It’s Not About the Freaking Filibuster

and it’s not incumbent on Democrats to save US democracy

actual handmaid

This week, Joe Biden traveled to Georgia, that bastion of color-blind equality, to make a hell-raising speech in which he drew a line in the sand:

Which side are you on? Are you on the side of democracy, or the side of authoritarianism? Racial justice or white supremacy?

It was a necessary, ineffectual speech, one can only assume delivered in good faith, but really delivered only to secure Biden his place in the history books, the place where he’s the last President to speak up for what’s right before the storm clouds gather and the storm troopers assume power.

And it’s a shocking question, shocking because it needs to be asked. On January 6th, 2021, an out of control mob of racist thugs, incited by the former President, set upon the Capitol, looking for members of Congress with murder as their intent, evidenced by the weapons they carried and by their words. Yet slimeball Republicans deny that reality, insisting that it was “just the usual bunch of tourists”.

You know, the usual bunch of tourists waving weapons, killing police, threatening Nancy Pelosi, and even Mike Pence, who grew a temporary pair and refused to “nullify” the vote, with death, taking selfies sitting in the…