Cannot? Will not.

 

When you have no facts to contradict a woman, attack her intelligence, her appearance or both.

On Monday some New Yorkers gathered in Union Square, probably not to celebrate the end of congestion pricing.

Meanwhile in front of the Federal Building in Seattle, these folks just happened to bring signs.

If anything is to be done, we have to do it.  The Democrats have shown themselves to be as demoralized as the French army in 1940.  Rep. Al Green promised articles of impeachment but has yet to deliver.  Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, putative leader of House Democrats, was in Brooklyn Tuesday helping to open the Ida G. Israel Community Health Center.  Senator Brian Schatz has so far failed to block even the appointment of dull-eyed thug K$H Patel to run the FBI.  Rep. Robert Garcia's identification of President Musk as "a dick" was funny for one day.  When you Google Chuck Schumer the first "People also ask" question is "How is Chuck Schumer still in office?"  I don't know and neither does Google, but I know the Congressional Dems are MIA with a few thrilling exceptions like AOC and Jasmine Crockett.  The Opposition are chirping like newly hatched birds when they should be roaring like lions.

I like this suggestion from sportswriter Dave Zirin:  "To the feckless Democratic consultants, here's a free one:  buy a billboard highlighting Musk cutting the veterans suicide hotline program and have it placed across the street from Pete Hegseth's favorite bar."  His article in The Nation is primo:  "It's not that they cannot -- they will not."  "Maybe if Democratic leaders pretended Elon Musk was a 22-year-old Palestinian from Dearborn, Michigan, they'd show more fight."  "The time for niceties, like abiding genocide-enthusiast John Fetterman's efforts to become the new Manchin instead of openly planning to primary him, is over."  Free-yow!  I could quote all day.

We have to do this ourselves.  The so-called liberal media won't -- the New York Times said during the campaign that it's not their job to preserve democracy, they're just neutral bystanders, please don't sue us or bar us from the White House press room or in any way impede our ability to make money.  Look, here's Peter Baker explaining why Canada is not the 51st state MAGA wants, never mind what 40 million Canadians want.  It's called accepting the premise, no matter how demented.  The Washington Post, the LA Times, spines like wet newspaper, no, toilet paper.  

For a start, here is what we have to do.

The good people of New York and Seattle and many other places are on it.  If flashmobs are not your style, not buying stuff is easy.  Send a message.  Shut it down.  The pussy-hat demos of 2017 were more energized, and that was nothing like as bad as the present moment.  I know, the avalanche of bad news is exhausting and demoralizing, but it's not going to stop unless we stop it.  

More elected cowards:

Governor Kathy Hochul..."will not exercise her authority to remove Mayor Eric Adams from office at this time, but will seek to impose strict new guardrails on his administration."  I am sick of guardrails.  General Kelly's guardrails did a lot of good, didn't they?  Like telling children to get under their desks in the event of a nuclear attack.  

Derrick Van Orden, drunken Wisconsin Congressman, introduced articles of impeachment against Judge Paul Engelmeyer because he did his job, ordering the Muskrats out of the Treasury Department's automatic payment system.  See, Mr. Green, it's not hard, impeach Trump for shitting at his job.

I used to look forward to writing this every day.  Now it feels like an endless unpaid job.  Maybe I just need to find other things to write about.  But when the world is on fire it feels absurd to point out how the ashes drift down like snow.  Back to work tomorrow.