MackMarkstein

People in KC, Mo. were told to turn their thermostats down to 65 F and that if that doesn’t do enough to reserve the dwindling supply, I guess of fuel for power plants, there could be rolling blackouts of half an hour at a time.
When I heard about rolling blackouts first hand from a Texan this morning, in their state they were told it was because…[Read more]

I envisioned that headline, “Pelosi announces 9/11-style commission” in a very cynical moment as something that’s possible, and would be par for the course.
But now it’s reality!
Just one time they should ask the taxpayers before “announcing.”
Shows you how out of it Pelosi is, but she’s been proving that via almost everything, including the…[Read more]

I think that’s more of a motivating factor among Rethugs than a reality, as I’d expect Drumpf’s steroids and probably meth plus anger plus not good nutrition will catch up with him. As for Drumpf dynasty, maybe a faction of R.’s including patriotic Beavises and Buttheads will continue to think Donald Drumpf was cheated out of a landslide and…[Read more]

This seems like a good *start* of an investigation, of any linkage between Trump Himself, inner circle of loonies, etc. to the organized activity of Jan. 6. But the Dems seem not ready to offer that in an impeachment trial.
Connections could include: To maybe Donald’s favorite underworld lieutenant, Stone (who was pardoned on Dec. 23). Maybe…[Read more]

Haven’t been listening to that much of the impeachment trial, but one alleged dot to be connected is that those Oath Keepers said they were waiting for Trump to say go, regarding their perceived mission.
It’s upsetting that murderers and would-be murderers are often delusional and it’s also upsetting that these people had military training and…[Read more]

I have researched and concluded that in fact Pearl Bailey never worked at the mill.

If that new buzzword comes from The Government or the MSM (which is basically the Government), are they trying not to say “means testing?” If that’s the case, I don’t blame them for trying not to say “means testing”, since the Public has probably smartened up a bit during the last few decades about the evil behind that phrase. In general it’s…[Read more]

And even with Watergate, c’mon man! Lots of spooks with agendas to get Nixon out. Not sure why but he did seem set up. But we (the hippies, etc.) wanted him out too.
With Im-orangement II: We can hope there is a discovery process that reveals something, anything truthful at all, about how the Capitol breach was planned and, on the other end…[Read more]

I didn’t vote for that CarPol Vichy Dem (career politician).
But many of these discussion threads start out with news stories noting how Biden’s actual actions on any of his given first-100-day initiatives, is much less than meets the eye. It certainly seems to be a theme. Efforts in the right direction, which are more like the appearance of…[Read more]

Haven’t read much about this proposal yet, but it seems to pull out some of the scammery in the CARES act, which is the kind of thing Dems *should* be doing just about now, Dems who are not Uniparty Oligawk servants.
Next, reverse the big Trump tax scam of his first year or so, tax reduction for everyone! except really ultimately only for the…[Read more]

From what I can tell, part of the unique nature of these current alt-right militia groups that are capable of actual violence is: First you notice they deal in nonsensical words and phrases, Hawaiian shirts, etc. Dangerous overall. First you think harmless Trumpster “patriots.” That is probably part of what shocked people on 1/06: That they…[Read more]

We the People know the Republicans have abused Senate rules to an extreme degree, including prominently The Filibuster which McConnell proved could be used to thwart everything for the people and hurtful to the 1%. McConnell should be impeached for that, should have been a long time ago. And his “re-election” in Kentucky, by the way, reeked of…[Read more]

The Squad was nowhere in the names mentioned of course. Rep. Jayapal did introduce a different “but related” bill in 2019 to eliminate the absurd concept of corporate personhood. Not to harp on The Squad (which the PTB probably want us to do) but Rep. J. is said to be a mentor of them. And I wish Rep. J. a complete recovery since she had Covid…[Read more]

Part of it was.
The part that everyone remembers, probably because of loud Rethug objections that this was back-room dead-of-night stuff affecting the lives of Americans, etc.:

“The Democrats played by the rules in 2010 in overcoming a filibuster to first pass the ACA, and then using the reconciliation process to pass a second bill making…[Read more]

What was the maneuver that Nancy used when the ACA first passed? It wasn’t gonna get a majority, probably in the Senate, otherwise. This was 2009 I believe.
I believe it was reconciliation. It involved a budgetary meeting between the House and Senate.
If the Dems claim that’s out of the question now, that’s just the latest foul-smelling decision…[Read more]

Back during times I still watched MSNBC (pre-2016), one of the rare actually valuable Maddow segments had some statistics and graphs showing how often the filibuster had been used pre-Mitch and during the Time of Mitch. It was impressive; It did skyrocket during Mitch’s years of Obama-blocking.