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This internal Dem sniping and fighting is insidious. This was a tough call. They are only going to get tougher. There are very good arguments on both sides. We need to get a grip! Trump is our enemy. His devoted acolytes are the enemy. Everyone else is a potential and essential ally. You can’t build a vital coalition and then be like Trump and try to crush people you tactically differ with. Stop this nonsense, please, and get back to fighting Trump!

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Leaders would have been exhibiting leadership and strategy for months already and would have been able and willing to make the case, rather than constantly be weak and useless and then just turn on a dime and expect us to follow them, despite never having shown us any reason to believe they know what they are doing.

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I get the sentiment, but I don’t think there’s anything Chuck Schumer could do to save us. What we are experiencing is a bit like an alien invasion. The film, War of the Worlds comes to mind where the world is overmatched and infernal invaders are finally subdued because they were not vaccinated against earthly pathogens and viruses. Or the scene in Independence Day where the US launches its nuclear-armed warplanes to take down one of the alien vessels and finds that the aliens have a shield that protects that makes them invincible — until a VERY unorthodox young pilot and confused, distraught nerd accidentally team-up to find a path to salvation.

We need to be thinking about tactics and strategies that leverage‘natural defenses’ and innate vulnerabilities. Conventional politicians fighting over CRs won’t cut it. The Republicans have us on our heels because they are breaking all conventions. Well, we need to break some too, including the ones where you play by rules that have been usurped by a depraved Queens-bred and Kings idolizing conman.

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