You laugh, but remember that at one time, someone walked into a boardroom and actually said “<puff> So, I’ve got this idea for a new cartoon. It’s about a sponge. <puff> And it lives in a pineapple…<pass>”, and is now a millionaire many, many times over.

So who do we get to play the two dudes that have to Weekend at Bernies Drew Carey around the oval office all day?

We are on Day -67 on a second Trump administration.

We already have:

• An anti-vaxxer with self-proclaimed brainworms as HHS secretary, given as part of a deal for him dropping out of the Presidential race.
• An alleged sex trafficker who is under investigation for various crimes including having sex with minors as AG, giving Trump an AG that will do his bidding without having to go through a Saturday Night Massacre since Trump can just use the trafficking case as leverage to keep him in line.
• An ambassador to Israel who believes Palestinians don’t exist.
• Demands from Trump that the Senate immediately go into recess upon Trump’s inauguration so Trump can appoint “recess appointments”, amid reports that several potential picks are too extreme even by some far-right standards.
• A “government efficiency czar” or whatever term he made up for it headed by a man who has already said he intends to cut the budget by $2 trillion and inflict hardship on poor people “for their own good”.
• Several prominent GOP figures admitting that they were lying about Project 2025 all along and there’s no reason to lie about it any more since voters can’t do anything about it now.
• Judges across the country pausing J6-related cases, citing the inevitability of Trump pardons for the rioters.

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Bribery is now legal. The corruption is now blatant and open. Lies are now worn as a badge of honor. The winners are saying the corruption will continue and is now the new normal. They have seized control and have purged anyone who would have dared to speak up, let alone do anything about it.

And remember, we’re not even on day one yet. There’s still a little over 2 months before the Trump HateTrain 2.0 really takes off.

This isn’t going to be pretty.

You know how I know I’m too stoned right now? I can actually picture this being a sitcom with Drew Carey starring as Grover Cleveland. I’m telling you, there’s something there, and I’m going to go ponder what that is over some more weed.

Those Palestinians were going to lose their land, families and lives either way. Biden has done nothing to stop Israel, neither would Harris. She made it abundantly clear that “protecting” Israel was more important than stopping genocide.

Let’s be realistic. Israel could raze Palestine any time it wants. They have the backing of the US and a vastly superior military. If Israel thought Biden and Harris would support Israel annexing the West Bank, they’d have done it over a year ago. In fact, they specifically said they’re annexing the West Bank because they have Trump’s backing.

If you were going to lose your land, would you rather lose your land X months or years from now, knowing you at least have a roof over your head until then and being able to hold on to the hope that maybe things might get better, or would you rather just wake up tomorrow with a giant orange bulldozer gleefully running over your house? Saying “It was going to happen anyway” is not only demonstrably false, but also doesn’t mean that the solution to that problem is making it happen faster. If Israel were going to annex the west bank under a Biden administration, he’d have done it already.

but getting his nomination torpedoed by the Senate

He will not get his nomination torpedoed by the Senate. By doing this, Trump has ensured that he has an AG that will do his bidding without question, since Trump will be able to hang this investigation over his head to keep him in line.

This is why Trump was demanding recess appointments a few days ago. This is why Tuberville is threatening to torpedo careers of Senators who don’t fall in line. This is a test for Republicans to get back in Trump’s good graces until he demands another loyalty pledge. He will either remain as “acting” AG and stay that way for Trump’s whole term, he’ll be appointed in a recess appointment, or dissenting senators will fall in line to save their political careers (and possibly their safety, as many of them have already confessed to being threatened).

And this won’t even be to “own the libs”. Heck, he doesn’t give half a shit about Gaetz outside of his usefulness as an AG puppet. If not Gaetz, there was always Cannon. Or Jim Jordan. Tuberville. Plenty of suck-ups to choose from. It’s just that Gaetz just happens to be the suck-up that’s also the easiest to blackmail if push were to come to shove.

This will be Trump’s way of making sure that republicans know who’s calling the shots. This is Trump’s way of telling republicans that the train isn’t stopping. This is Trump’s first loyalty test for them. This will tell Trump who needs to be purged and who can be trusted in the party. Trump just put his dick out on the table, and told Republicans that if you want careers, you had better get in line to pet it.

Mark my words, one way or the other, they’ll all line up.

Sometime last night. He allegedly quit abruptly and immediately in preparation for the AG role he was nominated by Trump for, because abruptly quitting in the middle of the night without warning is what all nominees do, don’t you know…

In completely unrelated news, the house Ethics committee was about to release a report about his involvement in underage sex trafficking, among other criminal activity. And wouldn’t you know it? Committee rules prohibit the release of that report since he’s no longer a member of Congress. Complete coincidence, I’m sure.

Everyone pointing at people that didn’t vote for Harris over Gaza like this is some gotcha moment are totally missing the point.

Yes, yes. We get your “point”. Harris’s policy on Gaza was bad, so of course the clear solution was to hand the Presidency to someone who would make it worse. To send a message.

Good job, guys. Your message was loud and clear. I’m sure that in 2028, Democrats might have a slightly more pro-Palestine agenda. Maybe. Until they realize there’s a hell of a lot more Jewish voters that would be even more pissed off. Lesson learned. I’m sure the people of Palestine who will lose their land, their families, and their lives between now and then will take solace in knowing that you sacrificed their lives on their behalf to send a political message in a country 5000 miles away. I’m sure that’s exactly what they wanted.

So am I, but if I were a betting man…

My apologies, then. I have simply never heard that before.

Would still vote for it over Trump.

Go for it, Rambo. Let me know how it works out for you.

But dick cheney is a pretty massive weight, especially when the camel is running over the left.

The logic just doesn’t make even the least bit of sense.

What you’re telling me is that people were planning on voting for Harris. They liked Harris’ policies and knew what a Trump presidency would bring. But because Liz Cheney – a woman, remember, who sacrificed her own standing in the Party and torpedoed her own political career in order to stand up to Trump and try to give legitimacy to the J6 hearings – showed up to one of her rallies and endorsed her, that was such an insult and affront to them on a personal level that they were willing to sit at home in protest and hand the country over to Trump. That doesn’t even pass the smell test. Those people were never going to vote for Harris anyway. Cheney was just a convenient excuse.

You don’t have to like Liz Cheney. God knows I don’t agree with her on a single political issue. But Liz Cheney wasn’t running for office. Liz Cheney is a far-right nutjob, but even she’s giving MAGA the side-eye. It’s a prime example of winning the battle but losing the war. Sometimes, you have to look at the bigger picture, and in some battles, you need to accept that the enemy of your enemy sometimes really is your friend, if only for a little while.

It’s not like Harris picked Cheney for VP or something.

Of course, you can always try to go the extralegal route, but you need a hell of a lot of heavily armed people willing to actually do that. Problem with that is that a good chunk of said people just got finished saying “Meh, nah.”

And if it does come up with some tortured logic, I can see a State telling it to go to hell, because the one thing it can’t focus rewrite the Constitution.

And this is where your logic falls apart. This would have been a correct statement on or before November 4, 2024. It is no longer correct. We are in TrumpWorld now. The rules as we knew them no longer matter, and can and will either be rewritten or outright ignored.

Trump doesn’t have to rewrite the Constitution. He just has to use the same logic with the 22nd amendment as they did with the 14th: It is simply too vague and not enforceable. If Trump says that, and Congress passes a bill saying that, and the Supreme Court says “Yeah, fuck the 22nd amendment.”, and a bunch of MAGA state governments say that, then guess what?

I mean sure, some states could go their own way and not put him on the ballot. But (a), good luck getting people to consider that election legitimate, (b) They probably wouldn’t be enough to swing the election anyway, and © the MAGA congress could just as easily set those states aside entirely because reasons.

Thinking that a man is going to play by the rules when he’s using the rulebook as toilet paper while being cheered on by voters is probably not going to go the way you think it will. Especially when that man has already seized enough power to rewrite the rulebook at will anyway.

Honestly, I’d like to have seen Infowars turned into an advocacy site for gun control and a memorial site for victims of gun violence, particularly school shootings.

But if I can’t have that, I hope that the Onion uses Infowars to needle, humiliate, and satirize Alex Jones and his followers for the rest of his life. Turn his own creation into his tormentor.

Voters: We need to break the two-party, FPTP system.

Progressives: Ok, so how about ranked choice voting?

Voters: Not like that! <rushes to polls to enshrine FPTP >

Voters, later: Why doesn’t anything ever change?

Nothing ever changes because the vast majority of the American public doesn’t actually want it to change. The 2024 election is proof of that. People don’t want change. They want something to complain about.

The States can and will. Recall that there were a few states that tried to take Trump off the ballot this time around, that case went to the Supreme Court, which ruled that states couldn’t use that specific clause to keep Trump off the ballot. Furthermore, that decision was unanimous, although the Liberal judges released their own opinion saying that they disagreed with some aspects of the decision.

So by your own admission, the states already tried to remove Trump under the 14th amendment, and the Supreme Court said that the 14th amendment was unenforceable because reasons. The Supreme Court that also said Trump can do whatever he damn well wants in office and can’t even be questioned about it, much less prosecuted for it. But when they use virtually the same logic to say the 22nd amendment doesn’t matter either, you think that’s where a Supreme Court 1/3 appointed by Trump himself is going to draw the line?

Oh, you sweet, sweet summer child.

The states already tried to keep Trump off the ballot via the 14th amendment. The Supreme Court took a giant shit on it. And the states did fucking nothing. And you think things are going to change when they just use the same playbook with the 22nd?

It will be a lot harder for even this court to weasel it’s way around the language in that amendment.

What makes you think the court has to weasel their way around anything? They’ve got full control. The only reasoning they need is “Because fuck you that’s why”. People didn’t do shit about it when Roe was struck down. People didn’t do shit when the SC said Trump is all but a king. People ain’t gonna do shit if the SC says “fuck the 22nd, let him run anyway.”

If you think that the American public gives half a shit, I’ll simply reply by gesturing broadly at the results of the 2024 election.

And it will get there quickly. The minute Trump announces another candidacy every state that is not totally MAGA will immediately refuse to put him on any ballot due to his ineligibility.

And the Supreme Court will tell them to sit down and shut up, and they’ll comply just like they did last time. And if they try to ignore the court, good luck getting the population to consider the election legitimate.

Republicans can’t do anything to fix this (legally) other than to amend the Constitution. Let’s see what illegal shit they try, though.

Who’s gonna do anything about it? It’s not illegal if the people making an enforcing the laws say it’s legal.

God fucking dammit. When you start a process like this it gives credence that the ammendment doesn’t prohibit non-consecutive terms.

Fuck! This asshole is giving ammunition to Trump.

Actually, no.

This process started when the Supreme Court essentially ruled that the 14th amendment to the Constitution was unenforceable, allowing Trump to even run in the first place. Once you say that amendments can just be hand-waved away, then the Constitution itself stops being the Supreme law of the land, and just becomes a really old piece of paper with guidelines that can be ignored if they become inconvenient. The exact same rationale used to discard the 14th amendment could just as easily be used to discard the 22nd amendment. Or the 19th. Or the 13th. Or the first 10. Just write it off as “too vague and incompatible with modern society to be enforceable” and voila.

If Trump tried to run for a third term, could Obama run against him?

No. Obama is term-limited. Trump is not, because (choose one or more):

• Trump did not serve two consecutive terms
• Obama is black
• Trump can’t count to two anyway.
• The rules don’t apply to Republican candidates
• Just like SCOTUS did with the 14th amendment, rules of the constitution can simply be hand-waved aside when they become politically inconvenient.
• They have control of everything. What the fuck is anyone gonna do about it?