The consultants got her. She’s going centrist for a presidential run

Because he’s a pug

MTG is distancing herself for a presidential run. She cut all direct criticism of Trump at the same time she started sounding like Kamala - she’s got so many consultants up her ass

She resigned for the same reason so many others are considering it… It’s a really bad time to be in office. Being an incumbent right now is not a good look

Republicans haven’t fallen in line with Trump over ideology… They have no ideology. They just want to be reelected, and right now it’s looking like Trump is a sinking ship. It’s becoming very clear it’s been Trump and their career, and only a few (like Mike Johnson for reasons I don’t understand) are willing to double down on Trump after the election results

Through clenched teeth. Let’s be real, this was obviously damage control for him… The votes were already clear

They all fell in line to release the Epstein files… Well, all but one

In the weirdest timeline, his meeting yesterday with Mamdani has turned him progressive

He really wasn’t. He had been out of the writing process for multiple seasons, they had him recording off site

The cracks have been showing for years now, I won’t deny he has an energy to his voice acting, but the replacements are fine. The problem is the writing

Ironically, that would probably end up with a different season of slop

The writers haven’t been subtle, though the episodes they’ve been directly saying they don’t know what people want from them and they keep getting told to be more like season 1

Well, we got something like season 1. The characters undid their character development and the episodes are aimless riffs off of classic sci-fi and cosmic horror

I think I’d just get the writing staff off of social media and pay them to hang out in a comfy room until they have an idea they’re excited about again

I refuse to believe it was not both of them until I see evidence of something even more damaging

He’s tried every other argument, now he’s trying reverse psychology again

It’s because he likes the spotlight. He’s said a ton of very sus things to reporters over the years just to be the Epstein whisperer

That’s what Concord looks like??? In my head it was way more brutalist

The way he responded to this was really good. He got up there and said “I’m only surprised it took this long for Trump to come after me, bring it on”

Pretty much. It means give maximum output, which can easily be over 100%.

And that means burn out

Oh, they tried to talk him out of tarrifs. But he personally loves them, because they make other countries come to him and kiss his ass and make “concessions” that were already in place to get them removed

Geopolitics works on several layers, getting progressively less public as you go down

If their objective was to strike back hard enough to be a deterrent next time they’re attacked, why would they announce their intentions before they had the missiles ready?

This announcement does a few things. It reassures the Iranian people that they won’t let strikes on their country go unanswered in the future. It is a show of strength towards Israel, because they know that the global political climate will protect them from war with Israel for the near future

And possibly most importantly, it’s a departure from nukes. They’re announcing the intention of pursuing alternative means of defense

The timing of this makes me think they’ve negotiated their way back in from the cold. This might have been planned all the way back at the strikes on their enrichment sites - they were strangely accommodating of that whole event, but it would make them look weak if they immediately said they were giving up their nuclear ambitions

Well that’s a misleading title

Same as it ever was

Lol. Come on, keep your dreams in the realm of possibility

Trump will die never facing consequences for his many crimes. But it will be soon

They will go to unimaginable lengths to learn the wrong lessons, don’t get me wrong. And they’re doing their very best

They’re testing literally everything except being more progressive… Everything from working with MAGA and bringing out Obama

But none of their bizarre mixing and matching of everything imaginable, including testing fucking Hunter Biden for a presidential run, have paid off at all

I just think it’s finally obvious, and urgent, enough that the leadership is going to turn over. At the end of the day, the leadership might be willing to go down with the ship over this, but the rank and file won’t