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DOJ tells Republicans that Epstein files even worse for Trump than they thought: report
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They just announced that they are thinking about cutting air traffic controllers in the run up to Thanksgiving.
I hope that when the dam breaks it washes away the entire GOP
This would make my year if this happens. I keep hoping this happens, but every time… it doesn’t. They just keep moving the bar on what is acceptable for a president to do. By trumps standards, Epstein himself could have been president.
Two things.
First, I know a lot of people here hate Schumer and the DNS, but they timed this shutdown to perfection. Just before the elections and Thanksgiving. Credit where credit is due.
Second, yeah, I've been waiting for the GOP to go to war with itself since 2015. I remember telling an activist freind of mine that Trump was going for the nomination and she told me that she didn't want to ever have to think about Donald trump, ever.
Exactly. If they fold, it WILL get worse.
If you look at the Labour Party in the UK, they walked in with comically oversized majorities last year. Then they proceeded to govern exactly like their Conservative predecessors - with no few MPs gleaned from the ranks of fleeing conservatives - such that Reform UK is now ready to pick up the Prime Ministership in the next election cycle.
The problem with the modern American conservative movement is that its not confined to the GOP. It is a consequence of the donor base. And the donors continue to be enthusiastically bipartisan.
I respect the grizzled cynicism of this take while at the same time hoping that this will be different.
We've definitely got cause for hope after this last election cycle.
But given the stubbornness of the Cuomo-crats, we continue to have some cause for alarm.
Mamdani has entered the chat...
No billionaires funding him...yet.
He's an edge case. And - don't get me wrong - if this is a self-reproducing model for future campaigns, awesome!
But Mamdani himself is exceptionally charismatic with good politics to back him up. I wouldn't even say guys like him don't exist, they just tend to prefer climbing the escalator of retail politics to the greased pole of democratic socialism.
One of the funny things about New York politics is that Mamdani's predecessors called for similar things [Billionaire Bloomberg supported congestion pricing and tried to bring fresh produce to food deserts]
Hell, NYC's most popular Mayor ran on a "Fusion Ticket" with the Communists. Socialists, and the Republicans.
He’s had offers . . .