There will be no civil war, there will be no secession, there will be no Trumpie uprising.

Well, the good news there is that one of CA’s Senate seats is open for appointment now and the other’s held by an unpopular octogenarian so it’s very possibly soon or never.

1. I kinda agree with Obama.

the awful MAGA slogan is successful

Except neither of those uses are as a singular noun, they’re homonyms, not the same word.

the reaction here seems much stronger than you’d expect from something embarrassing but largely innocuous.

Ronnie Jr.’s the liberal son, is/was a host on Air America and MSNBC. The other one (Michael, I think) is the one who cares about Reagan’s conservative legacy.

While that’s certainly possible, it’s not to be wished for. RBG’s seat remaining open til January still preserves the Roberts court which would still be likely to overrule any legislative attempts to restore the Voting Rights Act or regulate dark money.

You’re correct. We don’t have the votes to stop her so this is all a dumb formality. What happens next is more interesting and more important.

Let’s not forget that FDR tried to stack the SCOTUS back in the 1930's. It didn’t turn out so well

eat shit, cuck.

Or, if your username is sincere, accept that anybody using “PC” as a negative term has been a dick since at least the talk radio heyday of the 90s.

It was destroyed with the car.

That doesn’t make his suicide strategically necessary, just convenient. The heroic act was getting Hughie into Vought Tower in the first place.

Because we live in hell, actually yes:

I had the same impression in the moment, but now I wonder if he knew that the fire would set Annie free. That in fact it was the only way to set Annie free, since maybe he knew they couldn’t open the super-cell from the outside.

Already happened--that’s the DoD IG who was put in charge of stimulus oversight as part of the CARES Act and almost immediately fired as a result.

Unlikely—Falwell, Jr. isn’t ordained and by all accounts isn’t deeply (or maybe even at all) religious. He’s just grifting on daddy’s (shitty) legacy.

The plan is to start doing them as soon as tomorrow:  https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/20/biden-coronavirus-plannings-139629

and other parts are obviously a lie (like saying she had no idea, at 14 (the age of consent in Canada at the time) why the guys were inviting them back to the hotel room)