Her 2020 campaign wasn’t actually that good. She started with the same boost of optimism and then fell apart once she started defining specifics and every other statement was walking things back. She flamed out for a reason.

I agree with your statement here though. She had all the momentum and tools to win and flubbed it through actual choices, not some inherent insurmountable challenges.

If only our opponent hadn’t made a choice detrimental to us!

Another recent change was Trump pushing for the filibuster to be removed. The establishment could just claim it was because they need it to stop him so they should never stop him enough that he would make Republicans do it, but it could also be seen as a freedom they don’t want to have should we get a Democratic trifecta in the future. Being able to say “I want to do good things, but shucks the system stopped me” is a valuable tool for elected officials.

So it’s the caviest of caves, without even giving the Democrats anything. Are they worried that they were winning too much?

No, I mean he could raise way more than his defense will cost. He’s kind of one of the mythic figures of the resistance.

When the early revolution is recorded to history, we’ll remember such luminaries as the Portland Frog, Polka Dot Lady, and Sandwich Guy.

If he hasn’t crowd funded his legal expenses it’s because he’s actively choosing not to. He could be grifting this so hard.

I keep worrying that he’s going to use authoritarianism and a violation of the rule of law to do good things and people will normalize those things as ok, but he seems devoted to never helping anyone who isn’t rich or armed.

I think it would take some exceptional political gymnastics for Hochul to have personally campaigned with him and then justify how his election must be annulled. She’ll just refuse all his plans that need state approval. The state has a lot of power to just try to make him fail in order to teach the people that only neoliberals can be trusted to lead.

Direct Federal fuckery is more likely.

For every human that is moved into the state of Texas from New York you must transfer ownership of another human to the state.

What? Nothing here is evidence they want(ed) a shutdown. They’re refusing a SNAP funding bill because they want the poorly funded program to be leverage for reopening the government.

That they view feeding people, many of which are their own voters, as something that only Democrats care about shows their utter disinterest in supporting the rubes that vote for them, but none of this is part of some Republican master plan or advancing Republican causes.

They can, but your golden boy has not.

There’s another article about 6 in 10 saying the country is seriously off track. It’s hard to figure out the voter that says this and then is unsure who to vote for, but somehow that ends up with 8% saying “I don’t know”.

Sure, when you’re free. But if you’re under the absolute control of a government, not being able to just be lost is really important.

We have better tracking for my online shopping than for actual people.

No one thinks he believes #1. Like most Republicans, he’s very obviously not a true believer or he’d be acting differently regarding doing good for people, not just waving the Bible around when he does evil. Two actual Popes have said what he’s involved in is wrong.

Especially the gubment overreach 2A guys. Like I know they’re mostly conservatives that don’t think non white people have rights, but some of them really seemed like they believed. Every once in a while there’s an overstep that gets some of the more libertarian minded conservatives to buck the movement a little, but they’ve been shockingly quiet about all this really egregious implementation of everything they say they fear.

How do you even function in the real world?

What more is there to investigate? What more information could they possibly be seeking out before making a decision one way or another.

They’re just sitting on this until enough time has passed for them to drop it officially.

He wasn’t killed for his opinion. He was a bystander killed by stray bullets from a trigger happy protester shooting at another protester.

I don’t for a second believe the DOJ was scared of disappointing Biden. The choice of Garland alone is a signal to not go too fast or too hard. He’s almost uniquely the worst choice you could make if you wanted Trump to suffer consequences, both in terms of temperament and optics. And on top of that we’re to believe Biden, who explicitly campaigned on restoring normality and healing the county, gave no counsel at all during the selection process or any time over the two years before Garland passed the buck.