I am by no means an armaments expert but those look bigger than 16 inches

Yes, that was 16 years ago. Every “contested” primary since then has been engineered to get the Next One Up over the goal line. They did it with Hillary, and with Biden. Then they skipped over the primaries entirely for Harris.

Exactly, and Democrats learned their lesson! They will never take a chance on an actual contested primary again. It will look like it’s contested, because there will be several people running, but after the first few primaries most of them will bail and throw their support to the Next One Up, to make sure the desired outcome is achieved.

How well is JD Kirk polling?

“The odds of him violating the Constitution to seek a third term are remote and even if he did, it’s difficult to see how a four-time GOP nominee in his 80s with an underwater approval rating could defeat a standard Democrat who has triumphed in a primary."

That’s adorable, this guy thinks the Democrats are having a primary. It will be more like a coronation for Gavin.

Au Contraire! The Supreme Court has said that it is not possible for the President to be punished for breaking the law as part of his official duties, and the only check on this superpower is Congress, via impeachment. Therefore, if Congress does not impeach, it must be legal!

Isn’t it obvious? Those troops are bring sent to be targets.

Trump so badly wants an attack, so that he can blame it on Antifa and use made-up emergency powers on everyone.

This article leaves out the most important point: it’s not just the cost of the trips, it’s that the trips are to courses he owns. Not only does the Federal Government pay handsomely for these trips, but that money goes directly back into Trump’s pocket, because he’s paying his own company.

All those hotel rooms and meals (for Trump and his security staff) all generate personal profit.

And apparently, it’s all OK! Maybe we need Pritzker to run for President someday and be just as blatant about staying in hotels his family owns. If a Democrat pulled this shit, Republicans would pass laws to outlaw it in a heartbeat.

They talk like this because it’s what Trump wants to hear.

He may have written her statement directly, but it’s equally likely that if someone doesn’t include shit like that in a public statement, the President will personally berate them.

He looks so surprised

Cut them some slack! The alternative was a lady, after all. What did you expect them to choose?

But just think of all the data that Elon Musk got to mine out of the government, to feed to his AI.

Won’t anyone think of the billionaires?

Unmanaged switches are extremely dumb. They do simple things, and do them well.

Managed switches have lots of other shiny features, which is why they are more expensive. They also have to be configured to enable those features, which means you have to know how to drive them

Actually, I bet this saves her from any consequences. She wasn’t supposed to have the job in there first place, so all of her unforced errors don’t matter.

They should, but she has the magic ® after her name. So it’s just “Oopsies!”, and then she can go on with her day.

This is a little different. When it comes to “emergency” things like this, coming up from one of the Federal courts, they first go to a single judge to decide how to proceed. This suit was raised in Texas, which happens to be a judicial district which Alito oversees.

So while he did make an individual ruling reinstating the map, his job is also to help facilitate the emergency hearing with the full court. He asked for briefs by Monday, which is an indication he wants this over with quickly. (But, I think the alacrity is because he knows the fix is already in, and has enough votes among his fellow justices to uphold the new map, and they are just trying to make the justification work after the fact.)

But like other emergency orders coming from the SCOTUS, we will just hear about a decision, and not necessarily the overall vote. But I expect that one of the Liberal judges already has her dissent written, since she knows how it will likely end up.

I think you are confusing what the purpose of media is. You think the media exists to keep the public informed. When, in fact, the corporate media in the US exists to sell ad space. You are not the customer, you are the product. Just like a chicken farm doesn’t exist for the benefit of the chickens.

So, as such, the job of the media (especially TV media) is to grab your attention so thoroughly that you stay for the ads. This creates a fine line between reporting on hyped-up scandals and ignoring larger systemic faults that might make viewers themselves feel targeted. It means that once a particular narrative is seen to grab attention, everyone runs with it. However, that narrative can’t go too far in turning off people on one side of the issue unless the “news” outlet aims to only cater to the other side.

This also, to some extent, explains the sanewashing of the President that is currently going on. This President is a thin-skinned crybaby, and will whine about any little thing. And his supporters follow his every word like a new Messiah. News outlets who want to cultivate a broad viewership base (to sell them ads, of course) can only go so far with certain storylines before his followers change the channel.

Of course, the joke is on these news outlets. No matter how they try to comply in advance, the fascists will come for them eventually…

No, I think his mind is perpetually stuck in the late 70’s and 80’s. Right around the time when the Muppet Show was big. So he’s really saying she is annoying like Miss Piggy.

The problem if it gets dismissed this way is that the 40% of the country who are full MAGA can argue “He got off on a technicality”.

I bet one of them will take matters into his own hands, and Trump will pardon him for it.

Thats not what Supply Side Jesus says…

From https://www.beliefnet.com/news/2003/09/the-gospel-of-supply-side-jesus.aspx

The deal with a pocket veto is that the President has ten days to either sign or veto the bill – but a veto is really returning it to Congress, unsigned. Congress can then try to get enough votes to overturn the veto.

If he does nothing with it (sign it or return it to Congress) within 10 days, then that counts as having signed it, and the bill becomes law.

However, that last bit only applies if Congress was able to accept the returned bill that whole time. If the Congress had already adjourned, and could not accept the returned bill, then the bill does not become law.

However, in recent years it has been made clear that Congress never really fully adjourns until early January, but then immediately reestablishes itself, so it is never fully adjourned. Even while the House was not in session during the recent government shutdown, they held short mini-sessions to make sure that the body never actually formally adjourned. Furthermore, Congress has made arrangements to accept returned bills from the President even when they are not in session (but have not formally adjourned for the term). So Congress would have to go of its way to adjourn early for the pocket veto to work.

tldr: a pocket veto won’t work unless Congress shuts itself down.