We are going to win the whole shebang.. the Presidency, the House, the Senate.. and even some of the

[Peacetrain]

state houses.. Oh there are thirty percent or so of the Turnip faithful who will howl at the moon..but we are going to win this.

And you would think things would lighten up for us a little.

Get ready my friends.. the squirrels that will be left in the house and senate and state houses.. will try and block us 24 ways of Sunday in the Courts.

And what has the senate been doing non stop for three years.. stacking the decks in the courts.

It will be interesting.. and President Biden will get about a year to get things through.. and this time, we need to keep the pressure on our senate and house to back him up.. we need to solidify things in law and not just executive actions..

And we cannot do everything and guess what, we are going to have the mess of all time to clean up.

So with that in mind.. I hope we can do this:

Solidify Obamacare

Infrastructure with a jobs program to place people who will not get their jobs back

Roll back the tax cuts for the wealthy.

Roll back the attacks on the environment by this administration.

If we can get that through.. Joe can use the next three years to rebuild our International alliances.. because they will tie everything up in the courts..

And keep an eye on the judges they have put in. So many have been subpar.

[bullimiami]

1. Pack the Supreme Court with 4 more Justices. Hardball time.

[SunSeeker]

2. +1

[Peacetrain]

3. Your lips to Gods ears!!!

[badseedboy]

5. Yes!

[MoonRiver]

10. Yes!

[gristy]

15. Yes, absolutely. It just has to be done.

Can Biden get it done? I don't know. Where's Lyndon Johnson when you need him?

[kairos12]

38. This. Start with Goodwin Liu.

[LudwigPastorius]

39. Barack Obama would make a great SC Justice.

...as would Hillary Clinton.

[lastlib]

42. AND Merrick Garland!

Just to rub a pound of salt into the wound!

[tblue37]

60. Hillary would have some years ago, but we need younger justices, so they will have many

years on the SCOTUS.

Obama would be great, but I don't think he wants any further public office.

[machoneman]

41. Yes! Add 3-4 more SC Justices! We win!

[killaphill]

62. Just so you know...

There's no reason the Repugs can't do this now.

[Maraya1969]

64. I know I am cutting in but.........Get rid of the electoral college!

Don't know how to do that but I am sure it can only be done when Democrats have all the power.

[whopis01]

65. Constitutional Amendment is the only way. n/t

[Mike Niendorff]

68. 28 USC 1

Again: ** 28 USC 1 **

Going nuclear on this is long, long, LONG overdue.



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[badseedboy]

4. May all gods bless you!

I raised my kids with one guiding fact: Optimism is logical.
Lately, I've forgotten that mantra, and you recalled it for me.
Thank you.

[Walleye]

6. I agree with all of that. Concise, fundamentals.

[roamer65]

7. Not just roll back taxes in the wealthy, we are going to raise them.

We have many programs to fund, like a new UBI program.

Minimum 45 pct tax on anyone making $1M up to $10M.

Top tax rate of 60 pct on anyone making more than $10M.

No tax on anyone making less than poverty level.

I also want national luxury item tax. A sales tax on non-essential goods.

[moose65]

21. That's a good start

However, it’s long been my belief that the vastly wealthy really don’t give a shit about income tax rates. What they really care about is the capital gains tax and the estate tax, both of which need to be revised and raised. In the Clinton years, capital gains were taxed at the same rates as ordinary income, IIRC.

[erronis]

32. Agree. Income tax is for losers. How about VAT?

The wealthy can hide their income easily. Not so the the ordinary wage-earners.

The wealthy also buy much more expensive shit. Tax those purchases.

[noneof_theabove]

48. how about fiets

Financial Ingress Egress Tax System
EVERYONE PLAYS - BY THE RULES

1% going into bank [ingress] 1% leaving bank [egress] [might need to be 2 or 3% to start]
This is wall street, main street, rich, poor above poverty, Trump Properties, Amazon....EVERYONE !
No ifs or buts or kids or cars or houses.....ALL TAXING IN THE BANKING [Financial] SYSTEM.

On $50,000 income you get about $475/month by not paying anything out of pay check.

Don't spend the money [ or move to savings ] then no payments.

No we have enough in the Treasury to do SSI, Vets, Health/Wellness for all, infrastructure [bad bridges]

get the PDF at fiets.us [please get one copy and pass it around and don't kill my shared server - thanks]

Yes I did this in early 2017.

And get to Biden and and the rest.

[erronis]

34. I'm glad to see the UBI gaining traction. This along with universal health care would get US into

the "developed" world category.

A VAT might be the same as a luxury item tax.

[former9thward]

55. People at the poverty level and below do not pay income tax.

It has been like that for years

[whopis01]

67. The suggestion was no tax for people below the poverty line

People at that level may not pay Federal income tax but they still pay payroll tax (7.65%) as well as state and local taxes.

[Me.]

8. We Also Need A Reckoning Of Barr & All Other Villians

even if we can only do investigations, it will bring dirty deeds into the light. Also, those who willfully stole money by taking advantage of desperate states like the one NY (on recommendation) paid 62 million for PPE and re'cd nothing because it was a scam and still hasn't been able to recover the money.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

27. +1. So much to do, but this item is very high priority. Set examples by harsh prosecutions. . . . nt

[Me.]

28. Happily For Us If All Predictions Come True

The work can be divided up between the Senate, House & 'purged' Justice Dept.

[Ms. Toad]

9. Short term memory failing you a bit? 2016 ring a bell?

Please don't get cocky - people felt exactly the same way in 2016, and we were blessed with 4 years of Trump - in part - because we didn't respect Trump's appeal to far too many people. That appeal is still there for far too many people.

[gristy]

17. A little optimism from time to time is a good thing.

As far as 2016 is concerned, we then had the flawed Clinton and the unperceived flaws of Trump.

[Ms. Toad]

18. My point is that the unbridled optimism in 2016

Led some democrats to vote for third party candidates to send a message to "president" clinton.
People already inclined to vote for a third party candidate - who would have voted for Clinton had they not been bamboozled into believing that Trump could never win - voted third party without any wrestling with their conscience at all
And - I had conversations with a number of people who planned to switch parties in the primary so they could vote for Trump to ensure an easy win for Clinton. (I don't know whether any did, or not. My spouse was one of them, but she does have memory issues and by now doesn't even remember the conversations in which I begged her to take Trump more seriously.)

We can't afford to make over the top predictions about a Biden win, unless we want history to repeat itself.

[moose65]

22. I agree with you

No one thought Trump could win (even him) and so a third-party vote seemed like a safe bet. That won’t happen this time around. Trump is no longer an unknown quantity - we’ve SEEN how he behaves as President. Republicans got the shit kicked out of them in 2018 when Trump wasn’t on the ballot. How much worse will it be for them this time around? Trump isn’t going to win any more voters than he already had, while the younger electorate grows more diverse by the month. A little optimism is a good thing.

[erronis]

35. I don't think the third party candidates swung the Electoral College and the fix.

[DesertRat]

70. +1000

[Ms. Toad]

71. Dis you see that betting odds apparently have trump winning? N/t

[DesertRat]

72. Ugh

No, I didn't but I'm not surprised. After 2016 nothing would surprise me.

[LakeArenal]

11. Yes long past doom and gloom.

Time to face them with confidence and faith.

[Peacetrain]

12. Absolutely!! or as my hubby said

to someone who was not social distancing..

"Six week back, or six feet under.. the choice is yours"


Time to back these arrogant SOB's out of office... Yes they are noisy.. but that is about it.. they are the most inept group of people to have ever held office.

[Ms. Toad]

19. Yup! Just like we did in 2016!!

That turned out well - I want a repeat.



(Sorry - I'm one of the folks who urged caution in 2016, so it scares me to death when I see the same overconfidence repeating itself.)

[LakeArenal]

23. My mother said, if you don't have something nice to say, hold your tounge.

I did not say overconfidence. I said confidence and faith.

Confidence doesn’t mean ignore the bullshit. It means what they handout we will stand up to. Faith is faith in good over evil.
Faith is in knowing you are on the right side of history.

[Ms. Toad]

29. You were agreeing with a post that declared flat out that we were going to win.

We are going to win the whole shebang.. the Presidency, the House, the Senate.. and even some of the

state houses.. Oh there are thirty percent or so of the Turnip faithful who will howl at the moon..but we are going to win this.

That's the overconfidence I find terrifying, because it is virtually identical to the posts here before the election in November 2016. (And anyone even suggesting to the contrary was called a troll). I would not have commented on an independent post suggesting we need to shift our attitude. It was that it was offered supporting the same kind of over-the-top posts I saw in 2016 that triggered my comment.

[flying_wahini]

36. give it a rest. It can't be gloom and doom ALLLLLL the time.

I like hearing something that would make us all happy.

[LakeArenal]

52. ❣️

[Ms. Toad]

54. Happy talk is fine.

But asserting that we are going to win, and win big encourages people to think that we don't need every single vote - and we do. Trump is every bit as dangerous as he was in 2016. If we treat him in 2020 as the non-threat we treated him as in 2016, history will repeat itself.

[LakeArenal]

51. Yep that's right. Peacetrain is right.

Sorry you feel such dread. But I refuse to be swayed.

We are going to win.

[Rollo]

13. I certainly hope so, but...

This is no time to sit back and let others carry the cause forward.

Just sayin'. It's not over until the fat bastard is out of the White House.

[Peacetrain]

14. No one is saying that..but move with confidence.. our message is right..

don't sit back in fear..

[LakeArenal]

53. Exactly.

Also nobody including you is saying sit back and let others carry the load.

We (you and I specifically) say move forward with confidence. Not trepidation.
Stand up to them was my term. Don’t accept the bullshit as truth. Don’t let swiftboating work. Fear is a mindset.

[Peacetrain]

57. Yep.. Have a go get them state of mind is not

sitting on our hands and letting the other side win.. People vote for a winner.. and Biden is a winner! which means getting out the vote.. "fired up... ready to go" LakeArenal

[BComplex]

16. AND REINSTATE THE FAIRNESS DOCTRINE, with some new laws that outline what kinds

of programs can be called "news", and what their parameters must be. We have to stop the crazy-thinking shit that has been passing for news.

[kimbutgar]

47. And media ownership rules

Sinclair broadcasting needs to be broken up anti trust wise. And we need to take down the Murdoch media empire.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

50. Deport Murdoch ,toss him out like yesterday's trash.

[world wide wally]

20. Something Biden can actually do on Day 1:

Reverse every last one of Trump's Executive Orders.

[erronis]

37. I think I read that the (r)epuglicons are trying to stop rescinding executive orders.

Didn't they do/try to do this in Wisconsin?

[Freddie]

24. Between the election and inauguration

Write all our bucket list legislation.
Strengthen Obamacare and add a public option.
National mail voting
Tax the rich
Start cutting back the military
And many more

The minute the new regime is in place, pass all the legislation with no Republican votes. That’s precisely what they’d do to us.

[Stuart G]

25. K and R

[DFW]

26. In today's America, it's no longer enough to win just the election

You have to win the counting of the votes as well.

As Stalin was supposed to have said:

"Those who cast he votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything."

Or, just take it from the Republicans, themselves. They don't even try to hide it:

"We'll take care of the counting." And so they did. And so they still do.

[Fiendish Thingy]

30. It will be a once in a lifetime chance for substantive change

After the pandemic, America will be ready for single payer healthcare, and we must push Biden to get it.

In addition, a tribunal to bring Trump and all his canal to justice must be formed on day one.

[ancianita]

31. Great post, thanks! La Lucha Continua!

None of this is over 'til it's over, and the fat lady isn't even backstage!

[OMGWTF]

33. Green New Deal too, please!

[ChoosenWisely]

40. One solution would be

to get a 2/3 majority in the Senate. Then start impeaching the Judges.

[IronLionZion]

43. I hope we can vote

let's make it happen

[machoneman]

44. Yes! We need to impeach all those young, unqualified Republiscum judges! Use their ABA....

unqualified ratings to start the proceedings across the board. Make the RNC and Republiscum donorts spend their $ on trying to defend their picks. Even if we can't get them all out, we'll get some out and burn up their donor's dollars, not allowing those same $ to be used for political purposes.

[C Moon]

45. I believe part of the GOP's plan will be to go after the blue states that are in debt from the virus

Along with killing voters with the virus (as Trump is now doing).
So, I say let's keep pushing this like we aren't going to win.

[kimbutgar]

46. I am hoping, praying and wishing this to be true.

The repukes and their deranged cult leader have really exposed themselves for what they really are and they don’t care about the American people only money and power

[greenman3610]

49. poll finds Trump leading in battle ground states

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-leads-joe-biden-six-battleground-states-poll-1502514


President Donald Trump is leading Joe Biden by two points in six battlegrounds states, a new poll has found.

The latest survey by Change Research and CNBC revealed that 47 percent of likely voters in Arizona, Florida, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin would back the commander-in-chief if an election were held the same day.

By comparison, 45 percent told pollsters they would opt for former Vice President Biden. A further 4 percent said they would back a third-party candidate while 3 percent were unsure who they would back in November.

[vercetti2021]

61. Mammoth has Biden ahead. By 8

Also leading in all swing states and AZ. Also tied in Texas.

[meadowlander]

56. Prosecute every Trump enabling staffer into the dust. Do not "move on" or "let it go".

They need to be made an example of or we're going to be right back here in 8 years as soon as the economy has recovered enough for the GOP to start whining about the National Debt again.

[struggle4progress]

58. We might -- but only if we do the hard work necessary

[Celerity]

59. +100000

[Joinfortmill]

63. Agree, and get the children out of those cages.

[musicblind]

66. I hope you're right.

I fear you're wrong.

Either way, fight like we're down in fourth quarter.

[Mike Niendorff]

69. In addition to the SCOTUS ...

Dems should also be looking to expand the judiciary at all levels.

McConnell spent his career trying to corrupt and stack the courts? Make it meaningless. Expand them all.

And for god's sake, **PLEASE** start exercising the power of impeachment when a federal judge fails the "good behavior" standard.

The days for playing softball are far, FAR behind us.


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