Steve Bannon, Kash Patel are never going to testify, and what will dumbass Democrats do about it? Nothing. Not a f***ing thing as usual and predictably. Traitor trump and all his henchmen will get away with it. And don’t believe all these MSM pundits and commentators falling all over themselves to insist that House Democrats could hold these witnesses in contempt of Congress or engage other maneuvers to force testimony. That is never going to happen and even if the House referred criminal contempt charges to the DOJ, then weak AG Garland will not pursue those charges because — again — dumbass Democrats are weak. When is the last time someone was charged for contempt of Congress where there were meaningful consequences — jail or fine? Nearly forty years ago. So, nothing is going to happen because this is a consequence-free country. Traitors will continue to treason. RepubliKKKlans will continue to destroy America. And dumbass Democrats will continue to do nothing, except fail to govern. The only thing this select committee is going to prove is just how weak and incompetent Democrats are to protect America’s democracy and hold traitors accountable. This is only going to embarrass dumbass Democrats. Mark my words. Can’t wait for RepubliKKKlans to return to power to wage war on the rest of us as Democrats roll out the red carpet. Welcome to stupid America. I expected nothing less from a country of morons.

Democrats are impossibly stupid, and America is f***ed as a consequence. F***! Just another day that I have to wake up hating Democrats even more than usual because every day there is yet another obvious example of a completely weak and feckless party that is still stuck on trying to govern like it’s the 1990s. F*** me! Wake the f*** up, morons!

What is the latest mortification? AlterNet says it well, “When Joe Biden ran for president, he touted his history in the Senate and as vice president of making deals across the aisle and working with Republicans. He said that he would be able to productively cooperate with the GOP if he were elected — and that the fierce partisan divisions would cool. … But about eight months into the Biden presidency, this strategy isn’t paying dividends. Arguably, it’s been dramatically weakening the Democrats’ strategic position and backfiring on them. … But this is the reward Democrats get for trying to reach a bipartisan deal on police reform. They got no deal, wasted months of effort, and they gave their opponents an opportunity to paint them with a label they’ve desperately been trying to avoid. … And this was all entirely predictable. Scott himself was never a genuine, good-faith negotiator on criminal justice.”

Of course. Of course. Of course. There was never going to be a deal on police reform, and, of course, this was all entirely predictable. This was all just a RepubliKKKlan ploy to waste more time and more energy. Of course, these “negotiations” were always intended to crash and burn at the hands of RepubliKKKlans so they could blame dumbass Democrats and re-litigate “defund the police.” Of course, dumbass Democrats fell for it lock, stock, and barrel. Worse still is that idiot Biden expected something different from RepubliKKKlans. God-f***ing-damm*t! I’m starting to get really, really disgusted with Biden and his complete obliviousness to the threat that is traitor trump and the RepubliKKKlan Party. I’m getting sick of him talking as if there is some “normal” to which we are all going to return eventually. At this point, I genuinely have no idea what is more dangerous? Traitor trump’s shadow presidency and his daily attack on America’s democracy or Biden and his inability to understand the threat that traitor trump is inflicting by remaining out of prison. Whatever! I give up. Welcome to stupid America. Why bother anymore? It’s all stupid all the m*****f***ing time.

I am literally going to copy-paste the entire Salon article because he nailed it, and I will add one more thought: There is no other enlightened path forward. The darkness he sees is the end of America’s democracy. He basically summed up everything I’ve been arguing, except without calling America stupid, which is perhaps the only other missing factor in his analysis. He is right that dumbass Democrats are trapped in no small part because of their own doing and ridiculously grand notions of expecting politics to be fair and the electorate to “come around” which was never going to happen by wishing and hoping for it — and Democrats will have deserved every bit of it! So, they are boxed in and all RepubliKKKlans need do is bide their time for permanent rule when they steal the next, final election in America. Pay particular attention to the emphasized paragraph below. Oh, well! The country is lost and irredeemable at this point. Welcome to stupid America!

We've got a fair number of repentant former Republicans roaming loose on the political landscape these days. They like to tell us that the onetime Party of Lincoln must be thoroughly defeated and destroyed before it can be rebuilt as a respectable, mainstream center-right organization. That's an encouraging team-building exercise, I guess — if we set aside everything about observable reality and play an extended game of Let's Pretend We're Grownups, like a bunch of eight-year-olds trying on Mom and Dad's Clinton-era wardrobe.

Even looking past the question of whether the reconstructed GOP 2.0 these folks imagine would be remotely viable (as to which: ha!), we still have the question of who's going to defeat the exceptionally nasty current version of the Republican Party, and how. These GOP apostates, it's worth noting, were totally OK with cutting taxes for the rich and running up massive deficits on endless, pointless, destructive overseas wars. They find themselves deeply shocked, however, by the party's swerve into overt racism, know-nothingism and borderline fascism, elements of the Republican coalition they believed could be kept in the basement indefinitely.

This call to arms by ex-Reaganites is presumably meant to fire up Democrats, who have been told repeatedly over the past 30 years or more that America's changing demographics were certain to deliver them a permanent majority coalition someday very, very soon. In this less-than-inspiring vision of utopia, benevolent intersectional liberals would govern wisely and forever, while Republicans would be consigned to regional, resentful rump-party status until and unless they gradually became a lot more like Democrats.

As you may have noticed, this keeps on not happening, and at this point the "emerging Democratic majority" is starting to sound like old-time Soviet dogma about true communism being just over the horizon. Yes, Democrats have won the popular vote in seven of the last eight presidential elections — while managing to lose two of those anyway — but for a variety of reasons I don't need to rehearse here have found it impossible to hold or build congressional majorities, or to do much of anything with them when they have them.

More important than any of that, although absolutely related, is how Democrats have responded to the obvious Republican assault on democracy over the last couple of years, in the manner of a truckload of Brookings Institution scholars stuck in cold molasses, determined to consider all sides of the question fairly and not to let anyone accuse them of acting hastily. I'm not suggesting that Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer haven't expressed genuine alarm or said more or less the right things, because they have. But as you have perhaps observed, they haven't leveraged those words into action: They haven't ditched the filibuster or expanded the Supreme Court or passed any of the bills in front of them that are meant to fortify the right to vote, for the love of Jesus Christ.

This isn't a nice thing to say about a bunch of mostly sane and approximately reasonable people, but here's the truth: If you set out to design a left-center political party that was fated to surrender, little by little, to authoritarianism — because of circumstances beyond its control, because of internal indecision and ideological fuzziness, because it faced an entrenched and deranged opposition party, because of whatever — you could hardly do better than the current version of the Democratic Party. (Emphasis added.)

This raises the question of whether the Republicans are the only party that needs to be badly defeated in order to recover a sense of purpose. Don't get me wrong here: It would be far preferable if the Democrats could work out how to win power and then use it effectively. I'm not advocating voting against them out of some contrarian or puritanical impulse, and I'm not even dragging out the old Bernie vs. Hillary generational and ideological conflict for another go-round. (Of course that remains an important source of friction, but it's genuinely not the central issue right now.)

If the current mishmash that is the Democratic Party simply isn't up to the task, if it's imprisoned by its donors and trapped in an old political paradigm while facing the birth of a new one, if it can't summon up the energy or determination to act decisively on behalf of supposedly shared principles, then what the hell is the point? Maybe they're the party that needs to be torn down and rebuilt, especially since the other one is an entirely lost cause.

Consider 2021 — yeah, I know you don't want to, but we don't have much choice. After the election of Joe Biden and the improbable reverse parlay of winning both Senate seats in Georgia — almost entirely thanks to the chaos-agent intervention of Donald J. Trump — liberals and progressives and normies of all descriptions exhaled audibly. We were back to "normal"! The nightmare had passed! Maybe the long-awaited Democratic majority had arrived at last, if only in ass-backward and highly precarious fashion … except nope, nobody believed that for more than a few minutes, considering that the day after the special elections in Georgia was the sixth of January.

I'm not saying that Mitch McConnell wanted to lose the Senate majority (I bet he had some choice words about Trump in private), but no one has ever accused Mitch of not knowing how to play the angles. He quickly understood how to turn the ambiguous results of 2020 to his advantage, and they were undeniably ambiguous: Democrats breezed into that election expecting big wins across the board, but instead lost most of their House majority and fell short in several prominent Senate races, failing to gain seats in Maine, Montana and North Carolina.

While regular people celebrated a victory and the supposed end of the Trump era, Democratic leaders and insiders looked ahead to the 2022 midterms and began to whimper uncontrollably. McConnell could smell the fear, to put it bluntly, and rubbed his hands with Montgomery Burns-like glee. With a 50-50 Senate and Biden's entire legislative agenda hamstrung by the filibuster and the nonsensical or corrupt Ringwraith fantasies of Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema, he had the Democrats trapped. They knew it and he knew it.

In a display of ruthlessness and cynicism that's impressive even by his standards, McConnell will force all 50 Democratic senators to vote on a budget and on raising the federal debt ceiling, which in quasi-normal times (and even under Trump) was done by bipartisan agreement. This will either force them to crumple and capitulate to whatever it is he wants (short version: more goodies for rich folks) or will create an invented wedge issue Mitch believes he can use to win back both houses of Congress next year. Republicans will pretend to run on fiscal responsibility but will actually run on a bunch of culture-war bullshit and promises to rig all future elections and unquestioned loyalty to a decrepit and defeated leader they all privately think is nuts. I'm sure looking forward to that, aren't you?

If Democrats lose conclusively to those people, then they deserve it. That's a dark path, perhaps darker than any of us wants to contemplate. But I think there's no avoiding this date with destiny, for the Democrats or the Trumpers or our entire so-called democratic experiment. If you see another one, light the way.

From CNN, “The fight over raising the nation’s borrowing limit underscores a reality for Democrats as they are in the midst of their highest stakes moment for President Joe Biden’s sweeping legislative agenda: thrusting a potential default into the mix may have devastating consequences. … Moody’s estimates nearly 6 million jobs would be lost, the unemployment rate would spike back to nearly 9% and stock prices would plummet by one-third, wiping out about $15 trillion in household wealth. … Faith in the US debt — the linchpin of the global financial system — would be tarnished, perhaps irreversibly.” And they also report, “The House of Representatives voted to pass legislation on Tuesday to prevent a government shutdown at the end of the month and suspend the nation’s borrowing limit, setting up a showdown with Republicans who insist Democrats should act alone to stave off a looming debt crisis. The party line vote was 220-211 [of course]. The bill now faces an uphill battle in the Senate. By attaching the debt limit suspension to the must-pass funding bill, Democrats are essentially daring Republicans to vote no and spark a shutdown. It’s not yet clear what Democrats’ plan B would be if the effort to avert a shutdown and suspend the debt limit runs aground in the Senate, as it appears is on track to happen.”

What does all this mean? In short, RepubliKKKlans simply do not care if they destroy America’s full faith and credit and the economy. The past four years (but really longer) have made painstakingly manifest that RepubliKKKlans would rather see America in ruins if they believe it will give them a political advantage. And RepubliKKKlans are correct in their assessment because in America’s infinite stupidity, of course, voters would blame Democrats for trying and failing to avoid debt default more so than RepubliKKKlans, who are intentionally obstructing. Whatever! I give up with the stupid!

This is the same ole, same ole where people love the stupid political party as RepubliKKKlans continue to embrace traitor trump. They! Don’t! F***ing! Care! And, apparently, Americans don’t care either; obviously, Americans want and love the carnage because this is still a country of f***tards who now think traitor trump should be given a second chance. RepubliKKKlans are still the party favored to win the House next year and retain control of the majority of state legislatures. And ruinous governors like Abbott and DeSantis will keep getting reelected because that’s what these people want — it’s what people in states like Texas and Florida love — out of control COVID, anti-masks mandates, people freezing to death as the power grid fails statewide, elimination of constitutional rights, more voter restrictions, conceal and carry without a permit and training.

Sure, dumbass Democrats often and easily evince incompetence, but their intentions mean well in the doing, whereas RepubliKKKlans literally have no problem killing their own constituents and would rather see America’s economic collapse instead of helping Democrats fix the budget and debt crisis — a debt crisis, mind you, that entails money already spent under traitor trump’s administration. Never mind that Democrats have always helped RepubliKKKlans raise the debt limit in the past. Oh, no. Never mind that! Never mind, RepubliKKKlans love to spend money, too. Oh no. Never mind that! It’s always, and only the Democrats who are seen as the drunken unfunded spenders, although RepubliKKKlans spend without paying for it, and tax cuts are not a pay-for solution. No, no. RepubliKKKlans want the dysfunction, and they love the impending crisis, hoping it leads to carnage just as they loved the disastrous reality show that was the traitor trump presidency. Yet, RepubliKKKlans keep getting reelected because this is a m*****f***ing G.D. stupid country of the highest f***ing order. Welcome to stupid America, where morons keep electing the terrorist party. And no one cares! It never ends!