Tulsi Gabbard is the best option. She'd at least would try to keep us limited in foreign entanglement.

And so much for Junior's pledge of using his influence to keep neocons out of the cabinet. His pop still humiliates him.

I wouldn't put it past Trump to rip the rug out from under Rubio. But he'd be an idiot take the job. It's two years tops. And you'd preside over the death throes of the international order.

Despite expectations of radical change, the new administration will likely be similar to previous ones, particularly in foreign policy, due to the entrenched bureaucracy and the limited power of elected officials to effect substantial change. Americans don't fully appreciate the structural limitations of the presidency and therefore have unrealistic expectations of Trump's ability to bring about significant change.

Trump and Vance are not strong enough to replace Washington or even control it. They can do what any Republican administration does: bring in a different faction of staffers. This will change a few things that the government does in some ways. It will not involve any serious changes to the way government works or we live our lives.

Their lack of strength is not their fault. As democratic leaders, they have only the strength that the voters give them. The voters are not ready to trust them with full power over the government, which is the only way they could get anything done. They are not strong enough because we did not give them enough strength.

Worse, by refusing to see the difference between the dramatic narrative and the sordid reality, by investing emotional energy in the drama without any equivalent energy in wanting to make it real, or any anger that it is not real ... you give your leaders no choice.

They would love to lead us for real. First, we would have to follow them for real and we're not ready to do that. So ...

Project 2025 was developed out of Readiness Exercise 1984 Bravo (REX84B) by retired Gen Louis Giuffreda and Reagan's primary Advisor Edwin Meese can be implemented.

Summarized, REX84B calls for the suspension of the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the Writ of Habeus Corpus. The idea was continuity of government in the event of a national catastrophic event. REX84B includes a Mass Detention Camp location and scenario. This is the core of Project 2025 from the pens and minds of the boys and girls of the Heritage Foundation of which failed, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich is a member as well as a reminder of "ole Cue Card Ronald Reagan." Heritage Foundation did not come up with this Nazification Plan on its own"the Foundation does not have anyone that smart, though they do have plenty of smartasses like Gingrich.

There is a bit of a flaw though. The Constitution, Bill of Rights & Writ can only be suspended in the event of a bona fide National Emergency, not the feeling that one is coming or Trump's rumbly diaper dump feeling that something "bad" is about to happen in the US. It must be a VERIFIED threat to the Nation.

Encore!

For the remnants of the Nooner! With gusto, boys, With gusto!

Catholics have conservative family values. Most people from south of the border are Catholics. It ain't that difficult to figure why they would vote for conservatives.

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Well, he'll be running against Vance and Trump Jr. Maybe you're right.

Democrats will fundraise like mad over the next four years. They love being the opposition party. Newsom's campaign kicks off today! Almost like it was planned!

The "Silent/Moral Majority" seems to have a problem with voting for an adjudicated rapist and convicted felon.

Republicans, remember: You asked for this. Given the choice between a dozen solid conservatives and one Clinton-supporting con artist and game-show host, you chose the con artist. You chose him freely. Nobody made you do it.

Which political party approves and enacts the laws in Texas?