Opinion

Dear Democrats,

Since too many people are complaining about you without providing any suggestions on what you could be doing better (other than “DO BETTER FFS!”), I’m here to help. We’re all tired of watching Democrats tweet without really doing anything, or getting into dumb flame wars with MAGA Republicans. Let’s fight smarter!

Dr. Anthony Fauci sat before Sen. Rand Paul's committee on Wednesday morning and, for the first time in four decades and hundreds of congressional appearances, refused to answer a single question, outsmarting the smarty-pants Paul.

He invoked the Fifth Amendment more than 100 times. Good for him.

The sheer stupidity and blind ambition of Todd Blanche had him thinking proximity to Donald Trump would lead him to the promised land. Instead, Blanche is headed to the depths of nullity.

On Thursday, Donald Trump said he may pull Blanche's nomination for a full-time attorney general post, not because he lost faith in his little errand boy, but to try to maneuver around and outlast two Senate Republicans, John Cornyn and Thom Tillis, who won't confirm Blanche without written guarantees that a controversial $1.8 billion "anti-weaponization" fund is truly dead.

[Writer’s Note: This is an open letter to MAGA, which in and of itself might be a fool’s errand since they don’t usually read anything longer than social media posts. But maybe someone who loves someone who’s MAGA will see this, and maybe we can start figuring out a better way to reach them, since nothing has worked as of yet.]

Dear MAGA,

It’s just so weird how Republicans just can’t stop reliving and relitigating 2020.

When they’re not crying about election fraud without any proof (darn those unhackable mailed-in paper ballots!) or denying that January 6th was an insurrection, they’re whining about *checks notes* not enough people dying from the Coronavirus, as a desperate attempt to distract from their participation in the biggest political coverup in American history.

We are now under 100 days until the midterms, and Republican strategists and GOP leaders have all come to the same conclusion for their caucus: keep Donald Trump's name out of your mouth, and ostensibly keep him off the campaign trail.

Operatives close to the White House are reportedly telling incumbents and challengers alike — privately, one assumes, so the boss doesn't find out — to stop echoing his line on the Iran war, stop defending his economic numbers, and build their own case to voters instead.

There are plenty of things I’ve never understood about the people who’ve chosen loyalty to Donald Trump over the United States of America. I don’t have the space to list every single reason he never should’ve been allowed to run again in 2020, let alone 2024, but let's remain in the present for now.

Trump is so far gone at this point, both physically and mentally, that anyone with eyes can see it for themselves. And yet, there’s an entire political party keeping its head in the sand rather than admit to what we’ve all been subjected to for the last 11 years.

I am so done with this whole Mitch McConnell thing.

We’re now past six weeks of this ridiculous crap, and the silence surrounding the Kentucky senator’s condition long ago eclipsed the point of disturbing to become completely absurd and intolerable. But that just seems to be the Republican way. All we get are vague justifications and likely manipulated “proof of life” photos rather than actual explanations.

If you’ve been finding yourself swooning lately over the clips of Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) calmly and methodically bulldozing Republicans facing Senate questioning, welcome to the “Senator My Boo” Club, my friends.

Movie-star handsome and charismatic, Ossoff was given the moniker by political powerhouse influencer Qondi Ntini, who’s turned “political thirst” into a movement that’s been reframing the way Democratic men run for public office. Her social media accounts reflect a timeline of consistently supporting both Ossoff and his fellow Georgia Senator, Rev. Raphael Warnock, always keeping to the facts while centering the thirst. Not just for good-looking men in leadership (though it’s just true that Democrats have the looks on lockdown), but the thirst for truth and equality in both the government as well as the rest of the country.

It’s hard to believe that we’re less than two months away from the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, that horrible day when war arrived at our doorstep.

One thing that’s always stuck in my head was the fact that 15 of the 19 hijackers onboard the four jets that wreaked such deadly havoc were citizens of Saudi Arabia. This doesn’t necessarily mean that kingdom had an active hand in the terror, and the 9/11 Commission found no evidence that the Saudi government knowingly funded or directed the attacks.