2-1. He's barely polling better with the general public than child sex slavery does among Dems and independents.

Was about to say this.

Man, that's a throwback.

There will be no post-Watergate revanchist rump left over from this administration, nor any Iran-Contra Lost Causers.

Notwithstanding the near-total lack of diabolical geniuses left in the building, we are going to dismantle the interoperability of the Trumpist GOP like a terrorist network.

"The Dems are trying to trans your--"

"--and next we have deputy defense undersecretary for policy Matt Froschberger, who leaked the location of US troops to Iranian missile forces in order to win $30,000 on Kalshi... Sorry, were you saying something? I can't hear you over his screams of agony."

I know there's a lot of dour attitudes about thermostatic backlash and a Poland-style stall (as if we didn't already have one of those) but I take great hope that we'll be able to lead this nation down a new road, since we'll have a guy to crucify for corruption at every mile marker.

Show me the 2, baby. Show me the post-Katrina 2. Papa needs a new party system!

writing words about politics is a product produced by a D+50 demographic for a D+40 consumer base while trying to appear D+10

It definitely pissed them off even more that his skin sucks.

This is very personally painful to me, both as someone whose parents are friends with the Chairman and someone whose name is frequently misheard as "Warsh" by dumbasses from MD.

(They casually dropped that they've vacationed with him in the family chat a few months back, I'm still getting over it)

I also find hate the idea of this paying off for him but, like, the ball is gonna fall when it rolls off the table...

That said, I imagine they got some usable footage for their purposes...

One of these chucklefucks tried to get something out of me when they saw my very white ass wearing an American flag near the Little Tokyo riot.

And I saw their very white asses dressed for content and let them know that absolutely no one was harassing me for wearing it except them.

It's the admin's guiding principle.

Major W for Westboro Baptist on this one.

He doesn't even have to wade into fraught political territory to do it. He can literally just say "I've smelled liquor on his breath on the job multiple times" like a cop citing the odor of marijuana for a vehicle search.

This is objectively happening, by the way. Hegseth has routinely targeted Vance's allies in the building and Vance set up a working group to determine the specific basis for firing him like 14 months ago now.

All of us have little reason to trust Vance and I know the replacement will probably be DeSantis, but the overwhelming force with which he is going to throw Hegseth out on his worthless dumb ass at the first opportunity is a thought I constantly relish.

Syria and Iraq are acting like old and famous states, and Hungary has stopped screwing with the original applications of that phrase... Lord, let the 2026 midterm be the definitive end of the world's early 21st-century degradation.

"Hooray, an actor I enjoy had credible proof that he was being extorted with a sexual assault allegation"

That's good to hear, I really liked him on Narcos.

I was in a college Middle East studies class while the Syrian Civil War was taking place and I would say that everything I read about the likely future of the region was tied for 0% accuracy.

Oh shit, he beat that rap?

Its maybe my most reactionary belief but I think people are too down on judicial castration.

It should be super rare and a voluntary alternative to traditional punishment, but some dudes' sexuality is a total nonstarter and you may as well just call it.

Like, 1,000 guys can be safely castrated without major social collapse. That's a manageable number.

That is what I'm talking about, I mean he's kissed way too much ass to lose that much standing in the admin that he'd try.

But he is constitutionally invincible.

I looked it up when I saw a female friend post on her IG stories about 1/3 of us hopping on the ol' Rape Academy because I knew it was objectively wrong... and was pleasantly surprised to see it was way more wrong than I'd hoped (or feared).

I know that JD has kissed way too much ass for too long to prevent this from happening, but I really like the idea of Trump trying to fire him and Vance just dodging his calls until he dies.

He can't really do shit about it...

How do you figure the latter part? Trump will be mostly nonverbal well before the next election.

The alleged competitors of AI data centers produce a billion of gallons of feces every day yet no one ever complains about that.