Sorry, I meant to post this here. If there’s interest in crowdsourcing an audit, I will post the link on both threads.
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Yeah, but it’s a Cybertruck.
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See you in four years.
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If the dems somehow manage to get the House, that would really comforting and mildly hilarious.
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If you think about it, it makes perfect sense when you apply Trump Logic™. Under the DHS umbrella are agencies that control who and what are allowed into the country like ICE, CBP, INS, and TSA. Trump considers almost anybody entering the country to be animals, vermin, scum, or invaders. QED, Noem should lead DHS since she is notorious for killing animals.
It’s not going to happen. Republicans are 1 seat away from having a majority, and there’s at least 3 uncalled races that are heavily tipping R. The only comfort I take is that the R majority will be so thin that it may end up being a (somewhat) moderating force because they can’t afford to lose a single vote by swinging too far toward the extreme right. And if they do fuck it all up when they have a trifecta, they will pay for it in 2026.
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“I’ll take ‘Mythical Concepts’ for $500, Alex!”
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I think there’s is some, but also that it’s as simple as “Phew, no prison time for me!”
Plus, “Oh, you love me? Great, get over here!” versus “Oh, you’re not willing to put me above yourself and everything you believe in? Fuck off, you’re dead to me.”
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Pennsylvania Senate race headed to recount as Casey trails McCormick by less than half a point
Casey had until noon to waive an automatic recount in the race with Republican Dave McCormick. The incumbent Democrat trails by roughly 30,000 votes statewide.
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I don’t think his logical thinking process goes much beyond, “what can I do right now that will benefit me in this moment” but there is a process behind it. With the bulk of his appointments thus far the train of thought is, “this person has been loyal to me, therefore because I am a transactional person I will give them a cushy position in my cabinet, until they do something I don’t like” like Gatez or Noem. Or, “I like the way this person looks, and because they look the part I will give them a part fitting their looks”. Like his SecDef appointment. I mean FFS he picked Mattis last time around just because his nickname was “mad dog”.
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This part caught my attention:
Casey trails McCormick by nearly 30,000 votes, a margin wide enough that a recount would be unlikely to change the outcome of the race. However, the Department of State said Wednesday, roughly 80,000 ballots statewide have not yet been counted, though many of those may be rejected.
80,000!?! WTH
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Leave it to Teen Vogue to speak truth to power…
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Rhetorical question, surely, but obviously the answer is approximately 70% of voters. Bonehead-level stupid strategy courting this tiny fragment of voters. Women of voting age are around 50% of voters (sick of our rights to be counted as human persons threatened), LGBTQ+ are nearly 10% (sick of their right to merely exist being threatened) and then there are men who don’t completely suck (you’re not exactly “woke” per se, but you know shit has gone pear-shaped).
It’s beyond time to pander to the people who actually vote for progress. 
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I wonder when Trump will set up the Volksgerichtshof?
He’s going to need it if he wants to retry the Central Park 5.
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This feels way too plausible 
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So we’re living with a dominant political party who may end up ‘OK with’ a representative (Gaetz) suddenly abandoning his House seat (and the voters who put him there) entirely to escape a legal ethics probe into sex trafficking so that he can go and be appointed as attorney general for the entire united states. There is no bottom to the ethical squalor of these foul scums! and still they get voted into office. @#$@!!!
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Or may not. HCR seems fairly hopeful they won’t. There’s a lot of infighting going on:
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I hope she’s right… The “moderate” republicans keep making behind the scenes noise about Trump and then most of them never do shit about it, because staying in power clearly means more to them than anything else. I hope they’ve finally grown a spine, but I don’t know if we should hold our breathes considering how they’ve kept doing this for years now with regards to Trump… In my more paranoid moments, I do wonder if they are really all in lock-step, but leaking “dissent” narratives to make it seem otherwise… At this point, I really don’t know. They knew who he was going into all this and they STILL backed him on the Republican ticket…
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I think some of them are in rock/hard place. They back him because he’s so popular with voters (and the election proved they were correct), but they’re also leery of backing him because his stated policies are not popular, and could lose them support back home.
Which of the two is more important to act on must be a tough calculus for their anti-education brains.
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