Yeah, this is clearly a big deal. They started having an election and then cancelled the election after it had already started so they could redraw the districts and get a better outcome.

Could you imagine if they started voting for the presidential election and then they were like “hang on, we didn’t like where that was going. Pause for a few months so we can redraw the districts”? People would (rightfully) be losing their shit.

Good point about people resigning early. That would probably be a problem no matter what. If someone was at 16 years, they would probably be incentivized to retire early if they thought the next president wouldn’t be from their party.

Right now, judges almost never resign, so they just happen to die whenever most of the time, which allows conservatives to replace liberal judges and vice versa (in theory). Resigning early would likely be a huge problem.

Might have to do something like say each president gets to nominate a maximum of 2 justices. Those two justices being the people with the longest tenure on the court. If someone dies, that counts as nomination. If the president has already used their 2 nominations, then the next president will appoint a replacement.

Seems pretty straightforward. But do we really want to give Trump a chance to get 3 more justices that will rule the courts for the next 18 years?

Kennedy’s action comes at a time when many adherents of his Make America Healthy Again movement have adopted regular sun exposure as a core principle of wellness, with social media influencers encouraging followers to abandon sunscreen and build up their “solar callus,” or sun tolerance, instead.

This kind of bullshit makes me so angry.

They emptied our prisons into our country. They have mental institutions, insane asylums, into our country.

I’ve been saying for years now that Trump doesn’t understand the difference between insane asylums and political asylum. I wish the media would make this connection and call him out on it.

Leopards eating good.

See Latinos for Trump.

Yeah far easier to impeach, which requires a simple majority in the House and 2/3rds of the Senate.

The 25th Amendment is a higher bar, since it requires 2/3rds of both the House and the Senate.

I love how he tried to gaslight everyone about the image after deleting the post. He claimed he posted a picture of him as a doctor and only the lunatics on the left could interpret it as Jesus.

Dude literally ran for president because Obama hurt his feelings at the White House Correspondents Dinner.

This is a few days old, but also super relevant.

It’s always two weeks!

As wild as it is, it’s not super surprising either. Republicans are about to get their asses handed to them in the mid-terms and Trump isn’t eligible to run in 2028. So at some point, they need to distance themselves from Trump and pretend they never liked him in the first place (see George W).

The only thing a little surprising is it’s happening now and not in 2029 after losing the next presidential election.

Yeah the editor toned down the quote in the headline. The actual quote from the article was:

“Firing this drunk idiot is the bare minimum. @PeteHegseth should be prosecuted.”

Everytime I see shit like this, I immediately lose respect for the journalist writing the article. You can’t just write quotes and not provide any fact checking - especially when it’s so obviously false.

Oil hits $100 a barrel

I read the headline and thought, "oh damn, is the price going down?”

I thought it passed $110 when Trump started the war with Iran.

I hate when the media sane-washes the random tweets of this dumb ass mother fucker. This article goes to great length to talk about what roles ICE could play with limited training, when Trump had 100% not put an ounce of thought into this. They should just say “Trump proposes putting ICE into the airports, which makes no fucking sense.” But instead they try to invent ways that maybe it could possibly work?

Lol got a link?

If you have to flee your home like that, odds are millions of others are doing the same and you’re not going to be able to find gas anyway.

I feel like having an EV and solar panels is about as prepared as you can get.

That’s one way to commit suicide, I guess.