I get your worries, but “we go high” is how we ended up with fascism, and doing it again is how we kill democracy.

I’m sure she is will play fairly in the campaign.

From your lips to God’s ears.

Wish I had your optimism. It takes work to pull the fucking grubby mitts of authoritarians out of the machine, it doesn’t always happen automatically.

Yup, and there’s some other conditions that would benefit from an immediate recall, too. It’s insane that the consequence for failing to pass a budget or raise the debt ceiling is that our financial system is damaged or collapses. Failure to get it done in a timely manner should result in an automatic extension or raise paired with snap elections on all members involved.

Or hell, even just allow recall petitions at the federal level. Better to have a revolving door than a legislature that’s tempted to see what touching the third rail is like.

I’m honestly more surprised there’s more blood to squeeze from that stone, Texas is already comically disconnected electorally from the people that live there

I mean, the article still makes sense, just like all the articles about Bolsonaro revoking protections for the Amazon make sense, it cumulatively affects everyone, even if you’re on the other side of the planet

Agreed. There’s lots of shit in this bill that is awful and will take decades of work to undo, but this is one of those terrible things that can’t be undone. Once the genie is out of the bottle, that’s it, goodbye public lands.