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PS: Like how abortion and marijuana were approved in Ohio (red state) yesterday? Or like how Dem Governor Brashear was re-elected in blood red Kentucky yesterday? Or how Republicans LOST their House of Delegates in Virginia yesterday? Oh WAIT!!! That's the OPPOSITE of what you are lol'ing at!!! You are lol'ing at HOT AIR. Sorry.

So go ahead and quantify that. Prove it. Because otherwise... that's just a bunch of hot air that you are lol'ing at...

At first glance (I know it's early) it looks like Virginia Republicans are ALSO losing the House Delegates...

You can run a dead horse for the Dems in 2024 and I'll vote for the dead horse.

Fischer penalty immediately after 2-0 another Rangers PP... And yes, it's now 3-0 on back-to-back penalties/ PP goals...

Rangers power play goal 2-0 in the 2nd... They're still dominating in every phase... The Wings are getting nothing done and look thoroughly outclassed...

Wings are badly being outplayed by the Rangers at the start... Not just shots 8-0, not just score already 1-0... But they can barely get their stick on a puck... Time of puck possession is roughly 95% Rangers to 5% Wings. They're getting schooled...

Pregame includes Chelios... Lots of Detroit topics/ discussion...

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I'll allow that.

That's yet to be quantified... So hold off on lol I would think...

Worse: When one of the choices is an existential choice to the detriment of the country... Let's call him Hugo Chavez... or Nicholas Maduro... Then... This comes into play: There are those who disagree with this sentiment. But I agree with it... if the choice is ANY Democrat (you can put any name in this box, I don't care...); then the choice is NOT only binary, but a matter of survival. Do you vote for Chavez/ Maduro/ Trump, threatening the future of the country? Vote 3rd party? Stay at home in a stew over choices? All three are the same thing: a vote AGAINST democracy and the Constitution of the United States. YMMV. But I maintain that Election 2024 is an existential vote for democracy in the United States of America.

FYI (just in case anyone is interested...); do protesters have a case that Israel is committing "war crimes"? No, no they don't. From an Urban War expert (military and international law) at West Point (an opinion but, still... with legal basis for such): https://www.yahoo.com/news/opinion-m-expert-urban-warfare-113717094.html

Lee... Are you certain this guy would not be an existential threat against American democracy and freedoms?

Bingo. And not in a good way. Not to be over the top, but I have viscerally reviled Trump for over 40+ years. The worst human scumbag on the planet. I loathe this fascist (since 1989 (Tiananmen Square): "I HATE American democracy... we should be more like CHEYE-NA and use tanks on protesters!!!") ****wad. Not to be over the top...

I would certainly hope for this... But I don't want Trump anywhere NEAR the Presidency because next time, he'll figure out how to actually overthrow the Constitution. I still say we were the width of a Mike Pence ethical hair away from losing our Democracy. If he would've thrown it back to Congress per Trump's demand... who knows what would have happened after that...? But I would certainly have hoped for your take on the inevitable...

To be more blunt about this: ONE PERSON prevented Trump from OVERTHROWING the Constitution on Jan 6th. Mike Pence.

It WAS almost overthrown. Not by the Jan 6th crowd, who threatened violence unless Congress did Trump's bidding. But by Mike Pence. All he had to do was acquiesce to Trump's demand to throw it back to Congress as "invalid" electors. And then votes, one per state, with more Republican states at that time, would have handed it to Trump. Constitution overthrown. Trump called for the Jan 6th coup attempt specifically to threaten Pence because Pence refused to overthrow the Constitution. If you want to look for a hero in this story, it's Mike Pence.

Trump doesn't give an F about civil service laws. Hyperbole? Hey, aren't there LAWS on the books stating that a President can not enrich himself while in office? Amongst a hundred other laws that Trump just **** on? No, not hyperbole... reality. Trump will overthrow the rule of law in the US, and overthrow the Constitution. Book it.

This is the best case scenario for Election-2024. On the Republican side that is... I don't know what the Dems best case for 2024 is... I'm voting Dem regardless of who the candidate is so it doesn't matter to me "who" that is. Not until Republicans purge the MAGA/ Fascist Caucus (which WON'T be in 2024); until them I consider them an existential threat to my right to vote as a US Citizen and not have my vote tossed out in a fascist move to overthrow my vote, my right to live my life how I want to without Republican Morality Police interfering, etc. Republicans no longer exist in my book.

Just to be more specific: Trump will PURGE the US Military of ALL officers who do NOT sign a loyalty pledge directly to him. And the same with every other governmental employee he can get his hands on. You guys know this, right?

Thousands and THOUSANDS of government employees will lose their jobs. He will replace them with boot-licking sycophants. NOONE will be able to get ANY job, NOT in the US Military, Department of (anything), or anywhere where he has a say without FIRST signing a pledge to be strictly loyal to Donald MF'ing Trump and **** the oath to protect the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign or domestic. The NEW pledge will be: "to protect Donald J. Trump against all enemies, foreign or domestic." You guys know this, right?

Is that like... You know... Just like what happened in... Russia?

This is the BEST-CASE scenario if we have Trump 2.0. This... or worse. Like... The National Guard and the US Military used to ENFORCE his dictates. How about that one? It goes downhill from this BEST-case scenario that Ratko outlined...

This is the answer on his first presidency. But he's not as stupid as you think. He browbeat everyone around him, Congressional and Senate Republicans, state Republican apparatchiks into supporting his bull**** lie, AND ALMOST PULLED IT OFF!!! He ALMOST overthrew our Constitution!!! In 2020!!! We came a Pence-ethics hair away from HAVING our Democracy OVERTHROWN by this Fascists ****. And now, he actually knows what he's doing! Tell me how we are NOT going to be Authoritarian if Trump wins 2024? Feckless Republicans will stop him? No. MAGA Republicans in Congress and Senate will stop him? No. They SUPPORT him. MAGA, right now, and MAGA Congress and MAGA Senators & Governors and MAGA state party voters and party apparatchiks want the CONSTITUTION OVERTHROWN, right now. They want Trump as a dictator, and Trump WANTS to be dictator... so badly! But they're not saying the quiet part out loud. Not yet anyways. So tell me, how are we NOT going to be a dictatorship once Trump wins. Who is going to stop him?