They’re also trying hard to be completely unidentifiable.

Life problems? No. Immediate problems? Yeah. That’s half rent for me, or groceries for a month, or a car payment and insurance, all my major bills, etc. For a lot of people, that’s the most pressing thing in their life.

Allegedly there’s a cadre of his inner circle that’s already pushing to establish martial law and cancel the midterms.

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Literally I think he believed that by denying them press credentials, he was killing the network outright.

There’s also the fact that a large part of that class is Silicon Valley, and an alarming chunk of them are mildly to all-in on the “AI will eventually birth God” train. Why wouldn’t they be? It’s an emotionally stunted tech-kiddy’s fantasy - you’re going to save Earth and all you have to do is play on the computer and hang out with your rich friends every so often.

Also helps him bypass a lot of approvals. Remember, he did this with the stupid ballroom too.

As I’ve pointed out before, Trump dying probably spares us the worst of the MAGA heads, but where Trump wants to lead with charisma and a charged base, I feel like Vance is actually content with keeping power via use of arms. The guy is craven at the thought of having power.

And the DOGE checks we were supposed to get after DOGE was gonna save us trillions of dollars.

Not just him - the ideal is that MAGA will simply collapse without their leader. The issue with that is we’ve already cemented a LOT of power into the executive in just a few years. Trump could drop dead tomorrow and despite having the charisma of an open can of surstromming, I think Vance would be able to hold onto power just through an overwhelming tide of repression. Trump’s caught up with people loving him - Vance, I think, doesn’t care if people hate him.

And solar.

Yeah that sounds right. He did the same shit in 2016 and 2020, because he apparently can’t stop shoving his entire fucking foot in his mouth the second he opens it on a hot mic.

Doesn’t matter, because he’s leasing it from a company he controls. Assuming he decides to forgive the loan (which he will), he’s effectively just giving his company $700k in election funds scot-free.

Because providing shit like sheltered shade, AC, water breaks and the like costs the company a small fraction of their profit and that’s anathema to The Line, which must constantly Go Up.

Capitalism doesn’t have a bottom of the barrel. You can keep scraping away that bottom for decades, and you’ll always find someone willing to debase themselves morally for a chance at becoming part of the aristocracy temporarily.

Yeah, I can’t wait for my mom to figure out how to spin this one. She’s already hard on the “well we’re not AT WAR, so he’s still following his campaign promises” train.

Blanche is literally Trump’s lawyer and has been for years. That’s his deal - he knows how to kiss his ass just right, and doesn’t really mind that it makes him sound like a sycophantic empty-minded toady just reaching for that next rung on the ladder.

I’d be surprised if it’s not uncommon. Cruise ships tend to skew older. If they mostly did cruises that catered towards elderly vacationers, I can see more than a few of them just buying it just from the law of averages.

Oh nah, if this is anything, it’s another push to expand the military budget in ANOTHER bid to privatize the military, something he and his have been on for years.

I can’t wait to see Dr Phil get arrested on camera by the Danish army.