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  • Maybe his polls will actually start going down because people are afraid he has a traumatic brain injury. Look at the blood coming out of his head. That plus possible PTSD is very understandable.

    It's unfortunate, but maybe he should step down so Republicans can run someone else. Trump already had some mental problems and a bullet to the head doesn't help. Blood coming from his head or his wherever isn't good.

  • Are you sure about that? If that's true, it's very new:

    Under the new system, lawmakers can get reimbursed for hotel stays as well as utilities and insurance for property rented or owned in the capital. Members who bought property will not be able to claim reimbursement for principal or interest on their mortgage, but rental costs will be eligible to claim. The daily rate is capped at between $172 and $258, depending on the month.

    https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/07/house-finalizes-expenses-plan-00090806

  • This begs the question: can Mike Johnson function without someone telling him what to say? And who's telling him what to say anyway? The oil industry? The Chinese? Obama?

    Mike needs to answer voters' questions about why he can't function without someone feeding him the words. It's either that or step down. More and more people are asking that recently.

  • There's no confirmation of that. This is literally just a "Michael Bolton" situation. It could be him or an unrelated person.

    My point is that the media has repeated it as fact, while the registration information used his full name (including middle) and birthday. Maybe address too (I forget). They just want to stir up drama before confirming anything.

    You learn these things doing genealogy. You need a high number of data points to confirm who someone is. People get all excited if they have the same last name as a famous person. There are literally a million people with similar last names.

  • This is a good lesson in how much "research" goes into most breaking news. Those "trusted news sites" just saw a common first and last name and assumed it was the same guy.

    It's just "Michael Bolton" all over again.

  • I am not in security, but I have worked in secure areas. The way you prevent issues is having multiple layers of security that watch each other.

    Like you prevent individual employees from committing fraud by having other employees sign off on their work. Then you prevent those employees from colluding to commit fraud by having another group of employees monitor their actions. Finally a third group of employees audits everyone occasionally (at random).

    This way it requires at least 4 people who don't know each other to do anything illegal. I'm sure the Secret Service could do with some audits. Like literally have an entire team of Secret Service people test them, trying to trick them into making a mistake.

  • And I think they just have a donation from someone with his common first and last name. No middle name, no birth date. The only confirmed info says he's a registered Republican.

    This doesn't even matter. Guns are the issue.

  • That's because they're authoritarians. They are protecting a hierarchy that they believe exists in the world. That's why they don't mind if rich white men hurt them. Those people are higher in their hierarchy, so it makes sense to them.

    They don't like it if non-white people or women in general try to subvert this hierarchy. They believe if someone else rises in status they might fall in status. To them it's "not right"; it's a moral issue that people should "stay in their place" in the hierarchy.

  • he's losing right now

    He's not. He's in a statistical tie in the polls, even when looking at swing states. And that assumes the polls are accurate.

    Just yesterday I got a text message to "take a poll". I'm not clicking on any link texted to me, so I won't show up in any of those polls. Also, I don't pick up any numbers that I don't know. They're 90% scams and the rest are wrong numbers.

    There's no way for a pollster to get my opinion because they rely on methods from last century.