No Surprise: Democrats Plot and Scheme to Impeach Trump on "Day One" If the American People Are Insane Enough to Give Them Control of Congress

Democrat communications shop and Eric Swalwell cover-up agency Axios:

A cohort of resistance-minded House Democrats is pushing their colleagues to begin building the case against President Trump now in anticipation of a Day 1 impeachment vote if they retake the House.
Why it matters: The mere existence of this movement demonstrates just how much pressure lawmakers who have not yet gotten on board with impeachment will face in January of 2027.
"This is something that I keep saying to our leadership ... we need to have a very concrete, coordinated strategy," Rep. Delia Ramirez (D-Ill.) told Axios.
The Illinois Democrat said the party should "build up the case so that when we are in power in January, we've created the conditions ... we've done the fact-checking, we've done the shadow hearings, everything we need to be able to to impeach [Trump]."
Rep. Yassamin Ansari (D-Ariz.) told Axios that if Democrats recapture the House "the push for impeachment is going to be overwhelming."
Driving the news: A Strength In Numbers/Verasight poll released Tuesday found that 55% of U.S. adults surveyed said the House should vote to impeach Trump, while just 37% oppose it.
"That net +18 verdict," Strength In Numbers author G. Elliott Morris wrote, "puts Trump in the neighborhood of the numbers Richard Nixon saw at the peak of the Watergate scandal in August 1974."

Sure. Axios, of course, which covers up for Democrats like Joe Biden and Eric Swalwell, fails to note that this polling outfit has a strong Democrat bias. Google AI:

Political Context: The poll often finds results where Democrats lead on generic ballots (e.g., +6 to +8 in mid-2025/2026) and where President Trump's approval is relatively low (often in the mid-30s to low-40s).
...
Independent, But Not Necessarily "Neutral": While aiming for objective data, the analysis often highlights areas where public opinion diverges from conservative policies (e.g., high support for ACA subsidies, raising taxes on corporations). It also notes that independent voters are heavily skewed away from Republicans (-30 net rating in some reports), which informs its findings

Again: Sure.

Morris cited Axios' reporting that more than 85 House and Senate Democrats called for Trump to be impeached or removed via the 25th Amendment to the Constitution following his threat to destroy Iran's civilization earlier this month.
The big picture: In the immediate aftermath of the 2024 election, Democrats didn't even want to hear the word impeachment.
"People ridiculed me," said Rep. Shri Thanedar (D-Mich.), who was the first Democrat to introduce articles of impeachment against Trump last year.
When Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) forced a vote on impeaching Trump last June, 128 Democrats voted with Republicans to quash the effort while just 78 voted to advance it.
Things have changed drastically. When Green forced another vote to impeach Trump last December, his support went from 78 Democrats to 140.
...
Said Thanedar: "We have a case -- a very strong case -- so we should really work on it now."
Yes, but: Just because a member supports impeachment when asked -- or when forced to go on the record in a House vote -- doesn't mean they think it should be a policy priority for their party.

Yeah, this is just other Democrats attempting to tamp down talk of impeachment for fear of energizing Trump supporters. It's a lie. They will in fact impeach Trump on day one, or at the latest, by the end of month one.

This will probably benefit us. Trump's voters don't vote unless Trump himself is on the ballot, which is why we either lose or gas out in the midterms.

But Democrats just put Trump on the ballot for the midterms.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 01:20 PM

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1 Of course they do

Posted by: It's me donna at April 24, 2026 01:21 PM (FR3qi)

2 st

Posted by: Joe Kidd at April 24, 2026 01:21 PM (nbLIj)

3 I'll get em

Posted by: Joe Kidd at April 24, 2026 01:22 PM (nbLIj)

4 Holy crap I hate Axios.

Posted by: Cow Demon at April 24, 2026 01:22 PM (E6xSb)

5 which is why we either lose or gas out in the midterms.

GASSSSS

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at April 24, 2026 01:22 PM (Kt19C)

6 Dirty Dems need 66 votes in the Senate to impeach, ain't going to happen.

Posted by: Joemarine at April 24, 2026 01:23 PM (y171U)

7 Also known as: Republican Pounce on Democrat Promise to Subvert Presidential Election By Any Means Necessary.

Posted by: Flyguy at April 24, 2026 01:23 PM (yk5yw)

8 I hope Dems impeach Trump several times if they regain the House. Better they waste their time on that kind of nonsense than do anything destructive...like try and pass amnesty or something that RINOs will be tempted to support.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at April 24, 2026 01:23 PM (mkI1r)

9 "which is why we either lose or gas out in the midterms"
___________

"Did someone say 'gas'?"

-- Eric Raping Fartswell

Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 24, 2026 01:25 PM (iFTx/)

10 Jeffries will, at best, get a majority of 10.

I suspect it'll be a majority of about 5.

They will convene some kind of impeachment subcommittee on day 1, and it will go for 6 months of theater until they draw something up.

Meanwhile, the Senate will be either a 52 or 53 GOP majority. And it will treat the impeachment as seriously as even Mitch McConnell treated the first impeachment against Trump (where only Romney in the GOP caucus voted for conviction on one of two counts).

America got the lesson that impeachment is failure theater and toothless in the 1860s. If Andrew Johnson couldn't get impeached, no one can.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 24, 2026 01:25 PM (GLVez)

11 Speaking of Dems and their shenanigans, one of the Asst AGs in VA is named Pebbles. Pebbles Burgess. I am all for unique names, honestly. But Pebbles?

Posted by: Piper at April 24, 2026 01:25 PM (Dd38x)

12 Impeachment Fever!!

Catch it at House of Reps today!

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 24, 2026 01:26 PM (jehhT)

13
Dirty Dems need 66 votes in the Senate to impeach, ain't going to happen.
Posted by: Joemarine

I think the number is 67 votes. 66 votes is short of 2/3rds.

Still won't happen.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 24, 2026 01:26 PM (xG4kz)

14 I don't think it matters if they don't have the votes to successfully impeach. It would be a distraction and weigh down the Presidency. Not good.

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at April 24, 2026 01:27 PM (qivay)

15 Remember those cards that businesses would punch for each purchase and after so many you got some item free. PDT can have his very own impeachment punch card.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 24, 2026 01:27 PM (DIbRX)

16 TDS

It’s getting worse.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 24, 2026 01:27 PM (W2Pud)

17 The problem here is that there are fair number of LIVs that like Trump/MAGA but are not going to vote for a GOPer that has done nothing over the last 2 years.

And hell, because they won't vote not only is that one less vote for the GOPer, the odds a mail in ballot for the Dem candidate will show up are non-trivial.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 24, 2026 01:27 PM (sKqQm)

18 War crimes?

Financial crimes?

Sex crimes?

Using ALL CAPS in social media?

They got a new Madison Cornhole?

Whaddya got, Jeffries?

Posted by: M. Gaga at April 24, 2026 01:28 PM (KiBMU)

19 Impeachments are just badges of courage now. Trump just collects them.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 24, 2026 01:28 PM (n5tGW)

20
"People ridiculed me," said Rep. Shri Thanedar (D-Mich.)

Have you seen that toupée ?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 24, 2026 01:28 PM (Cqx++)

21 11 Speaking of Dems and their shenanigans, one of the Asst AGs in VA is named Pebbles. Pebbles Burgess. I am all for unique names, honestly. But Pebbles?
Posted by: Piper at April 24, 2026 01:25 PM (Dd38x)

What's wrong with Pebbles? I love them, especially the poopy kind!

Posted by: Our sh*t pebble-loving troll at April 24, 2026 01:28 PM (qivay)

22 >>> If the American People Are Insane Enough to Give Them Control of Congress

About that...

Posted by: Max Power at April 24, 2026 01:28 PM (q177U)

23 "People ridiculed me," said Rep. Shri Thanedar (D-Mich.), who was the first Democrat to introduce articles of impeachment against Trump last year.
When Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) forced a vote on impeaching Trump...

Ah yes, the formidable and highly respected Bad Hair Caucus. Nobody wants to be on their bad side.

Posted by: Oddbob at April 24, 2026 01:28 PM (vTZFs)

24 I hope Dems impeach Trump several times if they regain the House. Better they waste their time on that kind of nonsense than do anything destructive...like try and pass amnesty or something that RINOs will be tempted to support.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at April 24, 2026 01:23 PM (mkI1r)

By tying the Senate up in impeachment hearing after impeachment hearing, though, the House Dems will neuter the Republican Senate. Trump won't get anything done for the rest of his term. Which, to them, is good enough.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 24, 2026 01:29 PM (iNUL3)

25 Democrats Plot and Scheme to Impeach Trump

Is this a comedy that's in reruns?

Posted by: Bad Andrew at April 24, 2026 01:29 PM (DgMqy)

26 Impeachments are just badges of courage now. Trump just collects them.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 24, 2026 01:28 PM (n5tGW)

--

Might as well be refrigerator magnets.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at April 24, 2026 01:29 PM (CR+cX)

27 One should keep in mind the Dems want to impeach Trump for the things he is doing that he ran on - cutting fraud, deporting illegals, and removing regulations and red tape.

Its almost comical.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 24, 2026 01:29 PM (sKqQm)

28 13
Dirty Dems need 66 votes in the Senate to impeach, ain't going to happen.
Posted by: Joemarine

I think the number is 67 votes. 66 votes is short of 2/3rds.

Still won't happen.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 24, 2026 01:26 PM (xG4kz)

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Yes 67.

Trump's second impeachment, after 1/6 when Mitch was celebrating that the GOP was soon rid of Trump forever publicly, at the nadir of Trump's electoral and political power in America, only 7 Republicans voted for conviction (5 of them are no longer in office at all).

But sure, they'll get 15 or so GOPers to vote for conviction over whatever bullshit they pull up in 2027 as opposed to Trump leading an insurrection or whatever it was in 2021.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 24, 2026 01:30 PM (GLVez)

29 People ridiculed me," said Rep. Shri Thanedar (D-Mich.), who was the first Democrat to introduce articles of impeachment against Trump last year.
When Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) forced a vote on impeaching Trump...

We really need that "natural born American" restriction not just for the Presidency but ALL elective offices

Posted by: 18-1 at April 24, 2026 01:30 PM (sKqQm)

30 The left generally does get what they want. Because they are not shy about getting it. And never stop pursuing it.

While our GOPe hope are all feckless cowardly cucks eagerly anticipating the chance, in just two years now, counting down, tic toc tic toc..., to don their gimp suits again and start getting their hershey dooks pushed in by their Democrat friends/doms.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 24, 2026 01:30 PM (3uBP9)

31 Trump Russia Possible Collusion

Trump Russia Possible Collusion

Posted by: Trump wave at April 24, 2026 01:30 PM (anL5R)

32 11 Speaking of Dems and their shenanigans, one of the Asst AGs in VA is named Pebbles. Pebbles Burgess. I am all for unique names, honestly. But Pebbles?
Posted by: Piper at April 24, 2026 01:25 PM (Dd38x)

Girlfriend…

Posted by: Pebbles at April 24, 2026 01:30 PM (E6xSb)

33 14 I don't think it matters if they don't have the votes to successfully impeach. It would be a distraction and weigh down the Presidency. Not good.

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at April 24, 2026 01:27 PM (qivay)

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It's stupid theater from Congress.

You shouldn't give a shit about stupid theater from Congress.

Not while ICE's enforcement functions are fully funded through 2028 and Trump still controls the DOJ.

It's optics. And optics are stupid.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 24, 2026 01:30 PM (GLVez)

34 25 Democrats Plot and Scheme to Impeach Trump

Is this a comedy that's in reruns?

What if they REALLY EMPHATICALLY impeach Trump? Wouldn't that shake things up!

Posted by: Bad Andrew at April 24, 2026 01:31 PM (DgMqy)

35 I am all for unique names, honestly. But Pebbles?
Posted by: Piper at April 24, 2026 01:25 PM (Dd38x)
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Parents were huge Flintstones fans, I guess.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 24, 2026 01:31 PM (xvhJH)

36 35 I am all for unique names, honestly. But Pebbles?
Posted by: Piper at April 24, 2026 01:25 PM (Dd38x)
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Parents were huge Flintstones fans, I guess.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 24, 2026 01:31 PM (xvhJH)

Or fans of late 1980s music.

Posted by: Cow Demon at April 24, 2026 01:32 PM (E6xSb)

37 Jeffries will, at best, get a majority of 10.

I suspect it'll be a majority of about 5.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 24, 2026 01:25 PM (GLVez)
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I think we hold the House. In political time, November is as far off as the Jurassic period is behind us. But I like where we are and where we are going.

Every leftwing event, rally, movement, initiative, and effort ends up being a fart in a hurricane. Nobody shows up, nobody cares, and it accomplishes nothing. This is a far cry from Trump 1.0 and especially after the Patron Saint of Drug Overdoses overdosed.

We have yet to see an election without USAID money. We have yet to see an election in the aftermath of the recent vote integrity measures. We have yet to see an election with a raging stock market and quickly improving economy coming out of 4 years of dogshit.

I like our chances in November.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 24, 2026 01:32 PM (iFTx/)

38 Parents were huge Flintstones fans, I guess.

I'm going to assume that her parents are Fred and Wilma unless proven otherwise. In fact, even if proven otherwise.

Posted by: Oddbob at April 24, 2026 01:32 PM (vTZFs)

39 Is Pebbles married to Bamm-Bamm?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 24, 2026 01:33 PM (Cqx++)

40 Nothing we didn't already know. They get more unhinged every day.

Posted by: steevy at April 24, 2026 01:33 PM (YwEeS)

41 37 I think we hold the House. In political time, November is as far off as the Jurassic period is behind us. But I like where we are and where we are going.

Every leftwing event, rally, movement, initiative, and effort ends up being a fart in a hurricane. Nobody shows up, nobody cares, and it accomplishes nothing. This is a far cry from Trump 1.0 and especially after the Patron Saint of Drug Overdoses overdosed.

We have yet to see an election without USAID money. We have yet to see an election in the aftermath of the recent vote integrity measures. We have yet to see an election with a raging stock market and quickly improving economy coming out of 4 years of dogshit.

I like our chances in November.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 24, 2026 01:32 PM (iFTx/)

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My assumption is based on a mix of normal political gravity + the current congressional map's compactness from 2020.

Both of those seem to be in flux. The flashy one is the latter with the gerrymandering back and forth. But it's the former that's probably going to have the bigger impact.

I want to believe that USAID et al getting cut off at the knees (or outright ended) will have a huge impact, but I dunno.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 24, 2026 01:34 PM (GLVez)

42 >>>Trump's voters don't vote unless Trump himself is on the ballot, which is why we either lose or gas out in the midterms.

Yeah, well. Mitt and Pence were such firebrands, dedicated to improving the lives of the little guy, and rewarding loyalty.

One of the most interesting papers I have read was Seligman's work on Learned Helplessness. Unfortunately no one has done a paper on how to reverse that outside of, perhaps, Pavlov and his theory of trauma erasing learned behavior

Posted by: Kindltot at April 24, 2026 01:34 PM (rbvCR)

43
Yes, but: Just because a member supports impeachment when asked -- or when forced to go on the record in a House vote -- doesn't mean they think it should be a policy priority for their party.

It's beginning to remind me a bit of how that asshat Charlie Rangel would always put up a bill to re-establish the Draft. Not because he actually wanted one, but because he wanted a Draft to piss off young adults so that they would get involved, and presumably support the Donks. He was bluntly honest about it, and at the drop of a hat would proudly talk about his attempted manipulation of young idiots.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 24, 2026 01:34 PM (y9nCu)

44 Donald Trump you are hereby being impeached for the high office crimes of REASONS, THINGS, and STUFF.

Posted by: ... at April 24, 2026 01:35 PM (95pwq)

45 I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve seen the word 'impeachment' or 'accountability' over the last decade. I'll believe it when I actually see a gavel hit the table and a real consequence follow. Until then, it's just another Tuesday headline

the point is to make it clear this is part of their platform so people vote for them in order to give them the power to actually do it. Publicizing it is an important part of the process.

Impeachment will happen, because it carries no weight. 67 Senstots have to convict, which will never happen. Even if they did, it's a removal from office. No other penalties.

Once he’s out of office, suddenly he’s vulnerable to criminal charges again, from New York, Georgia, the Hague. Only need one state to jail him pending trial and deny bail, and have him die behind bars.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 24, 2026 01:35 PM (mkI1r)

46 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 24, 2026 01:35 PM (Zz0t1)

47 We Have An ENTHUSIASM Problem!
Kristen Soltis Anderson
@KSoltisAnderson
NEW
@echeloninsights
polling: Democrats have a significant advantage over GOP on % "extremely motivated" to participate in the midterms.

It is acute among "party-first" Republicans: the half of the party who doesn't describe themselves as Trump supporters first and foremost.

https://tinyurl.com/488b5crv

Posted by: redridinghood at April 24, 2026 01:35 PM (NpAcC)

48 Remember those cards that businesses would punch for each purchase and after so many you got some item free. PDT can have his very own impeachment punch card.
Posted by: Ben Had at April 24, 2026 01:27 PM (DIbRX)
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Only three more impeachments before they have to give him another term!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 24, 2026 01:36 PM (gnNyN)

49 I think the country seeing the demoncrats on display, Nadler waddling up to the mic, sharting, and fighting for face time with his fellow idiots, didn't help the brand. I think you get to ring that bell once, and if you don't make the case you are done. They fcking rang it twice and failed. They just look stupid, impotent and out of ideas if they go for three.

Posted by: Trump wave at April 24, 2026 01:36 PM (anL5R)

50 42 >>>Trump's voters don't vote unless Trump himself is on the ballot, which is why we either lose or gas out in the midterms.

Yeah, well. Mitt and Pence were such firebrands, dedicated to improving the lives of the little guy, and rewarding loyalty.

One of the most interesting papers I have read was Seligman's work on Learned Helplessness. Unfortunately no one has done a paper on how to reverse that outside of, perhaps, Pavlov and his theory of trauma erasing learned behavior

Posted by: Kindltot at April 24, 2026 01:34 PM (rbvCR)

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Remember, Obama's voters didn't turn out without him on the ballot either.

The vaunted Obama machine that we were all supposed to be terrified of lost both of his midterms really badly. Worse than Trump did.

Maybe...90% of all turnout is self-actualized and has more to do with blind partisanship about which party is and isn't in power more than anything else.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 24, 2026 01:36 PM (GLVez)

51 Democrats run AGAINST making America great again. You should WANT to live in a great country.

That SHOULD be all you need to know come election day.

But, the left is stupid and hellbent on destroying the last best great thing this world has to offer.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 24, 2026 01:36 PM (Zz0t1)

52 Once he’s out of office, suddenly he’s vulnerable to criminal charges again, from New York, Georgia, the Hague. Only need one state to jail him pending trial and deny bail, and have him die behind bars.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 24, 2026 01:35 PM (mkI1r)

Isn't that nice....

Posted by: It's me donna at April 24, 2026 01:36 PM (FR3qi)

53 It tells you the Dems , especially the old timers have nothing else to run on. The younger ones would, if they win, be Mamdani 2.0, or any other Marxist loon.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 24, 2026 01:36 PM (gu0hJ)

54 Once he’s out of office, suddenly he’s vulnerable to criminal charges again, from New York, Georgia, the Hague. Only need one state to jail him pending trial and deny bail, and have him die behind bars.

And again, remember the crime they want him jailed for is implementing the policies most Americans want

Posted by: 18-1 at April 24, 2026 01:37 PM (sKqQm)

55 We have yet to see an election without USAID money. We have yet to see an election in the aftermath of the recent vote integrity measures. We have yet to see an election with a raging stock market and quickly improving economy coming out of 4 years of dogshit.

I like our chances in November.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 24, 2026 01:32 PM (iFTx/)

Virginia says Hi.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 24, 2026 01:37 PM (iNUL3)

56 > Is Pebbles married to Bamm-Bamm?

Canonically, yes. They had twin children.

Posted by: bonhomme at April 24, 2026 01:37 PM (mkw2N)

57 Speaking of Dems and their shenanigans, one of the Asst AGs in VA is named Pebbles. Pebbles Burgess. I am all for unique names, honestly. But Pebbles?
Posted by: Piper at April 24, 2026 01:25 PM (Dd38x)
_______

"Girlfriend, don't be hating. Love makes things happen. I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt."

-- Perri Arlette McKissack

Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 24, 2026 01:37 PM (iFTx/)

58 45
Impeachment will happen, because it carries no weight. 67 Senstots have to convict, which will never happen. Even if they did, it's a removal from office. No other penalties.

Once he’s out of office, suddenly he’s vulnerable to criminal charges again, from New York, Georgia, the Hague. Only need one state to jail him pending trial and deny bail, and have him die behind bars.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 24, 2026 01:35 PM (mkI1r)

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Leftists are seeing through the failure theater.

They're like me from about 2011.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 24, 2026 01:37 PM (GLVez)

59 Mildred: Hey, Adam, what are you impeaching Trump for?
Schiff: What've you got?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 24, 2026 01:37 PM (Dv3i1)

60 Now having been duly sanctioned for the unforgivable crimes of Reasons, Things and Stuff, what have you to say in your own defense?

Posted by: ... at April 24, 2026 01:38 PM (95pwq)

61 Yassamin Ansari is the brat of people that fled the Mullahs.

Good to see her...supporting the mullahs.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 24, 2026 01:38 PM (sKqQm)

62 >>> I like our chances in November.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 24, 2026 01:32 PM (iFTx/)

The left will pour someone's, probably ours,... somehow, fortune into pulling races in very specific races to get the win they want. Just like they demonstrated, repeatedly, in VA.

The GOPe will stumble around, make spazzy comments, and completely ignore those crucial races and let the Rs be defeated completely. Just like they demonstrated, repeatedly, in VA.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 24, 2026 01:38 PM (3uBP9)

63 > We really need that "natural born American" restriction not just for the Presidency but ALL elective offices
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And term limits for all of them too. Not just the presidency. Limits for Congress, and, perhaps more importantly, the federal judiciary. Including SCOTUS.

Lifetime appointments are horseshit.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 24, 2026 01:39 PM (jehhT)

64 Democrats are going gangbusters, meanwhile, Republicans just fiddlefart around with the status quo. Some things never change. They're allowing themselves to be set up for another massive voter fraud scenario.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 24, 2026 01:39 PM (Fbc0I)

65 55 Virginia says Hi.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 24, 2026 01:37 PM (iNUL3)

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Virginia moved to the right by 3 points from 2024 in the special election.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 24, 2026 01:39 PM (GLVez)

66 Once he’s out of office, suddenly he’s vulnerable to criminal charges again, from New York, Georgia, the Hague. Only need one state to jail him pending trial and deny bail, and have him die behind bars.

They keep saying they want us dead. At some point, a critical mass of us will start believing them.

Then it's Spain, 1930s.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 24, 2026 01:40 PM (iNUL3)

67 In that last plane flight President Trump would get, he should fly straight out of the country. Where to though? Maaybe Russia and rebuild them.

Posted by: Kafiroon at April 24, 2026 01:40 PM (IzMux)

68 June is when the new Fed Chair starts. There will be no em-peachment.

Posted by: runner at April 24, 2026 01:40 PM (GD0B3)

69 63 And term limits for all of them too. Not just the presidency. Limits for Congress, and, perhaps more importantly, the federal judiciary. Including SCOTUS.

Lifetime appointments are horseshit.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 24, 2026 01:39 PM (jehhT)

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California has term limits.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 24, 2026 01:40 PM (GLVez)

70 Pebbles began the downfall of the Flintstones, completed when Gazoo came along.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at April 24, 2026 01:40 PM (XvL8K)

71 Now having been duly sanctioned for the unforgivable crimes of Reasons, Things and Stuff, what have you to say in your own defense?
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Two. Scoops.

Two.

Not one.

Posted by: Because I'm the president and your not at April 24, 2026 01:40 PM (anL5R)

72 actually, in the light of the revelations around SPLC funding all the extremist right, and Whig's comments about the GOP being totally donor-captured, it does make me wonder about if there is a requirement to be a big money donor to a Republican other than having money?

I mean, a lot of powerful lefties have access to gobs of money and they could of course just be passing it on to get captured opposition. If Groypers are funded by the Left, then it is not much of a stretch that the average Republican politician is also funded by the left. it would explain both the odd inability to do anything remotely conservative, and at the same time explain the instinctive dislike the Republican voters have for their own politicians.

Maybe we should just hold our noses and vote harder. Again.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 24, 2026 01:40 PM (rbvCR)

73 We really need that "natural born American" restriction not just for the Presidency but ALL elective offices
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And term limits for all of them too. Not just the presidency. Limits for Congress, and, perhaps more importantly, the federal judiciary. Including SCOTUS.

Lifetime appointments are horseshit.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

You can't denaturalize the unnatural.

Posted by: Joe Mama at April 24, 2026 01:41 PM (TezPK)

74 Virginia moved to the right by 3 points from 2024 in the special election.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 24, 2026 01:39 PM (GLVez)

That's wild. I'd not looked further than raw numbers of rural voters.

Looks like my attempt to be snarky ended up just me being wrong.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 24, 2026 01:41 PM (iNUL3)

75 72 Maybe we should just hold our noses and vote harder. Again.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 24, 2026 01:40 PM (rbvCR)

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Just vote harder got us Trump and the most vigorous deportation machine since Eisenhower.

I mean...better than 1/6, I think.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 24, 2026 01:41 PM (GLVez)

76 I think we hold the House. In political time, November is as far off as the Jurassic period is behind us. But I like where we are and where we are going.

Voters are myopic and dumb. If Trump doesn't wrap up this Iran thing soon, people will remember high gas prices and vote against Trump (by voting Dem). If Iran wraps up quickly and successfully, gas drops and jobs and the economy keep growing and remain the focus, he'll be in good shape.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 24, 2026 01:42 PM (mkI1r)

77
They keep saying they want us dead. At some point, a critical mass of us will start believing them.

Then it's Spain, 1930s.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung

Dibs on a Stuka.

Posted by: Joe Mama at April 24, 2026 01:42 PM (TezPK)

78 I like our chances in November.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 24, 2026 01:32 PM (iFTx/)

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My assumption is based on a mix of normal political gravity + the current congressional map's compactness from 2020.

Both of those seem to be in flux. The flashy one is the latter with the gerrymandering back and forth. But it's the former that's probably going to have the bigger impact.

I want to believe that USAID et al getting cut off at the knees (or outright ended) will have a huge impact, but I dunno.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 24, 2026 01:34 PM (GLVez)
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I think the lack of USAID money is reflected in the pathetic turnout for all these "no kings" assfucks. I'm having trouble seeing how a demoralized, underfunded left that can't get more than a handful of shambling zombies to even high-profile, heavily pimped events can somehow muster up the stones to win in November.

Yes, our side has a turn-out problem. And it will be a problem. But I think the left will have a similar problem, at least as it pertains to a national vote.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 24, 2026 01:43 PM (iFTx/)

79 Yo Pebs, kick that box!

Reid was born Perri Arlette McKissack on August 29, 1964, one of four siblings to two parents of mixed European and African-American ancestry.

Late 80’s singer, Pebbles. I still listen to some of her songs when I’m running which hopefully I can restart one day.

Posted by: Mitch Mitchell at April 24, 2026 01:43 PM (kE/nb)

80 a lot of powerful lefties have access to gobs of money and they could of course just be passing it on to get captured opposition. If Groypers are funded by the Left, then it is not much of a stretch that the average Republican politician is also funded by the left. it would explain both the odd inability to do anything remotely conservative, and at the same time explain the instinctive dislike the Republican voters have for their own politicians.
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Shorter kindltot: Uniparty.

Posted by: abridger at April 24, 2026 01:43 PM (anL5R)

81 Just got a call from the insurance company. They're totaling the car. And likely totaling the other 2 cars.

That's 4 totals in a year.

This isn't going to work out well in the long run........

SonovaBITCH.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 24, 2026 01:43 PM (Zz0t1)

82 Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, let the record indicate thar Mr. Trump has no credible explanation for either the reasons, the things or, most notably, the stuff.

Where were you on the night of Reasons, Things and Stuff??!!! Answer the question!!

Posted by: ... at April 24, 2026 01:43 PM (95pwq)

83 74 That's wild. I'd not looked further than raw numbers of rural voters.

Looks like my attempt to be snarky ended up just me being wrong.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 24, 2026 01:41 PM (iNUL3)

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Special elections are weird and non-predictive because they just have different turnouts.

A special election with 24% turnout is not the same electorate as a general election with 80% turnout.

VA's special election did have fairly high turnout, but so did the 2025 governor's election.

However, when people screech about some city council special election where the GOP underperformed by 20 points which spells doom for us all, they never talk about when the GOP does overperform.

It's tea leaves, not statistics, but it's something, I guess.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 24, 2026 01:44 PM (GLVez)

84 Just vote harder got us Trump and the most vigorous deportation machine since Eisenhower.

I mean...better than 1/6, I think.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 24, 2026 01:41 PM (GLVez)

But that means it was our fault that John McCain lost, too. McCain had none of the blame, and he clearly felt that as well

Posted by: Kindltot at April 24, 2026 01:44 PM (rbvCR)

85 Yes Democrats will waste time on impeachment; but what are our GOP-majority House and Senate wasting our time on?

Has anything been passed or even voted on since the BBB?

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at April 24, 2026 01:44 PM (wBaIH)

86 Late 80’s singer, Pebbles. I still listen to some of her songs when I’m running which hopefully I can restart one day.
Posted by: Mitch Mitchell at April 24, 2026 01:43 PM (kE/nb)

Why run when you can ride in her Mercedes, boy.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 24, 2026 01:44 PM (Zz0t1)

87 The rats are cornered with each day of reporting of all the fraud of SPLC, ActBlue, etc. Their massive fraud and grift exposure not to mention what is happening in each state is so bad I can't even imagine what will happen if they do manage to capture the White House again.

Meanwhile, the Republicans can't pass the SAVE act? Worthless POS.

Posted by: Cheri at April 24, 2026 01:45 PM (oiNtH)

88 It's tea leaves, not statistics, but it's something, I guess.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with
Hammer Films at April 24, 2026 01:44 PM (GLVez)

We've got to find SOME way to discuss what we think is going to happen.

Thanks, J-Maddy.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 24, 2026 01:45 PM (iNUL3)

89
Voters are myopic and dumb. If Trump doesn't wrap up this Iran thing soon, people will remember high gas prices and vote against Trump (by voting Dem). If Iran wraps up quickly and successfully, gas drops and jobs and the economy keep growing and remain the focus, he'll be in good shape.

It looks to me the critical time frame is around Sept. There are plenty of people that decide who to vote for, or whether to vote, by how they think the economy is doing then.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 24, 2026 01:45 PM (sKqQm)

90
Meanwhile, the Republicans can't pass the SAVE act? Worthless POS.
Posted by: Cheri at April 24, 2026 01:45 PM (oiNtH)

We can thank the "Treasonous Four" for that one. And f*ck that Thune guy. What an asshole.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 24, 2026 01:46 PM (Zz0t1)

91 I mean, that's going to be front and center to their campaign.

"Our policies don't matter, you just want to see us punish the Orange Man, right?"

Posted by: XTC at April 24, 2026 01:46 PM (FpHTM)

92 84 But that means it was our fault that John McCain lost, too. McCain had none of the blame, and he clearly felt that as well

Posted by: Kindltot at April 24, 2026 01:44 PM (rbvCR)

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We are still in the middle of changing our elite in the party from the Rockefeller wannabes to the populist Trump.

Voting harder in the primaries got us that change in elite.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 24, 2026 01:46 PM (GLVez)

93 What's their impeachment case charge?

Other than being a Republican who won't plat ball with the uniparty or with the communists, I mean.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 24, 2026 01:46 PM (VI8Bh)

94 The Left Democrat legal networks are pretty much known. It wouldn't take a lot of work to round them up. Only the will, which doesn't seem to be much apparent on the right. I don't know what it is going to take.

Posted by: mrally at April 24, 2026 01:46 PM (ZJwkb)

95 85 Yes Democrats will waste time on impeachment; but what are our GOP-majority House and Senate wasting our time on?

Has anything been passed or even voted on since the BBB?

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at April 24, 2026 01:44 PM (wBaIH)

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It should be remembered that there hasn't been an actual and major policy bill passed by Congress since the ACA.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 24, 2026 01:46 PM (GLVez)

96 88 We've got to find SOME way to discuss what we think is going to happen.

Thanks, J-Maddy.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 24, 2026 01:45 PM (iNUL3)

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There's always Star Trek!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 24, 2026 01:47 PM (GLVez)

97 I took a look at the left's response to SPLC and its echoing what the SPLC says "They were only paying informants and turning over info to the cops"

So...let's put that to the test - can the SPLC name one person arrested based on their "pay off the Aryan Nation" program?

Posted by: 18-1 at April 24, 2026 01:47 PM (sKqQm)

98 Late 80’s singer, Pebbles. I still listen to some of her songs when I’m running which hopefully I can restart one day.
Posted by: Mitch Mitchell at April 24, 2026 01:43 PM (kE/nb)

Why run when you can ride in her Mercedes, boy.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 24, 2026 01:44 PM (Zz0t1)
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I have that song on my playlist. It's a surprisingly sleazy song for a lady to sing (at least during that era). It's like Kiss wrote "Mercedes Girl" and then gave it to her to reverse the sexes.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 24, 2026 01:47 PM (iFTx/)

99 They keep saying they want us dead. At some point, a critical mass of us will start believing them.

Then it's Spain, 1930s.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung

Dibs on a Stuka.
Posted by: Joe Mama

Oh shit...

Posted by: Guernica, Arizona at April 24, 2026 01:47 PM (mkI1r)

100 Meanwhile, the Republicans can't pass the SAVE act?
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Well, they don't want to obvs.

Posted by: why would they at April 24, 2026 01:47 PM (anL5R)

101 There is the very real possibility that between now and November the Dems will immolate themselves further. The old guard is out of gas and the young crazies are in the ascension. Let a couple of big blue cities ,ie Mamdani's NYC, Chicago, Seattle go all explody and the independents will go Republican. Of course the Republicans could eff up a wet dream, but the Dems are completely nuts

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 24, 2026 01:48 PM (gu0hJ)

102 On the plus side impeachment is a few steps down from assassination attempts...so the Dems are 'improving.'

Still at Walmart Canada. I just had to tell the Horde I could get a 12 pack of Bud Light for $29.98 Can! I think I'd just buy flavored water and spin around until I get dizzy...

Oh, the good Lindt Dark Chocolate was almost $7 a bar. I just wanted to let you know how things are here. And I left the house

Posted by: Stateless at April 24, 2026 01:48 PM (SHlvS)

103 It's been over a year and I have yet to hear one single democrat explain their platform and what policies and new laws they want... you know, for the betterment of America. All I hear is the same TDS bullshit.
And the GOPers continue to bend over for them.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 24, 2026 01:48 PM (2WIwB)

104
Once he’s out of office, suddenly he’s vulnerable to criminal charges again, from New York, Georgia, the Hague. Only need one state to jail him pending trial and deny bail, and have him die behind bars.

They keep saying they want us dead. At some point, a critical mass of us will start believing them.

Then it's Spain, 1930s.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 24, 2026 01:40 PM (iNUL3)

So you're saying that we win. Messily, but we still win.

I'm okay with that, even though I'd much prefer a victory that didn't paint the walls two stories high, red with blood, like Rome under Sulla.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 24, 2026 01:48 PM (y9nCu)

105 Impeachment really doesn't hold the same weight as it used to.

It's become a waste of time... for both sides.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 24, 2026 01:48 PM (NpAcC)

106 We can thank the "Treasonous Four" for that one. And f*ck that Thune guy. What an asshole.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 24, 2026 01:46 PM (Zz0t1)
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While I agree with this word for word, I'd throw the entire GOP Senate Caucus, minus four or five people, into the burning ring of traitorous fire. So many Senators, so few lightpoles.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 24, 2026 01:48 PM (VI8Bh)

107 And can you imagine what 2028 will be like if Democrats do get a slim House majority and spend two years screaming about impeaching a guy term limited out at the end of Congress?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 24, 2026 01:49 PM (GLVez)

108 Rep. Yassamin Ansari (D-Ariz.

I think I see one of the problems.

Posted by: RI Red at April 24, 2026 01:49 PM (nZWpe)

109 What's their impeachment case charge?

Other than being a Republican who won't plat ball with the uniparty or with the communists, I mean.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 24, 2026 01:46 PM (VI8Bh

War crimes.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 24, 2026 01:49 PM (iNUL3)

110 TDS

It’s getting worse.
Posted by: nurse ratched

There is no cure.

Posted by: Doogie Howser, M.D. at April 24, 2026 01:49 PM (UjdFS)

111 While I agree with this word for word, I'd throw the entire GOP Senate Caucus, minus four or five people, into the burning ring of traitorous fire. So many Senators, so few lightpoles.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 24, 2026 01:48 PM (VI8Bh)

Valid.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 24, 2026 01:49 PM (Zz0t1)

112 105 Impeachment really doesn't hold the same weight as it used to.

It's become a waste of time... for both sides.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 24, 2026 01:48 PM (NpAcC)

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Has been since 1868.

If Andrew Johnson had been convicted of his impeachment, I think the history of America would have been very different.

I think FDR could have been impeached in that world.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 24, 2026 01:49 PM (GLVez)

113 Oh, the good Lindt Dark Chocolate was almost $7 a bar. I just wanted to let you know how things are here. And I left the house

Posted by: Stateless at April 24, 2026 01:48 PM (SHlvS)
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$7 for a candy bar? People actually pay that much?! WTF!!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 24, 2026 01:50 PM (VI8Bh)

114 Just vote harder got us Trump and the most vigorous deportation machine since Eisenhower.

I mean...better than 1/6, I think.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 24, 2026 01:41 PM (GLVez)

That's a bit unfair. Trump is a once in 100 year anomaly. Vote harder for most of these clowns and you will get the same old circus that hates everything about you but your wallet.

Posted by: ... at April 24, 2026 01:50 PM (95pwq)

115 Rep. Yassamin Ansari (D-Ariz.

I think I see one of the problems.
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I think I'm about ready to expand my definition of "fundamentally non-serious" to be more *diverse*.

Posted by: Crusader at April 24, 2026 01:50 PM (TN0g+)

116
It is all about money. Republicans or Demoncrats it all about money. Money they are stealing from the tax payers.

They steal our money to further their schemes.

Posted by: four seasons at April 24, 2026 01:50 PM (3ek7K)

117 It's been over a year and I have yet to hear one single democrat explain their platform and what policies and new laws they want... you know, for the betterment of America. All I hear is the same TDS bullshit.
And the GOPers continue to bend over for them.

Yeah, they don't have a platform really. The vague elements they sort of acknowledge:

Completely open the border - let every conman, drug dealer, and rapist in

Tax the rich - but which rich? Outside of Elon they like most of the oligarchs, and Karen McAFWL with her $200K HR job is saying she's already taxed enough...

Imprison everyone they don't like...just the really bad ones, like Trump, Musk, and people that don't endorse transing kids on facebook

Posted by: 18-1 at April 24, 2026 01:51 PM (sKqQm)

118 Voting harder in the primaries got us that change in elite.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 24, 2026 01:46 PM (GLVez)

Go back and review what "learned helplessness" is about.
There has to be a reason for people to get out and vote, because until now, there has been nothing but failure

I actually sat in the backyard of the neighbor's house to do a meet and greet with a Republican candidate for state office. He had a plan on marginal tax policy and claimed he had no idea what civil forfeiture was. I wanted to kick over my lawn chair and storm out

Posted by: Kindltot at April 24, 2026 01:51 PM (rbvCR)

119 Impeachment really doesn't hold the same weight as it used to.

It's become a waste of time... for both sides.
Posted by: redridinghood at April 24, 2026 01:48 PM (NpAcC)

Because the Democrats have been abusing it since inception.

It DID stand for something, a deterrent mostly, keeping a President from exceeding his authority. The fact they didn't even consider it during the Owebama error........

We're not a serious country.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 24, 2026 01:51 PM (Zz0t1)

120 114 That's a bit unfair. Trump is a once in 100 year anomaly. Vote harder for most of these clowns and you will get the same old circus that hates everything about you but your wallet.

Posted by: ... at April 24, 2026 01:50 PM (95pwq)

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Vance is more anti-immigration that Trump is. So, we've got that going for us.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 24, 2026 01:51 PM (GLVez)

121 Other than being a Republican who won't plat ball with the uniparty or with the communists, I mean.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

Mean tweets?!?! Betraying our close ally Ukraine? Exterminating immigrants and LGBTQIA2S folx?!?!?!

Posted by: The Bulwark at April 24, 2026 01:51 PM (mkI1r)

122 93 What's their impeachment case charge?

Other than being a Republican who won't plat ball with the uniparty or with the communists, I mean.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 24, 2026 01:46 PM (VI8Bh)

Genociding Troons, probably.

Posted by: XTC at April 24, 2026 01:52 PM (FpHTM)

123 America got the lesson that impeachment is failure theater and toothless in the 1860s. If Andrew Johnson couldn't get impeached, no one can.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 24, 2026 01:25 PM (GLVez)

Nixon should have fought it.

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at April 24, 2026 01:52 PM (GD2xa)

124 119 Because the Democrats have been abusing it since inception.

It DID stand for something, a deterrent mostly, keeping a President from exceeding his authority. The fact they didn't even consider it during the Owebama error........

We're not a serious country.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 24, 2026 01:51 PM (Zz0t1)

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whig knows the common law history better than I do, but impeachment is honestly one of the big flaws in the constitution.

It's a remnant of another form of government that doesn't fit well in with ours.

I don't know what could replace it, but I would imagine it would need to be more about funding of the executive than the individual at the top.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 24, 2026 01:52 PM (GLVez)

125 It is all about money. Republicans or Demoncrats it all about money. Money they are stealing from the tax payers.

They steal our money to further their schemes.

Posted by: four seasons at April 24, 2026 01:50 PM (3ek7K)

The United States government has become the world's largest money laundering machine.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 24, 2026 01:52 PM (Zz0t1)

126 And what's the plan for Day Two? Raise taxes to 100%? Return Iran to its rightful position of lead exporter of terrorism, with a couple functioning nukes to boot?

What have they done for the last two years besides lay in the road as speed bumps? Useless shits.

Posted by: red speck at April 24, 2026 01:53 PM (Ve/HL)

127 War crimes.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 24, 2026 01:49 PM (iNUL3)
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Trying to win is now a war crime.

And here I am, silly me, hoping PDJT goes all Alexander The Great on these pigs and kills every last one of the IRGC.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 24, 2026 01:53 PM (VI8Bh)

128 Impeachment really doesn't hold the same weight as it used to.

It's become a waste of time... for both sides.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 24, 2026 01:48 PM (NpAcC)

Which helps who? The criminal Left of course which is why they did it.

Just like how overegging the racism and rape puddings has principally only helped the Party of Racism and Rape.

Just like how demeaning the judiciary and science has undermined two former controls society had against the Left.

Posted by: ... at April 24, 2026 01:53 PM (95pwq)

129 123 America got the lesson that impeachment is failure theater and toothless in the 1860s. If Andrew Johnson couldn't get impeached, no one can.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 24, 2026 01:25 PM (GLVez)

Nixon should have fought it.

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at April 24, 2026 01:52 PM (GD2xa)

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I believe his own party turned on him. I think he sensed that there were votes to convict in the Senate. That's why he didn't fight it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 24, 2026 01:53 PM (GLVez)

130 And what's the plan for Day Two? Raise taxes to 100%? Return Iran to its rightful position of lead exporter of terrorism, with a couple functioning nukes to boot?

Posted by: red speck at April 24, 2026 01:53 PM (Ve/HL)
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I'll decide that list.

Posted by: President James Boasberg at April 24, 2026 01:53 PM (VI8Bh)

131 I like to shower with my Pebbles.

Posted by: Fred Flintstone Biden at April 24, 2026 01:54 PM (9CBNQ)

132 The Dems are playing 'will to power' and the GOPe is playing us.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at April 24, 2026 01:55 PM (xcxpd)

133 > They keep saying they want us dead. At some point, a critical mass of us will start believing them.
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They don't have to say anything, really. They've taken a couple shots at Trump, killed Kirk and at least a handful of others around the country, wounded countless others and physically attacked thousands.

I'd say the left is pretty much locked and loaded to go off at the drop of a hat. Now.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 24, 2026 01:55 PM (jehhT)

134 And here I am, silly me, hoping PDJT goes all Alexander The Great on these pigs and kills every last one of the IRGC.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 24, 2026 01:53 PM (VI8Bh)

The fastest way to do anything is 'properly.'

Smoke the Republican Guard and remove Iran from the Shit to Worry About board for a generation.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 24, 2026 01:55 PM (iNUL3)

135 and hey, didn't it come out that Axios has no investigation expertise? They literally don't check facts.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at April 24, 2026 01:55 PM (xcxpd)

136
Just like how overegging the racism and rape puddings has principally only helped the Party of Racism and Rape.

A pattern I see on forums occasionally:

Feminist: Maybe all men aren't rapists, but would you eat a grape out of a pack where 1% were poisoned?

Someone else: So you are saying we should send all the immigrants back home because there are way more then 1% of them that are going to rape, rob, or murder an American right?

Feminist: Why are you racist?

Posted by: 18-1 at April 24, 2026 01:55 PM (sKqQm)

137
It should be remembered that there hasn't been an actual and major policy bill passed by Congress since the ACA.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 24, 2026 01:46 PM (GLVez)

My worst case scenario for the midterms is that Dems win and Congress says mean things but does nothing of any real significance for 2 years. My best case scenario is that Republicans maintain control, and Congress says mean things while doing nothing of any true significance for 2 years.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 24, 2026 01:56 PM (yGkmH)

138 Which helps who? The criminal Left of course which is why they did it.

Just like how overegging the racism and rape puddings has principally only helped the Party of Racism and Rape.

Just like how demeaning the judiciary and science has undermined two former controls society had against the Left.
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Gee, its almost as if you are suggesting the left has an organized plan to destabilize the country and take it over by any means necessary. Why would you think that? Don't you realize that they are as patriotic and loving of this country as can be?

Posted by: pollyanna at April 24, 2026 01:56 PM (anL5R)

139 Vance is more anti-immigration that Trump is. So, we've got that going for us.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 24, 2026 01:51 PM (GLVez)

Vance is our chance but it's still a longshot bet that he is going to stand firm and somehow continue fighting for the side Republicans have claimed to be fighting for for 50 years.

Posted by: ... at April 24, 2026 01:56 PM (95pwq)

140 War crimes.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 24, 2026 01:49 PM (iNUL3)
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Trying to win is now a war crime.

And here I am, silly me, hoping PDJT goes all Alexander The Great on these pigs and kills every last one of the IRGC.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 24, 2026 01:53 PM (VI8Bh)

You and me both.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 24, 2026 01:57 PM (snZF9)

141 133 They don't have to say anything, really. They've taken a couple shots at Trump, killed Kirk and at least a handful of others around the country, wounded countless others and physically attacked thousands.

I'd say the left is pretty much locked and loaded to go off at the drop of a hat. Now.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 24, 2026 01:55 PM (jehhT)

And yet, none of it counts as "shooting first", because they still control far too much of the levers of public influence.

Posted by: XTC at April 24, 2026 01:57 PM (FpHTM)

142 Because the Democrats have been abusing it since inception.

It DID stand for something, a deterrent mostly, keeping a President from exceeding his authority. The fact they didn't even consider it during the Owebama error........

We're not a serious country.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 24, 2026 01:51 PM (Zz0t1)

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whig knows the common law history better than I do, but impeachment is honestly one of the big flaws in the constitution.

It's a remnant of another form of government that doesn't fit well in with ours.

I don't know what could replace it, but I would imagine it would need to be more about funding of the executive than the individual at the top.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 24, 2026 01:52 PM (GLVez)
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It's carried over from the UK and was included because of the Framers' lingering fear of a "king." The real problem is how vaguely worded it is. "High crimes and misdemeanors"? Wtf does that mean?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 24, 2026 01:57 PM (iFTx/)

143 I am contemplating granting states the right to continue taxing former residents forever. It really makes no sense that a wealthy resident can leave California, Illinois, New York, or New Jersey without permission of the government, just to avoid properly passed taxes.

Posted by: President James Boasberg at April 24, 2026 01:57 PM (uCaLA)

144 Because the Democrats have been abusing it since inception.

It DID stand for something, a deterrent mostly, keeping a President from exceeding his authority. The fact they didn't even consider it during the Owebama error........

We're not a serious country.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 24, 2026 01:51 PM (Zz0t1)
******
I blame TDS. It's radicalized people that use to be somewhat normal.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 24, 2026 01:57 PM (NpAcC)

145 If Johnson had been removed, with no VP to succeed him, would the then-Speaker of the House have succeeded?

Posted by: Bulg at April 24, 2026 01:57 PM (77rzZ)

146 Gee, its almost as if you are suggesting the left has an organized plan to destabilize the country and take it over by any means necessary.

Posted by: pollyanna at April 24, 2026 01:56 PM (anL5R)

Almost!

Posted by: ... at April 24, 2026 01:57 PM (95pwq)

147 Sorry sponge.

This is why I don’t think parents should buy their kids cars.

My parents didn’t buy one for either me or my brother. And I never bought cars for my boys.

I helped them with insurance, but not for very long.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 24, 2026 01:57 PM (W2Pud)

148 whig knows the common law history better than I do, but impeachment is honestly one of the big flaws in the constitution.

It's a remnant of another form of government that doesn't fit well in with ours.

I don't know what could replace it, but I would imagine it would need to be more about funding of the executive than the individual at the top.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

I dunno, it seems like a pretty balanced option in a 3-branch system. You'd want the most powerful branch theoretically most reflective of the publicist will (Congress, as the Founders envisioned) to have a way to remove bad actors, including the President, before things spiraled into violence, but it would have to be very difficult to do to prevent abuse, and allow it to be used only in emergencies the public STRONGLY supports.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at April 24, 2026 01:57 PM (mkI1r)

149 137 My worst case scenario for the midterms is that Dems win and Congress says mean things but does nothing of any real significance for 2 years. My best case scenario is that Republicans maintain control, and Congress says mean things while doing nothing of any true significance for 2 years.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 24, 2026 01:56 PM (yGkmH)

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The accuracy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 24, 2026 01:58 PM (GLVez)

150 I believe his own party turned on him. I think he sensed that there were votes to convict in the Senate. That's why he didn't fight it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

There was a specific meeting with a Senate delegation led by Minority Leader Hugh Scott that told Nixon his time was up just before the House voted formally to impeach.

The tapes where Nixon was discussing matters did him in. Had Nixon destroyed the tapes immediately or never did the practice in the first place, then he probably would have skated by. His own grandiosity about viewing his place in history and the fact he assumed that because his predecessor Dem presidents did it, he would get the same protection from them being released.

He sank himself essentially.

Posted by: whig at April 24, 2026 01:58 PM (E4rtv)

151 My parents didn’t buy one for either me or my brother. And I never bought cars for my boys.

I helped them with insurance, but not for very long.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 24, 2026 01:57 PM (W2Pud)

Well, she'll be without one for a while now. Lesson learned.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 24, 2026 01:58 PM (Zz0t1)

152 Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at April 24, 2026 01:55 PM (xcxpd)

This would be going on my personal sidebar if I had one. Damn.

Posted by: ... at April 24, 2026 01:58 PM (95pwq)

153 ******
I blame TDS. It's radicalized people that use to be somewhat normal.
Posted by: redridinghood at April 24, 2026 01:57 PM (NpAcC)

That has a lot to do with it, sure. But, these f*ckers have been rabid since Reagan. They've only gotten emboldened with the Republicans tucking tail and bending over every 15 minutes begging for attention.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 24, 2026 01:59 PM (Zz0t1)

154 The real problem is how vaguely worded it is. "High crimes and misdemeanors"? Wtf does that mean?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 24, 2026 01:57 PM (iFTx/)

Whatever Congress wants it to mean.

Impeachment is a political tool, not a criminal one.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 24, 2026 01:59 PM (iNUL3)

155 Axios: Politico4Kidz

Posted by: AoSHQ Stylebook at April 24, 2026 02:00 PM (4NO2D)

156 ...We have yet to see an election without USAID money. We have yet to see an election in the aftermath of the recent vote integrity measures. We have yet to see an election with a raging stock market and quickly improving economy coming out of 4 years of dogshit.

I like our chances in November.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 24, 2026 01:32 PM (iFTx/)

I'm with Elric. I wasn't worried about the 2024 election at all - not for one second - and I'm not worried about this one, either.

Setting aside the nattering nabobs of negativism on the left/media, Trump has all the time in the world to end this Iran situation on his terms. Iran's IRGC has not only alienated its own population, but all of their neighbors as well. They're not Germany 1939 - they will lose this one. We have a 250th and a GOP convention as well. US GDP's being held back right now, and it'll be unleashed by Oct - just in time for elections. The SPLC trainwreck is just beginning. The Dems will be crushed by it. Time is on Trump's side.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 24, 2026 02:00 PM (nkaBM)

157 Axios is some foreign language word for "dry anal," isn't it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 24, 2026 02:01 PM (Zz0t1)

158 Nixon was a jackass.

Posted by: Dark Litigator at April 24, 2026 02:01 PM (W5mpo)

159 154 Whatever Congress wants it to mean.

Impeachment is a political tool, not a criminal one.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 24, 2026 01:59 PM (iNUL3)

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Johnson's impeachment was ostensibly about his removal of Stanton as Secretary of War, which Congress decided was a high crime and misdemeanor since he didn't consult Congress.

Like 2 years later, SCOTUS ruled the act constitutional.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 24, 2026 02:01 PM (GLVez)

160 28 is looking like Vance Newsom. Much like 16 was Trump Hillary. Going to be very interesting.

Posted by: mrally at April 24, 2026 02:02 PM (ZJwkb)

161 Nixon was a jackass.
Posted by: Dark Litigator at April 24, 2026 02:01 PM

The Fighting Quaker!

Posted by: toby928(c) at April 24, 2026 02:02 PM (4NO2D)

162 139 Vance is more anti-immigration that Trump is. So, we've got that going for us.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 24, 2026 01:51 PM (GLVez)

Vance is our chance but it's still a longshot bet that he is going to stand firm and somehow continue fighting for the side Republicans have claimed to be fighting for for 50 years.
Posted by: ... at April 24, 2026 01:56 PM (95pwq)

I'm a Rubio fan.

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at April 24, 2026 02:02 PM (GD2xa)

163 160 28 is looking like Vance Newsom. Much like 16 was Trump Hillary. Going to be very interesting.

Posted by: mrally at April 24, 2026 02:02 PM (ZJwkb)

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Show me a poll where Newsom is beating Kamala, and I'll show you 10 where Kamala is trouncing Newsom.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 24, 2026 02:02 PM (GLVez)

164 I'm a Rubio fan.
Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at April 24, 2026 02:02 PM

That Gang of Eight amnesty thing still rankles me.

Posted by: toby928(c) at April 24, 2026 02:03 PM (4NO2D)

165 DUDE 44 Bravo for president!

Posted by: runner at April 24, 2026 02:03 PM (GD0B3)

166 162
I'm a Rubio fan.

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at April 24, 2026 02:02 PM (GD2xa)

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My vote goes to which candidate swears to undo the current copyright regime.

I'll write in Mamdani if I have to.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 24, 2026 02:03 PM (GLVez)

167 Impeachment is a fart in the wind when they can't even be decisive on a war powers resolution.

Just a bunch of jabberjaws like Schumer pretending to be relevant.

Jawboning won't get it done, unless the Democrats put up Kamala as their front runner.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 24, 2026 02:03 PM (Fbc0I)

168 81 Just got a call from the insurance company. They're totaling the car. And likely totaling the other 2 cars.

That's 4 totals in a year.

This isn't going to work out well in the long run........

SonovaBITCH.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 24, 2026 01:43 PM (Zz0t1)

Tariffs and lack of availability of parts and labor pretty much total any cars in accidents unless there's very, very little wrong...

Posted by: Nova Local at April 24, 2026 02:04 PM (tOcjL)

169 But, Rubio seems to be born-again hard.

Posted by: toby928(c) at April 24, 2026 02:04 PM (4NO2D)

170 This will probably benefit us. Trump's voters don't vote unless Trump himself is on the ballot, which is why we either lose or gas out in the midterms.

But Democrats just put Trump on the ballot for the midterms.
_________________________________

This is an optimistic point of view, IMO. On the contrary, Leftist voters are ALL in on being Anti-Trump. They need no other reason to vote and ignore anything but that agenda. Those on the Right, however, consider all facets of a decision inclusive of substance. Some, are, of course ALL in, but far fewer that the Left.

Trump's not on the ballot at midterms, and the Democrats just countered that by making it about him. That energizes their voters a hell of a lot more than ours. And, that doesn't even consider the wishy washy fence sitting independents, who go out of their way to tell you about their independency.

Posted by: Orson at April 24, 2026 02:04 PM (dIske)

171 My vote goes to which candidate swears to undo the current copyright regime.

I'll write in Mamdani if I have to.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 24, 2026 02:03 PM (GLVez)

Mine went to the guy who promised, PROMISED to do away with DST! I waz robbed!!

Posted by: runner at April 24, 2026 02:05 PM (GD0B3)

172 I saw The Presidents of the United States of America sing Impeachments back in the 90s.

Posted by: Cray Cray at April 24, 2026 02:05 PM (cZMme)

173 Of course they do; they are enemies of the Constitution and would love the United States to be subservient to China, the EU, Russia, and Climate Apocalypse Accords...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 24, 2026 02:05 PM (ynpvh)

174 My vote goes to which candidate swears to undo the current copyright regime.

I'll write in Mamdani if I have to.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 24, 2026 02:03 PM (GLVez)

...and we have Sonny Bono (R-CA) to thank for that one.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 24, 2026 02:05 PM (nkaBM)

175 OT, but this is kind of wild. Has anyone ever driven in a self-driving Tesla car?

After nearly 10 billion miles of testing, Tesla says accident numbers are 9x better than when humans drive.

Except in Asian Wife mode of course, when the Tesla drives at half the speed limit in the left lane.

https://tinyurl.com/y93jfyfc

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 24, 2026 02:05 PM (uCaLA)

176 Just got a call from the insurance company. They're totaling the car. And likely totaling the other 2 cars.

That's 4 totals in a year.

This isn't going to work out well in the long run........

SonovaBITCH.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 24, 2026 01:43 PM (Zz0t1)

I'm only counting 3 there. Was there another episode?

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 24, 2026 02:05 PM (snZF9)

177 I saw The Presidents of the United States of America sing Impeachments back in the 90s.
Posted by: Cray Cray at April 24, 2026 02:05 PM (cZMme)

They sucked.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 24, 2026 02:05 PM (Zz0t1)

178 143 I am contemplating granting states the right to continue taxing former residents forever. It really makes no sense that a wealthy resident can leave California, Illinois, New York, or New Jersey without permission of the government, just to avoid properly passed taxes.
Posted by: President James Boasberg at April 24, 2026 01:57 PM (uCaLA)

This darn guy is the best argument for a more robust check on judges. I don't have a solution and it would be wrong for me to pray for his ruination, but yeah fuck that guy like it's the cellblock Sadie Hawkins after party.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at April 24, 2026 02:05 PM (w/O5Q)

179 174 ...and we have Sonny Bono (R-CA) to thank for that one.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 24, 2026 02:05 PM (nkaBM)

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Fuck that asshole into the sun.

And send his wife with him.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 24, 2026 02:05 PM (GLVez)

180 151 My parents didn’t buy one for either me or my brother. And I never bought cars for my boys.

I helped them with insurance, but not for very long.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 24, 2026 01:57 PM (W2Pud)

Well, she'll be without one for a while now. Lesson learned.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 24, 2026 01:58 PM (Zz0t1)

Mine went back and did a driver improvement class for her accident (VA makes you do it if you get a ticket under 20, which annoyed me, but now I think is a great idea...even if she didn't really deserve the ticket).

Might be a good thing to be done over the summer...and should help your insurance hit if she's under 25.

Posted by: Nova Local at April 24, 2026 02:05 PM (tOcjL)

181 177 I saw The Presidents of the United States of America sing Impeachments back in the 90s.
Posted by: Cray Cray at April 24, 2026 02:05 PM (cZMme)

They sucked.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 24, 2026 02:05 PM (Zz0t1)

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But they had peaches.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 24, 2026 02:06 PM (GLVez)

182 Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Posted by: Moron Analyst
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The history of parliamentary impeachment was based on a very different system and when that system changed, even Parliament got rid of it.

Essentially, it was used during the Elizabethan era and the early Stuart regime as a way of attacking the King's ministers and perhaps removing them WITHOUT being able to be accused of disloyalty to the Crown. The pretense was that the king could do no wrong but the ministers could. It was never designed to get rid of the king himself.

That required a separate bill from Parliament on different grounds ordering Charles II execution.

Eventually after the failures of two well known impeachments, Warren Hastings (Minister to India) and Lord Dundas (admiralty among others), Parliament abandoned using it.

The Hastings impeachment was occurring in fits and starts during the Constitutional Convention itself and lasted 7 years without result.

The Founders were mixed on impeachment and for good reason. For cabinet officials, it was a clunky way to remove when a President could do so easily. Continued.

Posted by: whig at April 24, 2026 02:06 PM (E4rtv)

183 I believe the current state of auto driving is that a human paying attention and without drugs/alcohol is still better

But humans are really, really bad at paying attention...

Posted by: 18-1 at April 24, 2026 02:06 PM (sKqQm)

184 This seems really significant:

Republicans are absolutely dominating Democrats in fundraising.

Democratic National Committee
Cash on hand: $13.9M
Debt: $18.4M
Net: –$4.5M (underwater)

Republican National Committee
Cash on hand: $116.8M
Debt: $0
Net: +$116.8M

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 24, 2026 02:06 PM (iNUL3)

185 Yassamin Ansari is the brat of people that fled the Mullahs.

Good to see her...supporting the mullahs.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 24, 2026 01:38 PM (sKqQm)

Democrat, so stunned c*** can be assumed accurate.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 24, 2026 02:06 PM (utfVc)

186 I'm a Rubio fan.
Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at April 24, 2026 02:02 PM (GD2xa)

Rubio was born of illegal alien parents, who were later naturalized. He may have some problems there, and will surely be an issue if Anchor Babies becomes a hot election year issue.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 24, 2026 02:06 PM (rbvCR)

187 No major policy laws passed since the ACA?

Good Lord Oblablah really does deserve his high rise garage Tin Chicago (Italian trans.: There I Shit)

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at April 24, 2026 02:07 PM (wBaIH)

188
I'm only counting 3 there. Was there another episode?
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 24, 2026 02:05 PM (snZF9)

8 or so months ago, she was cruising down the freeway when the car in front of her hit a piece of retread. It flew into the grille of her car and unbeknownst to her, cracked the radiator. By the time it started alerting her to issues, it was mostly dead. Damage caused overall led to the insurance to total it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 24, 2026 02:07 PM (Zz0t1)

189 And Democrats just showed you in Virginia how they are going to seize control.

Corruption of mail in ballots.

They waited to see how many votes they needed, and then made the drop.

Posted by: Vengeance at April 24, 2026 02:07 PM (u/66v)

190 Posted by: President James Boasberg at April 24, 2026 01:57 PM (uCaLA)

This darn guy is the best argument for a more robust check on judges. I don't have a solution and it would be wrong for me to pray for his ruination, but yeah fuck that guy like it's the cellblock Sadie Hawkins after party.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at April 24, 2026 02:05 PM

Since I am praying for ass-cancer upon him, I guess I will run point for you.

Posted by: toby928(c) at April 24, 2026 02:07 PM (4NO2D)

191 Polls lol. Newsom will beat Harris in any contested Democrat race.

Posted by: mrally at April 24, 2026 02:07 PM (ZJwkb)

192 Yeah no surprise is right neocon retards. Trump has not focused on core America First / MAGA priorities since his capitulation (or blackmail) to the all war all the time idiots. Emphasis on national identity, family, demographics, education, and sovereignty - areas that seek enduring changes in American culture, demographics, family formation, and institution, has largely been back-burnered.

Your war destroyed the coalition, and we will pay dearly for it.

Posted by: South and Proud!! at April 24, 2026 02:08 PM (zAHuo)

193 "People ridiculed me," said Rep. Shri Thanedar (D-Mich.)

Yeah, but not for the reasons you think...

Posted by: The Whine Guy at April 24, 2026 02:08 PM (c232c)

194 >>@174: ...and we have Sonny Bono (R-CA) to thank for that one.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 24, 2026 02:05 PM (nkaBM)
***
He probably didn't that see that.......

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at April 24, 2026 02:08 PM (S+2Xo)

195 8 or so months ago, she was cruising down the freeway when the car in front of her hit a piece of retread. It flew into the grille of her car and unbeknownst to her, cracked the radiator. By the time it started alerting her to issues, it was mostly dead. Damage caused overall led to the insurance to total it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 24, 2026 02:07 PM (Zz0t1)

For a cracked radiator?? I'm guessing she overheated it and smoked the engine?

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 24, 2026 02:09 PM (snZF9)

196 "Oh, the good Lindt Dark Chocolate was almost $7 a bar."

For context this is the 3.5 oz bars and they run about $3.5o to $4/bar here in the U.S I think, maybe more now, as candy has gotten more expensive I've shifted to cheaper stuff unless there is a good sale on the premium choc brands. What is the exchange rate for Canadian dollars?

IMO the best political strategy is to point out how unbelievable the FNM is to LIVs or old time Dems who don't realize how commie their party has become. People need a constant drip drip of "can you believe the FNM said this stupid false thing on air". If talking to an LIV independent one might add, "they lie so much I feel like I have to oppose whatever they want, including in the voting booth"

Posted by: PaleRider at April 24, 2026 02:09 PM (+89TD)

197
But they had peaches.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 24, 2026 02:06 PM (GLVez)

In a can.

Shoved up their ass.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 24, 2026 02:09 PM (Zz0t1)

198 Your war destroyed the coalition, and we will pay dearly for it.
Posted by: South and Proud!! at April 24, 2026 02:08 PM

*snort*

Posted by: toby928(c) at April 24, 2026 02:09 PM (4NO2D)

199 “But Democrats just put Trump on the ballot for the midterms.” That is a logical analysis. BUT way too many MAGA have no understanding of basic civics. Why can’t they comprehend that Trump needs an R majority congress to do anything ? Basic civics. Trump voters who won’t vote unless his name are is on the ballot are too ignorant to even talk to.

Posted by: Going deep. Out. at April 24, 2026 02:09 PM (x69Nb)

200 It's carried over from the UK and was included because of the Framers' lingering fear of a "king." The real problem is how vaguely worded it is. "High crimes and misdemeanors"? Wtf does that mean?
Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 24, 2026 01:57 PM (iFTx/)

Interesting footnote: Prominent 20th century conservative historian Forrest McDonald (first from Brown University, then after a scandal with a graduate assistant, The University of Alabama) was summoned to DC in the runup to the Clinton Impeachment. Skeptical members of the House Judiciary Committee asked him whether "High Crimes and Misdemeanors" should be interpreted to include lying under oath about a sexual affair. He replied that the Founders intentionally left that clause vague, in order that it be interpreted by future generations of legislators. He said, it means whatever you want it to mean.

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at April 24, 2026 02:09 PM (GD2xa)

201 Posted by: South and Proud!! at April 24, 2026 02:08 PM (zAHuo)

I laughed.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 24, 2026 02:10 PM (m6Eem)

202 For a cracked radiator?? I'm guessing she overheated it and smoked the engine?
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 24, 2026 02:09 PM (snZF9)

They never told me, but that's what I'm guessing.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 24, 2026 02:10 PM (Zz0t1)

203 191 Polls lol. Newsom will beat Harris in any contested Democrat race.

Posted by: mrally at April 24, 2026 02:07 PM (ZJwkb)

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The majority black voting block in South Carolina is going to give Kamala a win of 50 points.

Blacks have their candidate, and it's not balding weirdo from CA Newsom. It's black girl magic Kamala.

I can't wait for my bet on PredictIt to pay off. It's gonna be great because prediction markets see a year of polls of Kamala winning against Newsom and AOC and think, "nah, black people will vote like Manhattan white progressives."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 24, 2026 02:10 PM (GLVez)

204 186 I'm a Rubio fan.
Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at April 24, 2026 02:02 PM (GD2xa)

Rubio was born of illegal alien parents, who were later naturalized. He may have some problems there, and will surely be an issue if Anchor Babies becomes a hot election year issue.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 24, 2026 02:06 PM (rbvCR)

A brother was born in Mexico when my mother was not yet a citizen, but my Dad was a citizen (as were his ancestors going back at least a few generations). Even though he didn't have to, he went through the naturalization process anyway...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 24, 2026 02:10 PM (ynpvh)

205 Yassamin Ansari , sounds like a candidate for some of that denaturalization.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 24, 2026 02:10 PM (XAeCh)

206 ...Trump's not on the ballot at midterms, and the Democrats just countered that by making it about him. That energizes their voters a hell of a lot more than ours. And, that doesn't even consider the wishy washy fence sitting independents, who go out of their way to tell you about their independency.
Posted by: Orson at April 24, 2026 02:04 PM (dIske)

And to that, I would say that you not only need to be against Trump, but to be FOR something else. Spanberger billed herself as a moderate, and VA is just waking up to who she really is. Mamdani is experiencing buyers' remorse in the East Village - soon to spread city-wide. The wheels on the Newsom train are falling off as people see the deep corruption and incompetence in his CA. If there was one Dem leader who could give a coherent vision on what a successful gov't under their control looks like, I would say they could run away with it. As it is, they really don't. And we're still less than two years away from Biden's Reign of Error, where every single Dem in office right now stood right beside him without any criticism when it mattered.

I'm not worried about these Dems at all. I'm worried about the GOPe that won't fight.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 24, 2026 02:10 PM (nkaBM)

207 Posted by: President James Boasberg at April 24, 2026 01:57 PM (uCaLA)

This darn guy is the best argument for a more robust check on judges. I don't have a solution and it would be wrong for me to pray for his ruination, but yeah fuck that guy like it's the cellblock Sadie Hawkins after party.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at April 24, 2026 02:05 PM

Since I am praying for ass-cancer upon him, I guess I will run point for you.

Posted by: toby928(c) at April 24, 2026 02:07 PM (4NO2D)

Fuck the both of you, I'm praying for the Colombian solution. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 24, 2026 02:11 PM (snZF9)

208 *snort*
Posted by: toby928(c) at April 24, 2026 02:09 PM (4NO2D)

who is going to tell Pepe, you ?

Posted by: runner at April 24, 2026 02:11 PM (GD0B3)

209 https://x.com/CENTCOM/status/
2047617427211436132

It's just too bad that Trump has no idea that the IRGC is in control of Iran and are asking for death. He would prepare for that in some way, somehow.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 24, 2026 02:11 PM (GLVez)

210 Sidney Sweeney is quite lovely yeah, but you would need an evinrude to motorboat her.

Can you believe that Vanity Fair says that Michelle Obama is hot? Brian Dennehy's worst role ever!

AOC thinks there needs to be more support for Palestine During Pride month? She's an Arby's 4.

Posted by: Intercepted AOS Transmission brought by intrepid Reddit User at April 24, 2026 02:11 PM (f1kZG)

211
Fuck the both of you, I'm praying for the Colombian solution. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 24, 2026 02:11 PM (snZF9)

Neck ties......

Contracts......

HIGH VOLTAGE!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 24, 2026 02:12 PM (Zz0t1)

212
I believe his own party turned on him. I think he sensed that there were votes to convict in the Senate. That's why he didn't fight it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 24, 2026 01:53 PM (GLVez)

I think he also realized that he'd hired on a bunch of incompetent boobs like Liddy, Hunt, Dean and Ehrlichman among others. Boobs who would turn on him to save themselves, although to be fair, Liddy largely kept his mouth shut until after Nixon was pardoned and it didn't matter anymore.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 24, 2026 02:12 PM (y9nCu)

213 Your war destroyed the coalition, and we will pay dearly for it.
Posted by: South and Proud!! at April 24, 2026 02:08 PM (zAHuo)

The lack of constant troop death toll headlines suggests otherwise.

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at April 24, 2026 02:12 PM (GD2xa)

214 198 Your war destroyed the coalition, and we will pay dearly for it.
Posted by: South and Proud!! at April 24, 2026 02:08 PM

*snort*

Posted by: toby928(c) at April 24, 2026 02:09 PM (4NO2D)

the so-called war of Northern Aggression?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 24, 2026 02:12 PM (ynpvh)

215 Apropos of nothing, I bought and ate a Worlds Best charity chocolate bar yesterday. Was still a dollar but, it was the size of a tootsie roll. I mean, Halloween miniature sized. I remember when they were large enough to beat the urchins selling them with.

Posted by: toby928(c) at April 24, 2026 02:12 PM (4NO2D)

216 For the President or Vice President, with a party system (not foreseen by Founders), it
became a shadow threat based on partisan emotions rather than for government misconduct (much as the older Parliamentary method was).

Johnson, more a less a S. Democrat, was impeached over violating the Tenure in Office Act which was most likely unconstitutional ( see Myers v. US which buried that particular act). And Nixon was impeached primarily because Congress had a massive domination by Democrats and the old S. Democrats were being replaced due to the Voting Rights Act in the South that might have supported and protected him from impeachment. The House was ran by Northern liberals at that point.

The Clinton impeachment failed despite the fact he was guilty of the criminal charges but the politics weren't there to cause Democrats to abandon him. Then you have the feckless and likely illegal grounds of the first and the rank stupidity and unconstitutionality of the second impeachment of Trump.

The 25th (passed after Ike's health issues and revealed Wilson and FDR infirmities), is a similar constitutional sinkhole. Both ignore the role of parties acting to protect its own.

Posted by: whig at April 24, 2026 02:12 PM (E4rtv)

217 Sidney Sweeney is quite lovely yeah, but you would need an evinrude to motorboat her.

Can you believe that Vanity Fair says that Michelle Obama is hot? Brian Dennehy's worst role ever!

AOC thinks there needs to be more support for Palestine During Pride month? She's an Arby's 4.

Posted by: Intercepted AOS Transmission brought by intrepid Reddit User at April 24, 2026 02:11 PM (f1kZG)

What is happening right now?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 24, 2026 02:12 PM (Zz0t1)

218 143 I am contemplating granting states the right to continue taxing former residents forever. It really makes no sense that a wealthy resident can leave California, Illinois, New York, or New Jersey without permission of the government, just to avoid properly passed taxes.
Posted by: President James Boasberg

Hah! That's what you would get from a moderate squish like Boasberg. A truly compassionate President Judge would rule that the local taxing authority has permission to tax anyone who had the privilege of driving through or getting a connecting flight in said jurisdiction, in perpetuity including all progeny.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 24, 2026 02:12 PM (Dv3i1)

219 To be clear, if Republicans can't attract or lure the voters that Trump does, that is 100% a them problem not a "Trump voter" problem.

Trump has personality and charisma for sure but all Trump has done is prove that you can win nationally by promising to do the stuff WE have been asking for decades and standing behind it instead of being a mealy mouthed libtard who doesn't want to upset the normies, ie a Republican.

Posted by: ... at April 24, 2026 02:12 PM (95pwq)

220 What we need is a good ol' fashioned congressional hearing!

Posted by: Weasel at April 24, 2026 02:13 PM (Y4VCL)

221 Posted by: Intercepted AOS Transmission brought by intrepid Reddit User at April 24, 2026 02:11 PM (f1kZG)

LOL, true dat.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 24, 2026 02:13 PM (ynpvh)

222
A brother was born in Mexico when my mother was not yet a citizen, but my Dad was a citizen (as were his ancestors going back at least a few generations). Even though he didn't have to, he went through the naturalization process anyway...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
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Drill it. He was making sure the family stayed together. Good man.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 24, 2026 02:13 PM (XAeCh)

223 It's just too bad that Trump has no idea that the IRGC is in control of Iran and are asking for death. He would prepare for that in some way, somehow.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 24, 2026 02:11 PM (GLVez)

He's a stupid doodyhead who doesn't know what he's doing and never learns anything. The war is lost.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 24, 2026 02:13 PM (Zz0t1)

224 What we need is a good ol' fashioned congressional hearing!
Posted by: Weasel at April 24, 2026 02:13 PM (Y4VCL)

GIT DEM SLEEVES ROLLED UP!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 24, 2026 02:14 PM (Zz0t1)

225 GIT DEM SLEEVES ROLLED UP!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 24, 2026 02:14 PM (Zz0t1)
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Prezactly!

Posted by: Weasel at April 24, 2026 02:15 PM (Y4VCL)

226 Still at Walmart Canada. I just had to tell the Horde I could get a 12 pack of Bud Light for $29.98 Can! I think I'd just buy flavored water and spin around until I get dizzy...

Oh, the good Lindt Dark Chocolate was almost $7 a bar. I just wanted to let you know how things are here. And I left the house

Posted by: Stateless at April 24, 2026 01:48 PM (SHlvS)

That stuff will turn you gay. The Bud Light, anyway. Not sure about the chocolate. Buy a locally-made craft beer.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 24, 2026 02:15 PM (utfVc)

227 If there was one Dem leader who could give a coherent vision on what a successful gov't under their control looks like, I would say they could run away with it.
____

Ahem.

Posted by: Delusional Gov Pritzger, (D, Ozempic) at April 24, 2026 02:15 PM (Dv3i1)

228 224 What we need is a good ol' fashioned congressional hearing!
Posted by: Weasel at April 24, 2026 02:13 PM (Y4VCL)

GIT DEM SLEEVES ROLLED UP!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 24, 2026 02:14 PM (Zz0t1)

Like back in the 1850's where they sometimes caned one another? Congress was so S&M back then...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 24, 2026 02:15 PM (ynpvh)

229 223 He's a stupid doodyhead who doesn't know what he's doing and never learns anything. The war is lost.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 24, 2026 02:13 PM (Zz0t1)

=======

Why doesn't he do something to Iran that kills them?!

*ignores 5 weeks of bombings that decapitated the regime and destroyed 90% of its ballistic missiles and 80% of its manufacturing capabilities as well as the current blockade*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 24, 2026 02:16 PM (GLVez)

230 Neck ties......

Contracts......

HIGH VOLTAGE!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 24, 2026 02:12 PM (Zz0t1)

Performed at an almost unbelievably low price!

Posted by: AC/DC gets into marketing at April 24, 2026 02:16 PM (TbWk/)

231 The Democrats are going to jettison the "black vote" in 28. It's been a loser. They are going to get 95% anyway.

So Newsom over Kamala.

Posted by: mrally at April 24, 2026 02:16 PM (ZJwkb)

232 227 If there was one Dem leader who could give a coherent vision on what a successful gov't under their control looks like, I would say they could run away with it.
____

Ahem.

Posted by: Delusional Gov Pritzger, (D, Ozempic) at April 24, 2026 02:15 PM (Dv3i1)

The Soviet Union.
North Korea.
Cuba.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 24, 2026 02:16 PM (ynpvh)

233 178 143 I am contemplating granting states the right to continue taxing former residents forever. It really makes no sense that a wealthy resident can leave California, Illinois, New York, or New Jersey without permission of the government, just to avoid properly passed taxes.
Posted by: President James Boasberg at April 24, 2026 01:57 PM (uCaLA)

This darn guy is the best argument for a more robust check on judges. I don't have a solution and it would be wrong for me to pray for his ruination, but yeah fuck that guy like it's the cellblock Sadie Hawkins after party.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at April 24, 2026 02:05 PM (w/O5Q)

That said, I'm not worried about what'll happen if (when) Trump loses the birthright citizenship case. By 'Boasberg's' logic, if Trump were to lose, I would just get the IRS to levy taxes on any anchor baby born in the USA that is living abroad and now making any sort of income - especially in China. Pay up, or you forfeit your citizenship. I bet you'll see a lot of tax exile paperwork coming in at that point - or else we'd get a lot of money. To me, that would be a much better use for 85,000 IRS agents.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 24, 2026 02:16 PM (nkaBM)

234 A brother was born in Mexico when my mother was not yet a citizen, but my Dad was a citizen (as were his ancestors going back at least a few generations). Even though he didn't have to, he went through the naturalization process anyway...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
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Rubio's parent were legal immigrants, who immigrated in 1956. Then naturalized in the early 70s I think.

Posted by: runner at April 24, 2026 02:16 PM (GD0B3)

235 If the Dems take even the House, they will interpret that as an endorsement of going batshit crazy. Gotta think AOC's odds of being their nominee go up in that environment.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at April 24, 2026 02:16 PM (XvL8K)

236 > The majority black voting block in South Carolina is going to give Kamala a win of 50 points.

Blacks have their candidate, and it's not balding weirdo from CA Newsom. It's black girl magic Kamala.
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What if there's another, "more qualified and likely to win" black candidate than Harris? Of course they'd have to be controllable by TPTB, but that's a trivial issues to resolve.

Three months ago I would have put money on the Texas gutter snipe.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 24, 2026 02:17 PM (jehhT)

237 206 If there was one Dem leader who could give a coherent vision on what a successful gov't under their control looks like, I would say they could run away with it. As it is, they really don't. And we're still less than two years away from Biden's Reign of Error, where every single Dem in office right now stood right beside him without any criticism when it mattered.

I'm not worried about these Dems at all. I'm worried about the GOPe that won't fight.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 24, 2026 02:10 PM (nkaBM)

=======

Since when does this feel like a character trait that wins presidential primaries?

This feels like the boring guy that ezines slobber over but can't get 20 people to show up at an event.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 24, 2026 02:17 PM (GLVez)

238
That stuff will turn you gay. The Bud Light, anyway. Not sure about the chocolate. Buy a locally-made craft beer.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 24, 2026 02:15 PM (utfVc)

Moosehead FTW.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 24, 2026 02:17 PM (Zz0t1)

239 Trump voters who won’t vote unless his name are is on the ballot are too ignorant to even talk to.

Posted by: Going deep. Out. at April 24, 2026 02:09 PM (x69Nb)

Or they might be the most intelligent voters in the country. Because they sense that unlike people who buy the promises of Republicans (including this mysterious saving us from the Democrats they somehow keep forgetting to do when *we* elect them), that they know that Republicans don't mean it but Trump does.

Posted by: ... at April 24, 2026 02:17 PM (95pwq)

240 If there was one Dem leader who could give a coherent vision on what a successful gov't under their control looks like, I would say they could run away with it.

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a tranny in a high heeled boot stamping on a human face. Forever

Posted by: Democrat governance at April 24, 2026 02:17 PM (sKqQm)

241
Like back in the 1850's where they sometimes caned one another? Congress was so S&M back then...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 24, 2026 02:15 PM (ynpvh)

Bring back leather gloves, face slaps and duels.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 24, 2026 02:18 PM (Zz0t1)

242 236 What if there's another, "more qualified and likely to win" black candidate than Harris? Of course they'd have to be controllable by TPTB, but that's a trivial issues to resolve.

Three months ago I would have put money on the Texas gutter snipe.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 24, 2026 02:17 PM (jehhT)

=======

2020 showed that the black electorate chooses early. They chose Biden very early, and they never chose anyone else, even when actual black faces were brought up.

Why am I the only person who remembers that Deval Patrick even ran for president?

He's black. A governor. Not scandal ridden. Speaks well.

His campaign lasted for 3 months.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 24, 2026 02:18 PM (GLVez)

243 Rep. Delia Ramirez (D-Ill.) told Axios ... the party should "build up the case so that when we are in power in January, we've created the conditions ... we've done the fact-checking, we've done the shadow hearings, everything we need to be able to to impeach [Trump]."

Shadow hearings? How very Star Chamber-ish of you.

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 24, 2026 02:18 PM (wVcYX)

244 --------
What if there's another, "more qualified and likely to win" black candidate than Harris? Of course they'd have to be controllable by TPTB, but that's a trivial issues to resolve.

Three months ago I would have put money on the Texas gutter snipe.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 24, 2026 02:17 PM (jehhT)

Harris isn't black.........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 24, 2026 02:19 PM (Zz0t1)

245 Skeptical members of the House Judiciary Committee asked him whether "High Crimes and Misdemeanors" should be interpreted to include lying under oath about a sexual affair. He replied that the Founders intentionally left that clause vague, in order that it be interpreted by future generations of legislators. He said, it means whatever you want it to mean.
Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis
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Not the Founders didn't. It had a specific common law meaning derived from British common law on impeachment powers. Basically, the common charge of a king's minister misbehaving (even if it was under the king's orders like Buckingham), was for consorting with foreign enemies, violating the vague English unwritten constitution and privileges for Parliament for example (trying to arrest them), and otherwise acting against the British people themselves for money, power, etc.

MacDonald was a decent early American historian but not a constitutional scholar where specific vague phrases like law of the land (in the US Constitution became due process) mean something buried in a warren of old casebooks of precedents in Coke, Blackstone (lesser degree) and even older sources like Bracton.

Posted by: whig at April 24, 2026 02:19 PM (E4rtv)

246 244 Harris isn't black.........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 24, 2026 02:19 PM (Zz0t1)

=====

Biden wasn't black, but he was the black electorate's choice.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 24, 2026 02:19 PM (GLVez)

247 Half inch square of 80 or 90% Lindt chocolate in a cup of instant cocoa and your drink will taste a lot like real hot chocolate.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 24, 2026 02:19 PM (XAeCh)

248 Bernie Sanders/AOC'2028: If not now, when?! I mean, seriously, Bernie will be dead by 2032

Posted by: toby928(c) wants a too long bumper sticker at April 24, 2026 02:19 PM (4NO2D)

249 TJM, what is the breakdown of kramola's support at the moment ?

Posted by: runner at April 24, 2026 02:20 PM (GD0B3)

250 we've done the shadow hearings, everything we need to be able to to impeach [Trump]."

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 24, 2026 02:18 PM (wVcYX)

Why it gotta be a shadow

Posted by: ... at April 24, 2026 02:20 PM (95pwq)

251
How sad that the American Experiment has simply devolved down into voter fraud, graft, fascistic arm twisting with a civil war on the horizon-

All thanks to the Democrats.

Welp, hopefully they lose the election bigly.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 24, 2026 02:20 PM (iJfKG)

252
Biden wasn't black, but he was the black electorate's choice.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 24, 2026 02:19 PM (GLVez)

Well, that's because the black vote is bought and paid for with all them reparations they get, with the 19X more government 'assistance' than any other race on the planet.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 24, 2026 02:20 PM (Zz0t1)

253 Kamala Harris isn't black. That's the funny thing.

Posted by: mrally at April 24, 2026 02:20 PM (ZJwkb)

254 The Clinton impeachment failed despite the fact he was guilty of the criminal charges but the politics weren't there to cause Democrats to abandon him. Then you have the feckless and likely illegal grounds of the first and the rank stupidity and unconstitutionality of the second impeachment of Trump.

Posted by: whig at April 24, 2026 02:12 PM (E4rtv)

I like to troll lefties by reminding them that if Clinton had resigned, the Incumbancy would have been worth a thousand votes in FL for Gore.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at April 24, 2026 02:20 PM (w/O5Q)

255 The majority black voting block in South Carolina is going to give Kamala a win of 50 points.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 24, 2026 02:10 PM (GLVez)
====================
after South Carolina likely will come Nevada, Georgia and Michigan, and Kamala will like win two of those states (Georgia and Michigan) too. If she runs, I think she wins the nomination.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 24, 2026 02:20 PM (fzmrn)

256 209 https://x.com/CENTCOM/status/
2047617427211436132

It's just too bad that Trump has no idea that the IRGC is in control of Iran and are asking for death. He would prepare for that in some way, somehow.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 24, 2026 02:11 PM (GLVez)
*******
One day there will be a USS Donald J. Trump aircraft carrier.
It will be gold and bigger than any aircraft carrier ever made.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 24, 2026 02:20 PM (NpAcC)

257 Democrats fought to keep slaves back in the day.

Now, they're still Democrat slaves, just paid better.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 24, 2026 02:21 PM (Zz0t1)

258 I like to troll lefties by reminding them that if Clinton had resigned, the Incumbancy would have been worth a thousand votes in FL for Gore.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at April 24, 2026 02:20 PM (w/O5Q)

I point out that if Gore had been able to win his home state, Florida wouldn't have mattered a damn.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 24, 2026 02:21 PM (iNUL3)

259 254 The Clinton impeachment failed despite the fact he was guilty of the criminal charges but the politics weren't there to cause Democrats to abandon him. Then you have the feckless and likely illegal grounds of the first and the rank stupidity and unconstitutionality of the second impeachment of Trump.

Posted by: whig at April 24, 2026 02:12 PM (E4rtv)

I like to troll lefties by reminding them that if Clinton had resigned, the Incumbancy would have been worth a thousand votes in FL for Gore.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at April 24, 2026 02:20 PM (w/O5Q)

Heck, if only Gore had won his home state of TN, he would have been POTUS.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 24, 2026 02:22 PM (nkaBM)

260 Tariffs and lack of availability of parts and labor pretty much total any cars in accidents unless there's very, very little wrong...
Posted by: Nova Local at April 24, 2026 02:04 PM (tOcjL)

Makes you wonder if insurance companies, or their claims people, get kickbacks from car dealers and manufacturers for totalling cars that are fixable.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 24, 2026 02:22 PM (utfVc)

261 246 244 Harris isn't black.........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
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Harris is on the take. Take it here, take it there, take it any way to make it work.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 24, 2026 02:22 PM (XAeCh)

262
I point out that if Gore had been able to win his home state, Florida wouldn't have mattered a damn.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 24, 2026 02:21 PM (iNUL3)

F*cking Chad.........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 24, 2026 02:22 PM (Zz0t1)

263 Now Democrats want everyone to be a slave.

Posted by: ... at April 24, 2026 02:22 PM (95pwq)

264 That said, I'm not worried about what'll happen if (when) Trump loses the birthright citizenship case. By 'Boasberg's' logic, if Trump were to lose, I would just get the IRS to levy taxes on any anchor baby born in the USA that is living abroad and now making any sort of income - especially in China. Pay up, or you forfeit your citizenship. I bet you'll see a lot of tax exile paperwork coming in at that point - or else we'd get a lot of money. To me, that would be a much better use for 85,000 IRS agents.
Posted by: Darrell Harris
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That is an ingenious solution Darrell and likely to be constitutional. There are some suggestions that a similar approach be used on copyright (and it was used in the past). Basically a fee system for renewal that goes up as the age of the copyright increases.

Posted by: whig at April 24, 2026 02:23 PM (E4rtv)

265 240 If you want a picture of the future, imagine a tranny in a high heeled boot stamping on a human face. Forever
Posted by: Democrat governance at April 24, 2026 02:17 PM (sKqQm)

That's what white activists want.

South Carolina wants an alcoholic idiot with at most 25% black DNA.

Posted by: XTC at April 24, 2026 02:23 PM (iXqHn)

266 That stuff will turn you gay. The Bud Light, anyway. Not sure about the chocolate. Buy a locally-made craft beer.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 24, 2026 02:15 PM (utfVc)

Moosehead FTW.
Posted by: Sponge -

Beaver Dam Beer

Posted by: Operator Error at April 24, 2026 02:23 PM (p+q/f)

267 I like to troll lefties by reminding them that if Clinton had resigned, the Incumbancy would have been worth a thousand votes in FL for Gore.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at April 24, 2026 02:20 PM (w/O5Q)

Heck, if only Gore had won his home state of TN, he would have been POTUS.
Posted by: Darrell Harris
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Both are true.

Posted by: whig at April 24, 2026 02:24 PM (E4rtv)

268 If Gore was president during 9/11 he would have replaced the Twin Towers with a mosque.

Posted by: ... at April 24, 2026 02:24 PM (95pwq)

269 By zhahaduns sword

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at April 24, 2026 02:24 PM (bXbFr)

270 I read that a wreck or impact that causes the air bags (not your wife) to go off will total a car.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 24, 2026 02:24 PM (XAeCh)

271 By zhahaduns sword

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at April 24, 2026 02:24 PM (bXbFr)

By Grabthar's Hammer!

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 24, 2026 02:24 PM (iNUL3)

272 I bribed my daughter when she was young to read books. I'm a Dean Koontz fan so one book I bribed her to read was Watchers. I'm now bribing her son, my grandson, to read it. It is a syfy/horror, but a very life affirming one, about a super intelligent dog create by recombinant DNA who escapes the lab and takes up with a young couple who become aware of his intelligence and decide to teach him to read. They do so using children's picture books. The dog's favorites include books by Phil Parks. I'd never heard of Phil Parks so I looked him up to see what's so special about him. Turns out it's a pen name Koontz uses when writing children's stories.

Always be closing.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at April 24, 2026 02:25 PM (ndZc7)

273 I'm not worried about these Dems at all. I'm worried about the GOPe that won't fight.

Posted by: Darrell Harris
......

You just need to Send More Money.

Posted by: wth at April 24, 2026 02:25 PM (UjdFS)

274 I'm a Dean Koontz fan so one book I bribed her to read was Watchers.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at April 24, 2026 02:25 PM (ndZc7)

One of my favorites.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 24, 2026 02:25 PM (iNUL3)

275 8 or so months ago, she was cruising down the freeway when the car in front of her hit a piece of retread. It flew into the grille of her car and unbeknownst to her, cracked the radiator. By the time it started alerting her to issues, it was mostly dead. Damage caused overall led to the insurance to total it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 24, 2026 02:07 PM (Zz0t1)

She should have pulled over at the first opportunity to do so safely, and looked for damage. That's mostly on her.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 24, 2026 02:26 PM (utfVc)

276 249 TJM, what is the breakdown of kramola's support at the moment ?

Posted by: runner at April 24, 2026 02:20 PM (GD0B3)

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Depends on the poll (obviously), but she's consistently getting about 30% of the overall electorate and clear majorities of the black vote.

Biden numbers, but without a solid Bernie to take the top spot.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 24, 2026 02:26 PM (GLVez)

277 One thing that some modern analysis of the Clinton impeachment miss is that for 10 years or so the left/FNM had been on the warpath against sexual harassers in office.

They had gotten Bob Packwood to resign, and the left anchored its opposition to Clarence Thomas on the argument he had once told a female coworker a dirty joke.

Then in rapid succession it came out Clinton was having an affair with an intern, he'd sexually harassed a bunch of the women that worked for him, and he had sexually assaulted another woman.

And the Thomas standard suddenly changed to "the president is allowed to have a sex life"

Posted by: 18-1 at April 24, 2026 02:27 PM (sKqQm)

278 262 I point out that if Gore had been able to win his home state, Florida wouldn't have mattered a damn.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 24, 2026 02:21 PM (iNUL3)

F*cking Chad.........

well, that *is* how they get pregnant

Posted by: anachronda at April 24, 2026 02:27 PM (qdr3M)

279 269 By zhahaduns sword

Imbal's Brazen Balls

Posted by: Bad Andrew at April 24, 2026 02:27 PM (DgMqy)

280 Bernie is a fucking lunatic. But I like him. Let's see him lay it all out there to work like it has never worked before. Chaos. Total mayhem.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 24, 2026 02:27 PM (Fbc0I)

281 255 after South Carolina likely will come Nevada, Georgia and Michigan, and Kamala will like win two of those states (Georgia and Michigan) too. If she runs, I think she wins the nomination.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 24, 2026 02:20 PM (fzmrn)

========

There has been one Democrat to lose SC and win the nomination in the last 36 years, John Kerry.

And in that time, SC has just moved up in the calendar and gotten more predictive while states like IA and NH have become less important (and NH outright doesn't count now because the DNC is punishing them).

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 24, 2026 02:28 PM (GLVez)

282 Trump's back on the menu boys!

Posted by: Midterm Orcs at April 24, 2026 02:28 PM (cWLG3)

283 Most Black jobs are almost entirely fake and made up in both government and the private sector. If those two underpinnings were both removed we would be looking at a black economic apocalypse.

Posted by: mrally at April 24, 2026 02:29 PM (ZJwkb)

284
She should have pulled over at the first opportunity to do so safely, and looked for damage. That's mostly on her.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 24, 2026 02:26 PM (utfVc)

I didn't teach her well enough. I take partial responsibility for that.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 24, 2026 02:30 PM (Zz0t1)

285 My rheumatologist once recommended physical therapy for an arthritis issue I have. I told him that PT will make you gay. He rolled his eyes and hasn't mentioned it again.

Posted by: Weasel at April 24, 2026 02:31 PM (WfZMN)

286 283 Most Black jobs are almost entirely fake and made up in both government and the private sector. If those two underpinnings were both removed we would be looking at a black economic apocalypse.
Posted by: mrally at April 24, 2026 02:29 PM (ZJwkb)

"If we got rid of all the black people, there'd be no more blacks"

Riveting insight, David Duke.

Posted by: XTC at April 24, 2026 02:31 PM (iXqHn)

287 Sadly, I bet Democrats will pay her a vast amount (or discover disqualifying "new" videos of her date nights with Willie Brown) to keep her off the ticket.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 24, 2026 02:31 PM (uGdsN)

288 I point out that if Gore had been able to win his home state, Florida wouldn't have mattered a damn.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 24, 2026 02:21 PM (iNUL3)

F*cking Chad.........

well, that *is* how they get pregnant
Posted by: anachronda at April 24, 2026 02:27 PM (qdr3M)
______

"No bro. I use a condom. I ain't befouling my bloodline with the DNA of a thousand rando THOTs!"

-- Chadley Highborne IV

Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 24, 2026 02:31 PM (iFTx/)

289 You see?!? You see?!? This is why you stupid, stupid voters need to vote me in to TX-18. I'll have my perennial Trump Impeachment Bill ready to file upon being sworn in.

Posted by: Caveman Al Green at April 24, 2026 02:32 PM (wVcYX)

290 Moosehead FTW.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 24, 2026 02:17 PM (Zz0t1)

Still privately owned brewery, by family.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 24, 2026 02:32 PM (utfVc)

291 288 "No bro. I use a condom. I ain't befouling my bloodline with the DNA of a thousand rando THOTs!"

-- Chadley Highborne IV

Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 24, 2026 02:31 PM (iFTx/)

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"I have failed him. I no longer have a son."
-Chadley Highborne III, advocate of the snip

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 24, 2026 02:32 PM (GLVez)

292
Always be closing.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at April 24, 2026 02:25 PM (ndZc7)

I remember an interview with Koontz in which he described a disagreement with an editor iirc. Koontz described a small California style furnace in a scene and the editor decided the scene must have an East coast style basement with the big furnace.

Koontz argued the scene was set in California but the editor insisted. Koontz submitted a rewrite that included something like, "And a furnace large enough to incinerate the body of an editor." Koontz got his way with the smaller furnace.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at April 24, 2026 02:32 PM (w/O5Q)

293
Still privately owned brewery, by family.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 24, 2026 02:32 PM (utfVc)

Really? Nice. I just remember that it wasn't very good. Haven't had it in a few decades, tho.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 24, 2026 02:32 PM (Zz0t1)

294 Nood cultural diversity

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 24, 2026 02:33 PM (iNUL3)

295 286 283 Most Black jobs are almost entirely fake and made up in both government and the private sector. If those two underpinnings were both removed we would be looking at a black economic apocalypse.
Posted by: mrally at April 24, 2026 02:29 PM (ZJwkb)

"If we got rid of all the black people, there'd be no more blacks"

Riveting insight, David Duke.
Posted by: XTC at April 24, 2026 02:31 PM (iXqHn)
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That guy has all the hallmarks of a concern troll.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO, Intelligence Expert at April 24, 2026 02:33 PM (cWLG3)

296 Liddy, Hunt, Dean and Ehrlichman among others. Boobs who would turn on him to save themselves, although to be fair, Liddy largely kept his mouth shut until after Nixon was pardoned and it didn't matter anymore.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur

G Gordon didn't.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at April 24, 2026 02:34 PM (LyPw2)

297 U nas yest’ NOOD.

Posted by: Bulg at April 24, 2026 02:34 PM (77rzZ)

298 Daughters must be really hard on vehicles. Our eldest either totaled or drove into the ground about 4 of them between ages 18 and 30.

After vehicle #4 we quit helping her out with them.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 24, 2026 02:34 PM (jehhT)

299 262 I point out that if Gore had been able to win his home state, Florida wouldn't have mattered a damn.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 24, 2026 02:21 PM (iNUL3)

Back when you can reason with the other side, you could hear the gears grind in their heads:

"Tennessee. Gore's home state. The people that, it can be argued, knew him the best. They chose Bush over him. Wasn't even close. Had he carried Tennessee, he could have won without Florida.."

They'd walk away, weaving a little, as if awakened from a vivid dream and trying to reacquaint themselves with reality..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at April 24, 2026 02:37 PM (nbLIj)

300 Republican National Committee
Cash on hand: $116.8M
Debt: $0
Net: +$116.8M

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Cool! Let's save Cornyn and Massie!!!!!

Posted by: RNC at April 24, 2026 02:38 PM (9CBNQ)

301 >>>Most Black jobs are almost entirely fake and made up in both government and the private sector. If those two underpinnings were both removed we would be looking at a black economic apocalypse.

Posted by: mrally

>Now do professional sportball.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 24, 2026 02:38 PM (Fbc0I)

302 Really? Nice. I just remember that it wasn't very good. Haven't had it in a few decades, tho.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 24, 2026 02:32 PM (Zz0t1)

I don't see it much here out in Alberta. We have plenty of decent local craft breweries. I am avoiding buying U.S. beer, because recent tariffs make it too expensive, and I avoid the big Eastern Corporate brands, like Labatts and Molsons.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 24, 2026 02:40 PM (utfVc)

303 Is someone implying Trump's voters are the problem?

Posted by: connected and litigious at April 24, 2026 02:50 PM (cS1cw)

304 "People ridiculed me," said Rep. Shri Thanedar (D-Mich.), who was the first Democrat to introduce articles of impeachment against Trump last year.

People should ridicule him a lot more. I mean, his name is "Shri".

Posted by: Ian S. at April 24, 2026 02:55 PM (2ocoG)

305 Once California gets High Speed Train all will be well throughout the shire.

Posted by: Pudinhead at April 24, 2026 03:00 PM (1D2Ie)

306 285 My rheumatologist once recommended physical therapy for an arthritis issue I have. I told him that PT will make you gay. He rolled his eyes and hasn't mentioned it again.
Posted by: Weasel
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It helps actually. I have receipts on it from having psoriatic arthritis toll from the last decade plus.

If it is around, hydrotherapy pt in particular helps. With inflammatory arthritis, once you stop moving, stretching, etc., then you are done.

Posted by: whig at April 24, 2026 03:00 PM (E4rtv)

307 MacDonald was a decent early American historian but not a constitutional scholar where specific vague phrases like law of the land (in the US Constitution became due process) mean something buried in a warren of old casebooks of precedents in Coke, Blackstone (lesser degree) and even older sources like Bracton.
Posted by: whig at April 24, 2026 02:19 PM (E4rtv)

He actually was a Constitutional scholar. Google his book Novus Ordo Seclorum. Studying the drafting of the constitution was his life’s work.

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at April 24, 2026 03:13 PM (GD2xa)

308 ...We have yet to see an election without USAID money. We have yet to see an election in the aftermath of the recent vote integrity measures. We have yet to see an election with a raging stock market and quickly improving economy coming out of 4 years of dogshit.

I like our chances in November.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 24, 2026 01:32 PM (iFTx/)

I'm with Elric. I wasn't worried about the 2024 election at all - not for one second - and I'm not worried about this one, either.

Setting aside the nattering nabobs of negativism on the left/media, Trump has all the time in the world to end this Iran situation on his terms. Iran's IRGC has not only alienated its own population, but all of their neighbors as well. They're not Germany 1939 - they will lose this one. We have a 250th and a GOP convention as well. US GDP's being held back right now, and it'll be unleashed by Oct - just in time for elections. The SPLC trainwreck is just beginning. The Dems will be crushed by it. Time is on Trump's side.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 24, 2026 02:00 PM (nkaBM)

Reminder: the 2018 election was the one where 18-20 GOPe dudes retired all at once because of course they did.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 24, 2026 03:55 PM (8avO+)

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