“Get absolutely fucked”

-the good people of Oregon

It’s neither here or there, but there’s no “D” in “consequences” either….

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I was at a military industry conference a month or so ago, with several flag level officers giving talks. The total amount of lost years of experience and senior leadership in the military and intelligence agencies is staggering. It is going to take generations to recover.

The same Congress that let Trump unilaterally levy a tax on every American business and citizen?

They could be manufacturing prototypes or examples for apprentices. It’s also replicas were made for trade to demonstrate the shape to others, or tokens of appreciation, or adapted into toys / primitive dice. <shrug>

To play the devil’s advocate, it’s certainly possible Trump publicly supports the House voting to release the original documents because he either 1) has ironclad assurance that it’ll die in the Senate, or 2) will just pocket veto the bill. There was substantial political downside to them opposing their release, and many many ways for them to kill this whole thing in the future.

Trump doesn’t want the files released, but their Legislative Affairs and Communications Director finally woke up to a strategy that wasn’t political suicide.

This is a monumentally dumb and deadly idea. Want to watch the US cease to exist as a global super power? Good luck maintaining our nuclear arsenal without paying people.

Oregon has been entirely state-wide mail-in voting for decades. Good luck shutting down an entire state’s mail for more than a month.

Their stance is Trump came out of his two impeachments politically stronger than he went into them, and unless 14 20 GOP Senators decide to switch their allegiance all of a sudden the act of impeachment is practically useless.

Edit: I fucked up the math, thanks commenter

Nah, they are going to say, “this is perfect evidence why we need even less government”

Well, it took private equity over a decade to eventually kill Toys ”R” Us. Two years would be speed running their demise.

Yeah… their team won. The idea that Trump voters will be ousted first is more fantastical than an actual day dream.

They have moved it indoors to the Capitol Rotunda.

Oregon has entirely mail-in voting, since the 1990s. Good luck getting us to give it up.

I mean, not really, but it’s only $10 so sure.

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Yeah… this feels right. He seems to have checked out because the real campaign starts once he has lost. They’d rather use their dollars shielding him from further judicial consequence and preparing to set the country on fire once he loses.

As an actual Oregonian, unlike the Russian disinformation that has posted so far, this is a good decision. I’m Democratic, but the mere fact that one party may benefit from or be hurt by “stolen votes” is irrelevant. The point is people should be able to vote for those who represent their views.

There are a lot of libertarians in Oregon. Plus, the state legislature GOP is a super dick about everything they don’t like. We literally amended our state constitution to punish legislative absenteeism because the GOP members were denying quorum as a strategy.

I think that’s a risk, but Trump’s pathological ego will not allow anybody to call him weird, or strange, or abnormal.

My only concern is it is the start of August, and this weird argument is very powerful. I wish we were doing this in late September. My worry is weird will park and become old and stale by November.

That’s because it is intentional subterfuge to try and diffuse the PR disaster.

Well, first of all, it is funny as fuck