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Good point.. Hey @Insipid… do the play Dungeons and Dragons in Japan?

He’s not being charged with an election crime, he’s being charged with a financial crime during the commission of an election crime. If Pat says he’s a by the book prosecutor, then that is what he is.

Interesting....

I kind of wonder what DeSantis' end game here is. It seem highly unlikely that Disney will shutter any of its theme parks over this, but it also brings in cruises out of Florida. That's not to mention that they could just as easily renege on moving employees into of the state. Granted this is all unfeasible, so the point isn't to suggest a next step, just to figure out what DeSantis hopes to accomplish other than to alienate one of the states biggest and most visible employers.

Well, it's still a few years away, and she's DOA without Trump. She's probably more interested in being his running mate now than looking ahead to '26 because she's vacuous like that.

Hmmm.... i ThInK i KnOw WhY.....

People have ever right to be suspicious of the tactic; even though it is being used on awful candidates (like DeSantis), it's nonetheless an ostentatious display of voter manipulation. However, the fact it works speaks more to the unique quality of Trump's die hard fanbase and the extremely ingrained biases they carry with them to the ballot box: it's not going to backfire precisely because of that one segment of voter that will vote Republican no matter what. To put it another way, hyperpartisanship exists not as an indictment on the opposing party as much as an indictment on moderate voters in both (or neither) of the parties but as a result of frustration in a certain type of voter that measure his or her loyalty on the number of ideological goals achieved. People like that can't be manipulated because they're already hamstrung by their own biases and insecurities.

He doesn't have to be smart to lie. He does it as a matter of course regardless of any particular need to do so.

They didn't do it for the House races, though some House races might have been collateral damage. The strategy itself is still a risky one and it only works on Trump because he has an extensive history of mishandling and abusing information he gets to disastrous effect for himself.

Just a thought... anyone who gives money to Trump probably deserves to be fleeced. I guess you could argue that just puts them on welfare making them all of our problems, but chances are they were going to blow it at a casino or lose it to telephone scammer anyway.

He is the ultimate infallible great white hope.

His fans don’t care that he’s being charged, because they don’t think the awful things he’s done to people should be criminal. He didn’t need to tell them the election was stolen, they wanted to believe it before he said a word.

What makes you think Bragg wants to deal with Trump?

This whole exchange wasn’t even about Bernie.

That’s bad.

Wait.. I didn't get a chance to ride.

This. The fact of the matter is Trump lost an election and lost two popular votes; he’s not gaining supporters by getting rung up on charges. But, the charges (or more correctly, the spineless sycophantic responses by his challengers) do benefit him in the primaries because he can use it to galvanize his hardcore base against his generally toothless opposition.

I love the fact he just has to put a “trademark” next to his stupid Twitter handle.

She plays on that reputation as part of a self-depricating routine now. She took far more of a hit based on the conviction and subsequent jail sentence, but that was part of how she was able to reinvent herself as being a far more relatable person. In the same way, Snoop's reputation as a gangster helps him to be more relatable in situations where he's expected to be gentile, and that's how he's built up his profile beyond what would be reasonably expected. I think a bigger reason the two are so often linked is because of their shared appreciation of marijuana.

It's hard to say. Martha and Snoop are somewhat similar in how their celebrity and private personas can coexist relatively effortlessly because they come off as charming no matter what they do.

It doesn't explicitly tie the two acts, but Disney said it was not renewing the contract after being approached by Wired so that is the implication.

That makes a lot of sense.

The DA doesn't have to do a damn thing. He knows full well that the break will suck all the fuel out of the GOP congress' fire while the Special Prosecutor and the Georgia Prosecutor load both barrel of the shot gun.

Yes, they are.

I wonder about that. I mean, if we're talking about alternatives for the n-word there are plenty of others that don't even use any part of the word but are still subject to the intent. I have a couple of mildly racist friends who love to refer to black people as "sheriffs" specifically because of Cleavon Little's character in Blazing Saddles. Now the "alternative" is innocuous, but these guys are still using it to joke about black people. Intent does matter, even more than the word itself.