Of course, that’s why it’s Donnie’s picture up there, and not Eric’s. They will try to convince all of his fans that a vote for Eric is really a stealth vote for his dad. And Eric will lean into it, because he has never done anything in his life that didn’t rely on his family connections.

(I keep going back to Eric because I think it’s clear that he’s the dumb one, and Junior is smart enough to know he would rather be VP and get to hang out with Senators doing nothing)

I admit, I was not expecting that headline tonight. The picture puts it all into proper context, though

You all are missing the most obvious flex: one of his sons is going to run, on the sole platform of “My dad will really be running things, I won’t even make him move out”. Maybe both sons run, on a Trump/Trump ticket, only all the signs say “Trump/Trump/Trump”.

Donald Trump will have his dream job: all of the power and influence (and money!) Of the Presidency, none of the actual responsibility. Why be President when you can own the Presidency?

Didn’t Putin do something similar? He was term limited out of the Presidency, but got his buddy elected President, and then he got himself elected to their Parliament and became Prime Minister. He then got himself re-elected as President, then got some Constitutional things passed to ensure that he never has to give it up again.

But Donald Trump doesn’t care about actually governing, so he doesn’t need to run for Congress. All he has to do is install someone as the next President who is loyal to him, and him alone. What better candidate than Eric, whose only success in life is having the right parents?

In fairness, this is part of a lawsuit against her. I doubt she wanted to talk about all this stuff.

The BBC should just declare Mar-a-Lago its own territory

No, it’s US voters that put the big asshole in the building (again!).

He’s just doing what he does best - wrecking shit.

Ted Cruz is nothing but bunk

Tell that to my BCH that I held onto after the fork

If Roger is so successful now how come BCH is still a big fat loser?

“Impeachable” is totally up to Congress, the Constitution says “high crimes and misdemeanors” qualify, but there is no formal definition for that. Republicans could have impeached Obama for the Dijon mustard if they had enough Democratic votes in the Senate who thought it was an egregious enough offense.

I’m not a big fan of proportional representation, because it can be gamed just like the current system, but in proportional representation you don’t actually cast a ballot for a person. While a third party candidate might sneak in there with some proportion of the vote, for the most part it will still be D’s and R’s with most of the vote, so whoever is the first D or R on the list will basically have the job for life, with no practical way to challenge them at all.

I do like ranked choice voting, in conjunction with a massive increase in the size of Congress. 435 is way too small. 1435 might be the right number, if my math is right that could be about 250k people per Rep. Let’s see people try to gerrymander 175 Congressional Districts in California…

Sure, whatever. The man has spent his entire life avoiding the consequences of his actions. Why would this be any different?

I wish them all the best of luck, but I’m not gonna hold my breath waiting for this to be any different.

No no no, it’s not an admission of weakness at all. He is incapable of that. It is two contradictory things, at the same time:

• if Democrats win, it’s because they cheat! Expect a lot of whining after the midterms, which will seem pointless but manifest itself as a series of Jan 6’s in scattered statehouses where the stochastic “freedom fighters” try to fix it themselves.

• Then, when that fails, he will blame Republicans for not backing him enough, and announce his plans to form a new party. He seems to have (finally!) accepted that he can’t run again, but Donald Trump Jr. will run instead, on an explicit platform of “My Dad’s still in charge”. They won’t even need to change the hats.

Dr. John Paul Garrison, a licensed forensic and clinical psychologist, certainly cares. This gets his name into the news…

Not even the first time it has happened in the US, Indiana tried to redefine pi in 1897

Except the last guy who hasnt decided yet was one of the GOPers who lost his primary. He might be feeling spicy and decide to vote against it.

You’re right that nornally, these sorts of announcements are “hall passes” where the party gives certain members permission to appear moderate in order to win elections, while still getting their agenda passes. This feels different, somehow, engineered so that Cassidy takes the brunt of GOP rage over it, since he’s not on the ballot anymore.

Edit: even though this aged like milk, I said what I said…

“In addition, when government data are not reliable, it can hinder the public’s trust in government,” the report stated.

Theat was the whole point, though. If enough voters don’t trust government, they will give Republicans permission to shrink it so small they can drown it in the bathtub.

Instead of being a death notice it’s a pre-death notice, if you will.

I prefer to say that he is fillibustering his own obituary…

Someone’s getting fired over this.

Not for the “mistake”, but for actually admitting it…

The Baileys must have told him they like El-Sayed…