you're not wrong, though he has surrounded himself with a lot of Stephen Miller types who are going to hit the ground running and will probably have figured out exactly how Trump can abuse this SCOTUS ruling. but yeah I feel like if he's gonna abuse the justice system to go after his enemies it won't be popular progressive figures it'll be people like Liz Cheney and Morning Joe― frogbs
― frogbs
certainly those people could do a lot of damage, assuming he doesn't sack them within the first three months of his presidency in various fits of pique, or drive them to quit through similar fits of pique
the thing that makes dictators dangerous is that they _don't take counsel_.
i mean i could be wrong. i'm just going by what he did last time he was president!
― Kate (rushomancy), Wednesday, 3 July 2024 14:24 (six days ago) link
my dad is 89 and has voted 100% democrat his whole life. his father was a connecticut republican from the old school. a yankee republican because of the conservative money thing. taxes. the stock market. my dad was on all the boards in my town when i was a kid. planning board. school board. etc. he hates trump. thinks biden and kamala are great. he would totally be happy to vote for kamala. he loves strong women politicans. the only tough one for him would be if tom selleck ran for president as a republican. he might be torn there. he loves his Blue Bloods so.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 3 July 2024 16:13 (six days ago) link
Shit, *I* might have to consider GOP candidate Tom Selleck
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 3 July 2024 16:15 (six days ago) link
He’s 79!
― Jeff, Wednesday, 3 July 2024 16:15 (six days ago) link
We haven't had a mustachioed president since Taft
― Millennium Falco (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 3 July 2024 16:16 (six days ago) link
79% sexy moustache, yes
― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Wednesday, 3 July 2024 16:16 (six days ago) link
so weird that magnum is 79.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 3 July 2024 16:16 (six days ago) link
Whom would Tom selleckt as running mate? James Garner is dead.
― Millennium Falco (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 3 July 2024 16:19 (six days ago) link
it should have been burt reynolds. rip burt reynolds
― z_tbd, Wednesday, 3 July 2024 16:23 (six days ago) link
Larry Manetti or nothing
― prog's nearly man (Matt #2), Wednesday, 3 July 2024 16:27 (six days ago) link
The mustache is the running mate
― A So-Called Pulitzer price winner (President Keyes), Wednesday, 3 July 2024 16:30 (six days ago) link
Selleck/‘Stache 2028
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 3 July 2024 16:32 (six days ago) link
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/d7/b6/fd/d7b6fdd949229b40abd0656f6fd8b6e8.gif
― Millennium Falco (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 3 July 2024 16:36 (six days ago) link
Tom Selleck will pay off the national debt with a reverse mortgage on Yellowstone.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 3 July 2024 17:48 (six days ago) link
Jon Voight to appease the Q crowd
― the possibility of relaxing (Eazy), Wednesday, 3 July 2024 17:52 (six days ago) link
James Garner is dead.
Garner was a huge lefty pothead who hated Reagan.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 3 July 2024 18:16 (six days ago) link
My kind of people
― a based robot like Bender (stevie), Wednesday, 3 July 2024 19:01 (six days ago) link
Garner was a huge lefty pothead who hated Reagan.― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain)
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain)
Maverick out here looking at John McCain like...
― Kate (rushomancy), Wednesday, 3 July 2024 19:50 (six days ago) link
The other maverick seems more likely these days (yes I know not born in the us it’s still a good joke) (yes I know there is another other maverick who is in a cult and has slaves equally a good joke)
― subpost master (wins), Wednesday, 3 July 2024 19:55 (six days ago) link
Hey don’t say that about Madonna
― A So-Called Pulitzer price winner (President Keyes), Wednesday, 3 July 2024 20:08 (six days ago) link
President Dirk Nowitzki
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 3 July 2024 20:11 (six days ago) link
I remember Madonna endorsing Wesley Clark in 2004
― beamish13, Wednesday, 3 July 2024 22:05 (six days ago) link
he's FOUR STAR GENERAL Wesley Clark to his friends
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 3 July 2024 22:19 (six days ago) link
Yeah but it’s a light 4
― A So-Called Pulitzer price winner (President Keyes), Thursday, 4 July 2024 00:35 (five days ago) link
despite that all of Clark's friends still stand erect and salute crisply when they see him
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 4 July 2024 00:39 (five days ago) link
Calling her record label “Maverick” was one of off-brand for her. It always made me think of the Ford Maverick.
― Dick Cavett Poo Party (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 4 July 2024 01:13 (five days ago) link
“Kind of” off-brand
James Woods showed up in my feed today, and I was like: oh, right, Selleck/Woods ‘24
― the possibility of relaxing (Eazy), Thursday, 4 July 2024 03:46 (five days ago) link
did robert mueller investigate trump's connection to epstein? it seems that might have been another channel for "kompromat," although not connected to russia
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/epstein-documents-trump.html
― treeship., Friday, 5 July 2024 02:00 (four days ago) link
i think the answer is no. he was scrupulous in not going beyond his mandate iirc. but it's very bizarre. the "katie johnson" allegation (i think that is a pseudonym) was from 2016, so while trump was running for prez (suspicious maybe) but before epstein was a household name.
― treeship., Friday, 5 July 2024 02:01 (four days ago) link
Now our only hope is Biden dies.
― Bad Bairns (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 8 July 2024 15:43 (yesterday) link
think positive, they could both die
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Monday, 8 July 2024 17:46 (yesterday) link
at least there is one positive to gerontocratic degeneracy!
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Monday, 8 July 2024 17:51 (yesterday) link
Been predicting this for a year! Or at least that they would both be incapacitated before November. It would be surreal to have Harris v. Vance or whoever in just a few months.
― the possibility of relaxing (Eazy), Monday, 8 July 2024 17:53 (yesterday) link
The only fun now is waiting to see how they blame the left for Trump's win.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 8 July 2024 17:53 (yesterday) link
Gerontophobe Berniecrats (wait...) just refused to turn out for Joe etc..
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 8 July 2024 17:54 (yesterday) link
Surely this can be arranged?
― Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.), Monday, 8 July 2024 18:11 (yesterday) link
Idk, I wonder how many signatures you could get on an open letter saying “will no one rid me of these turbulent candidates?”
― JoeStork, Monday, 8 July 2024 18:30 (yesterday) link
Surely there's no glory or real sense of victory in beating an old ailing man, though, is there, Donald?
― StanM, Monday, 8 July 2024 18:37 (yesterday) link
"Hi - we know you did the Tylenol Murders several decades ago. No, no, put your hands down. You're not under arrest. If you're willing to earn back some of your freedom, there's a McNugget supply we need your help with"
― perpetually awkward, perennially unhappy (Neanderthal), Monday, 8 July 2024 18:50 (yesterday) link