Occasional renewal of the prediction that Trump will not finish his term, and I think it's even plausible he'll be out by the midterms.
The current situation is unsustainable, even for the people who are benefiting most from it. Those people will, of course, try to keep him in place as long as they can, but it's a losing battle. With a lot of ugly tradeoffs in the meantime.
Sadly, Dem leadership are among the ones who believe they benefit. They don't even try to hide it. Schumer and Jeffries, like the fash faction and theocrat faction, want to keep Donny Littlehands in the Oval Office as long as possible, because they think that's what's best for them. Lesser techbros will start turning on Trump now, with Musk and Thiel paying the bills, but they can't do much harm without getting hurt back. And the bigger techbros (Goog, MS, FB, Apple, Amazon) are basically part of the Big Bidness faction. That faction isn't going to defect until the very very last minute.
BTW if you want to be horrified go look for Jeffries's response when a journalist asked if he was planning to do anything about Trump having crossed Jeffries's "red line" of congressional arrests. When I say he'll be much worse than Pelosi that's what I mean. Pelosi was good at procedure and knew how to use money to whip. The only things Jeffries is good at are passing the buck and reassuring donors.
That means the rest of us just have to hope we survive, and that midterms don't get derailed by a terrorist attack, and Trump doesn't get martyred in a way that cements GOP power, or any of a dozen other obvious that could wreck the possibility of Dems regaining control of one or both chambers.
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in reply to Chairman Meow ᓚᘏᗢ 🐿️🍉 • • •remember that after the election, jeffries went begging the tech donors for money and direction (bc what else is dem leadership good for?) and the donors pretty much told him to f off, they're team trump now.
play stupid games, win stupid prizes. but its truly incredible that jeffries is an even worse orator than pelosi. imagine what he'll be like when hes 80 years old.
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in reply to benda • • •@benda okay, fair.
I kinda felt like defending him with "yeah but what donors want now is probably for him to be as completely incompetent and useless as possible, like Schumer" but I get what a crappy defense that is 😁
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in reply to Chairman Meow ᓚᘏᗢ 🐿️🍉 • • •