Nobody should want these guys to finish the job, especially before the election. That's a recipe to end up with President Vance, and the man is an absolute moron. He makes Dan Quayle look like the spelling bee champion.

Donald Trump doesn't deserve to die from an assassin's bullet. He deserves to die of natural causes, in prison.

Don't forget the gold bars, and RVs

Bribery. Checks and bribery.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/09/15/us/harris-trump-election/dfadef71-0d80-5152-9d29-212f29d599c4

A Secret Service agent was one hole ahead of Trump while he was golfing and spotted a rifle barrel sticking out of a fence in the golf club, Sheriff Ric Bradshaw of Palm Beach County said at a news conference. The agent “immediately engaged” with the person holding the rifle, who fled. Bradshaw confirmed that law enforcement officials had a potential suspect in custody.

You don't think there can be an irresponsible gun owner in Florida?

And I don't think we can assume that the lower bound to Trump's support is just the hard-core MAGAts.

There are also the die-hard Republicans who treat their political affiliation like a sports team. They will reflexively vote R no matter what, even if they don't approve of Trump's behavior.

Then, paradoxically, there are also the low-information voters who actively avoid politics. In prior years, these tended to lean Democratic, but this year is a bit different. We are finding that many of these people are in much worse shape vs 4 years ago financially, and since they never paid attention to political stuff to begin with all they know is Biden was President for all of that. We know the economy is in decent shape, and we avoided a post-pandemic recession. But the benefits are extremely uneven, and there is a large base of people who are still screwed (and doubly so if they ever want to buy a house).

Don't bet on that. He may have lost in 2020, but he still had more votes than any prior losing (or winning!) candidate, ever.

Even after all the stuff that happened, the only candidate with more votes than Trump in 2020 was Biden in 2020. There are probably at least 60 million voters who think Trump is their guy.

(Maybe he's hoping for 69....)

Nicky Jam does have kids, so he isn't a faux pa after all.

I doubt it will happen, but it would be poetic justice if so many people get pissed over this that Trump loses Ohio.

I may be in the minority here, but I say he should play as long as he wants to, and as long as he has medical clearance. Unless the doctors say "The next hit is guaranteed to turn you into a vegetable", or his wife and family urge him to stop, he should go out there.

Now, he should probably take extra precautions. He should change his game and use the protections afforded to the QB position to make sure he is not taking those hits to the head. Maybe Patrick can send him one of those Great Gazoo helmets to try. They look absurd, but they seem to work well for him.

But the man is making over 200 million on his new contract. Is that enough to compensate for the CTE in 20 years? Maybe, maybe not. But there are people who work very physical jobs all over the world who wreck their bodies doing them for a fraction of the pay. Nobody is worried about how they will fare in their later years.

Tua is in a privileged position, and as long as he can play at that level I don't think anyone else (other than his doctors and family) has the right to advise him to walk away from that. If his brain is mush later, at least he made the choice to mush-ify it.

You have the right idea, but a bunch of facts are wrong:

• the States role is simply in validating and certifying the vote in each state. Once that slate is affirmed by the Governor or Secretary of State, the State's role is over. This is where the chicanery is still possible, but the tactic of "just have the losing side pretend they won and submit votes anyway" was soundly rejected in 2020/1, with most of those electors now facing charges. (Cases involving Trump have been delayed, but others where prosecutors made the choice to not charge him yet but charge others are progressing). It is more likely that local officials may delay the certification, but I hope State officials overrule that.

• They did pass a law overhauling the EC count process, and clarifying that the VPs job in it is simply overseeing it, and she has no power to reject results she doesn't like. (Besides, Harris will still be VP whe they count the EC votes.)

• If there is no EC majority, it doesn't go back to the States, the POTUS election goes to the House and the VP election goes to the Senate. The catch is that in the House, each State delegation gets one vote, so Wyoming's lone rep gets the same vote as all 50+ of California's reps. Republicans hold an advantage here, but a Blue Wave could eliminate it, as it would be the newly elected House making this vote.

And next week, he will cross a other one. This is what he does. His base loves it, because he says the things they are thinking.

The tricky part of this is that Trump's statements are believed in their entirety by his supporters, despite the fact that they are untrue. He has successfully managed to cast the act of holding politicians to account, a major function of the press, as a purely political act, at least in the opinion of its followers.

So the news media has to choose: it can hold Trump to account, and face accusations of political bias from one whole side. Or, it can not hold Trump to account for what he says at all, and maybe get less pushback from the other side. The safest way (which returns more value to shareholders) is the second option. If they push back at all, it would be safest to label it "opinion", so as not to trigger people.

The reason why Biden's performance during the debate didn't merit the same treatment is that his party does not march in the same lockstep as the Republican base. So the story there was as much of the party's reaction to it as to Biden's Performance.

NY gets first dibs, I hope that judge sends him to Rikers, even just for a week.

Oh, I'm sure she's supporting critical parts of his.... agenda.

It's banks specifically that he doesn't like, because they stopped lending to him after his ventures had one too many bankruptcies.

But then he learned he didn't need banks' money anymore, when he could just run for office and have people give him money out of their own pocket.

It's like Trump doesn't realize "therapist" is only one word.

Plot twist: everyone thinks Trump's October Surprise will be dumping his VP candidate, but it turns out to be trading in his First Lady candidate for a newer model.

I guarantee that Bitcoin will surge to $125,000 after the election, no matter who wins. I also guarantee that it will dump to $40k after the election.

The trick will be figuring out which comes first.