I'd bet on it, but seems like it would be really hard to define the terms of the bet in detail. I'd be willing to define it fairly loosely and then submit to judgement by a jury of our peers.

I guess my definition would be something like:

CONSTITUTES BENDING THE KNEE:

- Praising Trump in personal terms
- Obviously overeffusive praise of Trump Administration "successes"
- Not speaking out against reprehensible **** Trump does where it conflicts with Romney's own values (stuff like white supremacy, grabbing them by the pussy)
- Falling in line with political Trumpism, that is, using phrases like MAGA or "fake news", "Crooked Hillary Clinton", etc etc.

DOESN'T CONSTITUTE BENDING THE KNEE:

- Praising some specific accomplishment of the Trump Administration which is in line with Romney's own ideology, such as it is (tax cuts etc)
- Not speaking out against reprehensible **** Trump does where it doesn't conflict with Romney's values (tax cuts works here too)

Just in general terms, I wouldn't want it to be Romney just siding with the Republican "team", he is after all a Republican. I'd want it to be a reasonably clear sign that he has given up on resisting the Trumpification of the GOP.

That's the thing, if he took the position of SoS I wouldn't consider that "bending the knee". He could consider it his duty to the country to take the position to prevent Trump appointing some incompetent moron instead.

Mormons are totally down for white supremacy, tho. They just get a bit squeamish about religious persecution, but that obviously is not a deeply held conviction among the Mormon rank and file, as they voted for Trump in the general.

https://pagesix.com/2018/01/02/russi...-says-witness/

So setting aside the insane rest of the article and the inherent premise that every non-white is biased against Trump, I want to highlight how bad these people are at making up fake quotes. Bernie Sanders rallies don't look like BLM rallies, Bernie Sanders' lost the frigging primary because of low levels of black support! "From central casting" is generally an idiom used to denote someone who looks stereotypically like the position they are in and/or are more generally just good looking. What is the stereotypically handsome juror??!!

And Berkley is antifa, not BLM! You just threw that in there because those are all things you hate but you gotta do better than that. Nobody ever said that sentence!

The purpose of the article isn't to present a consistent theory of the facts. It's to trigger overly sensitive deplorables.

Mormons in general, maybe, idk. I mean, the church certainly has a history of it. Mitt Romney in particular, I really don't think so. Romney is a born-to-rule rich guy who has a callous and clueless attitude to the challenges of being poor in America, but he doesn't strike me as a hypocrite or a moral vacuum or anything. I would lay heavy odds against him becoming embroiled in any kind of credible sexual harassment scandal, for instance.

Trump would easily win the GOP nomination today.

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Those numbers change, maybe dramatically, depending on how the GOP do in the midterms. "You have no chance of winning and you're hurting us down ballot" is a very strong argument, if backed by evidence. "Then how come I won in 2016 & you lost in 2012" is quite a strong counterargument (if utterly sophistic). So I'm not sure Romney is the best primary challenger.

Like Romney's main issue, like many conservatives, is a total lack of capacity to imagine what it is like to live anybody else's life. The things that suck about him stem from that. He's not a malicious or amoral person.

Thought this was pretty funny

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/ro...rticle/2644738

Beat me by a second posting this.

More proof you literally cannot be dumber than a trumpkin. They represent the longest of the longtail on the IQ curve.

How is this not all a simulation?

There's no way to program this much stupidity in to a simulation. I'm not a programmer but I imagine it'd be way harder to program Artificial Stupidity rather than Artificial Intelligence.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/...55557022420992

Nukes bout to start flying

weeeeeee!

he's describing his button as bigger and more powerful

I suspect it's a Schoonmaker thingy but just guessing.

Yea, he's literally telling a ****ing dictator that his dick is bigger and he's not afraid to whip it out.

https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/...59545767841792

real or onion?

Where is Gen. Kelly? Sleeping?

Meh, we exceeded expectations by making it to 2018. It's all bonus time from here to the end.

Nukes hitting the west coast or New York = less libtards so what does he really have to lose?

It really pisses me off I finally get a g/f I want to marry and this ****er is gonna destroy the world over the size of a button.