I’m not sure why Katie Porter is staying in the Senate race in California any more. The DNC has declared that the nominee WILL be Adam Schiff. (Apparently, Adam’s check cleared first.) I don’t really have anything against Schiff. I just prefer Porter. But what the voters may or may not want is never too bothersome to either of the parties. Schiff is the guy.

As nearly as I can tell, that decision was made when Katie pointed out that Adam takes PAC money. (She doesn’t.) The DNC thought that was a very unfair characterization. It’s accurate. It’s just very unfair of her to mention it and the moment Katie highlighted the PAC money, the Dems made their choice (notably, to protect PAC money) and brought out their support arsenal. For example, Barbara Boxer had said she was going to stay out of it and let the voters decide. Then Katie mentioned the PAC money and Boxer publicly endorsed Schiff.

The rhetoric of America is that we’re a democracy and we get to vote for the candidate of our choice. The reality of America is that we get to choose between the candidates the parties choose. That’s different, and it sucks…

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Here’s a weird thing. A couple of years ago, the Roberts Supremely Kangaroo Court ruled to overturn using race as a consideration in admissions to the University of North Carolina and the infamous diploma mill, Harvard.

But on Friday, Feb 2, that same court ruled that West Point can STILL use race as a factor when choosing it’s students. The court spewed some blather, of course. They said the case before them was underdeveloped so they were going to leave the question alone, leaving race in admissions in place.

But if some colleges can not use race as a deciding factor, why can the military colleges? ARE they ensuring diversity that matches the rank and file and/or the country? Or are they ensuring that mostly white men stay in charge of the military, with what seems like the blessing of the most corrupt high court? Like I said, weird.

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Congress – well, the Senate, really – in a rare moment of consensus, negotiated a bipartisan border bill. After years of screaming about the border from MAGAGOPCORP, Dems and cons, alike, were finally getting to the point of doing something about it.

The cons, of course, are ecstatic. They’ve wanted this for a long time and now? After all these years and all those tears and spreading all those fears? FINALLY! A bill is coming together. So the celebration started and they… wait, what? What do you mean, “No?” ”But after all that?” ”But we’re trying to…”

Okay, never mind. It turns out, MAGA doesn’t really care about the border. They care about having the border issue. Donny can’t run on the economy. The economy is ticking along just fine, thank you very much. He can keep screaming “Drill, baby drill!” but the US is currently putting out record amounts of oil and gas. (Cons think prices are high because of low inventory. It’s actually pure greed, but cons don’t want to understand things. They just want to bitch about things.)

So, when a border deal was nearly reached, Donny crapped his panties. What does he run on then? How well he’s stalling in all of his criminal trials? Actually, he might. One would think he would like to keep a lid on all of that but he talks of very little else, as far as I can see. So, he ordered his toadies on Congress to scuttle the deal and it looks like that’s their plan. Even if a more rational Senate does go through with it, the House will kill it in the name of MAGA.

Conservative opposition to the border bill will certainly please their lord and master, Donny. It seems, though, as if it might throw a wrench into their show plans to impeach Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas for his “failures” at the border.

I call it a show because the cons don’t really have a case. They just want to demonstrate that they can CREATE a false impeachment, just like they nullified the genuine and necessary impeachment of their beloved Donny. They’ll introduce the articles. If it gets that far, this whole thing will die in the Senate.
“Secretary Mayorkas, why didn’t you secure the border?”
“Um, because the loudmouth cons killed the bipartisan Senate border bill.”
“Yeah, not guilty. Get back to work.”

I know that humanity is very good at holding two conflicting ideas at the same time but “fix the border but for the gods sake don’t fix the border?” What a mind fu–er, how confusing! They’ve kind of taken away their candidate’s best campaign issue. Not among MAGA, of course, but for all their blather, they’re going to need far more than MAGA in the general and everyone BUT MAGA knows the border deal was killed BY MAGA…