The simple reality is that it is not possible to maintain good relations with the US. Donald Trump is an idiot and a fascist whose agenda is driven by his whims as much as anything else. Starmer could bend over backwards to appease His Orange Majesty on every issue and Trump would still fuck the UK just because.

And nobody who refused to accept it the first time will accept it now.

This reflects one of the many flaws with the logic of people who thought Trump was only going to go after the criminals.

The thing about criminals is, they don’t follow the law. It’s in their interest to not be easy to find.

So, ICE, whose job it is to make Trump look good to his base by deporting brown people, don’t go after murderers or rapists, because that is hard and they’re barely qualified to begin with. They go after the people who are abiding by the law, whose exact legal status is unclear because our whole fucking system works against its own interests. They go against the people who are legal who Trump has stripped some status from. Because it’s easy to find them and they’re less likely to put up a fight.

They will continue to die and let their children die to spite the rest of us.

Why? What other reading is there?

With all the screeching Republicans do about Democratic corruption, you think Trump would treat prosecuting Adams like a slam dunk.

It really is like Trump is embracing corruption as a matter of policy.

Two thirds of Americans voted Trump or didn’t vote. “Most Americans” don’t appear to give a fuck.

Also, “failing resonates with Democratic voters” does not have the makings of a great slogan.

We didn’t have 4/5 of state legislatures when we had Congress.

If they don’t get that it isn’t acceptable now, nothing is going to convince them.

I don’t get why failing even more would make the Democratic Party look good.

Do the people in these comment sections not grasp how Constitutional amendments work?

It requires two thirds of the Senate. Which Democrats have not had in the past half century.

That is why Democrats didn’t try it when they had a majority. Because it would not work.

People really just want an excuse to blame Democrats for everything.

Either Trump will boot Musk out because he can’t stand the perception that someone is giving him orders or this will be literally the only time that he has not done the stupidly petty thing, because the one thing you can rely on Donald Trump to do is the worst possible thing.

Donald Trump isn’t just evil. Donald Trump is stupid.

Not only does his agenda not further the interests of America, it doesn’t further the professed values of the Republican Party.

The sole guiding principle of the Republican Party is: Hurt the right people.

I would typically roll my eyes at something like this, but in less than two weeks Trump has taken great strides towards destroying the federal civil service, any semblance of a rules-based international order and our relationships abroad, while doing everything but publicly endorsing violence against his political opponents.

I would welcome fifty new Congressional districts, the overwhelming majority of which would vote Blue within an American political framework.

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As it turns out, there are about 2,000 pounds of difference between Republicans and Democrats.