According to a February Quinnipiac poll, about half disapprove of how Democrats in Congress are handling their job, compared with about 4 in 10 who approve.
How can even 4 in 10 approve? What is there to approve of?
There is no “doing their jobs well” or "doing their jobs poorly " - most of the Democrats in Congress aren’t doing their jobs at all.
It doesn’t “expose” anything really, since that implies that it was formerly hidden and it very much wasn’t. Trump and his co-conspirators and mercenaries have been very clear that their position is that the rules only apply to other people literally since day one.
Legal concepts are only relevant if they’re enforced - if they’re not, then they’re just meaningless mouth noises that might as well not exist at all. So the real problem isn’t that Trump et al consider themselves above the law, but that damned near NOBODY in the entire fucking government is doing one single thing to disabuse them of that notion.
Nobody’s as bad as he is, but she’s certainly an awful human.
But that’s not really relevant. It’s just that from what I’ve seen, she tries to stay as far away from him as possible - preferably in another state. So I assume being given an excuse to be in a different coutry would be okay by her.
I get the impression that Melania would be fine with that - that she’d take any excuse to be as far as possible away from that stinky lump of congealed fat and bronzer.
That’s a gamble though.
If itcwas Trump on his own - yes. All we’d have to do is sit back and watch him fuck up, because he’s not only an idiot, but an idiot with the emotional maturity of a toddler, so he just careens from one tantrum to the next.
But this time around, he has a number of smart and devious people whispering in his ear, and while he’s not one for taking advice, he can be manipulated by someone who understands how to play him.
It seems though that they’re having a hard time stopping him from being an idiot toddler, so there’s some hope. But it’s still a gamble.
A raving lunatic clearly abusing the power of his office and violating federal law, the constitution and his oath of office.
And where the fuck is the opposition?
At this point there can be no doubt that the United States is terminally ill.
As I point out over and over, it’s all actually clear evidence of the simple fact that he’s profoundly mentally ill.
By any objective standard, the man is a raving lunatic, and deeply emotionally disturbed. He not only shouldn’t be president - he shouldn’t even be allowed out on his own. He needs extensive mental health care, or barring that, he needs to be kept away from any opportunity to do harm, because he self-evidently is incapable of moderating his own behavior into anything even vaguely approaching healthy.
And the most insane and incomprehensible part of this timeline, to me, is that there are so many people who apparently can’t see that, when it’s so bludgeoningly obvious, or who can see it but pretend that they don’t.
If I didn’t know better, I’d assume that somebody went out and found a smelly old derelict locked in an argument with God in a dirty alley somewhere, gave him a shave, a suit and a layer of bronzer, and made him president.
And all because Columbia backed out of a $400 million real estate deal with Trump decades ago, and Trump is profoundly mentally ill.
Whoever ends up being the candidate will get literally billions of dollars in earned media by simply “becoming” the candidate. The whole drama of it suddenly engages what is currently a completely disengaged voting populace.
This is the most important bit IMO.
At this point, I don’t even think of dumping Biden as just a satisfactory fallback position, but as a winning strategy, and specifically for this reason.
It’s not as if Biden suddenly became a weak candidate the night of the debate - he’s been a weak candidate all along. As I just said earlier, the only thing that changed with the debate is that more people came to that conclusion.
And all it would take to motivate the base - to get Democrats enthused in a way that they haven’t been since 2008 - is to throw open the nomination. That would bring the race a sense of excitement and hope that hasn’t just been missing since the debate, but all along.
I can’t see any situation in which I would.
Mostly I have zero interest in sucking any dick (other than maybe my own, and I’m not that flexible).
But beyond that, $20 just seems wrong no matter what - if I wanted to do it, $20 would be pointless and if I didn’t, it wouldn’t be near enough.