A potential explanation is this is the Russian fall of communism / transition to oligarchy moment, where regular people will get rid of the “worthless” stocks fearing no bottom, and the top 1% will buy them for pennies on the dollar.

These republicans twice literally just had to say one word, “yes,” when the impeachment votes happened in the Senate, and Trump would never have had power over them (and us) again, like magic.

The WW2 generation died and immediately everyone is like, “Hey, why didn’t we like fascism again?”

Oh, won’t someone save me from my abusive self!

I also love how he ran as a reformer candidate, as if we didn’t have 4 years of evidence of him accomplishing nothing of value for his voters. Social media and 24/7 news have given us all goldfish memories.

#2 is happening, but it’s too hard for Trump - fortunately for him there are people with their own agendas to do it for him. #3 is his only move because he can’t conceive of a better strategy.

I’ve cautioned people to not get hopeful in 2024, given how dumb people can vote and the amount of blind R voters, but NYC works the opposite way (usually to everyone’s benefit) - the amount of people who will always vote Democrat, no matter the candidate, is huge. Whoever is the Dem candidate will 99% likely win. The Dem primary is NYC is effectively the general. Adams will only have name recognition, and his name is mud in NYC right now.

I know you’re being rhetorical, but for people who don’t follow NYC politics: Nobody. Nobody will.

He snuck through the Dem primaries and then sailed through the general because he’s the Dem candidate. No more sneaking, and dropping the Dem label, no more sailing. He’s toast.

You both are right.

I managed to catch the end - amazing he was lucid and charismatic and compelling after doing that for 24 hours. I supported it symbolically but didn’t guess at motives. But when I saw it, it came off as a sincere, genuinely convincing and energizing act.

“The American people deserve a judicial branch full of honest arbiters of the law who want to protect democracy, not subvert it,” Leavitt said. The Justice Department is an executive branch agency.

It’s comedic (if physical revulsion can be comedic) how perfect this doublespeak is - straight out of 1984.

Careful, this is bat country.

It was a poll conducted using the same process by which he declassified those documents in his bathroom at Mar-a-lago.

I’m increasingly seeing that as the point. I’ve believed since 2016 that he’s either intentionally or being easily manipulated to serve Russia’s interests and obviously I’m not alone here.

But at this point, dismantling US soft political power, military power, economic power - every action Trump is taking is directly damaging the US with no apparent self-interested payoff. Sure, it’s plausibly deniable and just on the edge of conspiracy-sounding to the public and mainstream, but the theory that Trump acting to destroy the US on behalf of Russia is currently the best fit to the evidence.

The allegations from comparing various password leaks are that it’s the same password as for known Hegseth accounts. I get that nothing is verified - someone could have discovered that password in a leak and reused it as a setup - but that’s the strongest corroboration.

They’re a witch speaking in tongues! Burn them!

requiring Ukraine to allocate all resource income to a joint fund managed mainly by the U.S. The proposal grants the U.S. first rights to purchase extracted resources and repayment of aid with 4% interest before Ukraine gains profits.

In other words, “Reject this deal already so we can say Ukraine doesn’t want peace and we can start openly supporting Russia.”

We’ve decided not to investigate ourselves, and found no wrongdoing.

What a huge amount of words to say so little: The feeling is changing based on a few polls that are trending down.

Ok, I disagree. The polls are settling, bottoming out, in a place much higher than they should be. Trump is shock-and-awing successfully. People are disoriented, but the Overton window is shifting very quickly.

And the game isn’t “vibe” or approval. The game is authoritarian takeover. And that game is effectively over. Yes, they stopped following the rules but as we argue about those rules, they’re collecting all the pieces, and putting them away in the box. They. No. Longer. Care. About. Polls.

All this to say, this copium isn’t even high-grade product, it’s too heavily cut with delusion.

Jesus christ. Unidentifiable people just kidnap you for expressing an opinion. This was a legal resident, so we’re watching the rule of law disappear.

I hoped I was being dramatic when I made a comment a few months ago how Hitler took full control in only three months after being appointed. I thought we’d have a few years at least.

But here we are, two months in, and right on track.