Of all the restrictive voting laws that have been proposed or passed how is this one justified:

Making passing out water or food to people waiting in long and possibly sweltering lines a crime? How is that supposed to maintain so called Election Integrity? It really comes across as petty and mean spirited, meant to make folks that dare exercise their rights despite the will of their 'lord' suffer for it.

What figles- err. rational reasonable and totes not bigoted explanation was put forth for it?

Trump asked aides drafted a proclamation in case he invoked the Insurrection Act

It appears the Deplorables are still touchy, their White Rage ready to blow at a moment's notice.

Arthur Micheae Eric Dyson, during an interview on MSNBC made a quip or perhaps slip on the tongue referring "Magaits" instead of MAGAs. You can imagine the flood of death threats and N bombs that were slung his way immediately. I wonder if good old Tucker will have something to say

Child Tax Credit: What about low income families that have no access to the Internet?

How would they apply?

Is anyone else getting sick of hearing the word bipartisan?

I know I am. It seems like such a fanciful ideal right now. I mean the Dem Party is deal with opposition that has openly said they're not going to operate in good faith. Their leader has made it overtly clear they're not going to agree to anything.

Operating fairly and honorably with that kind of opponent doesn't seem noble and up right to me, it seems foolish. But some seem ready to even toss democracy into the trash in search of this dream of working hand in hand with a group who's sole interest is power and has demonstrated over and over that they'll toss out 'bipartisanship' in an instant when it suits them, even bypassing Sinema, Manchin and others' precious filibuster at the drop of a hat to ram what want through and will do it again when they are in power.

And they will be back in power, perhaps even sooner than we think with such a slim majority in the Senate. Its not being paranoid and overly combative, its something they've done and recently. But the Democratic Party always seems to want to play by rules and norms that are being held by both sides which puts them at such a disadvantage that its painful to watch. Its not even all the Senate democrats but with such narrow number they need to pull together more than ever, at the very least on some critical matters.

I know the party doesn't have a magic wand or something they can wave and fix everything, but this just seems like tripping themselves up in the (to me) false belief its doing the right thing or being noble thing. And that's beyond frustrating or disappointing, its tragic.

Leave it to Beaver

Video footage of New York attempted murder shooting that involved to children

Just a question to those that have seen the footage of the attack. I just heard an MSNBC anchor describe the adult victim using the two children as a shield/cover. It didn't look that to me, but more that he was scrambling desperately trying to get away from the gunman. The little girl did look like she shielded her younger companion (little brother?) with her body though.

Did appear that the assumed target of the attack tried to use the kids a human shields?

Judge Rules for Florida on CDC Order Blocking Cruise Ships

Thoughts on the filibuster...

I can understand why some folks are attached to idea of it. Its gives the minority a tool, means to have a voice to forestall things being rammed through by the majority without debate or argument and getting whatever they want, in effect a 'tyranny' by the majority.

The implementation has become a parody of that, making it effectively the inverse of that, a tyranny of the minority instead. And an effortless one, an instant painless veto, the kind of ill considered and imbalanced rule that rules lawyers like McConnell adore and cling, following the letter of it while trashing the (arguable) spirit of it.

It seems like it really should have been fixed awhile ago but it is allot of potential influence to for either party to give up as the majority switches back and fourth (though its seems like Democratic Party is more helpless in the minority and not as powerful in the majority Possibly due to my lack of understanding. ).

Perhaps in these highly polarized times, it should be gotten rid of completely given how it can be abused and its dodgy (to say the least...) past. OTOH, I can understand the reluctance to an extent. I don't really care about how 'traditional' it is, but getting rid of it would leave the minority pretty trapped. And with fair odds that the GOP my take back the House and Senate in 2024 that opens up some dire possibility.

Being hyperbolic, imagine the filibuster is gone and the 2024 GOP creates something along the lines of "Voting Integrity" bill to make some of the changes states have enacted federal (if possible) or something similarly as rotten. But I guess at that point they could drop the filibuster themselves. And we know they would in a hot New York minute. So maybe worrying about that is a case of being over cautious, missing the cliff ahead because you are busy looking out for potholes. :-/

Did anyone hear what Tucker Carlson said in an interview last night?

I just heard it mentioned on TRMS. That black people have lower IQs and that explains why they make less and their general lack of worth as a people.