Lordy, politics is stupid.

Time for R's to differentiate themselves! No one seems to have any fixed principles these days anyway, so why not go for it?

Treating income in different ways panders to different groups. Investment bankers have lots of pull so they were able to get their income treated differently by the tax code. Waiters and waitresses, and anyone else who might work for tips (judges and politicians now?) don't have a lot of pull except in election years, so this is their turn.

Let's treat all income the same. Tax it as ordinary income. R's always say they're for less regulation, so let them put their money where their mouths are.

The shame lasted exactly 1 month. Ford granted Nixon a pardon on September 8, 1974.

I think this is spot on. Trump is such a political wildcard, and American politics, aside from a few back bench nutters in the House, isn't usually equipped to deal with his like. There's no real way to explain the DJT phenomenon.

Rant on! Having just visited NYC and sampled their pizza, you can't do any better than good ol' square cut 'za from the local Chicago pizzeria.

You can take the boy out of Chicago...

"Not to mention supporting changing his own state's flag to more closely resemble the Somali national flag in some limp wristed attempt to garner votes from Somali immigrants."

Reddit is probably not the place to go for insightful political analysis.

Thom Brennaman might serve as an alternate example.

https://golf.com/lifestyle/celebrities/how-why-president-trump-cheats-golf-playing-tiger-woods/

"In fact, he did cheat with Tiger Woods. Not long after becoming president, Trump invited Woods, Dustin Johnson (the No. 1 player in the world at the time), and longtime Tour pro and Fox golf analyst Brad Faxon to play."

I know that wasn't your point, I just had to share some of Rick Reilly's excellent writing. I read the book this article was excerpted from and the disgust with Trump's golf cheating was very explicit.

Affirmers, not drivers.

This is an awesome response:

https://x.com/RepJackKimble/status/1818458258526314904

Let me expound. The Republican Party has at the head of its ticket a man who incited a riot in 2021 which had as its participants people who were actively trying to subvert the will of the electorate. He's spent the last 4 years telling those same people that any other result than him winning in 2024 will be due to the fact that the opposing side cheated. Do you think his supporters will be more peaceful in 2025 than they were in 2021?

He can put democracy on the line.

That guy ought to come to Chicago to fix the signs that say 94W when you're actually travelling north.

It's what's in the bucket.

For VP? Remember the words of John Nance Garner.

To be honest, I was kind of surprised primaries were even held. Why bother with an incumbent?

What is it you'd like to learn? A private organization decided to change course. Whether there was chicanery involved or not isn't going to change the American polity for the better one iota.

Conspiracies are false? What does that mean?

Maybe he just did the right thing. Who knows, and, more importantly, does it really matter?

Can it be called a conspiracy when it's done in the open? I would posit that it cannot.

AFAIK, not in theaters, but The Saint of Second Chances is a must watch. It’s a documentary (mostly) about Mike Veeck and his post-Disco Demolition fall from grace and rise from the ashes. Very highly recommended.

Currently streaming on Netflix.

Heh. Very good point. I've been waiting for assassination attempt merch to start popping up on Twitter. T-shirts with the raised fist photo are already there.

We’re living the famous Chinese curse and truly is one.

To be honest, with the proliferation of guns in the country over the last few decades, I'm kind of amazed it took this long for something like this to happen.