Or his hands could fall off and he bleeds out on the senate floor, mid-mumble.
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You know, I did think about his health, but @anon61221983 question pushed me into a humorless, ruminative, problem-solving mode. (I still work at home, you see.)
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I keep reading snippets of lumpy* wanting to run again in 2024, but isn’t that going to be a problem if he’s under indictment or already in jail? 60% of people disapprove of ivanka and jr running for president in 2024. For the time being, it looks like we’re free from the trumpy* family ruining the gov’t any time soon.
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Or, you know…
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Yeah, isn’t that weird? I guess protests are trying to get them to “recant”, but Rupert Murdoch, a close 45* ally (does the guy really not have any friends?), denied him. I guess ex-president* called and screamed at him, and he still wouldn’t change.
I guess trumpy* can’t figure out which way the wind is blowing.
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I read somewhere that many more people were single-issue anti-abortion voters this election than usual. I assume that it because they want to vote Republican, realize that there is no other conceivable argument to vote Trump, and pull out abortion as a consideration that trumps all others.
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And so he rants and sues, whirling and twirling, hopefully into a mini tornado that pulls him right up his own hemorrhoid-ridden arse.
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Patsy Stone on AbFab: "[Bettina] was so anally retentive she couldn’t sit down for fear of sucking up the furniture."
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Some of them have passed the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact - Wikipedia . That would help a lot.
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Must like all AbFab references.
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But it is the more moderate/conservative Dems who lost their seats, which would logically indicate the opposite.
There are two run-offs in Georgia to go yet to determine that, and the nastier 45 behaves in the interim, the more likely those are to go to the Dems.
That will be determined largely by local action, anyway. Police departments are controlled by local governments. What is controlled by the executive is the DOJ. And they can be handing out consent decrees like it’s candy at Halloween for police departments that continue brutalizing POC and protesters.
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That’s not the kind of commentary that 538 does, though – they’re a poll aggregator, and demography is what they do. The kind of political narrative where they’d talk much about Abrams is outside their competency.
When they do look at political trends from a more narrative rather than polling-based point of view, none of the people I see leading that analysis are white men, so the name-drop association you’re making seems particularly misleading.
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How many of them will say “Your Fired” ?
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if you hadn’t mentioned it i was going to say that part about being voted out as leader.
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You betcha! And there are more states than New York that have cause. Oregon has a few beefs with 45, too.
The thing that people who, depending on their leanings, either dread or celebrate the idea of 45 receiving a pardon, overlook is this: accepting a pardon is an admission of guilt. It also compels the recipient to cooperate with investigators/prosecutors or face jail for contempt. There’s a whole lot of shit to dig up on 45, and he’s fought it for 4 years. If he’s pardoned, unless he wants to see the inside of a jail cell, he will have to provide his financials; the financials of the Trump Org; details of his dodgy real estate deals; his relationship with Deutsche Bank; his relationship with Putin; actual communications between his campaign and Russian operatives; etc, etc. etc. If anything, being pardoned could not only sink him, it could sink everyone who he’s ever touched. It would crash the GOP; hard. Years of hearings with 45 droning on about all the shit he’s pulled and who he’s pulled it with. It might be the only thing that can break the party and release the hold he has on so many. It’s not so much the crimes; it that they will see him for who he is: a loser.
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pollsters better know well enough to take account of “get out the vote” efforts - or they’re not going to be able to predict with accuracy who turns out. ( it’s generally called likely voters, no? )
but really both that and who the interviewer went to talk to about the reason for the ga swing indicates the kind of erasure that regularly happens to women, especially women of color.
abrams name should be everywhere right now if there was any justice in the world
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Pennsylvania needs to hurry the hell up.
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Michigan took a different route: no-reason absentee ballots and no more gerrymandering (constitutional amendments). We’re still somewhat vulnerable to “faithless electors”, but our SoS and Governor are Dems. Joining the compact should definitely be a priority for next year - most likely a ballot proposal will be necessary to make this happen, but we can do it.
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