Ohio is chock full of speed traps, though, he might be saving money this way

Sure, stock up to protect your compound if you want, but I don’t think we are heading for a full-scale conflict on US soil. While war is generally good for business, that’s only when the fighting and dying are done Over There. Both sides would agree that war here is bad for business.

I can see us going through a National Divorce at some point. Here’s the script I would write: if the National Christians (Let’s call them Nat-C’s for short, it is fitting) want to hold a Constitutional Convention to remake government, why not let them? We’ll simply hold a parallel one for the sane states to make our own Government, with less Fascism. The two sets of delegates will have to get together at some point, though, to work out how the Federal Govenrment’s Assets and Liabilities are divided among the States.

Once all the delegates finish, we will have two competing Constitutions, and each State should be required to run a referendum to decide which they join. If things work out the way we expect, the Nat-C’s have all the Red states, we get all the sane states, and we are all better off.

But, the large Red states like Florida and Texas still have their own sizeable urban populations. If presented an “A/B” choice of this magnitude, they may come out and vote. If the new Nat-C country just has all the backwater states, it will go bankrupt faster than a Trump Casino. At that point, you will need the guns and ammo that the Nat-C’s let you keep, to fend off your God-fearing neighbors.

If we pull out of this fascist nosedive, one reason will be the prescience of the writers of the Constitution to put the administration of elections in the hands of the States, subject to regulation by Congress. The President simply cant do that much on his own. He can bloviate all he wants on this topic, but absent any new action from Congress states are free to ignore him.

This sole clause does a lot of work in preventing the Presidency from becoming a full-on dictatorship. But only if the States don’t comply with the President.

The first distinctive feature of this bank – and stablecoin operations like it – is that there is almost no risk that it can lose money.

Nice try, AI. There have been a ton of stablecoins that have lost their peg: https://www.chainsec.io/failed-stablecoins

This man has bankrupted casinos, not because the casinos themselves were unprofitable, but because he loaded them up with debt and then was able to evade responsibility for paying it off via bankruptcy. He is the last person I would trust to run a bank. (Or a country, but that ship has already sailed…)

“I have paused the 50% Tariffs against Canada, that were scheduled to kick in tomorrow morning for a three day period, based on the fact that Canada and the USA, subject to the finalization of documents, have a DEAL!” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform.

Did he really announce this first on Truth Social? The platform where he sells advance access to his posts? How much money did he just make by giving his paying customers advanced notice of US Government trade policy?

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