And the poll found 85 percent of Americans believe that if the Supreme Court rules against the Trump administration on a policy or executive action, the Trump administration should follow the court’s ruling.

So 15% want Trump to go full dictator and just ignore the Supreme Court and do whatever he wants? I wish I could say I was surprised.

You know it.

Trump Shares Unhinged Plan to Release ‘Terrorists’ On Justices’ Doorsteps

You don’t say. That kind of seemed obvious from the very fucking start. Trump is absurdly incompetent or he is actively working to destroy the country. I honestly can’t tell which it is.

How exactly does Iowa have standing for such a claim? In 2009 the Iowa Supreme court affirmed that the right to marry (gay or otherwise) was enshrined in the state constitution. Even if SCOTUS made such a ruling at the federal level, it wouldn’t change the state constitution.

Would you feel the same way if his stroke destroyed his ability to drive a car but he insisted on continuing to do so anyway and kept putting lives at risk? It would be great if if can make a full recovery, and I certainly hope he can, but he needs to get the fuck out of the driver’s seat until he does so.

Oh look, another court order to ignore.

It was indeed hubris, but 9/11 wasn’t expected. Anyone at the time with half a brain and access to the intelligence apparatus knew an attack was coming. Sadly, that left out then President George W. Bush due to his grey matter deficiency. Two months before 9/11, Gee Dubya was handed a Presidential Daily Brief with a clear warning about it and that wasn’t the first warning he ignored.

“Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.” The CIA’s famous Presidential Daily Brief, presented to George W. Bush on August 6, 2001, has always been Exhibit A in the case that his administration shrugged off warnings of an Al Qaeda attack. But months earlier, starting in the spring of 2001, the CIA repeatedly and urgently began to warn the White House that an attack was coming.

They knew that the World Trade Center towers were a prime target for terrorists because of the last attack on them. Fortunately the 1993 terrorist attack failed to knock the towers down and the law enforcement was able to track down the attackers before they could try again.

We later learned from Yousef that his Trade Center plot was far more sinister. He wanted the bomb to topple one tower, with the collapsing debris knocking down the second. The attack turned out to be something of a deadly dress rehearsal for 9/11; with the help of Yousef’s uncle Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, al Qaeda would later return to realize Yousef’s nightmarish vision.

We knew that Yousef’s uncle was working with Al Qaeda and we knew they wanted to knock down the towers. Bush was warned but he, as you say, could not imagine anyone attacking here. That is indeed hubris because everyone else in a position to do anything about it knew an attack was coming in some form or another.

Don’t give them ideas. Really. Just don’t.

The bill passed the Senate Committee on Commerce and Tourism 5-4, with one Republican lawmaker, Sarasota Sen. Joe Gruters, joining Democrats in voting against it.

“I think we need to let kids be kids,” Gruters said.

Uh oh, somebody’s gonna get primaried. How dare he show moral fortitude in public.

Of course it won’t. It would take years to move manufacturing to the USA. Building factories, hiring and training workers, none of that can happen over months. It’s also a huge expenditure for the business which, along with higher payroll costs, would be passed on to consumers. Costs are going to go up weather they move manufacturing here or not so why not take the path of least resistance and just pass on the tariff costs?

Your wiki page appears to be based solely on the presence of the word in the OED (which includes archaic forms as well as new words that have found common usage) and dictionary.com. I note that five examples of the use of the word starting in 1795 but none more recent than 20 years ago. So I stand corrected, I suppose. I guess it’s an archaic form that has resurrected a handful of times in the last 20-50 years.

Btw, I’m not sure why they include the Dictionary.com reference on the wiki page since Dictionary.com does not include the word sensical. Neither do Merriam-Webster or Cambridge online dictionaries.

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Who fucking cares? He’s an ESPN host that Trump thinks should run for president. Is this the token black the GOP is going to put up in 2028 if they pretend to have primaries?

“I think the kind of impact that I could have as a centrist, as a moderate, as somebody who believes in being sensical and engaging in common sense."

Dear gods, save us from centrists. Sure, you’re the guy that can unite the Democrats and Republicans and get them to work together for the betterment of all people. Right.

By the way, “sensical” is not a word you nitwit.

Pressed whether his administration is following the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution, which says no person “shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law,” Trump said he wasn’t sure.

“I don’t know. It seems – it might say that, but if you’re talking about that, then we’d have to have a million or 2 million or 3 million trials,” he said. “We have thousands of people that are some murderers and some drug dealers and some of the worst people on Earth.”

It might say that? Might? This isn’t something that is debatable you hippopotamic dung heap. That’s what it fucking says.

I don’t think that it’s really that strange at all.

• The uneducated are easy to frighten and coerce. The educated can be dangerous in part because they will likely be resistant to the rest of the methods of control that you listed.
• People instinctively trust people in authority, like a child believing their parents. Denying basic facts and reality lets the authoritarian create a new reality in the eyes of their subjects and keeps the people in blinders about what’s really happening.
• Religions have always been used to control the masses.
• People who are poor have few options open to them. People with lots of children will almost certainly be poor under an authoritarian regime. Such people also cannot effectively resist the authoritarian since doing so would put their family at risk. In essence, it gets people to forge their own chains.
• Like religion, sex in general has long been used to control people. In fact, sex habits is one of the common tools religions use to control their devotees.

But other accounts show increased black-and-white thinking on issues such Israel’s massacre of Gaza, which has alienated many of his staffers, and an inexplicable show of support for certain Trump administration polices,

Is this finally evidence that brain damage can turn you into a conservative?

His slathering hordes are something to be reasonably afraid of. Also, he did nearly manage to overthrow our government and did manage to get himself reelected four years later. He may be more effective that you think.

The Democrats in office can’t do shit. There are not enough of them. Democrats cannot filibuster the president’s appointments because they themselves removed the filibuster rule on appointments below the level of the Supreme Court back in 2013. They could use the filibuster on some bills, but you’d have to get all of the dems to vote in lock-step like the republicans do. Good luck with that considering how many democrats are only democrats in name so they could get elected in their districts and then they vote with the republicans more often than not.

If you want change, you need to convince the republicans in office that they are going to lose their jobs. They do not support Trump because they necessarily agree with him, they do it because, as Murkowski has publicly admitted, they are afraid of him. We voters need to rally, make noise, and make them afraid of us. There are not enough MAGA voters to keep the republicans in office if enough of the rest of us actually show up to vote. We voters need to convince them that they will be out of their cushy jobs if they don’t stop this lunatic.

Assuming all democrats in the House vote to impeach, it will take 4 republicans joining them to reach the 50% threshold to succeed. That could honestly be doable. The Senate is another story. It would take 20 republicans to vote with all the democrats and independents to reach the 67% needed to convict. Not impossible, but a profoundly uphill battle.

Call your reps, protest, make noise. As long as the republicans think that Trump’s hordes will keep them in office for supporting him, they won’t cave. If we can convince them that the MAGA loons will not be enough to get them reelected and keep their cushy jobs, they’ll flip. They are not loyal to Trump, they are afraid of him.

Trump White House is now in damage control mode figuring out how to hide the real unemployment figures.

That should say ‘another trade war.’ He did the same shit last time he was in office as anyone who has better memory that a goldfish should remember. Trump only looked unbeatable on the economy because the billionaires who own all the major, and most of the minor, media outlets wanted him to look that way so they could get more undeserved tax cuts.