I’m not sure I’d really even call it a strategy. He’s basically only had one strategy all along since the beginning in 2015, which was to cater openly and wholeheartedly to the racists and ultraconservatives, and to shout out what others would only dare dogwhistle. It worked in 2016 for a number of reasons, because he…

I almost wonder, looking at this lineup, if this time his convention won’t actually manage to turn people -away- from him. Like I’m honestly not sure you could make a better argument not to vote for him than what they’re about to put on, because you know it will be chock full of racism, hate, delusional denial of…

Policy, sure, but the only thing that stops a bad Rhodian with a blaster, is a roguish scoundrel with a blaster who shoots first.

And here I was going to go with the Red Stars on White reference...

There’s going to be such a long list of prosecutions just for perjury alone once we have a Justice Department that will actually prosecute for it.

First, Mexico almost certainly doesn’t want it. They’ve got enough problems of their own.

If you want to fly under bridges, try Microsoft Flight Simulator or GTA V. A lot less consequences, and no chances of anyone getting hurt.

You know, it doesn’t even have to be particularly strong leadership - just basic leadership would do, but Trump fails miserably even at the most straightforward and basic levels of leadership. He’s incapable of delegating properly or making use of his subordinates (ie letting them do their jobs), he surrounds himself…

A lot depends on the dealership, too. I got my last car at a dealership in another state, but they were close enough to the border that they do a lot of business with customers from my state, so they were used to it.

Someone that wants to get the crap sued out of them, that’s who.

It’s not just the matter of whether or not it’s justified though - it’s that having to pretend publicly to think that way, like an Alex Jones or a Rush Limbaugh, would just eat at your soul. Because you couldn’t just do it halfheartedly, or they’d catch on. No, you’d have to make them think you really, fervently…

The whole of “Conservatism” is just so damn rife with scammers, because it’s so easy to make marks of people who fervently want to be marks. I’d probably have gotten in on it if it wasn’t for those pesky morals and ethics and convictions of mine. And most of it isn’t even illegal, either!

Pence is also fully complicit in all the crimes and failings of Trump’s administration. I do agree that, had Pence taken over a year or two ago, he might’ve been able to establish himself sufficiently, but we’re too close to the election now.

I wouldn’t say so much the honor system, as it was based on a notion that the voters would massively punish anyone who acted in defiance of civility and the expectations of proper conduct by elected officials.

This is why it is vitally important not merely that Biden win, but that there are significant consequences for those who engaged in or tolerated the rampant criminal behavior by Trump and his cronies. If there are no consequences for it, then the ultimate lesson to the amoral an unethical is that they don’t need to…

Yes - what a difference having reasonable and sensible people in control of the government makes.

He took Kim Jong-Un out to dinner, that counts right?

I don’t get NBC not understanding this. Like haven’t they, you know, been around for at least a few conventions? This is the kind of crap I’d expect for scum like Fox to oopsie-deliberately push, though.

Yeah, for all people trash the ‘94 crime bill now, we have the benefit of hindsight. It happened to be wildly popular at the time, and passed the Senate by a margin of 95-4. Two Republicans and two Democrats voted against it, so probably at least some of them were voting that way because they felt it didn’t go far…

I dunno, drinking every time Joe says something that’s a potential gaffe is liable to give someone alcohol poisoning. :)