I'm willing to admit they've tried to make other events be that catalyst, but thus far, it has largely failed. At least in the sense of the transition to complete autocratic dictatorship they want. They've absolutely made enough progress and damage to be very dangerous in other ways, but they are clearly wanting a full dictatorship.

Everyone kind of just wants the same thing and I love that solidarity.

If this had happened to any other president in my lifetime it would be a much bigger cataclysmic event. And I love that it's not going to help his polling.

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25194305-muslim-imams-and-leaders-letter-to-the-community-on-the-2024-elections-vfinal/

She would have been a better president than Biden, for sure.

If there's a "moment of national danger" happening under those circumstances, maybe it's not resources that are the problem. Maybe leadership is the problem.

The filibuster needs 2/3 to break but it always ends eventually, and then it's a simple majority.

All of congress just use this as a boogeyman for people who have never studied the rules.

On March 1, 2003, the Secret Service was transferred from the Department of the Treasury to the new Department of Homeland Security.

Also this.