Why does anyone think there are still chances left?

edit: to clarify, I mean there are no more chances to “halt the erosion of US democracy”–it done eroded already. We’re starting over now. The only thing we don’t know yet is whether the coming elections will be free and fair. If they are, we can start rebuilding with a new movement to replace the old failed parties. If not, other steps will wind up being taken, one way or another.

They can afford to lose one GOP vote and still get this sleazeball confirmed. (or 2 if Fetterman pulls a Fetterman). Or maybe it’s 2 they can lose, but either way:

Because Collins’ Senate seat is the most in jeopardy, she is the one chosen to be allowed to vote against him. It’s all planned in advance. If they couldn’t afford to lose her vote, she would definitely vote for him.

Murkowski is putting on a show of thinking about voting No (as usual), but you can be sure she’ll vote ultimately yes (as usual).

Likewise the 2 repubs who had been holding him up in committee, Cornyn and Tillis, were always going to vote for him. They just wanted to put on a little show to pretend like maybe, just maybe, they wouldn’t. Blanche’s “agreement” not to do the slush fund will only last about 5 minutes after his confirmation.

God I hate all this shit.

And remember when you learn emacs to also learn org-mode!

Sorry to interject with a different opinion but I think it would only be confusing for OP to take that advice about starting out with evil-mode, especially if they’ve never even used Vim before. Evil mode is fine for someone who has become used to Vim and wants to continue using its keybindings, but not for other emacs beginners.

IMO new users should learn emacs with its default keybindings, the way it was designed, to avoid confusion and get the most out of it and understand how it actually works. Then change any keybindings you don’t like to whatever you prefer. Then later if you want, experiment with things like modal editing by trying out Evil mode or meow or Xah flykeys, etc.

This makes absolutely no sense.

Note that this article doesn’t mention who the people they’re quoting voted for, or anything about their political views.

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“Or maybe that’s just hopium.”

Pure unadulturated hopium.

And just what is “exactly what they want”? No one seems to know. How would calling or not calling a special election affect the Republican’s agenda? There’s no way a Democrat would be elected. So how is it to Repub’s advantage to hide his condition until Aug 3?

TIL, thanks

What’s supposed to be represented in the upper right panel?

OK I think I get how to read this, once I understood the concept. Very nice work.

Maybe it would be a little clearer if the lines where boxes overlap were just slightly offset – it would help see and distinguish them. For example if the blue box was moved down by just a little more than the width of the red lines, instead of being directly on top of them. If that makes sense.

So? That’s got nothing to do with it. Red states commonly switch parties on governors but not senators. I’m in Kansas, which also has a Democratic governor. But it hasn’t had a Democratic senator since 1939. Cook Political Report rates the KY senate race as Solid R.

But others have mentioned the possibility that they’re afraid Massie could win, which does sound like a more likely possibility.

Hmm, now that’s an intriguing explanation.

Yes, definitely.

It seems to me from the Democrats’ point of view, that NOT having a special election is better for them, since right now, McConnell can’t vote so Repubs are down a senator and they have less chance of passing partisan legislation without him. The sooner there’s a special election, the sooner Repubs have another vote back for their side (in a special election he would definitely be replaced by a repub).

If the governor (a Dem) could appoint someone (he can’t according to a KY law), then I see how it would make sense for repubs to keep the illusion going that McConnell will return. But as it stands, I don’t see why covering up his condition is doing repubs any good, in terms of the magic Aug. 3rd date or a special election.

So my biggest concern is the possibility that McConnell really is going to recover and return to the Senate. That would be a damn shame. But he’s retiring after this the term anyway, so I dunno-- maybe all this cover-up is just so they can say he finished out his term.

He certainly checks the AntiChrist boxes, including how he’s fooled all the “christians” to believe he was sent by God. I don’t know if he’s specifically denied God but he did say he didn’t need to ask God for forgiveness because he hasn’t made any mistakes.

Re the 4 horsemen with Hegseth as War and Little Bobby Brainworm as Pestilence:

Musk is Famine, he shut down US Aid and millions have died and will die as a result. Not all from hunger and malnutrition, but disease as well (HIV, TB, malaria, etc). But little

I’d put Dump as Death since everything he and the other 3 horses do leads to death. He started the Wars, DOGE cuts, Huge Hideous Bill leading to loss of SNAP and healthcare, his ICE Gestapo and their concentration camps killing people, appointed THREE SCOTUS whose rulings have led to death (loss of reproductive care and deaths of many women) and giving him immunity to do all those things. etc etc etc and he even looks like Death itself.

Of course he is.