Especially then.

Trump was claiming he’d actually won California by the time he was sworn in.

The Nazi Party was flush with pedophiles

I’d trust the honor of a slaveowner

Back then, politicians were assumed to be honorable Gentlemen.

https://www.americanheritage.com/verdicts-history-iv-scandalous-malicious-and-seditious-libel

In 1803 the infant American Republic was running a high political fever. The ferocity of the verbal warfare raging between the Federalists, the party created by Alexander Hamilton, and the Democratic-Republicans, led by President Jefferson, has rarely been matched in American politics, even by the diatribes of today’s New Left and Ultra Right.

The first fusillades had been fired during Washington’s Presidency. The Jeffersonians, with not a little help from the Sage of Monticello himself, had set up journalists such as Philip Freneau and Benjamin Franklin Bache with one mission, to deflate and discredit an administration that was, in Jefferson’s view, “galloping fast into monarchy.” They soon had the Father of His Country in a state of near apoplexy. “That rascal Freneau,” as Washington called him, insisted on sending his scurrilous National Gazette, published in Philadelphia, to the President’s house even after he had cancelled his subscription. Freneau spent most of his abuse on Hamilton. Baclic preferred Washington as a target, calling him “treacherous,” “mischievous,” “inefficient,” and sneering at his “farce of disinterestedness” and his “stately joumeyings through the American continent in search of personal incense.”

These verbal guerrillas soon had imitators. Among the more savage was William Duane, Bache’s successor as editor of the Philadelphia Aurora. Washington, he wrote, had “discharged the loathings of a sick mind.” Even this was topped by an English newcomer, James T. Callender. In the Richmond Examiner he declared that “Mr. Washington has been twice a traitor.”

The Senate is supposed to impeach him

The House Impeaches.

The Senate convicts.

But you need a supermajority in the Senate, which even the Radical Republicans of the 1870s failed to muster, despite having the half the country under Marshall Law at the time.

I don’t think US founders ever expected that such a moron would manage to be elected, and use that power for himself.

Within a single presidency, you had early Americans calling one another idiots, tyrants, and foreign plants. Washington himself wasn’t above suspicion.

Everyone from Patrick Henry to Aaron Burr reviled one another and accused each other of plots to reinstate some kind of monarchy.

We need the midterms to allow for a possible reform of the constitution

That won’t happen. The American system will continue to revert to the 19th century mean, until the bureaucratic mechanisms fail completely.

That wasn’t a mistake. It was absolutely intentional.

It is vital to understand the early American state as a patronage system and the president as the ultimate patrician through which power flows. If you look at early Plantation society, and the subsequent networks of power that flow from landholders to merchant brokers and from yeomen to their wealthy oligarch neighbors, all of this fits neatly together.

The problem the American Founders saw was with the upstart plebians and landless workers. Pardons and vetos check the power of popular judges and legislators, as intended.

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Fewer every day.

Ironic

You think it’s bad now? Wait until the polls are closed

It would be very funny to see the 2027 Congress pushing the bipartian “Infinity Money for Israel Act” which Trump vetos out of spite.

But like so much else with The Don, it’s gonna be TACO Tuesday every time he suffers a marginal amount of pressure.

The War That Solved Climate Change

there is less they can get away with when you’re in person on election day.

I haven’t seen any evidence of that. I’ve seen a lot of evidence to the contrary.

When Trump won in '16 and '24, he claimed there was voter fraud that keep him from an even bigger landslide

Remember this when Newsome runs for president.

You’re going to get called a Russian Wumao Republican-plant Tankie if you say anything about this in two years

California Democrats are just Texas Republicans with the serial numbers filed off

I guarantee you that Republicans will claim election fraud regardless of the election results.

I mean, if you think they won’t be pulling shenanigans on election day…

Harris County’s cascade of election day fumbles disproportionately affected communities of color

There’s no One Neat Trick to prevent people from fucking with an election. At the end of the day, you just have to bank on their hubris. Republicans told themselves they’d never lose Texas for twenty years. They haven’t taken an election seriously since the Tom DeLay era.

Now we just get to see wherever Dems caught them napping, or Greg Abbott can save the party from itself.

So, officially nobody at the company is telling you how to vote. And there’s a big disclaimer to that effect at the bottom of the email.

However, I’ve never worked at a company where the managers (or the workers for that matter) were all perfectly apolitical.

The line from the business is effectively that Democrats are bad for the O&G industry, so you need to vote Republican if you want business growth.

I’ve never seen that to be the case, historically. But I can definitely see how a Texas oil company would end up being stacked with Republican die-hards in the C-suite.