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And all those guys standing around Trump, officials of some sort I suppose, and saying to themselves, yup, this is completely normal.

That’s fine, we can believe that the Republican Party are becoming too far gone and that it will be 100% MAGA and that it’s never coming back, but that doesn’t mean all that relentless fire-breathing is going to start winning votes from moderates all of a sudden.

So funny because some Trumpy Newsweek writer was on Maher angrily defending Trump and barking at him, do you really think you’re better off now than you were four years ago? And Maher says well four years ago we were in a pandemic, and she says, I **** you not: “I mean 2018, are you better off now than you were four years ago?” The Trumpy Newsweek writer might or might not be actually stupid, but she sure was lazy.

And with Trump he gets both!

Javier Baez is not going to take a penny less than $98 million, so if the Tigers want Baez to just go away, that’s what it’s gonna cost. The bigger question is, who do you replace Baez with? Eddys Leonard is a darling right now, but he’s still an unknown quantity you can’t just hand the everyday shortstop job to right now. Otherwise, you’re looking at Ryan Kreisler, and when he comes in fielding worse and hitting worse than Javy, then what?

Maybe it’s as simple as, it’s just icky to say a human being was bought for cash.

Noice!

The difference between Cheney, Kinzinger, Flake, and Corker is that they broke hard and with finality from Trump, and Nikki has not, or at least not yet. Nikki may be a woman, but when it comes to Trump, she is no Liz Cheney. I grant that Trump might yet destroy her completely, as you appear to predict, and you don't have to grant at all that there's any chance that she comes back to Trump and he gives her some role in his administration. But just because you don't, that doesn't mean it can't happen. I think it could, I think she's trying, I bet Trump is at least listening, and who knows what will finally come from that.

And timely move. I like it!

So, Nikki is probably asking for nothing, but she'll just cave in because she hates herself? Well, I guess in a world where literally anything is possible ...

Agree, it's not helpful, per se, but again, the public pronunciations mean nothing here. And it means nothing that Nikki Haley is still leveling any criticism at the notoriously thin-skinned Cheeto. It's what they're talking about behind the door that's important. After all, how many RINO politicos have we seen Trump trash in public before he magically accepted them back into the fold? I would be frankly surprised to see Nikki Haley exiled completely from the Republican Party despite whatever her efforts may be. There's a way back for her, and I'm betting she is working on that at this very minute.

I didn't say Trump doesn't need her at all. I said she needs Trump more than Trump needs her. It's not an all-or-nothing thing. Also, if she's back-channeling with the Trump people for a role in the administration—which, she'd be a complete dope if she weren't—then it doesn't matter what Trump proxies say in public about her. The important part is what they're talking about out of view. And regardless of Trump's and his proxies' public pronunciations about her, she is useful to him as a bridge between him and polite society, which still counts for something, at least until that point when he completely destroys polite society altogether.

Release the kraken!

Yeah, I didn't think so ... 😉

I don't think so. She could still go all MAGA in language and tone and all would be forgiven. The only thing that would lose her is goodwill along RINOs and Democrats, which, boo hoo.

No, I'm talking to you. You say Utah will go blue. I say they stay red. A thousand bucks, me and you. What do you say?

Because they know she needs Trump more than he needs her.

Absolutely not, I believe. Because if there's one thing I think we can be sure of about Trump's majority, they're not silent.

If they can a snap election for tonight, then yes, I agree. I bet there will be more energy around this election, not less, in November than today.

Are you absolutely certain that you will feel this way eight months from now, and that nothing along the way can change your mind?

well, yeah, judges.

So, I don't know anything about your smart person's background or his agenda, but he is insisting to you that rural southwest SW Kansas is actually a reliable representation of where all of America truly is, and is not a bubble unto itself? Do I have that straight? Huh.

I think the incentive is to stay relevant and continually ensconced in each news cycle. She could do that by continuing to slag Trump, but that would torpedo her standing in the Republican Party for good. Or, she could continue to lightly critique him, pulling her punches in public, while negotiating with him in private for a job with the Trump administration—perhaps ambassadorship to a first-world EU country—which would lead to an endorsement.

Not only will Nikki not endorse Biden, she actually said on MTP that she has concerns about Donald Trump, but even more concerns about Joe Biden ... so, yeah, Trump.

I'll take that action for a thousand dollars.