The Republican Senate can vote by a simple majority to eliminate the filibuster; doing so would allow it to proceed to reopen the government.
There is always a tomorrow, and if the MAGs are not doing that, it is because they are afraid of the tomorrows, when the Democrats gain control of the government. It could be next year, four years, or longer, but those days will come.
I hope that whoever does become president remembers what the MAGA/Trump did with its selective providing of services to Democratic controlled areas.
Our country at this point is not much different from Putin’s Russia, where the oligarchy controls the government and reaps billions while the rest of Russia suffers. The same thing is happening here in our country. Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta (Facebook) are letting tens of thousands of employees go as they start using Bots to replace humans. What jobs will remain for people to do? Build multi-million-dollar mansions for our oligarchs? Build five hundred-foot yachts for our Bezos? It would not surprise me if they took us back to the feudal days, when they were lords and kings who owned everything, and the peasants worked for them or starved.
I asked AI for the difference between the Russian oligarchs and the Jeff Bezos of this country. Below is how it replied.
A core distinction between Russian oligarchs and American billionaires like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk lies in the source and nature of their fortunes, as well as their relationship with the state. While both groups wield immense wealth and influence, Russian oligarchs are deeply entwined with state-sanctioned corruption, whereas Bezos and Musk built their fortunes in the tech industry within a comparatively more open, market-driven system
One only has to read what is happening to see that our oligarchs are doing the same thing as they shower Trump with hundreds of millions of dollars to gain his favor.
When the Democrats do gain control, the first order of business should be removing the democracy hating Supreme Court Justices.
