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Re-establish the Kingdom of Hawaii!

Since, you know, that was a sovereign government we had a hand in overthrowing

He's absolutely going to pardon himself, or maybe someone will convince him to let a potential President Vance do it in 2029.

But that pardon is happening, and if somehow his successor is not his handpicked person, he'll do it himself

You think they're being vetted for anything other than "will ask 'how high' when Trump orders them to jump"?

Not without Supreme Court fuckery. As it stands, he'd be eligible to serve as Speaker, but he'd be skipped in the line of succession if it were applicable.

Of course, trusting the Supreme Court to actually follow the rules seems naive at best these days.

It's possible, though I suspect it's more a byproduct of rigidity - she's fine at her job when everything is straightforward and/or predictable, but goes to pieces when choices aren't binary.

That's the hope, but clearly we see that hope and a quarter gets you 25 cents and that's all

Bernie also never faced Trump in an actual head-to-head matchup, so we'll never really know, will we?

I think Bernie stood the best chance at beating Trump in 2016, with the benefit of hindsight. I also think he could have beat Trump in 2020 (though, 2020 was a booby trap because there was no getting through COVID without some kind of economic downside). I don't think Bernie's message overcomes the simplistic logic at play in the electorate - "things didn't seem as expensive 4 years ago".

Definitely

I have a coworker who has been with my company as long as I've been in this entire career that we are both in. Between the two of us, I am the expert, because if something goes one iota off the rails, she can't handle/process it. This is a problem because shit goes off the rails ALL THE TIME in our business. How she hasn't figured out how to handle that in 15 years, I don't know

Bernie would not have won in 2024. In hindsight, it seems clear that winning in 2020 was at best a booby trap. If Trump had won re-election, the Republicans would be grappling with inflation anger (since absolutely none of his policy preferences would have slowed it, if anything they would have accelerated inflation)

Now, as usual, the Republican is going to get credit for the hard choices the Democrat had to make in office and the vibes that "Republicans are better for the economy" will continue, unless his tariffs fuck everything up so quickly that even the oblivious can't ignore it.

Given that we have a President who won't be trying to conduct his own coup currently... Yes

As he honestly should. Dude's too high on his own supply.