And President ELECT Trump is still winning the Popular Vote by a considerably great margin... :D

A 2-point margin is NOT a "considerable margin."

(D) 72,925,374 votes (48.1%)
(R) 75,936,362 votes (50.1%)

You lost that one due to your considerable lack of common sense.

He's already stated he doesn't.

With one faction holding a lock on all levers of power a filibuster-less Senate could arrange things so that they would have absolute power in perpetuity.

Are you saying that this huge policy flip flop for the country is a GOOD thing??

Further, what if the GOP, once they get rid of the filibuster, make such huge policy changes that they insure government dominance by the GOP for a thousand years?? That's what Democrats wanted to do..

The filibuster is a GOOD thing because it eliminates the tyranny of the majority..

It's a good thing regardless of who is in power and needs to be preserved..

Having said that, it would serve Democrats right to have the GOP eliminate the filibuster while the GOP was in power..

"THERE! Ya'all got what you wanted!! Are ya happy now??!!"
-GOP TO DEMOCRATS

That would require a whole re-alignment of the Democrat Party psyche to get to where Democrats actually CARED about something other than themselves and their power and their Trump/America hate..

That's not going to happen...

Democrats should be focused on party-building, and on recruiting candidates for everything from drain commission to state legislature, in every district and municipality where only Republicans have been on the ballot for those offices. If we put half the budget of a losing presidential campaign into pizza and flyers for monthly meetings of county party chapters, and had those people actually do stuff to reach out to their apolitical neighbors, we could have a situation where even Hillary Clinton or Martha Coakley could have a chance of winning.

I thought ya'all said that President Trump was going to "destroy democracy" and that 2024 was "the last election"!!???

Were ya'all just spewing campaign rhetoric and ya'all were just bullshitting Americans????

If President Trump is going to destroy democracy and there won't be any more elections, then why even bother talking about the 2028 election that YA'ALL claimed would never happen!!??

Hmmmmmm????

Do ya'all still want to do that?? Because we can do that if ya'all really still want to.. Hmmmmmm????

Ya'all Democrats wanted to pack the Supreme Court and add Justices to it..

Do ya'all still want to do this?? Because if ya'all do, I am CERTAIN that President Trump and the GOP Senate will be MORE THAN HAPPY to accommodate ya'all… :D

I seem to recall a while ago CW said:

The filibuster has been so shamelessly abused in the past two decades that is has outlived whatever usefulness it once had. I would say it is time to make such a change.

And then I replied...

When President Trump has a FIRM control of ALL levers of government and a clear and unequivocally MANDATE from the American people, we can re-visit the issue and see if you are STILL so gung-hop to get rid of the filibuster...

So, let's revisit the issues..

Do ya'all STILL want to pack the SCOTUS and get rid of the filibuster???

Or are you saying that it was NOTHING but a partisan trick that ONLY had the best interests of the Democrat Party at heart and to hell with the American people, eh??

So, which is it??

That more than anything else is what hurts the Democrats... They always had that smidgen of a fact that President Trump lost the Popular Vote..

Now the Democrats don't even have that to hold onto..

Democrats are lost in the wilderness and the breadcrumbs to find their way back are gone... :D

Forget the celebrities, for one thing, unless they show up to play some good LIVE music. I still can't believe that James Taylor got nixed!

Yep, that was a really boneheaded decision on Harris' part.. Cemented the DEMOCRATS THINK OF THEMSELVES AS THE ELITE concept in the eyes of everyday Americans..

And, forget the pols, too ... bring on more of the people! Not flashy and polished but real and heartfelt.

Just like President Trump did.. President Trump worked a shift at McDonalds!!! THAT was a campaign stroke of genius!!!

And Weigantians pooh-poohed it away, but it worked EXACTLY as intended.

:D

Hillary and Kamala are in a forever notorious club of two. And, I hope neither one of them shows up at the next Democratic convention. And that goes for their husbands, too. ;)

Yep... The Clintons, the Obamas and Harris need to just disappear, if the Democrat Party knows what's good for them. They have definitely over-stayed their welcome..

President ELECT Trump announced that billionaire Elon Musk and former GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy will lead the Department of Government Efficiency.

President ELECT Trump said that the pair will work together to "dismantle Government Bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure Federal Agencies."

"It will become, potentially, ‘The Manhattan Project’ of our time," the announcement on Tuesday evening said. "Republican politicians have dreamed about the objectives of ‘DOGE’ for a very long time."

We very well could see the beginnings of the "Democrat Nightmare" I wrote coming true!! :D

Next stop, MARS!!!! :D

Right off the bat, President ELECT Trump is showing us he learned his lessons from 2016. Not gonna give the criminally partisan Leftist Media time to denigrate his picks one by one..

Get them all done in a few days putting the Leftist Media in a tailspin.. :D

President ELECT Trump is getting shit done!!! :D

Even the biddies on THE VIEW are marveling how good some of President ELECT Trump's picks are..

It's going to be a hellasciously fun four years, watching President ELECT Trump run roughshod over Democrats.. :D

Hey, it's better than watching Donald Trump make cabinet picks, right?

OR... You could actually be commenting on the cabinet pics and congratulating President ELECT Trump on his great selections...

Hell, even the harpies on THE VIEW have said that President ELECT Trump is making some great picks...

But I understand why ya can't do that. PTDS and all..

Newsom picks very public fights with Republicans, and he will do so with an absolute frenzy once Trump takes office again. California will take the lead on suing the Trump administration in court, in the same way that Texas is usually the first Republican state to sue to block Democratic policies they don't support. Newsom just called a special session of the California legislature just to pass some stuff to combat Trump with (such as an increase in the budget for the attorney general, to handle the increased caseload expected). This is a purely political stunt, designed (as with lots of things Newsom does) to get Newsom's name and face out there on a national level as the one leading the charge against Trump.

SO.... What you are saying is that when a REPUBLICAN Governor sues a DEMOCRAT POTUS that's treasonous...

But when a DEMOCRAT Governor sues a REPUBLICAN POTUS, that's good politics...

Hypocrisy. It's not a bug in Democrat programming. It's a feature..

:eyeroll:

The other Democratic governor who might have presidential aspirations is Tim Walz. He's built his name recognition already, thanks to being on Kamala Harris's ticket, but he shares the fact with Harris that their campaign lost. Could Walz do a better job on his own? Perhaps. Would he be interested in making the attempt? That is unknown for now, but having the name recognition would certainly make the path a lot easier for Walz.

Walz's negatives are part of the reason Harris lost..

Walz is a non-starter if he were to run for POTUS.. People will remember how JD Vance totally slaughtered Walz in the debate..

Take him out of the possibilities and stick a fork in him. He's done..

I am impressed. Truly I am..

Now let's keep this going.. :D

Liz, you have definitely been hanging around me too long.. :D

There would, presumably, be enough people and issues to fill the entire four days ... with lots of live music, of course, from a variety of performers of different genres and possibly even different political stripes, representing the entire country, state by state.

Now you've got the beginnings of what could be a real fun convention!

Because, there is a chance - negligible though it may be - that it will be unlike any other Dem convention, in every way possible.

IF the Democratic party understands enough about why their 2024 convention was a total waste of time. Actually, it was worse than that because it confirmed for a lot of voters that NOTHING would change with another Democratic administration and something definitely needed to change!

Heh.

Seriously, though, it's not too early at all. I just think the Dems will be pretty much wasting their time for the next four years on things that are less than meaningful. Just like they did during the four years leading up the 2024 presidential election.