It would involve winning the Presidency and both houses of Congress in the next election, and then nuking the Filibuster.

If push comes to shove your passport is only the first step. You would need to actually find a country to take you, and countries don’t hand out citizenship like candy unless you’re rich. Without a second citizenship, you would be very restricted in where you can work.

Your best bet is if your parents or grandparents came from abroad, some countries have blanket policies to have 1st or 2nd generations come back to their ancestral homeland. It very much varies by country, you would have to do your own research. It might be worth doing as a last resort.

Yes, and even easier for SCOTUS to over-overturn.

Absolutely, we know that they will decide based on the time-honired precedent of which side provides the biggest RV as a “gratuity”

If you’re standing 20 feet in front of the guy, yes. If your only shot is across a field from one rooftop to another, you have much less control over where the bullet hits.

If law enforcement sees a guy on a rooftop with a gun threatening a crowd of people, though, that’s an acceptable situation for “shoot first, ask questions later”. That shot that killed the guy probably saved other lives.

A quick-thinking opponent could absolutely counter it. She could say “Hey, Donald, you didn’t answer the question. It had nothing to do with immigration. Let me answer it for you. Your position is X, Y, and Z, which is bad for Americans. Mine is A, B, and C, which is good.”

Can Joe do that?

I hope you’re not the pilot

They don’t need the audio from the investigation for hit-piece commercials on Biden anymore, they have the video from the debate

It also tries to help Democratic congressional candidates in close races. Once these get thrown in the bin, they can remind voters that if they flip enough seats, they can have meaningful impeachment hearings in the next Congress.

That yacht trip to Russia is listed as 2003. So, the Russians have had a US Supreme Court justice on their payroll for 20 years now?

But George Clooney just told him to quit, maybe Whoopi Goldberg is next. He has to listen to Guinan, right?

I agree with you, but there will be no drama at the convention. There will be an early roll call vote to meet Ohio’s deadline. by the time the actual convention starts, the nominee will have been selected.

The delegates have the only say in the matter now, and if Biden is still in the race, they are pledged to vote for him. The only way out is for Biden to back out and endorse someone else, in which case she gets Biden’s delegates (and the nomination).

Biden is insisting he’s the nominee because he is, unless he can be convinced to back out.

I hate Donald Trump with the passion of 1,000 suns, but I am getting tired of him being right about stuff, in his own wrong way.

He spouted off some nonsense about Fani Willis’ “boyfriend”, which we all thought was the dementia talking, until his lawyers brought the receipts.

He spouted off about how the Supreme Court would bail him out of the NY charges, and we all thought that couldn’t happen, until that ruling came out and it did happen, at least temporarily.

I specifically remember reading a link saying that Trump said NY would be in play, and we all dismissed it, and now this.

Whoever is feeding Trump his info is spot-on.

If he’s going to Feinstein us, can we just skip the boring parts and go to the end of the book?

Don’t you think he looks tired?

We’ve discussed this in other threads, the difference is in expectations. Trump in 2024 gives a better performance than Biden did in 2020, or now.

In fairness, it is a lot easier to sound convincing and give a good performance when you don’t have to stick to the truth. But Trump’s supporters don’t want the truth, they want the convenient fictional world Trump is good at selling.

She was at least aware enough to realize she doesn’t have the energy anymore to lead the Caucus, and let someone younger take over the Democratic House leadership. She probably still has Jeffries’ ear whenever she wants, but he makes all the hard choices now.

I am sure that if Biden were to resign tomorrow, President Harris would carve out an advisory role for him. Maybe he can man the Red Phone between 10AM and 4 PM.

There definitely seems to be a complicated dance going on right now behind the scenes. Most Democrats are going to publically back Biden even as they try privately to get him to leave. But it seems to be members of Congress, particularly from safe seats, who are the most vocal right now. (It surprised me to learn that Pelosi is running again, at the age of 84.) Pelosi can do anything short of killing a puppy and still get elected in SF.

It makes some sense, as Biden is polling significantly behind most Congressional races right now. One would think that means that Biden’s baggage is not affecting those races, but maybe they have polling that indicates that there are several close races that might get a bump if Biden leaves. These Democrats in safe congressional seats will have a much harder time of the next two years if they are in the minority because Biden cost them a bunch of close seats. And, if a Trump victory is coupled with Republicans keeping the House and taking the Senate, who do you think Trump will use his newfound regal powers on first?

It is essential that Democrats keep some check on a future Trump Presidency, and they can’t do that if Biden is pulling down Democratic enthusiasm enough to risk all those close races.

Right, but those “easier” ways to donate to PACs generally have reporting requirements, particularly for foreign sources. Reporting implies accountability, which is anathema to Trump. He would sooner just sell NFTs and not report the source of any of it. Just because crypto enables anonymous (or pseudonomynous) transactions doesn’t give anyone an excuse to violate US laws, but that seems to be the main attraction to Trump.

If Crypto does go mainstream at some point, it will probably be due to the influence of major US exchanges like Coinbase and Gemini. (I don’t trust existing payment processors, who are just looking for a way to co-opt Crypto into their networks). But that’s a big “if”, and depends on the libertarian “Don’t tread on me” element deliberately taking a back seat to the Winklevii. (You may realize that I have my doubts.)