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They all do. Most obviously, there is the midterm election coming up. But also, as support for Trump wears away, more Republicans are willing to break with him.

So recently, Trump said that he wouldn't sign any legislation until his pet vote rigging (sorry election security) legislation was passed. Republicans joined Democrats to pass a housing bill, over Trump's objections.

Trump's nominees are also having a harder time getting through the confirmation process. At the beginning of his term, he rammed through several nominees by threatening to primary Republicans. Those included RFK, Jr. and Hegseth. Now, questionable nominees like Todd Blanche are struggling to make it through.

He was old. A family friend of my husband was a similar age, kept himself in great physical condition, and then just one day a heart issue killed him. Chalk it up to the gerentocracy. Our present system effectively means the Grim Reaper will give many politicians the boot before their constituents do.

on Herman weighs in · c/politicalmemes · 2 pts · 37d

No, no, they are both in the embrace of Their noodly appendages. They don't reject anyone. Except Fred, you know who you are and you know why.

There are polls coming out now. A while ago, he was running about 10 points ahead of Collins. Recently, he was neck-in-neck, within the margin of error. This will certainly put Collins in the lead. And I don't see a path for him to recover. Even if nothing more comes up, his campaign is cooked. He should drop out so that Maine has a real choice in November.

on *Permanently Deleted* · c/linux · 9 pts · 41d

Yeah, there's no point to it. The only thing it does is strip out the birthdate field from the user record. That field was optional to begin with.

In 10 to 18 years, I bet Trump gets memory holed by the Republican Party, much like George W. Bush. They will move on, and they will try to pretend that Trump and MAGA had never existed.

The core of MAGA is Trump, and no one has been able to really duplicate it. And Trump is an old man who is already slowing down. There is no succession plan. I think the movement dies with him, maybe with his presidency. And then they pretend they never supported him.

From what I had heard of it, it was likely an AI produced target list with a human in the loop. But the problem with those is that a human in the loop often turns into a rubber stamp, with the human taking the blame for the AI's mistakes.

So in that sense, you may be right. That is a problem that is pretty widely understood. They should have known that and taken more care. Trump and his "Department of War" has brought an even more cavalier attitude toward civilian casualties, so that may be seen as acceptable for "efficiency".

They are cut from the same cloth. He has a reputation for beliefs that are as hard-line, if not more hard-line. The slaughter of protestors is absolutely relevant.

The slaughter is also part of a power structure he has put himself on top of. And there is no indication that he will be any different than his father. The power structure may change a bit after this latest war, but fundamentally it is prone to deadly crackdowns on dissent.