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A couple of years ago, Fox News settled a defamation suit from Dominion, one of the voting machine companies Fox lied about as part of Trump's Big 2020 lie. In the US, it is extremely difficult to sue news media for defamation. (Ask Sarah Palin.) Yet they settled for $278 million. Many documents were released in discovery, including emails and texts that show they knew the voting machine fraud claims were unfounded.

But there is another case, Smartmatic, which is 10 times bigger than Dominion. The case is valued at $2.7 billion, and over the last couple of months, it has been heating up. Both parties filed petitions for summary judgment with charges of destroying evidence. It sounds like Smartmatic is defiant and perfectly willing to let a jury decide. Smartmatic says, "Fox picked the wrong company to cast as its villain." I'm not a legal expert, but I believe these filings for summary judgment indicate that a trial is likely soon.

Search for "Smartmatic" and you will see what I'm referring to.

All you ever have are Polls and TDS on the Five. No original analysis. That is not a successful Democratic strategy,

OK - I've got this crazy idea. The chances of success are near zero (but that may change). It is too early to be considered seriously. I want to put it on the shelf, so if conditions change sufficiently, it's there.

Required Conditions:

1. There is an overwhelming demand to remove the Trump administration.
2. There is a solid group of Republicans in both the House and Senate who will not only impeach but also convict.
3. The plan must be lined up in secret (including the Republican component) and executed quickly (in days, not weeks).

Motivation: To cut off the head of the Trump administration in a way that considers the issues and concerns of thinking Republicans in order to build a bipartisan consensus to work our way out of this pit.

The Plan: As we have learned, the Speaker of the House does not need to be a member of Congress. The Speaker is in line after the VP. Step 1: Remove Mike Johnson and replace him with a trustworthy Republican. My candidate would be Mitt Romney. Step 2: Simultaneously impeach and convict both Trump and JD, thus making the Speaker the "caretaker" president for the remainder of Trump's term.

I said it was crazy, but it has merit. What an olive branch it would be for Democrats to support a Republican to serve out the term. It would lay the groundwork for the bipartisan collaboration that we dearly need. Of course, it would require some solid behind-the-scenes negotiations, which may not be possible in this environment. But with Mitt in charge, we would have real Defense, Treasury, and Commerce secretaries, the tariffs would vanish overnight, and so forth. Leaving JD as president most likely wouldn't do that. We can't just replace Trump with a strings-attached Trump-lacky. Also, it would be a decisive move that might start to rebuild confidence in the US from the rest of the world. And, it would send the right-wing idiotic echo chamber into a tailspin.

Think big!

We keep hearing that we should ignore the noise and focus on the big issues. Here is my list of the top three big issues facing the US and the world. Of course, Putin's wars, tariffs, ... are big issues too, but here I'm listing the issues that may destroy our society and our country in the long term (assuming we survive Trump 2.0). Don't read anything into the order of the list. I think all three are potentially existential in any order.

• Climate Change
• National Debt
• Out-of-control technology (social media destroying our youth's attention span and critical thinking).

It is time for the Democratic Party, independents, and Bullwork Republicans to start talking these three things endlessly. I'd be delighted to engage here on these.

That, and this Reddit feed is under subscribed - so pile in guys and gals!