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I keep reminding people that if he holds on to power past the end of his term, he won't need votes to do it. So his supporters are no longer useful to him.

Good night, Westley Jerome. Good work. Sleep well. I'll most likely kill you in the morning.

This isn't new at all, Bush and his cronies were doing this 20 years ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality-based_community

Here is the key quote from an anonymous aide, widely believed to be Karl Rove

The aide said that guys like me were 'in what we call the reality-based community,' which he defined as people who 'believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.' [...] 'That's not the way the world really works anymore,' he continued. 'We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors...and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do'.

I predict the movie itself will be kind of meh, but the soundtrack will be awesome

Of course. Those two scenarios are totally different, though. As different as black and white ....

What a great idea, deport the ones who actually make a point to pay their taxes....

I bet there are Conservative morons out there who say "See! Life is good for these people back home, they have cell service after all!"

Not necessarily for good reasons, though. Particularly over the last decade or so.

He doesn't even have the "just woke up from a 40-year coma" vote sewn up, since there's a Cuomo running....

The Republican is the Guardian Angels guy from the 80s, he's probably not relevant outside of Staten Island, and a few old cat ladies.

The Republican in the race is the old Guardian Angels guy from the 70s and 80s. He's a bit of a clown, has gotten caught in a bunch of lies, and said stupid and sexist shit on the radio. But he hates Donald Trump, and owns a bunch of cats. He seems like an elder statesman when compared against your average MAGAt.

But he doesn't stand a chance, even with all these people running. Adams beat him last time 2-to-1, and nobody liked Adams in the last election, either.

Only because we keep lowering the bar for him. We disqualified Howard Dean because he screamed funny....

The actual, literal quote speaks for itself

And I have to tell you, Europe has a lot of spirit for this war. A lot of people, you know, when I first got involved, I really didn't think they did, but they do. And I saw that a month ago when you were there, most of you many of you were there. The level of esprit de corps spirit that they have is amazing.

Isnt Ken Paxton's wife divorcing him, on "biblical grounds", as she puts it? Maybe Abbott, Musk, and Paxton are a throuple....

I'm still not convinced that the Daily Beast didn't get trolled, I havebt seen this anywhere else yet

For those of you who don't know, Putin literally stole one of the Patriots' owners SB rings.

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/heres-how-vladimir-putin-stole-a-super-bowl-ring-from-the-patriots-robert-kraft/

No, I disagree. I know 80 year olds who won the genetic lottery and are still sharp and can operate a car just fine. I know others who probably shouldn't be on the highway anymore, but they have accepted that and only use their car to get around locally. They know their limits and work within them.

One older person I know is a perfectly safe driver, who used to be an expert navigator, but now once you get him off of his well-known routes he will spend forever looking for "that next turn" and end up driving off in a random direction. His family tries very hard to discourage him from driving alone now.

Yes, younger people mature at different rates, but the decline of older people is much more varied and there is a much larger range of age and abilities to consider. There is no practical way to differentiate solely based on age. Even in states where they periodically retest older drivers, all 3 of the cases I stated above would probably pass. (While a 4th older driver, who is perfectly fine driving by themselves but gets confused while being talked to while driving, would fail because they wouldn't process the tester's directions in real time).

It's a convenient filter to weed out any lawyers in the department with ethics, and replace them with lawyers who will do what the Boss wants, no matter what. They even admit it:

"Any sanctimonious career bureaucrat expressing faux outrage over the President’s policies while sitting idly by during the rank weaponization by the previous administration has no grounds to stand on," White House spokesperson Harrison Fields said in a statement.

Which is Trumpspeak for "We want anyone with an independant code of ethics gone"....

Well, yeah, he wants to award all the contracts to companies him and his cronies control....

He can do whatever the fuck he wants, as long as half of Congress permits him to do so by not impeaching him.

I'm not. The next phase of Trumpism won't need votes from citizens, only from Congress....