Will cross-post in the elections thread, too.
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Of for fuckās sake. Trump as speaker of the house?!
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Theyāre fucking themselves with this bullshit. I suspect that the āfreedom caucusā wing will scuttle the speaker vote, just because they donāt believe in getting anything done, but are nihilists only concerned with destruction. Itās all they know how to do.
But Raskin is right that Trump very well could destroy the current version of the GOPā¦ maybe entirely.
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Itās always possible that Trump will win his base back again as he did after January 6, but it really seems like more and more Republicans are seeing him as the loser that he is. Unfortunately the new guy is all kinds of awful as wellā¦
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I do think that this will just split the base though. The Trumper cultists will stick with him, while the more moderate wing of the party will back DeSantisā¦ but he canāt get the Trumpers. Meanwhile, Trump will do all he can to tear down the party if they cross him.
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I wouldnāt be surprised if thereās a generational split too. Younger conservative voters not wanting Trump to run again.
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dear axios, didnāt we just learn that the polls are completely unreliableā¦ like what was it: five days ago?
memory like goldfish those political reporters
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Well, theyāll get it right THIS TIME, for sure!
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I donāt know about the quality of memory among humans at Axios, but studies on goldfish have shown they donāt have particularly short memories. At least one researcher of intelligence in fish, Culum Brown, has suggested we might lie to ourselves that they do because we have often placed them in small and uninteresting containers.
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Oh to be a fly on the wall.
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Any fly would need a lot of willpower to remain on the wall in a room filled with so much bullshit.
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Theyāve said that before. Theyāre not capable of changing.
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So trueā¦
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Your son is a bona-fide genius.
(probably very stable also, at least more than most).
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So I just learned that, as of right now (with votes still being counted in places like California) the national popular vote for House members isnāt super encouraging for the Democrats. Currently the total vote count for House members is about 46.8% Democratic vs. 51.7% Republican.
Obviously seats are won in individual districts so the national popular vote doesnāt mean much in our current system. But still, itās kinda a bummer that it appears that more Republicans showed up to vote than Democrats this time around. Hereās a chart showing the national popular House vote for the last several election cycles. (Note that this yearās numbers will change a bit when the count is complete, but probably not by a huge margin.)
see! just like political reporters!!! 
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Itās worth noting that the Republicans had a lot more races where they were running unopposed this year.
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