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  1. He only wants to be as rich as Putin. He doesn't give a fuck about America and only wants to steal our wealth. It's that simple and every decision he makes is only in that effort. Everything else, including Project 2025, is either theater to distract from the theft or destroy the guardrails in place to make the theft more difficult.
  2. This is pretty far down the list of things that are important, but they are absolutely going to ruin the enjoyment of watching sports by having maga freaks all over telecasts and increasing coverage of maga friendly athletes and coaches anecdotes. The Super Bowl and the 4 Nations Face-off and Daytona (allegedly, I don't watch) are just the start. The media companies are going to do it as part of their strategies to stay in good graces. I don't see Longhorn football avoiding that fate either. I'm going to wean myself off pro sports as best I can.
  3. At some point close to the end of trumps term, if he doesn't die of natural causes, Thiel/Musk/Vance are going to take their shot to 25th amendment trump out of office. They'll need to come up with some weird coalition to get 2/3rd of Congress to vote Vance in, but they'll find a way through intimidation and money whipping. But probably he's going to die of mcdonalds before it comes to that so it'll be clean.
  4. It always starts out cordial and then the costume comes off. Every time, every trump voter. I like that they come out of the weeds to post in the thread every now and then, because it reminds me of the fact that to defeat this cancer we can never let our guard down and it will require far more effort than just voting.
  5. I don't think the immunity rulings made presidents kings by itself. But that in conjunction with upcoming cases that could consolidate and wrestle control away from the legislative and judicial branches certainly will. The court could still stop him. Don't have much confidence they will, but they still can.
  6. Since we know all roads are leading to the Supreme Court, is there any hope that the court will actually restrain executive power to a meaningful degree and prevent trump from becoming king? I would think that if they believe that free and fair enough (they clearly side to voter suppression) elections should continue as they have that they wouldn't really want to extend that much power to the next elected Democrat president. It also seems pretty obvious that trump's policies are going to result in a recession with significant job losses and inflation meaning the republican's chances in 4 years to win an actual presidential election are going to be pretty bad without fraud. All of this EO action is prelude to the main card. It's endangered people, making people sick, killing people and taking careers away from many but they obviously don't give a shit about any of that. What's going to happen with the court? I personally am maybe 10% hopeful. I think there will be a 4th judge to side with Sotomayor, Kagan and Jackson. But you have to peel off two of Roberts, Kavanaugh, Barrett or Gorsuch. I find that a bit hard to fathom.
  7. We may not realize it yet, but we might need an American Navalny to galvanize around and save the country.
  8. Something to this effect is probably the kindle by which the chain of events will occur leading to the cancellation of the next presidental election. Trump absolutely wants it to happen as long as he's personally not the victim of such violence.
  9. I'm not well read enough to know whether this fits into the authoritarian dismantling democracy playbook, but stuff like this smells to me that these events and responses work to their favor. It shows to the masses that they simply cannot trust democratically elected government to function and that the dysfunction between different layers of government is because it is large and complex, and therefore the solution is to allow the autocratic wannabe to dismantle it brick by brick so that they can cut through the layers and have the power to swiftly make decisions. Is this part of how guys like Orban consolidated power? I really haven't payed much attention since the election for sanity sake, but this event kind of pulled me back in temporarily. It seems this serves to their objectives, the incompetence. It works because blame will never be placed at Trump's feet. They know they will never be held accountable so there is no penalty for crashing it all to the ground. A critical mass of people have been convinced that the "swamp" and democracy is to blame for this first of many tragedies to happen over the next 4 years.
  10. If there's a free and fair election in 28, just run Beshear, full populist mode. I would prefer Moore, but I'm hitting a 7 iron off the tee, no driver.
  11. We should all take the time we need to process this result. But it should be measured in months and not years. We have to stay informed and engaged. I haven't been on socials in many many years and all of my interactions have been with Trump voting people in person (and some phone banking in the last several months) or reading political news. And even still I'm going to unplug at least until a few months into the next administration. But I will be back, no matter where I physically am. I'm not giving up on America.
  12. I think the Democratic nominee will need to show some aggression and anger next time. They will need to show, in simple, simple words, that policies to help the working class have been championed by the Democrats but cannot be implemented because of GQP grandstanding and THAT is who to blame for it. The GQP has become experts at stonewalling everything Democrats want to do and then hanging the noose around us and getting the masses to believe it's the Democrats fault. Fuck it, we need a communicator that will come out swinging and bludgeon these fuckers over and over and over and over again with that message. Tap into the same rage space that's allowed this dipshit to come to office twice. There's still room to be optimistic and hopeful around it but rage is a core way to connect with the voters you need to persuade. It's a big ask, but ask for the voters to deliver the presidency, senate, and house so we can actually do something and not just talk the talk. Normally I don't think that would be possible, but we are all going to be worse off, and the Trump voters especially worse off, after 4 years. There will be a receptive audience for it in 2028.
  13. Maybe I'm also cynical in the aftermath, but I'm thinking that the campaign doesn't even matter anymore. Just pick the right candidate in the primary for general election purposes. Resume and credentials don't matter, male-ness, heartland or heartland adjacent, and white-ness, white-ness flexible in case of a powerful brilliant communicator, i.e. Wes Moore.
  14. In post-mortem I agree to that. Beforehand, I was of the opinion that Beshear was woefully unqualified as a Democratic red state governor because he really is only that because of his dad and name recognition. But I think I know now that the resume doesn't really matter to the decisive slice of the electorate. Beshear probably would have beat Trump. Agree 100% with your position.
  15. I don't really get this take. If you look at who delivered the fatal blow to Harris in the decisive states, it was people who were NEVER going to vote for her no matter how she campaigned. Her goose was cooked by her gender as unfair as it is. Unless you think doing so would have juiced turnout for her, but how much juice was left to squeeze there? If there are free and fair presidential elections in 28 I'm pretty sure Trump will do a fine enough hatchet job on the economy to hand the presidency to the democratic nominee, if it's a white male from the heartland. We will have to endure a lot of pain in the interim.
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