Well, he's not in Putin's face, he's kneeling down servicing him. If he does a good enough job it makes him a strongman too.
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A plurality, not a majority.
He may only have been short of the majority by a fraction of a percent, but no sense in giving him any more credit than is due or contributing to the myth of a mandate.
Also Russian trolls, useful idiots, billionaires, a massive network of right wing propaganda outlets, a corrupt Supreme Court that gleefully shredded the constitution, and a large portion of voters who are too fucking stupid to understand that the price of eggs is not set by the president.
The problem is that on certain specific issues he was occasionally the voice of something resembling reason among Republicans. I highly doubt that his replacement will be anything but a pure MAGA nut job.
It would be terrifying, but I'm sure a combination of egotism and liquid courage will make it seem easy.
Hurting the wrong people again?
And on the flip side, Russia's nukes are the reason that aid for Ukraine was only gradually ramped up and came with strings attached, for fear of provoking them. It makes it pretty clear that the world can be divided into those who have nukes and those who don't.
And that was before Trump started talking with Putin about how best to slice up Ukraine. Oh and also threatening to annex his neighbors. The world looks that much more unstable, and anyone relying on norms, allies or international law for their security will probably want to reconsider that position.
79 million people lose healthcare so that a handful of billionaires don't have to go from paying virtually no taxes to paying very low taxes.
This would be a disaster. It would cause immense suffering and would ultimately kill a lot of people. Every last member of congress that votes to kill medicaid should be thinking of just how they might have to answer to the people, both at the ballot box and on the street.
It will also make some portion of the would be customers choose to drive by.
I have no faith in Amazon to handle this well, but it's not impossible for them to hand it off to someone competent either. At the same time, everything I know about the way the previous stewards of the franchise handled things makes me glad to see them go.
In an order issued by a Texas federal court last week
Ah, say no more.
The RFK jr strategy.