Isn’t “doing this to get more votes” what politicians are supposed to be doing, though? They are supposed to be responsive to people’s concerns, so those people prefer them to the other alternatives when it comes time to vote?
I wonder if this is why Ken Buck is leaving so soon, and why he thinks others will leave as well. That Discharge Petition needs a majority of the House to sign on, which means to work it needs a handful of Republicans. I bet Buck’s name is on it, and he and the other four or five names on it recognize that once it is public, their career as legislators in the MAGA party is effectively over.
You know how Russia has an actual, functional government on paper, but we all know the real power there are the Oligarchs with ties to Putin? Trump wants to directly replicate this in the US.
It takes a full article to explain how Trump is connected, through these wanna-be oligarchs, to this effort to discredit Biden with outright lies. Most people won’t bother reading it. That is what Trump and his friends are counting on, though.
How many times has Putin done this in Russia, and ruined the careers of opponents by making shit up in such a manner that it sticks legally?
This is why it’s so important to oppose Trump now. If Trump is elected again, it might be the last free election we have. We will still have elections, but they will turn into the rubber stamps for the oligarchy that they are in Russia right now.
There already was a change, the current rules were new for this Congress and meant to keep the Speaker on a short leash while Matt Gaetz does… well… whatever he normally does when he has a human on a leash.
If Democrats get a majority in the next Congress, it is guaranteed they will go back to the old rules.
This might not be a popular view here, but I believe the guy. We all know Trump’s dubious history about paying people, I’m sure this guy does, too. This company is large enough that Trump can’t make them go away by ignoring and delaying it.
And, we might end up with Chubb simply taking a bunch of Trump properties. Could we end up with Chubb Tower? That alone might be worth it.
His advisors probably wouldn’t let him. I don’t think he really expected to win the first time, so he had to fill his staff out with career Republicans who weren’t so high on the Insurrection thing. He won’t make that mistake again . All the advisors in the second Trump administraton will owe their loyalty to him, exclusively.
If you are curious why Trump has any support at all, note that his statement fits in a tweet, while the Biden administration response took paragraphs. Like it or not, he knows how to hold his supporters’ attention, and have them believe what he wants them to believe.
No, I don’t recall the entire leadership of the party changing when the nominee for President is firmed up. Normally, the party committee’s job is not to get any one person elected, it’s to organize the fund raising and spending efforts to give the party the best shot at all the major races, from President to Congress to Governors and State Legislators. Since the President is the biggest job on the ticket, you always expect the party leadership to back their nominee, of course. But I don’t recall changes this major this close to the convention.
This is likely an attempt to make sure the RNC pays his legal bills, and doesn’t move to abandon him, even if he gets convicted.
“Without TikTok, you can make Facebook bigger, and I consider Facebook to be an enemy of the people,” Trump, who was formerly U.S. president between 2017 and 2021, said in a CNBC TV interview on Monday.
I am disappointed that they go through the whole article, and never point out that Trump runs his own social media platform, and that might give him a conflict of interest when speaking about Social Media companies. Is Facebook really an enemy of the people, or is it just a competitor of Truth Social?
It’s not “Biden is old” that gets you down voted, it’s “Biden is too old to do the job, so vote for the other guy who is almost as old but is worse in every way that matters” that gets the LemmyHammer.