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To the point that Miller is the guy actually running things at the moment... it appears that Trump is addled and confused

It will help, but still risky and a monumental waste of money and time.

Probably the engineer in me speaking, but rolling M1 Abrams tanks across 8" of asphalt seems monumentally stupid

Not sure if I'll make it, but apparently our county seat has one Saturday....

Not the most important point, which Serwer covers, but for all of Kirk's rambling about culture, education, housing, financial and essential services, what purpose does *he* serve for society? What 'essential services' does he, guy behind a microphone flapping his gums, contribute to the world? Bringing up housing in particular is really hilarious when you consider who it is that actually *builds* housing in this country. It ain't guys sitting behind a microphone flapping their gums, that's for sure.

IIRC correctly, he wanted out last Congress and had to be talked out of it. If Don Bacon retires (like he kinda sounds like he's going to per a profile of him in the NYT this weekend), that's going to be a tell.

They are clowns with metaphorical flame throwers, but they are nonetheless clowns.... all the way down.

Gleyber also doesn't seem to be an emotional rollercoaster type of guy.... he knows what to do, he understands that this game has it's peaks and valleys and, when he finds himself in a valley, doesn't let it get to him. As long as he's physically got the tools to hit, he's a guy you want on your team.

I don't want to give Newsom credit, I can't stand him.... but if he's saying this, that probably says something about the broader politics of all this **** going on right now.

TACO Trump is on the clock....

This is going to get lost in a lot of the chaos that the administration is inflicting on the nation right now, but Terry Moran told the truth and was punished for it.

I'm not all that happy with the current state of the Democratic Party but Bombers is more or less right IMO... There is zero harm in acknowledging this I would add this is, at least at this moment, a deeply polarized country, much more deeply polarized than it was in 2008. I agree with the need to break that, but we need to be clear that is something that will not be broken in one Midterm and Presidential election cycle... It's more of a generational problem

No argument there... But where I differ is that there is no strategy here, this is just an administration that breaks a lot of laws and does exponentially more corrupt acts than any other. It's not exactly surprising when you get a new story every single day

Because the federal government keeps indictments sealed on a fairly regular basis? Specifically with respect to high profile defendants? To be clear, I was responding to the idea that they cooked this up today to specifically deflect on the whole Trump/Musk chaos. That clearly isn't what happened here, plus this administration (reactionary as they are) are not nearly as strategic in their actions as MAGA and some anti-MAGA think they are.

Sure

The indictment happened two weeks ago...

Regarding Point 2, Elon Musk's popularity is somewhere on level of George W Bush in 2007-2008. His intervention in Wisconsin in their Supreme Court election turned out to be a dumpster fire for the more conservative candidate. Khanna is entitled to his opinion, but just on the politics alone, it seems pretty clear that his interests (as you suggest, influenced by his own experiences in his district) probably don't align with a greater strategy of winning the kinds of districts that will be decisive in the next Midterm

I get your point, but historically, in-power Presidents struggle in Midterm cycles. That's basically a precedent at this point. In order to break that, it's important to acknowledge that reality and not just pretend it doesn't exist.

I'm not a lawyer, but their public comments about him leading up to this point are going to be a real issue for prosecuting him IMO

I was reliably told by various members of Trump's administration (including Trump himself, Vance, his Press Secretary, etc) that it was he was never leaving El Salvador. Interesting

There is this as well.... there is a real difference to how the GOP performs with Trump on the ballot versus off the ballot.