Hey, does the FBI prosecute any white guys for sports gambling rigging?

Prepping my podcast, checking my archive, and realizing I already used "Return to Democrats Cave" as an episode title back in March. So, "Democrats Cave II: Airport Boogaloo" it is!

Remember when they said the reason they caved in March was so they could get a better deal in September lmao

"Oh no, GOP might get rid of the leverage we've been using to stop them, so we'd better stop using it" is the most Octogenarian Democratic Leadership Brained move ever.

"I'm not going to open the House to vote on Epstein." But Mike, now there's a bill to reverse those tax cuts and fund the ACA! "OH! OK, now I'm *really* not going to open the House."

American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.

Nobody hates Democrats more than their leaders.

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.

Senator McCain's Thumbs Down Moment is the one time I can remember a Republican blocking a major Republican agenda item. The times Democrats have tanked important Democratic agenda items are multitude.

We should plaster Chuck Schumer's office with empty file folders. Folders.

Nobody in American politics hates their own voters more than the Democratic Party

Oh, yes, you really got them where you want them.

“People are blaming republicans for food prices and flight cancellations and health insurance costs and are furious about gilded ballrooms and Gatsby parties and the president is falling asleep on tv and is the most deeply unpopular president in history, time to cave” is a hell of an argument

Like I was saying, I really can't shake this feeling that Dems caved because of flight hassles.

Ya think?

chuck schumer would be the stupid guy in zombie movies that gets bitten and tries to hide it from the rest of the group.

"Great job, Dem voters! Now, go fuck yourselves."

Something Rand Paul says he's going to drag his feet on. Who woulda guessed that criminalizing the national emergence of intoxicating hemp products thanks to 2018 Farm Bill would be one of the paintings on the wall of Democrats Cave? Your healthcare costs triple AND your hemp-medmj gets you cuffed!

Are these centrist Dems self-aware enough to recognize the blowback they're going to get from people like these, people they asked sacrifice from, to have their back in a political fight, to have gone through all that for a *promise of a later Senate vote* when the House shows no signs of opening? 👇🏻

• 2% of US population marches in No Kings • Democrats sweep in elections • Voters blame GOP for shutdown, increasingly • Trump notches lowest approval ever • Trump booed on TV for 2:30 straight Senate Democrats: OK, GOP, we'll rescue you from this disaster in exchange for a promise. We trust you. 🤷🏻‍♂️

I can't shake the feeling that the only thing that changed in this shutdown drama that made squishy Dem Senators abandon the shutdown was that it was affecting their personal air travel.

"Wow, that's really quite something. And what do you call this act?" THE DEMOCRATS!

Hassan's and Shaheen's mailboxes are full, Durbin's doesn't take a message. Left a message for the other seven asking when they were born, and if it was yesterday, since they seem to believe Republican promises mean anything.

Call them. Tell them not to surrender.

I'm sure any day now the DOJ will announce one of these sports gambling corruption cases against a white guy.

Astute observations, but missing a critical one: going after sports gambling corruption more likely nets you Black and brown faces in your headlines compared to going after white collar crime, where it's a sea of caucasity.

So, Democrats are going to allow the government to open, getting the Republicans out of a deeply unpopular position, with only the promise of a senate vote to save Healthcare, with no guarantee it'll ever pass the House, which will not reopen, because Epstein. So Thune can say, "blame Johnson." 👇🏻

Democrats Cave.

Millions of Democratic voters on Tuesday: Fight these guys. Fight them. Senate Democrats: We heard you loud and clear and we will give in

Sen Dems: OK, we'll vote to open the government if all promise to give us a vote on health-care in the future. Sen Repubs: (to each other "omg this is like taking candy from a baby") Yes deal!!! Sen Dems: You guys promise? We are trusting you Sen Repubs: Would we ever lie to you 😉

I see senators plotting a path to go spelunking in Democrats Cave again. It's like putting 7 million people in the street, giving them landslide Blue Wave election results, and sinking Trump to his lowest approval ratings ever was just the sign Dems needed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

Oh, well, the Republicans are making a promise! I'm sure this will in no way blow up in Democratic senators faces if they go ahead and open the government without actually getting anything for this past 39 days of shutdown.

Everybody should get their snap benefits, but just purely from a political point of view, the fact that blue states are managing to get their people fed and red states are not augers well for the midterms.

We will be repairing the damage of Trump the rest of my life. Or... more chillingly... we won't.

Just finished 4½ hours at the emergency room. Ladylove was awakened by tightness & chest pain while I was at work. Waited to call me, wouldn't take ambulance. All the scans and tests negative; no heart attack or issues. I believe it's function of her undertreated back pain—her system's too stressed.

Part of our failure to get medical marijuana legalized in Idaho is the confluence of that issue with the Health Freedom quacks, who were prominent supporters. The ground we'd made in "medmj isn't a left-wing hippie issue" for the normies was canceled by H.F. making it a right-wing anti-vaxxer issue.

It's okay, Target, I already have plenty of reasons not to shop with you, I don't need any more.

Every time we do a #AT40 from 1972 I'm reminded that the Eagles and the Doobies hit way earlier than I felt like they did.

At what point is this blackface?

I wish people would quit posting this. There needs to be 218 signatures. Grijalva is the 218th signature. That's more than half (237.5) of the 435 members of Congress. Van Epps becoming a congressperson does not erase Grijalva's signature. If anything, Van Epps becomes the 217th person to not sign.

Hold on, we're still in the middle of the late 30s / early 40s rise of fascism, you can't go and pack in mid-50s McCarthyism at the same time, can you?

#FOMO-YOLO! #AT40

Now this song by Gallery I remember, because our 6th grade music teacher strummed the acoustic guitar to it while we all sang it in class, "I Believe in Music." #AT40

Is the mayor-elect of New York City your dad, Marie? No, silly, it's your mom, Donnie! #AT40 with a name even Andrew Cuomo could pronounce!

Fun fact: 17% of Americans born in the late summer of 1973 were conceived to "If You Don't Know Me By Now" by Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes. #AT40

I can confidently say I have never heard this Cashman and West tune before. #AT40

"OK, who is this?" It's The Band, dad. "The Who?" No, The Band. "Yes, who is the band?" Not Yes, not The Who. It's The Band. "Oh, so I have to just guess who is the band?" No, the Guess Who is a different band. This is The Band. "The band is The Band?" Yes! "You said it wasn't Yes!" #AT40

Reached for comment, Ray said, "Jim was an all right guy, sang some great songs, but every time we went out to the club there'd be a massive fight. I had to call off our friendship, especially after I shacked up with his old lady." #AT40

Good morning, #AT40! Yesterday, Joe Biden won his first Senate election, as Nixon defeats McGovern to wi re-election. This week, the Dow Jones Industrial Average will top 1,000 for the first time. By the end of this month, the USA ends its travel ban to China and the first video game, Pong, debuts.