When he wasn’t trying to engage in his favorite pastime of killing and vilifying Superman, Lex Luthor was a pretty good President all things considered.

Don’t forget “is getting their own airline operating 24/7 specifically for deportations and transporting people to international blacksites”.

Remember that Greenland is still a Danish protectorate, so we’d be getting into a shooting match with the entire EU, more than likely.

I have bad news for you, which is that he posted a statement and a photo with Elaine in his hospital room. It sounds like he had a mini stroke or something - he fell, they’ve done a “battery” of tests “trying to find out what caused the fall”, and then caught a “mild” case of pneumonia due to hospitalization.

Even at 84, you don’t take up a hospital bed for three and a half weeks just from a fall and pneumonia.

Yeah don’t do that with snappers. I used to carry a shovel in my work van specifically to shove snapping turtles off the road or out of my worksites.

I was about to say, anyone who examined him beyond Hillbilly Elegy figured out the guy has no beliefs beyond “I deserve power”. He’ll say and do whatever you tell him to if you tell him that it will make him more powerful over people’s lives.

It already is. Trump’s lackeys already went waving paper to Congress to get them to figure out legal wording to bypass the 14th without another Amendment. I expect we’ll see that sometime around November or December.

Neither would Marco Rubio, or Ted Cruz IIRC.

Yes. The terrible “doctor” has ingratiated himself with the administration for a while, actually having his fucking film crew accompanying ICE raids in Chicago which then aired on his show.

No no, there will be proof. They just need time to find good videos of those people so they can ask Grok or whatever to make a video of them cutting the thing.

So, interesting points. However, consider that just in the last few years:

• A Trump ally bought Dominion, the largest producer of electronic ballot boxes and the ones used by a LOT of states. Several studies have shown that via a hardware-side injection, it would be quite easy for anyone with physical access to the…power strip, I think, could manipulate the ballot recording without leaving a significant trace.
• DHS has asked for voter rolls from all states, and ICE/CBP have conducted raids on prominent voter activism groups.
• The FBI has also normalized raiding election offices and has seized ballots from at least the 2020 election, and at least one sheriff’s offices has also attempted to do the same in very similar fashion in California, with very similar warrants, looking for very similar “fraud”, and have also attempted to seize ballots.

The big problem with fucking with a midterm isn’t ease, it’s just scale. When you have cops, the federal and a lot of state and even local DOJs, the President’s personal goon squad (which has now been significantly inflated and equipped), and the FBI willing to harass, intimidate, or arrest voters, steal ballots, and challenge every single race, everywhere, all the time, all backed by think tanks and funding orgs that are backed by some of the richest people in the entire world, it suddenly becomes a lot easier to stop up the gears of democratic elections.

Sure, your locals can challenge the results. They can make noise. But at the end of the day, “move fast and break things” works surprisingly well as a governance tactic if your desired end result is maintaining power, because by the time people have untangled the knots you’ve woven, you’re already ten steps ahead and "well it’d be REALLY HARD AND EXPENSIVE to run a special election (if your locality even has a legal way to do that - most don’t).

We effectively had our Hannibal moment getting locked into a stalemate with Iran.

“I found an island paradise that’s also full of old Soviet bunkers and we’re pretty sure that’s gonna be nice to have when the next American civil/world war kicks off, we just need to make it palatable for our billionaire friends who can’t stand looking at nature”.

The issue is that’s not NECESSARILY true. Jones is a co-owner in multiple companies that sell that snake oil.

Anyone who’s spent time in any institution will tell you that corruption is a cancer, whether it’s just saying “good enough” on shoddy work that’ll barely hold together, or deciding “close enough” when arranging security for a formal dinner of political figures and journalists. If you don’t cut it out, it becomes part of the culture and nobody thinks twice.

Trump didn’t go to the dinner over multiple years purely because a lot of reporters use it to poke fun (in good fun) at the President, and occasionally actually lobby for something too. The man cannot take being made fun of, at all. Making it a Presidential event makes sure that he can exclude anybody that’s not the most sycophantic.

Not just “giving up”, there are large portions who think McCarthy’s mistake was not simply murdering everyone who appeared before HUAC. My own father-in-law doesn’t really want these to be any form of actual “we wanna know what’s going on” trials, he just wants this to be all but a summary execution.

The issue is that these are federal judges. Enforcement of contempt charges falls to the DoJ at that level.

I will also point out that the idea of a pre-tribulation Rapture is not biblically well-supported, and was pretty much made up out of whole cloth by dispensationalists in England as a way to make the idea of a doctrine focused on Revelation more palatable (“see, you’ll be taken to heaven in secret one day before all this happens”). It’s taken a LOT more root in America than it did in Europe, to the point that it’s mainstream doctrine among a lot of churches (thanks Tim LaHaye and Jerry B Jenkins for doing that, you weird fucks).