Well, well. We have major overreach in the form of the Signal Chat Scandal–but it’s 100% self-own, self-humiliation territory. Not only that, but a huge percentage of the rogues gallery have made complete asses of themselves.
This is completely optimal for our side.
It disgraces Trump on territory he sold as strong for himself (“but her emails!”–“lock her up!”–etc.).
It concretely and undeniably showed a flagrant and reckless disregard for national security, territory on which the GOP sells itself as strong.
It disgraces multiple members of the rogues gallery: Waltz, Hegseth, Vance, et al., and each person so disgraced has no excuse whatsoever; none of them can claim they thought this was in line with the rules.
It is not playing well to the “serious” right: the National Review home page is currently blowing up with this stuff. They are trashing the administration on this.
It makes for easy ad fodder. What these fuckheads did wrong is not complex.
It dovetails nicely (for us) with all the other fucking sloppiness this regime has served up, such as tariffs, DOGE, etc. The message “these guys are fucking idiots” is not going to be hard to sell during the midterms.
I really find it hard to imagine Trump making it to the end of the year at this rate. He has no control over his people, and everyone not only knows it; everyone can see it with their own eyes in real time.
I don’t see why any of that matters. The Republicans aren’t going to let him be removed from office short of him walking into Congress and randomly shooting Republicans (Democrats would be fine).
And what’s your take on it? I haven’t seen any spin on it yet.
The president doesn’t regulate elections. Period. It’s probably going to result in another flurry of lawsuits. Pretty much a flurry a day for this dumbfuck regime.
It is the “Flurry A Day” that stops anyone from effectively fighting him. He is setting brushfires faster than we can put them out, so gradually he comes out ahead.
I am starting to feel like I have grossly underestimated Trump. I don’t see him as very intelligent or good with business matters. I do see him as a person that does understand motivations. I think his extreme narcissism will eventually clash with those he has surrounded himself. None of them want to look bad and if things go to far, they will start to bail. (50%) Trump does not handle rejection well and could very well become somewhat unhinged. We see this right now as he tries to impose himself on world leaders who did not respect Him. If he becomes unhinged, he will lose support everywhere and will be lucky to finish his term (50%). I do support cleaning up the government even if it does look like retribution, it has to be removed.
The problem is that he doesn’t live in a vacuum. What he does effects us, so we have to decide whether waiting until he self-destructs is a survivable event? Is It Worth It?
i think voters in general are very capable of pulling the diamonds out of the poop. Not everything they are doing is bad, I feel like we are experiencing transparency on a level this country has never seen. That is a good example for both sides.
Yes, it’s one of his several hacks of the government. He thinks he’s clever, but we’re learning our own People’s Hacks, the Tesla Takedown being one example. Trump may find that he’s been such a clever boy, he’s hacked himself into a revolution (which is totally what is required now that the bad people have effectively destroyed government).
Who knew? If a political party becomes completely hostile to rules, customs, common sense, and basic decency, problems can arise…
Yes, he has the animal cunning of a con man for sure.
We have not seen the mass firings and bailings of Trump 1.0 yet, but I agree it’s inevitable.
A bit of an understatement.
Yeah, Europe is on the verge of simply telling him to his face, “You’re a fuckhead, we’re not going to deal with you, feel free to pound sand for the rest of your term.”
I mean, I think the whole world should boycott the US until this dumb mutherfucker is gone. Don’t buy our shit, don’t come here on vacation, don’t support this shitshow in any way.
I think voters have been doing the equivalent of playing with poop since 2016. Idiots.
That said, I agree about transparency. We are being shown that the whole system is rotten and not worth saving (I do think parts of it are, to be precise; but on the whole, no). Trump and the idiot GOP are going to foment a revolution, and that ain’t gonna go good for them.
All this supposedly self-destructive stuff about Trump is stuff we heard back during his first term, only back then not only did we have to wait four full years for an election, but we were told “It can never happen again!”
It happened again, and it is even worse, so I have to ask you:
I think that’s actually a complicated question. I think Trump went nuts when he lost the second election, and the worst stuff he’s done has been since then. His first term was a disaster, of course, but it was a pretty “normal” disaster dominated by his mishandling of covid. With a few genuinely crazy and evil bits thrown in, such as the Muslim ban.
Once Trump radicalized himself by doing 1/6, denying the election, swearing revenge on both men and gods, etc., all bets were off.
I really think the GOP is going to face a choice between agreeing to do something about Trump or facing a revolution. I’m not sure what they will choose.
experiencing transparency ? So far it’s all talk and chest pounding but no factual information! I’m from Ny and for 45 years he is known as the king of BS artists! If the administration actually had any substantive savings this snake oil salesman would be using the Oval Office on very large display cards to get all the credit over each dollar
I’ll be lonely suggesting this, but I hope the lawsuits fail. Stopping MAGA is more important than having a somewhat broader electorate. And I’m convinced that, on average, Democrats are grittier and more determined when it comes to voting.
I didn’t know if you have visibility into the MAGAsphere (your posts very strongly suggest you do not), but this Signal “scandal” is a complete nothing burger to Republicans and most Centrists. At best you will get a “eh they all do it”.
Sometimes it is not a see-saw.
It is a cliff.
I think the proper analogy is when you are told that a person with an addiction can’t be helped because “they haven’t hit bottom yet”. I don’t know if the people giving this advice do so because they are misguided, or because they secretly don’t want to really help, but in the end far too often it turns out the person doesn’t need help after all. They just need attendees at their funeral.
