If Trump wanted a 51st state, all it would take would be a tweet.

The people of that state wouldn’t object. The democrats wouldn’t object. The state could be a part of the union before the end of his term. Every flag flying from now until a hypothetical 52nd state gets added, people could point and say “That 51st star - that new design - that was all president Trump.” He was the reason the flag is like that - he would be remembered every time anyone in any capacity flies an American flag.

But he won’t do it.

Because he hates Puerto Ricans.

“55% of all respondences opposed the takeover” = Roughly half of America is not opposed to genocide.

“I don’t belong to any organized political party - I am a democrat!”

Conversion therapy for minors

Why spend money on therapy? Just wait until they are 18, then they won’t be minors anymore! Unless it was a typo of miners, then yes, they need all the retraining they can get because coal mining is going away and nothing can stop it.

Is Bernie passing the torch to AOC?

He finally recovered from the COVID he got a week before he dropped out.

Biden: “I can’t fire a postmaster general who actively tried to sabotage the election against me in 2020 because it would be against the law.”

Trump: " I fired someone who SCOTUS directly said i can’t fire because some people openly bribed me"

No, it is federal-sanctioned.

So, the question becomes: does a particular charity have a shortage of tech people working for them or a shortage of money? Which would be easier to get?

Which means it has the third largest number of representatives, right?

Because that worked so well with the Reform party in the UK.

Can’t loose something you never had.

As I said in the other thread, Republicans could have waited a week or two, got their act together on the budget reconciliation bill and then reopened the government without a single democratic senator. Closing the government hurts democratic interests and the republicans reopening it without democratic votes doesn’t help democratic interests either.

We already have a party that is know for being stubborn, hurting it’s own constituents, and not getting anything in return besides it’s base praising how tough they look - we don’t need a second one.

The Republicans have a once per year “Trump” card called budget reconciliation that only takes 51 senate votes. Right now the republican senators are worried about deficits and whatnot, otherwise they would have already used it. If the CR is filibustered, the government will shutdown until 51 republican senators can get their act together and pass the reconciliation without democratic support.

It will very much look like democrats shutdown the government and republicans alone opened it back up. Best to grow a backbone after the once per year thing is used up and they don’t have the option of just ignoring you.

Wait, I though the man survived a record 100 days and then got a normal heart. Is this the same guy or a different one?

Would a shutdown slow down or speed up the fascist takeover?

Dead in the senate, eh?

To be fair, it wasn’t Trump doing this same shit before 2016, it was Bush, and before that Reagan and before that…

Are CRs exempt from filibuster rules, and are there 8 democratic senators willing to buck the party to kiss Trump’s ass? Fetterman and …

Musk found out that the most recent batch had battery issues where they would spontaneously explode.

So he paid a bunch of arsonists to go out an torch a bunch of Cybertrucks so that he could have plausible deniability.