It’s purely a theatrical threat. Russia still has plenty of drones and other types of missiles. Supplies are limited sure, but it’s not like they’re running out yet. This is just a demonstration of how crazy Putin is after changing their nuclear stance. And also a response to the US testing an ICBM just recently.
Yup, anyone knowingly working with US intelligence should be changing identities and going to ground in a new country.
People need to stop asking if they’re going to confirm him and start asking senators why they’re voting for a pedophile. Where is the line too far? At what point does appeasing Trump become a threat to the nation?
There is never a path for the speaker of the house to become vice president. Either the President and Vice President are dead and he’s president, or he’s still just the speaker.
As others have pointed out, before or after the electoral count is completed, makes a minor difference. It would be interesting to watch it play out.
It has informed legislators that laws they otherwise might support, have racially biased flaws. That’s pretty much the sum total of it’s influence on anything.
It’s not a policy question it’s a media question. The right started taking over news media the day Nixon resigned. Repealing the Fairness doctrine, ending League of Women voters debates, propping up Fox news, and Sinclair media buying out all the local stations. That’s the decades long community goal they’ve been running. The left needs to understand it, and how to fight it, because MSNBC isn’t doing it.
It’s lack of direct evidence. Trump operates like a mafia boss. No paper trail, always use euphemisms for direct action, use intermediaries for voice communication. That’s why everyone around him got caught and prosecuted, but he didn’t. The entire case would be hearsay interpretations. Federal guidelines wouldn’t let a prosecutor take that to trial. Usually in that case they go for intimidation to get a confession, which doesn’t work on a megalomaniac narcissist.
Don’t stop a damn thing, put a billboard up for every victim.
If he’s using AI scraping, we should set up bots that invent other Trump family members as orangutans. Also label all cat and dog photos as the opposite. All insect pictures labeled as republican or conservative.
I dunno, I can imagine a LOT of corruption.
A donut receipt is an alibi. Just saying.
Gaetz is a loyalty test for the Senate, to see if they’ll really let Trump be a dictator. If he gets blocked, expect calls for senators to resign.
He’s rich, not a branch of government.
Kind of curious where he gets the funding for that board.
Nothing but anecdotal, but it kinda looks like Bluesky is becoming a thing. Couple that with a lot of people taking a step back from the world right now.
Poland’s military is about half again larger than Ukraine prior to the war, large portions of it are very well trained, and their equipment is significantly better. If they decided to march to Moscow, nothing Russia has, short of nukes, would slow them down. And Poland would really like to discuss with them, some of the things that happened in WW2, in an up front and personal way.
The US still makes massive amounts of cotton. That all gets exported to other countries before getting turned into garments and things.
Coffee, tea, and everything you’re wearing right now.
Someone needs to ask him who he’s looking for. They’ve already said in interviews that they were going to target nationals from Haiti and Nicaragua first because those would be the easiest to round up and deport large numbers to due to logistics. The problem is, that’s targeting people based on their nationality, and that’s against federal law.
The mass deportation program is going to be a horrible cluster fuck. They don’t really have the legal standing to implement it, but they’re going to try anyway. Which is going to lead to even more human rights abuses. Which is going to lead to more violence. And a whole fuck ton of court cases and legal battles. Ending with mass deportation not actually happening, but probably thousands of people hurt or killed. A whole lot of lawyers getting way more rich than anyone has any right to. All so we can waste lives, money and brain cells on a moron with a bad idea.
It’s not much better in the North. Self segregation is alive and well, along with massive funding disparities in school districts.