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As co-chair she conflicted with a lot of his original campaign people. She was unlike a lot of them because she was trying to keep Trump focused on less crazy stuff and ultimately failed. This is why I thought it was a curious choice. You can speculate a lot but she doesn’t seem the sort that would allow the RFK sorts into his orbit. I just kind of wonder if he needed someone to take the heat when he doesn’t appoint a lot of the fringe characters that he made promises to during the campaign. Trump is stupid but does have an instinct for finding ways to keep himself for receiving direct blame for things.

Miller is a pretty common name amongst Anglo/German Jews. Seems like it was adopted a very long time ago before many emigrated from Europe.

So, we know who’s going to be running much of the show: https://www.yahoo.com/news/factbox-susie-wiles-ice-maiden-003556705.html Curious choice. I figured it would’ve been Miller.

Weird since Vance has only been in politics for two years.

Oh, thought I’d add that Musk probably thinks that real life infrastructure works like Sim City or City Skylines. I guess he didn’t learn from whatever that tube debacle was in Las Vegas. Can’t wait to hear him whining when his yes men aren’t there to protect him from being told his ideas are shit and that you can’t just make something happen.

Trump seems to have an instinct when it comes to his sycophants trying to get more out of him than vice versa. He wants two things: glory and money. If he sees Musk turn public opinion against him, he’s going to drop him and say “I never bought into that” or “He didn’t tell me about that.” Trump always tries to divert blame for fails as much as he tries to take credit for good things.

I’m certain it won’t take long for musk to have an “emperor has no clothes” moment.

If there is one thing we know about Trump it’s that he backs down pretty fast if he thinks it’ll cause his base to get pissed. Most of them probably haven’t heard anything about cuts being made to the social safety nets that affect them. But if some Republican brings up cutting social security or something, he’ll be out there trying to throw them under the bus. Now, considering his cognitive state, I’m not sure if he will even be aware outside of what the people around him say. Republicans will definitely try to rig things but they have the same incompetency problem as Trump. If there is anything we learned from this last congress it’s that Republicans hate each other at a ridiculous level. They spend more effort backstabbing and undermining each other than they do actually working. No matter how hard they try to rig things, they do a good job of turning the public against them and Trump, again, happily throws them under the bus … and as we know he actively encourages his minions to fight against each other. If Democrats can find a leader that knows how to speak to the public’s concerns and not sound like some PC lecturer, they can capitalize on that.

I think the tariff is one of those things he says and never follows through with. It’s his thing.

I think one of the first things we will see the public pushback on is whatever Musk plans comes to light. He is a guy surrounded by people who tell him all his ideas are good and so far he has gotten the public to believe he’s a genius too. Whenever it comes time though, I think people will see it and be like “WTF?” and say “no way,”

It’s too bad Biden didn’t choose to step aside earlier. Democrats have a lot of great candidate on the bench and we could’ve had a great primary there. Harris may have still won but she’d at least have an opportunity to break with Biden more clearly.

A little early but imagine what the 2028 clown show is going to be like because I don’t see all the power hungry Republicans stepping aside for Vance to coast into the nomination. Here’s my list of who we will likely see in a primary without Trump to clear the field: Hawley DeSantis Cotton Cruz Halley (probably first one to drop) MTG Donaldson Crenshaw (maybe) a couple of never Trumpers … and probably a dozen more. It won’t be like last time for sure.

I think he’s going to screw RFK because he is no longer useful. Someone in his orbit will get close enough to him and say “you can’t actually give this guy an office.”

I wouldn’t be totally surprised if something like that happened before the inauguration. If he makes it, watch him give a two hour speech on the coldest day of the year. Since he already looks like something a voodoo doctor raised, I don’t expect President Vance sometime in 2026. If he has to leave due to cognitive issues, they’ll probably hide it and he’ll give some “I accomplished what I wanted” speech.

Looking at the demographics from my previous post — Gen-X really failed, yo.

I think at that point the country is done. When you have the military fighting itself, you’re in for years of chaos with the country divided by local installed leaders. Might as well throw the map of the states out too because most states are 30-40 percent of the opposite party of the state’s majority. A situation like that means paramilitary groups running your schools, food rations and deciding if you have the right to live. I would hope sanity would return if it got close to that point.

Kind of weird to see but Trump’s percentage of both white men and women decreased. A continued gradual increase from 2016 and 2020. What hurt Harris is Trump gained 15 percent more of the Latina vote from 2020 and Trump won 10 percent more of the Latino vote than Harris. She also had a lower percentage of black males who are voting less Democratic every election since Clinton. Source: https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2024/politics/2020-2016-exit-polls-2024-dg/index.html

He could trigger a constitutional crisis involving the military if he orders them to turn on American citizens. He may have a lot of generals on his side but I doubt all of them would have the stomach for it, let alone guys who say “I didn’t enlist for this.”

So, anyone want to guess what year President J.D. Vance’s term starts? Because, you know, look at Trump. Even if he didn’t do the “weave” you can tell that guy is t well.

One thing I’m sure Democrats won’t do again is run someone over 70 for president. Not sure about Republicans but the damage dementia don will do to the party when he is in office may make them follow the same path.

Harris is not going to be the nominee again. Parties tend not to run candidates after they lose one national election, especially if they lose both the popular vote and electoral college. Honestly, I see them going back to the formula that worked for them: Run a successful center-leftish candidate from the south or Midwest with a coastal VP. Biden was the single exception but I can’t think of any others after Kennedy.

It’s a lot to process but the anxiety of not knowing is over. Now it’s time to get ready for at least two shitty years of Republican control of all three branches. On the bright side it is hard to see how Trump can make it through a full term or how Republicans can be a functional party even in power. I just hate this cycle where we have presidents that improve things immensely like Clinton and Oba and then we go to dog shit like Bush and Trump. I just want to have a time when we have a steady path of continual improvement instead of building up and tearing down. But really, does anyone think these guys are going to have good will for long? Last time Trump squandered it all within a month. Now he has surrounded himself with nothing but idiots, lunatics and assholes along with unchecked power. Is someone who can’t even grab a door handle without giving it three tries going to keep it for long?

So Trump accomplished his primary objective: Avoid prosecution. I doubt he really gives a shit about anything else. He is lazy and stupid. He is going to leave the actual work to those around him, primarily Vance and Stephen Miller will be the ones doing the actual work. That would not be good. I don’t see how Trump is going to make it to 2028 considering his cognitive and physical health.

Their shutdown is also a political ploy to help Trump. That has to be taken into account.

Well, if they talks like Nabs and sounds like Nabs, I’m not interested in any sort of discussion. “Neoliberal” and equating Democrats to Republicans is just a sign of bad faith.