He’s got an excuse, his brain exploded. Seriously, that’s why he gets any grace at all. If he was just acting like this on his own, Dems would be screaming 1000x louder. Instead, its just a matter of “bless his heart.” At least he isn’t Dr. Oz.
He won’t survive his next primary.
He can afford it.
Half of Reddit is bots, especially Russian bots, so American AI is being trained on Russian Propaganda Bots. That explains a lot.
Now that they’ve poured zillions into it, they are starting to realize that they’ll never get their return on that investment, so now they have to manage the draw down so it doesn’t all crash.
At least some are recognizing it.
Trump might use it to pay warriors for the 2028 election. He’s going to need people who will fight viciously to keep him in the White House, and now he can sweeten the deal with more than a pardon.
So it’s a really, really stupid idea?
He’s definitely going to do it.
Wait until we find out that the school-assigned devices are always listening, and everything is being scanned for keywords by the NSA, and they’re taking action based on what they hear, arresting and deporting people.
It sounds insane, but this is MAGAmerica. If this was the top story tomorrow, I wouldn’t be surprised, at all. Think of this when the Administration says they are going to give a free laptop or tablet to every American schoolchild.
No, the Cult isn’t looking for a successor. Trump is God, he’ll live forever.
Of course they were, how many times a day did we hear the phrase “Biden’s Open Borders?” It wasn’t Dems saying that, they were saying exactly the opposite, but MAGAs had obviously been told to tell that particular Big Lie over and over.
That’s a standard MAGA strategy. They’ll be doing it again this election, probably something to do with trans in sports or bathrooms, instead of the real issues. And gullible dopes like you will listen to them.
He wasn’t allowing it, MAGAs were literally INVITING people to flood here, screaming loudly, over and over that Biden had OPEN BORDERS, which was not true at all. Nobody was more responsible for all the illegal migration than MAGAs, and they damn well know it.
They did it by design - invite them to come here, then blame Biden, and you were gullible enough to fall for it.
On a similar note, we need to boost SCOTUS to 29 or 31. The party membership of the court shouldn’t be so tight that one bad faith president can negatively impact American policy for the next half century.
29 justices, with rolling term limits, so every president gets to appoint a few, but not enough to screw the results.
Having a district cross a state border will be a problem when a Rep has to navigate two separate state governmental systems when trying to access help for their constituents.
Not at all. People don’t understand a lot of the nuances of gerrymandering, and this sort of reliance on it often backfires, especially as a decade goes on.
The redistricting happens at the beginning of the decade, following the Census. As the decade progresses, many areas change, with some areas booming, others waning, and their original influence on the redistricting changes. For instance, a Red rural area may start to lean Blue as new housing developments around a new industry pop up, and by the end of the decade, that reliable Red district is now very Purple, maybe even fully Blue.
This unusual mid-decade redistricting happened based on 6 year old data, a period of extreme political upheaval. To expect that the political make-up is exactly the same as it was back then is expecting a LOT. Many districts are an unknown factor.
Consider this:
They got rid of one solid Blue district, but diluted three solid Red districts. Those Red districts are probably 30% Blue now. Normally, that wouldn’t be enough to win the district, but we have been seeing elections in Trump districts that are showing enormous drops in support, sometimes by 30 points or more. If this redistricting has given Dems a 30% boost in a year on which MAGAs are down 20-30%, those previously solid districts become prime for flips. And that’s without even considering that the party make-up may already be far different than expected, because of time.
The thing to remember is that MAGAs always have a plan, but it’s always a bad plan. They only see what’s right in front of them, and they never look down the road, to the next several steps. In this case, they killed a Blue district, and that’s good enough. They have no idea they’ve endangered three districts. Maybe they won’t get all three, but if they flip even one, then their efforts will be a net negative, because now they have three MAGA Congressional reps who now have a significant number of hostile constituents they’ll have to deal with, whether they like it or not. They’ll screw this up, they always do.
Good point, it’s a classic Cult of Personality, which means there is no #2, and a whole lot of people who think they should be #2, and not one of them will look interesting to Trumpers. Once he croaks, the knives will come out, and the backstabbing will be glorious. Wear a poncho.
Oh, yeah, that won’t be a problem at all. You want MAGA deciding who gets to have kids, and who doesn’t? What if they determine someone is “underbabied,” and they are ordered to breed? What if someone gets pregnant who isn’t licenced?
They’re not doing it to protect kids.
That’s what I’m trying to explain to people. This gerrymandering is likely to backfire, especially in a bloodbath Midterms.
In Louisiana, they got rid of one Blue district, by spreading the votes across three Solid Red Districts, severely diluting them. The district may have gone away, but the votes are still there. Now there are a LOT more Dem votes in those three districts, during an election in which MAGA votes are likely to either flip to Dem, or not vote at all. It is very possible that they may just have taken away one district, only to flip three.
Yeah, I hear ya, I really do, but here’s the thing - he’s still on the books as a Democrat, so if everything else lines up, he makes it so the Dems control the Senate, even if he isn’t playing along. If the count is close enough, with two DINOs (Fetterman), it might mean they can’t win some votes, but as the Majority Party, they still control the legislative schedule, and most importantly they control committees, including investigative and oversight committees with subpoena and arrest powers.
Any Dem legislation isn’t going to go anywhere anyway, because Trump will never sign it, so the real job over the next 2 years will be investigating people, getting things on the record, impeaching where possible, etc., and cranking up the outrage for 2028. In a situation like that, DINOs still have a big impact, just by keeping the majority control out of MAGA hands.