Is there a difference between someone who mainly hates Palestinians, vs. someone who hates all non-whites without distinction?

I bet he reinstitutes them under the BISSo doctrine (Because I Said So). Why not? He routinely ignores the courts

You joke, but I think he is about to try and tell us that Obama himself is an alien.

That’s not necessarily a bad thing

Hey, it’s TACO Friday (complete with extra Titanium Dioxide!)

Didn’t they already do this?

They are the same plan, they only differ in that Trump wants his name on the resort, while Kushner doesn’t care as long as he gets to grift it too.

There is a combination of factors that is turning America, a country founded on evicting a King from our government, into a country with a de-facto one.

First, one of the foundational principles of the country was the separation of powers. Specific powers were given to specific branches of government. The founders anticipated that ambitious people would fill those branches, and they would not give up that power so easily. They did not anticipate a Congress that would abdicate it’s power over directing the Executive branch when their guy is there. And a Supreme Court picked expressly to choose sides.

Second, the founders realized that there needed to be someone in charge of the Federal executive that had some real power. Recall that we had already formed one government , under the “Articles of Confederation”, with a weak central government that was not working. But, they did not trust the general electorate to pick it. That is the original purpose of the Electoral College: State Legislatures would name delegates, and those delegates would pick the President. We retain the Electoral College not because it still works in the modern era, but because it is too hard to change. (The fact that Congress hasn’t changed in size for 100 years also contributes to the inequity of the Electoral College, since each state’s votes are tied to their representation. In fact, I think the EC might still be workable if each district were smaller…).

Third, we had built up a strong tradition of non-partianship in the executive branch, with career civil servants doing their jobs across administrations, providing continuity. We even thought that protection was entrenched in law. But then this guy comes along, and decides that none of those laws matter. Once that merit-based expertise leaves, it is very hard to get back. And he can violate laws with impunity because of Point #1.

So, while we don’t call Trump a King officially, his office is being turned into a monarchy, where his opinion rules all and the rule of law is subject to it.

They have a weird paywall up. I even tried accepting their (mandatory) cookies and it wouldnt let me in

With a documented record of abuse like that, I’m surprised Trump didn’t ask him to run the department.

“Initially presented as a mechanism to oversee a Gaza-Israel peace process, it has been widely chided as just another unserious Trump vanity project,” Okail noted.

Oh, it’s definitely both. Trump’s ultimate Gaza “peace” plan has always been to raze it and build a golf resort there, with other people’s money. Golf Courses are very peaceful…

I have secret footage of the Democrats’ plan to recruit Progressives to vote for them:

The NY Post is obnoxiously right-wing. The Daily News is just obnoxious.

Sorry, the NY Daily News is not to be trusted for anything outside of NYC sports, even if it is saying something we agree with.

No, they’re all at 10 Downing Street. I learned that from that esteemed British documentary, Doctor Who…

You are never going to get someone in an exit poll saying “I will never vote for a woman for President”. So the exit polls will never tell the story. There will always be other reasons cited that don’t tell the whole story. Maybe if the exit polls was in the bar next door, during Happy Hour, and we can get them sufficiently lubricated first, then you might get the true story.

I know it is convenient for me, because it means that I can ignore all data, because it is all flawed. But I still know I’m right.

Sigh. Here’s my data that proves that zip codes matter:

2020:

2024:

See the difference? It was only a handful of voters in certain states that did it. Why did they change? You can’t really tell me there was any meaningful difference between the first election and the second one on a matter of policy.

Both she (and Harris) lost because their votes were not in the right zip codes. Biden got those votes. Biden was not a magically better candidate than either woman. There’s only one explanation that makes any sense at all.

Some voters may not even be aware of it. They might not even realize they are giving male candidates the benefit of the doubt, while assuming the worst about female candidates.

Did anyone ever say they couldn’t vote for Bill Clinton or GWB because they didn’t like the way they laughed?

The Presidency is a bridge too far, though.

Ask yourself: why did Joe Biden, of all people, win, where Clinton and Harris didnt? It certainly wasn’t because he had fewer “crappy policies” than they did.

America, as a whole, is simply too misogynistic to elect a woman as President right now but, they are at least self-aware to know they can’t say that out loud. So we get excuses, instead, like “I don’t like her laugh” or “I just don’t agree with her”.

My favorite was a dude who said “I can’t vote for Harris, she reminds me too much of my ex-wife”. At least he’s honest.