I think this perspective is the real copium. Vance’s performance in the VP debate righted the ship for the Trump campaign. Trump’s rock-solid 38% will vote for anyone with an R.

Vance lacks the showmanship, but he makes up for it by either pretending his terrible agenda is not true or actually agreeable to the center-right. Most know Trump is crazy. Even his more adoring fans will give him a pass on at least one insane thing if you press them. Think “I wish he didn’t post on social media so much, but I love that he speaks his mind”

Two years is more than enough time to get incumbency advantage. He can course correct a couple things in July 2028 and ride that through the debates saying “I’m not trump guys, see, I fixed X and Y!” That gives the 38% the okay to say “yea, he’s basically trump still, I didn’t actually want X or Y”

As for winning over the rest of the electorate, who cares? Who on the left didn’t know what trump was? We all knew. We saw through the Project 2025 lies. It didn’t matter. Enough people stayed home because they knew and thought “it won’t be that bad” or “he won’t win with that baggage”

That’s Vance’s strength. He doesn’t need to win anyone over. All he needs to do is flake off a couple factions by pretending to not be that bad.

Toward the end he was blaming future Biden.

Or, easier method. He runs. Democrats sue saying he clearly can’t have a third term. SCOTUS declines to take the case because the constitution says he can run, he just can’t be elected.

States wait for each other to take him off the ballot, since elections are state run and eventually none of them do because they waited too long and they are super-duper sure he won’t win this time.

He wins, Sued again, SCOTUS declines to take the case because he’s a sitting president and who are they to mingle in elections “we can’t set a precedent of stealing elections from the people’s choice” or something of that nature.

Opposition falls in line because, yet again, the majority of Americans decided he and the GOP were the best choice and they’ll lose if they fight back. But really, if he wins a third term, GOP owns Congress and there’s not a damn thing you can do about it anyway.

Boom, third term for Trump

Triple SecDef

“Democrats are being callous” against federal workers, they say, as their King fires a third of them and asks if he can NOT pay them when the shutdown ends.

Not related. Water meters keep track of flow and help pinpoint leaks where water is being wasted or on return before it is treated, making the municipal water system more efficient.

This sounds like the Musk Tunnels are purely to move stormwater. Think those concrete aqueducts around cities to collect water that would normally flow through a watershed but is now falling in impermeable surfaces. It’s just going to be an underground river essentially. It sort of makes sense because the Boring Company can make tunnels, admittedly while ignoring many regulations.

Plans now include a parade since that coincides with Trump’s 79th birthday.

According to the article, the parade part is specifically for Trump

Maybe a bright side; filling the executive with inept sycophants might slow down project 2025. The reason he struggled to achieve a lot of his bullshit the last time was they didn’t have skilled people to navigate the legal system.

Of course, that legal system also made him a king so…all they have to do is make him say whatever they want to do. But maybe, hopefully, they’ll spend a lot of time fighting amongst themselves.