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“Lawyer Up”: Democrats Prepare to Unleash Political Rage in Congress

https://jonathanturley.org/2026/11/04/lawyer-up-democrats-prepare-to-unleash-political-rage-in-congress/

Within minutes of the Democrats retaking power in the House of Representatives, Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA), the expected chair of the House Oversight Committee, just posted a menacing two-word message: “Lawyer up.” Across the country, far-left politicians and pundits immediately demanded a spasm of investigations and impeachments as soon as they assume control of both houses. Like a nation of Madame Defarges, activists are eagerly knitting the names of targets into the lists of the walking dead, starting with Haley Stevens, who decided to test the “big tent” claims by splitting her ticket to vote against Abdul El-Sayed.

Various sites are running lists of targets as influencers such as Hasan Piker is posting on “WE’RE GONNA PUT YOUR ASS IN JAIL EVERYONE GET MORE WOKE RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

The conditions on the Hill are only likely to make such rage politics more appealing with the new Congress. Despite the large margin secured in the House, it is not enough to overcome a veto requiring two-thirds of both houses. While impeachment also requires a two-thirds vote for conviction, investigations will be a delivery item to offer the base as proof of action in the deadlocked conditions that will unfold on the Hill.

The next two years are going to be an interesting roller coaster ride. The chances of the Dems over-playing their hand are pretty much a certainty. How well their rage plays, well, 2028 may tell that tale.

Democrats Win Enough Seats Nationwide to End Electoral College

With Democratic victories in state legislatures and governorships across the country Tuesday, the Electoral College could now be in jeopardy—even without a near-impossible constitutional amendment.

If passed by enough states, the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact would effectively nullify the Electoral College and, with it, the possibility of a candidate being elected president without winning the popular vote. Since the compact was introduced in 2006, 19 states have passed it, agreeing to assign their electoral votes to whichever candidate wins the national popular vote. That amounts to 222 of the 270 electoral votes that a candidate needs to win the presidential election.

That's concerning.  I've heard bits about this "compact", my first question is if somehow it is agreed to, would it pass a Constitutional challenge?  Would a challenge actually be made?  The concerns about this not really unusual midterm flip (president's party pretty regularly loses control of Congress in the midterms) are increasing. 

That Didn't Take Long: Jewish Businesses in Philly Targeted Ahead of Nazi Kristallnacht Protest

After electing anti-Israel politicians like Abdul El-Sayed, Democrat supporters aren't even hiding their rank antisemitism anymore, it seems. In Philly, the anti-Israel activist group Philly Bike On Your Left is telling Jewish businesses to leave the city ahead of a November 8 protest dubbed the "Boycott Ride." They're doing this on the eve of the anniversary of Kristallnacht, when Nazis and their supporters attacked Jewish communities in Germany and Austria on November 9-10, 1938. At least 91 Jews were murdered and Jewish-owned storefronts were destroyed.

Jewish-owned stores in the Rittenhouse Square neighborhood are being told to leave. In an Instagram post about the event, the graphic reads "These Zionist establishments must go! Not in our city!" with names of the businesses behind red "no" symbols (red circles with a red line through the middle). The graphic also says that the protest is a way to "show these zio business owners that we see them for the disgusting humans they are."

Businesses targeted include the Mac Mart, co-owned by Marti Lieberman, the K'Far Cafe, Huda Burger, Goldi, Dizengoff, and Schlesinger's.

Lieberman told The New York Post, "It’s scary. You can’t get a break, and now I have to worry about being born Jewish." She believes protesters think the Star of David necklace she wears means she's pro-Israel.

"These people think I’m [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu. I literally am just a Jewish girl from the suburbs who started a business," she said. No, they know she's a Jewish girl. That is their problem with her.

Yehuda Sichel of Huda Burger is also angry about this. He's the grandson of Holocaust survivors. But Sichel said he's not going to be intimidated. "They said on their own flyer they want to push Zionists out of their city, but obviously we are not going to be intimidated by this kind of stuff," he told The New York Post. Sichel also said they get "huge support" from the community.

The New York Post also reported that Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday called the planned boycott "deeply unsettling," and warned against violence. "By explicitly targeting businesses because their owners are Jewish, the organizers are engaging in a form of discrimination that falls back on some of the oldest antisemitic tropes and tactics in history," he said in a statement. "This is not simply a protest directed at the policies of Israel, rather it singles out our fellow Pennsylvanians based on their Jewish identity, targeting them for policies they have nothing to do with and no ability to affect because of their faith."

Groups like the Anti-Defamation League Philadelphia, StandWithUs, and others issued a joint statement as well.

"It's Jew-hatred, plain and simple," they said. "Marking businesses for removal from Philadelphia is an attempt to intimidate, marginalize, and exclude members of the Jewish community from the economic and civic life of our city."

Democrats love to say that America feels like 1938 Nazi Germany under the Trump administration. They were right, but not because of Trump — but because their radical base hates Jews and Israel.

https://townhall.com/news/amy-curtis/2026/11/05/philly-antisemitic-protest-n2685955

MineralMan (152,774 posts)

Trump Knows He Has Lost Everything.

Not a word about "rigged elections." No threats to "go after" cheaters. That didn't work the last time, and it sure as hell won't work now.

He has some thinking to do. What can he do to fix this? The answer is, briefly: Nothing. He simply lost. He lost control of Congress. His power is gone, really. It is all fail, now.

Over a year ago, I predicted that Trump would never finish this term in office. I predicted that he would resign in a huff, after pardoning himself and whomever he thinks was loyal to him. Then, he will cash out and move to Dubai or some other protected haven. I was mocked for that suggestion.

I am making it again now, in November of 2026. Trump is done. He has nothing more he can do. He will probably be dead before 2028.

Trump Is Fail!

https://democraticunderground.com/100221614073

Nobody cares what you think

Been looking at Texas more trying to figure out why it turned out so bad for us there, and the more I look, got to say we really may have screwed up pretty bad.

Demographics there is 40% Latino 35% Caucasian, rest mix down. So Latino's make up the majority population there.

Now the legal Latino population supports immigration in general. Illegals hurt their communities just as much as the rest.

But the top two issues to the Latino populations this cycle that caused them to flip almost 20 points for the left was Immigration Enforcement and Cost of living.

It's not to say they want the illegals living there at their expense, but ICE was very aggressive in Southern Texas where it's more Latino. And to be a Legal Latino being forced to carry a Birth Certificate or other proof your a legal citizen on your self and likely harassed on a near daily occurrence would be very frustrating. To put it plainly, we alienated them to the point of voting against us.

This is very concerning as this is largely why we lost California as a reliable Red state back in 1994. We alienated the Latino community.

If we have done and lost Texas. It will be a long time before we retake the WH.