Commerce and let him be the new Wilbur Ross? But I think the question is what you perceive as “valuable.” Cabinet Secretaries are certainly more...
It’s the Vacancies Act explanation in the post above yours, combined with Trump’s general desire to make a big scene about even mundane things.
The other likely reason is a fairly mundane one that gets into the intricacies of the Vacancies Act and the fact that it takes a good bit of time...
Not sure, he regularly publicly insists that he should be permitted to do something that he can pretty clearly already do. Unless he’s real...
The only thing that keeps recess appointments from being regularly possible are pro forma sessions - without them, the senate goes into recess...
Depends on if he wants to run for senate in 2026. If so nominating someone like James Uthmeier or Jeanette Nunez (or I guess himself, but that...
He calls Democratic politicians terrible things. With respect to voters, he insists that he loves them and they all love him. No one gets mad at...
It’s not really a “historical norm” - pro forma sessions to try to keep the Senate from ever going into recess are largely a very recent (ie-post...
Part of the reason the Dem message didn’t stick is because voters don’t like being told that they are evil and/or stupid. But Dems can’t help...
https://www.wsj.com/finance/how-the-trump-whale-correctly-called-the-election-cb7eef1d Fascinating article. The French guy that bet $30 million...
Mods, can someone help and give me some tech assistance? I don’t want to block jo, but if there was a way to make all of their posts show up to...
Does the jo stand for what JO typically means? If so, that screen name choice was :emoji_ok_hand:
Seeing reports it will be Susie Wiles, who would be the first female White House Chief of Staff.
To be fair, didn’t Fuentes publicly unendorse Trump and insist that he was “declaring war on the Trump campaign” this year because he hates Susie...
Don’t try to tell me that you aren’t intrigued by the prospect of Justice Jim Ho. ;)
It was interesting to me that, for all of the talk about how Walz was a great pick to outreach to Republican voters and no one likes JD Vance,...
If you want data, read the NYT post mortem USMCNole posted. It has the focus group data that viewing the “Kamala is for they/them” ad moved the...
Wrong. Here’s CNN’s: https://www.cnn.com/election/2024/exit-polls/national-results/general/president/0 Here’s NBC’s posting of the same thing:...
I'm not sure you understand how exit polls work - it’s multiple choice polling, not an open-ended tell us what you think. The question you keep...
