Death threats in Dallas

[MotorCityRadioFreak]

The lives of Mamdani, El-Sayed, and Talarico were threatened last night. This is not conspiracy and hyperbole. This is the real McCoy.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/maga-crow ... dem-stars/

[Matt]

The lives of Mamdani, El-Sayed, and Talarico were threatened last night. This is not conspiracy and hyperbole. This is the real McCoy.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/maga-crow ... dem-stars/

No, it's not.

[MotorCityRadioFreak]

The lives of Mamdani, El-Sayed, and Talarico were threatened last night. This is not conspiracy and hyperbole. This is the real McCoy.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/maga-crow ... dem-stars/

No, it's not.

Are you challenging the fact that someone in the crowd did not yell out the words "He should be shot!"? Did you read the article or did you rejoin your former buddies in Dallas last night?

[Matt]

The lives of Mamdani, El-Sayed, and Talarico were threatened last night. This is not conspiracy and hyperbole. This is the real McCoy.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/maga-crow ... dem-stars/

No, it's not.

Are you challenging the fact that someone in the crowd did not yell out the words "He should be shot!"? Did you read the article or did you rejoin your former buddies in Dallas last night?

I'm not equating some half-witted morons saying "he should be shot" with an actual threat.

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The lives of Mamdani, El-Sayed, and Talarico were threatened last night. This is not conspiracy and hyperbole. This is the real McCoy.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/maga-crow ... dem-stars/

No, it's not.

Are you challenging the fact that someone in the crowd did not yell out the words "He should be shot!"? Did you read the article or did you rejoin your former buddies in Dallas last night?

I'm not equating some half-witted morons saying "he should be shot" with an actual threat.

Wisely so.

[MotorCityRadioFreak]

You all aren’t mad enough.

[Motown322]

Nothing is going to happen. Nothing fucking matters anymore. You can get as mad as you want about this ridiculous shit but nothing will happen. You think fucking spineless Ted Cruz is going to denounce it? You think fucking Mike Johnson is going to find a pair of balls in his pants that belong to him?

The zone is flooded. People can get as mad as they want. They can take mental notes. Write shit down on a legal pad. Yelling about it online doesn't do shit unfortunately. Voting the motherfuckers out in November and then in 2028 is the only exit ramp off of this crazy fucking ride.

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Nothing is going to happen. Nothing fucking matters anymore. You can get as mad as you want about this ridiculous shit but nothing will happen. You think fucking spineless Ted Cruz is going to denounce it? You think fucking Mike Johnson is going to find a pair of balls in his pants that belong to him?

The zone is flooded. People can get as mad as they want. They can take mental notes. Write shit down on a legal pad. Yelling about it online doesn't do shit unfortunately. Voting the motherfuckers out in November and then in 2028 is the only exit ramp off of this crazy fucking ride.

+100… and the way things are going they are gonna be blown away in places you wouldn’t guess.

[MotorCityRadioFreak]

Voting may not work if Mike Dick Johnson refuses to seat the new Senators and Congressional members.

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Voting may not work if Mike Dick Johnson refuses to seat the new Senators and Congressional members.

That doesn’t work that way and here’s why.

D.P. in Oakland, CA, asks: What is the mechanism by which Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) could refuse to seat Democrats next January? Would it be solely his decision, or would it require a vote by the outgoing Congress?

(Z) answers: I cannot emphasize this strongly enough: This is a non-viable maneuver.

To start with, once a Congressional term ends, there are no duly serving members of the House, and the decisions of the outgoing Congress are not binding on the incoming Congress. The first thing that happens, at the start of a new term, is that the House elects a Speaker. The second thing that happens is that the Secretary of the House swears in the Speaker. And the third thing that happens is that the Speaker swears in the other 434 House members (and the three delegates) en masse. It is not likely that the Republicans will hold the majority in January, or that Johnson will be re-elected as Speaker. So, he's not likely to be in a position to try to pull this stunt. And even if he somehow is in that position, there is no way to swear in only the Republicans, since again, the ceremony is a group event.

The stunt won't work in the Senate, either. In the case of the upper chamber, if there's no swearing-in ceremony, then there would be roughly 65 duly-serving members of the Senate. But since there are 22 Republican seats up, as compared to 13 Democratic seats, that would mean a Democratic majority. And the Democrats would promptly elect a majority leader, and that leader would seat the 35 un-sworn-in senators.

On top of this, if Republicans engage in shenanigans to keep Democrats from being seated, then the Constitution would be in abeyance. Every single thing the pseudo-Congress tried to do would result in lawsuits, arguing (entirely correctly) that action [X] is not legal because the duly-elected Congress did not approve it.

So you can drop your anxiety one notch. It’s going to be ok.

[bmw]

So you can drop your anxiety one notch. It’s going to be ok.

Then we better not talk about the AI existential crisis.

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So you can drop your anxiety one notch. It’s going to be ok.

Then we better not talk about the AI existential crisis.

I only said one notch… many notches to go.