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POST 1166

At Last It’s Happening and We Know The Answer

I’ve been asking since the last election, as we suffered leadership insufficiency and steadily have been sorely pained by would-be political leaders who cannot lead anyone. The question is

Who Will Lead?

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Now I think we’ve seen the face of who will lead.

Cory Booker has always led with his insight, with his values and his heart and his 25 hour marathon speech in the Senate has sealed the deal to lead us. It’s not because he kicked out hateful segregationist Storm Thurmond as the longest filibusterer. That was symbolically good but was beside the point. It was his speaking with righteous passion and clarity about values – our values – that establish him as a guy to lead us back to being the United States of America.

We’ll see where this goes, but good things are happening beyond Booker’s filibuster and separate from the Wisconsin Supreme Court win and the halving of Trump margins in Florida. Now Mallory McMorrow, the fiery Michigan state senator, has announced her candidacy to be the next U.S. senator from Michigan. We’re starting to flex our muscles.

The National Declaration

We did a national demonstration yesterday to send a message to the awful guys. It was officially named “BACK OFF!“, but the energy of the crowd said, “BACK THE F*** OFF!“

There were over a million people in over 1400 demonstrations nationwide yesterday. Some say that we won’t have made any difference, but I have a short list for you that says otherwise.

1. 1. We made it clear for everyone to see that we are not alone. Millions of us have one another’s backs.
   2. We put a stake in the ground that we support those legislators and officials who stand for our democracy, our Constitution and our people. We let them know that we have their backs when they won’t stand for the awful and un-American things the Republicans are doing, that we have their six when they are brave.
   3. We told the world that we are not like Trump, Musk and their army of sycophants. They don’t speak for We The People and that we are rising up in righteous fury.

Here are just a few pics from the demonstration in little Tucson, AZ, where there were over 14,000 people lining the streets, carrying signs and chanting amidst the constant honking of the horns of cars passing by.

That’s a United States Marine holding the Distress flag. I talked with him and he told me that he’s in distress for our nation.

Best sign of the day

Just For Fun

From Andy Borowitz:

Americans Demand Breathalyzer Be Attached to Pete Hegseth’s Phone

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Washington (Borowitz) – Amid the outcry over the leaking of top-secret war plans, on Monday millions of Americans called for a breathalyzer to be attached to Peter Hegseth’s phone.

In emotional apology at the Pentagon, Hegseth said that someone in his position “should never drink and text, and so I am giving up texting.”

According to national security experts, a journalist was given access to highly sensitive war plans that are normally available only to people using a public bathroom at Mar-a-Lago.

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