You merely have to be born a citizen AFAIK, hence Cruz being able to run.

If you want an up and coming woman of color candidate, I think Tammy Duckworth could take us places.

I think it goes without saying that nothing about the Trump phenomenon has gone according to traditional patterns.

There’s something to be said for the magic of low expectations.

Because she’s super productive the rest of the time? She doesn’t actually have tasks to accomplish. She could spend twenty hours a week counting ceiling tiles and it wouldn’t hold her back any.

Agreed. When we talk about old people being conservative, we’re talking about baby boomers, but the few who are even older, people who remember the Depression and such, they skew more liberal. I don’t think conservativism is an artifact of the aging process, it just happens that our current generation of old folks…

Where would we even get training? All the places that do that sort of thing are NRA outfits, aren’t they?

She withdrew it. Probably terrified.

Seconding Duckworth for sure. I’d also throw Al Franken in there, maybe Tammy Baldwin.

You’ve managed to find someone who’s both a Washington insider and at the same time totally politically inexperienced. What an astoundingly bad idea.

I don’t know. Bribery is one thing, but blackmail? He’d have to be ashamed of things. I think it would be like trying to blackmail a housecat. He doesn’t understand why he should be ashamed of doing whatever he did and he really doesn’t care.

They also had discrete geography. The red and blue states the map shows are really more of a patchwork; how do you secede when your zone of control looks like Swiss cheese with urban area sized holes? Even in the south and west there’s places like Atlanta, Austin, Denver that aren’t going to want to come along.

Wouldn’t that be ironic for the Blue Lives Matter crowd?

Composure for days. I think half the reason Putin’s so into not having her as our president is he doesn’t think he can intimidate her, and he probably doesn’t have that problem a lot.

The facial hair really works on him.

They have citizen vigilante groups. No capes or batmobiles, just gutsy campesinos.

Nah, what we should do is to turn the whole thing into a martial arts tournament Mortal Kombat style. Will the presidency be won by Sifu Silk Tiger’s yin-infused three finger strikes or Sensei Diamond Lotus’ flying jeet kune do kicks?

Re 3, it shouldn’t be hard to have the cars electronically talk to each other and share data to get information on obscured surroundings in a way that human drivers can’t match.

Minnesota here. Uhhh...have you been here lately? Most of the people live in a few, very liberal, very diverse cities, with new immigrants coming all the time. The Mini Apple has a huge Somali contingent that’s not thrilled about the anti-Muslim rhetoric, and a lot of Saint Paul is heavily Southeast Asian; the…

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