hard to win a seat when you died of polonium poisoning

Thats the thing about theories on what will happen in 2028,
over the next 30 years there is going to be a lot of dramatic changes to the world.2020-2050 will certainly be more eventful than 1990-2020 and maybe more eventful than 1920-1950. theres a LOT going on in the world.

I mean this exact scenario happening was super likely months ago. I can't imagine Mueller not anticipating it.

They don’t even care how deplorable he is. The calculus is much less intricate than that. It’s

IF Trump = “likes”

THEN “Goodguy MAGA”

ELSE “**** that guy”

Every senate candidate that Trump endorsed and campaigned for WON. What happened in the house is super sad for them but senators are not representatives.

as you are getting hauled off to the camps you will be the guy telling everyone around you, "dont worry, we will be out of here in a few days. some lawyer or judge will save us."

more eventful than nazi killing? We've been in by far the least eventful time in history.

lamar! blowing smoke up my ass

The great thing about the more old-fashioned GOP senators posting on facebook is that half of the comments are from the expected left-leaners trashing the senator but the other half are from hardcore deplorables dragging them from the right, threatening them with primaries etc.

oh ok so this protects the mueller investigation TY senator alexander

mueller is a life long republican. hes not gonna take down a republican president anyway.

his governors crushed too.

the dem reaction to this is just unreal. how about

Did Trump not endorse Kobach?

John James lost in Michigan

Apparently moveon.org is martialling the troops for protests tomorrow at 5pm local time, due to Whitaker failing to recuse himeself and rosenstein being replaced for the investigation.

The first time I read this I thought he wrote "The President has the right to own his cabinet member." And Lamar seems to be missing the immediate concern involving the "acting a.g." ending the investigation. They will have to deal with the "permanent" a.g. nominee a bit later.

Trump also campaigned and had a rally for the R senate candidates in Ohio/Montana/Wisconsin/and probably West Virginia but who's counting and probably some others too that lost, I don't remember everywhere he went.

One other thing to note here is that McCain, Flake and Corker were sometimes a pain in the ass for Trump and could have caused problems for him in any AG confirmation process and will now have been replaced by Kyl, McSally and Blackburn who are all going to be far more compliant Trump soldiers and not bother him at all.

Forgetting popular political pressures, I think Trump was also perhaps at least minorly emboldened via the Senate results because in addition to getting more members, he probably got specifically complaint right wingers instead of showboat iconoclasts, so any nomination process for a new lapdog AG got easier for him. That he, he can get a new subservient AG who fires Mueller or does whatever, stonewalls or obstructs investigations into himself, and he has a far more amenable GOP caucus to sign off on the AG candidate. He can fade a few wayward GOPers who hem-and-haw over ending the Mueller investigation AND the new GOP Senators he's getting are basically all hardcore, compliant right-wingers and the GOPers that are going away were thorns in his side. The only exception I can think of is Mittens ****ing Romney who will probably end up kowtowing to Trump in the end.

I think this is exactly right.

Good luck. You're gonna need it.

Like what?

I've seen this idea posted but I don't really get what the doomsday switch is supposed to involve. Declassifying a report or something? I mean, that's better than nothing, sure. But if you remove Mueller, the actual prosecutions are donezo, right?

Sure, Jan. These insiders are deeply perplexed by a move every single politics observer saw coming months away. They're def not just complicit liars pretending to be shocked Reasonable Republicans.

"Captain Renault deeply perplexed to discover gambling going on in Rick's Nightclub, given that it's against the law and all"

#MAGA


https://twitter.com/strickdc/status/1060308375811039232

Trump's problem is that he needs actual criminals to help him govern how he wants to.

They were probably stoked when he was appointed. The only thing that changed was the attitude of the great orange one. They don't understand government so they can only root based on the signals Trump sends, which are misleading lies 90% of the time.