Someone may or may not have self-immolated in front of the Trump courthouse today. Which is, OOOO, a worrying portent to be sure.

"The wheels are *meant* to come off, it's an ease-of-access feature."

Perhaps they want to make it clear this won't "ever" fly, setting precedent and all that?

Maybe they feel obligated and taking the appeal but then ruling against him is the best they can do?

I'm not entirely convinced they won't just make him a king, but I hold out some measure of hope.

Any truth to the idea that Trump is about to hostile takeover the GOP to plunder what money they have, so the various real morbidly wealthy ghouls are just gonna skip the party altogether and donate to specific people going forward?

Are billionaires abandoning the GOP? They don't have a few oil ghouls or something to squeeze for the theocracy effort?

Is there any provision in these that he can't just pay this off with money he fundraises from political bodies? Like, if he just emails out "I need money, because the deep state..." I suppose there's nothing inherently illegal in begging for cash. And I suppose it'll be hard to scam enough...

I can't imagine trying to legally pry my way back onto a collaborative creative endeavor. Would create an absolutely awful experience. For EVERYONE.

Would be doubly funny if Disney hired her back and then killed off her character within a scene or two.

I forget who mentioned it most recently (Friday, I think?), but it's absolutely correct that while drugs can do a lot of things to you, they're not going to make you into a racist hatemongering asshole if you weren't already so predisposed. That's a very good point. I don't want to make it seem lik...

Apparently he's funding Gina Carano's lawsuit to make Disney hire her back ? This seems like "political theater" with lawsuits, nothing too serious, which is why I find it so strange. Like, this more than anything makes me lean towards the idea he's just whacked out of his mind almost cons...

And he's now blaming the fact that the company is incorporated in Delaware as the reason this all happened.

They've managed to keep themselves relevant through a combination of captured courts, gerrymandering, voter disenfranchisement, and a cult of personality. When Trump dies, one of those things is going to be gone, but they'll probably still have the other three. That makes a lot of sense. I blissful...

Is there any to thought to the Repubs being essentially donezo after he dies? Like, this would be the showcase of heirs and junk, and there doesn't seem to be any fascist tools that can pull of the stilted charisma. Is the party just forever dissolving into weirder and weirder attempts at emulation ...

Damn, that'll teach us

Oh my god, yeah, that's pretty much it.

What's most worrying is how much Dem victories are driven by abortion being a class A felony across the midwest. That could and should drive dem votes at federal and state level but what happens after enough of that gets overturned? Which, granted, might still take a few years given Republican intr...

The important question is just how many of those diehards are there; if the only thing keeping the US from electing a straight-up fascist president is legal wrangling to keep him off the ballot in the first place, we've already lost. As a person in a place infested with those diehards, it seems lik...

Ah. Well, etc, etc

When will we solve mental health and get it off our streets