ChiGoose

It obviously wasn’t. The idea that the VP can just decide the election is ridiculous. Can Kamala just declare fraud and ensure that Biden wins in 2024? They didn’t close the loophole. They clarified the language to make it clearer because people were being dumb. They basically did the equivalent of writing “do not eat” on silica packets because people were eating them.

To write for the Babylon Bee do you need to have spent your youth eating paint chips under high tension power lines or is that just a benefit?

“Never surrender” is an interesting slogan choice for fundraising off of him surrendering to law enforcement.

Questions of appropriateness aside, this will probably help the Dems as people are reminded how bats*** insane Trump is.

The Dems aren’t a homogeneous party. There is a wide variety of policies from people within the party. Assuming that one Democrat is the same as all other Democrats is simply wrong.

Not to mention that there’s no reason someone running on the philosophy that government is the problem has any incentive to actually make government work. Running a good government disproves what is left of the GOP platform.

Imagine if the GOP had a solution to that. They’d win across the board in the biggest Dem strongholds. But alas! The GOP doesn’t believe in solving problems, they just want to point fingers.

Eh. Most cities are blue. When you are constantly in close contact with people who are very different from you, you realize that they aren’t the stereotypes you see and that the idea of America as a melting pot is a pretty cool thing. That’s fairly antithetical to the modern culture war GOP.

I had a lunch meeting in Milwaukee yesterday. Totally forgot the debate was there tonight until I started seeing all the political billboard ads. Lunch was good though. Milwaukee is a nice city.

Gonna guess that aside from Christie and Hutchinson, the candidates spend very little time attacking the guy they are ostensibly trying to beat.

Definitely over. Guy is pushing three bills

Clearly you’ve read neither.

There are only three: 1. Obtain or maintain power. 2. Transfer as much wealth as possible to the donor class. 3. Push policies that scare or anger voters into electing people who will enable 1 and/or 2. That’s basically it.

South Korea and Japan are both close allies of the US but very much dislike each other. Trying to smooth out the relations between them is a good goal.

Non-Trumpy GOP candidates outperformed Trumpy candidates in 2022. Normie voters are turned off by the extremism and election denialism.

Moderate GOP governors in blue or purple states tend to be pretty popular. Kemp is somewhere between moderate and MAGA while Georgia is a bit more red than purple. He’s the sort of traditional conservative that appeals far more broadly than Trumpy candidates.

Given the evidence in the Mar A Lago case, there's no reason he wouldn't go to prison other than politics. It's the most overwhelming case I've ever seen and the only reason someone in his position wouldn't plead out is because they think they can derail the case, because they cannot seriously hope to win it.

He has NPD. I don't know if he is fundamentally capable of understanding that he might face consequences. He likely wouldn't believe he's going to prison until he's actually in a cell.

He's one of the most well known people in the world. It's not like he can easily just disappear. While I don't love the idea that he could potentially go somewhere that doesn't extradite to the US, I find it incredibly unlikely that he would run.

Finally listening to his lawyers. Could have saved himself a lot of trouble had he started earlier. Then again, maybe Tom Fitton calls him and convinces him to ignore his lawyers again...

I can’t say for certain but I would guess it is. If they could keep the names redacted in this case, I would think they would have.

Trump supporters post names and addresses of Georgia grand jurors online "The purported names and addresses of members of the grand jury that indicted Donald Trump and 18 of his co-defendants on state racketeering charges this week have been posted on a fringe website that often features violent rhetoric, NBC News has learned. *** The grand jurors have come under attack in the days since Trump's indictment, the fourth criminal indictment brought against the twice-impeached former president. “These jurors have signed their death warrant by falsely indicting President Trump," read one post on a pro-Trump forum in response to a post including the names of jurors, which was viewed by NBC News." Can't say it's surprising. The first thing I thought when I saw the indictment had the names of the jurors on it was that they'd be doxxed and threatened.

Fulton county cannot investigate the other states. That's why we have the Feds doing their own investigation. The Georgia investigation is built on violations of Georgia state law. While they cannot charge for the acts in the other states, they can present evidence of them occurring to the jury. The defense can try to explain it away and it'll be up to the jurors to decide who is more believable. For the RICO charge, they just need to prove at least two of the overt acts listed in the charge. They have listed 161 acts, so it would be quite surprising for them to be unable to prove 160 of them.

"This criminal organization constituted an enterprise as that term is defined in O.C.G.A. § 16-14-3(3), that is, a group of individuals associated in fact. The Defendants and other members and associates of the enterprise had connections and relationships with one another and with the enterprise. The enterprise constituted an ongoing organization whose members and associates functioned as a continuing unit for a common purpose of achieving the objectives of the enterprise. The enterprise operated in Fulton County, Georgia, elsewhere in the State of Georgia, in other states, including, but not limited to, Arizona, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, and in the District of Columbia. The enterprise operated for a period of time sufficient to permit its members and associates to pursue its objectives." Page 15 of the indictment Gotta think that meets your criteria for being able to change the national election...

1. That's not how it works. 2. Even if it was, some of the actions that the indictment alleges include trying to get the Georgia legislature to change the outcome for the entire state.