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Business, Economics, and Taxes: Eat Cereal for Dinner

Yeah good luck with that. There is not anyone with the clout to pull it off. The Corporate Dems will screw them.

Its a fun theory though.
 
Pack the Court? What world do you live in that the Dems would ever vote for that? Emil Bove is filling a spot that the Dems refused to confirm a Muslim for. Dems vote for Republican policies more than they do their own.

Unless you get 60 people that are well to the left of the majority of the Dem Party currently packing the Court is impossible and any pundit pretending it is even a .0001% possibility needs to go to rehab.
 
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How many circuits are there in the US? Thirteen? Biden was primed to make it Thirteen Supreme Court justices, one for each district, with a cap of nine (or even seven) on ruling decisions, all drawn from a hat randomly. Except for one member (of two or three) who would be the "captain" who are on *every* case.
 
Handyman said:
So then 51. Ending Cloture doesn't solve the problem there will always be a Joe Manchin or Sinema.
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"Always" is overbroad. IMO. It is doable and that was the argument.

I think pseudo-indepedent "false karass" coalition partners are a way forward. They allow the party to directly target the mutually-hostile parts of the non-fasc electorate, hiding the differences in public, and allowing party mechanisms to work through the politics in private. This is informed by Weber's analysis of the German parties in the 1910s.

The assumption is the fasc are able to exploit our differences to divide us and maintain enough power to gradually erode democratic instruments meant to keep them in check. Our self defense is to show unbreakable camaraderie and the common focus of defeating the fasc in nationwide forums, while appealing to particular constituencies with compelling and positive alternatives in localized forums. Ignore/deflect/divert any attention to contradictions that arise by always turning back the message on the anti-democratic threat, and overall incompetence and corruption, of the fasc.

To do it, we have to get over ourselves, and stop thinking we have all the answers and can impose them on our partners. We don't and can't and when we behave that way we open the door to the MAGAts.
 
Its not...there is always going to be Purple Dems either because of their district or who bought them off. And even if you are right and there is a Progressive takeover of the Party people will shift Right. I bet we could name plenty who have done it since the rise of MAGA.

But lets hypothesize it happens...they will run out of time before they can fix everything. This isnt the 1930s the Dems will get two years before the voters flip flop in the next midterms. And no Dem has the balls to do the work in a term or less.
 
Handyman said:
ESPN launches its own streaming service...for $30 a month.
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Given that ESPN, by itself, accounts for about $10 of a monthly cable bill, that's not too surprising since the streaming service can't be spread over the 50%+ of cable audiences that never watch ESPN but still pay for it.

Assume the entire ESPN stable of channels is somewhere in the $12-15/month range, and $30/month isn't wholly unreasonable. It's just the sticker shock of it no longer being hidden inside your monthly cable bill.
 
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