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Go ahead, Chuck baby, keep it up–you’ll see what a Blue Wave chimera means–

just the way your prediction about suburban voters replacing the blue collar voters the Dems abandoned worked out so well in 2016.

Alice Ollstein writes at Talking Points Memo:

“’All leverage is gone,’” a grim-faced Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) told reporters before the vote. ‘Back in September, we said we would have leverage on the budget and on the debt ceiling. Now, we’re giving it all up. Once you’ve lifted the caps, do you really believe anybody is going to take us seriously?’”

Nancy P. does not deserve a new pair of shoes. She refused to whip that budget bill like she had a pair–and we all know that when she wants to she can.

I ever saw was Tchernichova rehearsing Susan Jaffe in 1983 for thirty minutes exclusively in Giselle’s run across the back of the stage early in act two.

Posting this before I get sidetracked by political outrage.

Will supply more details later.

Have a Good Day!

I just got off the phone w/Sen. Schumer’s office, after telling them that if Chuck keeps capitulating to Trump and trying to cut deals with him, I along with millions of other Democrats are going to walk out of the party. If they think we have “nowhere to go,” they are in for a rude awakening.

At Common Dreams, Jake Johnson reports on “progressives working to unseat corporate Dems nationwide.

“Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a former organizer for Sen. Bernie Sanders’ 2016 presidential campaign who is taking on Rep. Joe Crowley (D-N.Y.), said in an interview with Politico.

“What this is about is that if we reelect the same Democratic Party that we had going into this mess, then we’re going to have the same exact result. In order for the country to move forward, the Democratic Party has to transform.”

The path of the GOP and the corporate Dems who enable them is unsustainable for American democracy and for the future of humanity.

Eastwood’s new movie is so simple it could be Quaker.  Boy stops terrorist on train.  That’s about it.  No background on the terrorist or his motivations; that would be moral equivalence not pure evil.  No connection to boy’s prior life and act of heroism.  Most shocking, no connection between act of heroism and heroism; act turns out to be blindly rushing an armed shooter whose gun happens to jam by happenstance.  As the Guardian puts it:  “The 15:17 To Paris Review — a truly dull tale of real-life derring-do.”  And yet this cartoon is bracing precisely because of its simplicity.  Eastwood to Hollywood:  Keep It Simple!

BTW can’t wait for Red Sparrow with J Law and Jeremy Irons, out March 1 — sex, gore and Putin (a featured character).

Well worth waking up for

A student of totalitarian societies I know doesn’t think so.

Yes, both of them disseminate vile defamation and propaganda.

But Tokyo did what she had to do to survive in a police state.

Kellyanne does what she does by her own free will because she wants money and exposure.

I was browsing in a wonderful mid-size independent bookstore upstate.

Great selection, except — virtually no books on the arts, let alone the performing arts.

It’s not SAD!, but it’s sad.

From People’s Artist:

“We all knew what our families had been through,” said the Kirov’s Sergei Vikulov. Born in 1938, he “grew up hearing about the Great Terror…How they would huddle together in fear in the apartment when they heard the Black Marias pull up during the night, praying together that the Secret Police wouldn’t come to their door. Praying they would go to somebody else’s door. Doors of their friends, their neighbors. Just please not them.”

And anyone who thinks that it stops here in Trumplandia with the undocumented immigrants is delusional.

As Sen. Blumenthal tweets:

“Refusal to release Democratic response to #NunesMemo – evidence of obstruction of justice by Donald Trump happening in real time.”

Now he claims that the gargantuan military budget is needed to begin rebuilding the U.S. military. A trillion-dollar-plus military needs rebuilding??!!

Are any Dems going to challenge this hogwash?

Meanwhile, in the lower chamber, Ryan all but out-lies McConnell, claiming that it’s not the military budget but instead “entitlements” that are busting the budget.