Just Saying…

 If you missed Biden’s speech (and especially if your response is “What speech?”):

The MAGA Republicans, Biden said, are openly “attacking the free press as the enemy of the people, attacking the rule of law as an impediment, fomenting voter suppression and election subversion.” They are “banning books and burying history.” “Extremists in Congress [are] more determined to shut down the government, to burn the place down than to let the people’s business be done.” They are attacking the military—the strongest military in the history of the world—as being “weak and ‘woke’.” 

They are “pushing a notion the defeated former President expressed when he was in office and believes applies only to him: This president is above the law, with no limits on power. Trump says the Constitution gave him…’the right to do whatever he wants as President.’ I’ve never even heard a president say that in jest. Not guided by the Constitution or by common service and decency toward our fellow Americans but by vengeance and vindictiveness.”

You should go read Heather Cox Richardson’s recap. It’s worth it anyway.

I am pretty sure, by the way, that “woke” is now a MAGA marker:

"We've got 46 more days to get to keep this government moving to secure our border, eliminate wasteful spending, end the wokeism, and we only do that if we lock arms together," he said. "I'm not going to give up. If somebody in the party wants to stop us from getting the most conservative bill, I'm going to go to the next and the next and the next."

Yup. Pretty damned sure of that. (The GOP House could have passed the mythical 12 bills in 2022 if they’d wanted to. McCarthy using Democrats to pass this 45 day bill is not going to make the fringe stronger; but it’s not going to make them more compliant, either. Kevin needs to drop “woke” from his vocabulary if he wants to get anywhere. Don’t count on him doing it.)