This was my thought as well. Perhaps the best way to step back from tariffs without looking like chickening out, and about the right time for campaign season to ramp up.

If his admin has any sense of strategy, they’ll take the out and then brag about price reductions in summer.

My belief has been they had to totally screw up 2025 to make people feel like 2026 would be getting better. I anticipate too many folks will just see year to year improvement and not reflect on why 2025 was a particularly rough year.

The repercussions will be at worst felt by the grunts on the ground, and those repercussions will be used as an excuse to somehow disregard contentious voting site results…

But is it an overperform? Looking back to 2011, the strongest performance by a GOP for this specific seat is 38%, and it was this election, the last GOP candidate had 18% before this…

For whatever reason, local and presidential elections can very much swing differently, and in this example it clearly looks like you can’t read much of anything into the results since it has been different from presidential outcomes already…

He was pretty milquetoast, but he got saddled with the post-covid ‘wtf’ the economy went through with shortages and price hikes combined with impacts from Russia’s invasion…

None of it reasonably Biden’s fault, but he got stuck with it happening on his watch so lot’s of people need to blame something vaguely controllable so they blame and vote against the president.

Presidents are usually as likely to be defined by their circumstances as their actual actions or inactions.

That’s what his bowel movement said at the press event.

He’s saying to take over elections in 15 states specifically, so Republican states will be left alone, sounds good to them…

Well they already were starting to blame her and throw her under the bus…

I assume he intended to say “War” as the first word instead of peace.

He was thinking about his “Board of peace” and the wrong word slipped out.

If you hang out with elderly folks that are slipping, you get used to figuring out the word they actually meant and how the wrong word got there.

Sure, but as yet he remains the mouthpiece.

If he either falls apart or even worse, somehow grows a conscience, then they will isolate him and speak on his behalf.

Because all the President has to do is say “Naw, I’m good”

Or, historically, his wife claims he’s good, but can’t speak to anyone directly, so she would talk with him away from everyone and come back with his feedback.

I predict Stephen Miller would be the one to assume that role this time.

The point is that eggs are usually one of the cheapest options for the nutritional value.

If you skip them because they are too expensive, then you are probably not getting good nutrition.

If you are eating other options that are more expensive, well then sure the cost doesn’t matter as much.

But with bird flu being a thing the egg prices are going to be volatile, and generally nothing to do with the presidential administration one way or the other. Need a “basket of goods” to get a more useful picture.

That seems to be the thing the administration fails to understand, accountability through apparent investigations and prosecutions mollify the anger. Even if consequences are by any reasonable measure are mild, people are still mollified at an acknowledgement of wrong doing. Deny them this, and the anger rises…

Similarly, being able to lose an election has similar value. Your opponents “won” they don’t need to extract more out of you. Deny them that and again people are going to potentially break.

Anecdotally, I know of a few people that seem shockingly close to violent uprising that I never would have guessed. I can’t imagine the volume of people closer to extreme views and when they will snap…

Man, that’s like all the pixels… I don’t think that really needed all those pixels…

Also “this could have been an SVG”

Well, it’s not the worst, but it is probably actually the sort of move that will be most likely trigger him to be stupidly outraged.

We can deal with multiple bad things at once…

They believe he will enforce the law against non white people, and that’s all they want.

Also he probably looks at a Mercator projection map and thinks New Trumpistan would be just YUGE. Trump the great they will call him in his own imagining of history.

Well he can’t unilaterally cancel the elections, for example, you know California will hold elections. The question would be whether he gets congress to ignore the results of the midterms.

4. Sell off US debt

Realistically probably the most devastating thing they could do.

He said in the article, based on “no one’s going to stop us”:

“Nobody’s going to fight the United States militarily over the future of Greenland,”

“We live in a world, in the real world, Jake, that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power,” he said. “These are the iron laws of the world since the beginning of time.”

“The United States of America is running Venezuela,” Mr. Miller said, dismissing international treaties enshrining a nation’s right to independence and sovereignty as “international niceties.”

If someone really deserves just getting a beat down, it’s Stephen Miller.

Fear will keep the local systems in line