It's apparent to Tropical Soulvangelical that Lisa Slotkin stumbled right into the trap that -trump- laid for her. Her "response" to the union address TSV saw as nothing short of a missive of surrender coming directly from Schumer's Home Office, and again is part of the War On Biden without anyone necessarily (except for -trump-) mentioning Biden's name. It's the same (almost deliberately) failed strategy of turning your weak side to your opponent with the unwarranted expectation of mercy, and being defeated again. Lisa Slotkin had effectively ceded union address victory to -trump-, and it fell to pretty much everyone else to have to pick up the slack, like in late night comics for example. The one person TSV saw as -truly- responding to -trump- was strangely enough the "polite Canadian" Justin Trudeau who took a more Bidenistic position of strength and determination that not only Schumer lacks, but is downright irrationally terrified of. TSV's pretty sure that Schumer had decided to indefinitely postpone any meetings he had originally planned with the Prime Minister. TSV doesn't think that his more -trumpist- colleagues at the Bland Barns Catering Counter understand that it's ultimately not about politics, but about pursuing faith and principle, and obstensibly disavowing cynicism and personal corruption. It was Ash Wednesday this week (pretty late in the year apparently), and many followers personally see it as a time of atonement for having largely been overly concerned about earthly matters. The specific politics of whether it's U.S. or Europe providing either $300 billion or $299 billion for Ukraine's security TSV sees through as an ultimately mundane aside to what direction in which we must proceed if we truly believe.