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My first car was a rusty 72 Pinto. Objectively bad, but there's a freedom associated with a total shitbox as a 16yo that I've never had since.

Later had a mid-80s Cutlass Ciera. It already had an engine replaced by the time I got it, and that engine ran fine, unlike literally anything else in/on that car.

Briefly had a 77 F250. Also on a replacement engine, but this motor didn't last long. That beast only got like 9 MPG, so it wasn't worth fixing.

The 99 Jetta was fine for a few years, but when things started breaking, they broke in bunches. Finally a mechanic told me there was nothing he could do, so I had to scrap it.

Maybe it's in cursive, and he's just younger than yellow shirt.

For federal stuff, yes ... probably, it's never been tested, but the current SCOTUS won't stop him.

Not for state crimes. Like the 34 felony counts in NY. But enforcement of any sentence (probably financial) is unclear. Also unprecedented.

He is over 35, a natural born citizen, and has lived in the US for 14 years. He was impeached, but not convicted. Accused of insurrection, but the wheels of justice turned too slowly.

That's the extent of the legal requirements to be eligible to be President. The theory was that any other social disqualifications would be handled at the ballot box.

That theory is now proven to be incorrect, but fixing it takes a constitutional amendment.

Name one of the ten commandments Trump hasn't broken challenge [impossible]

The conventional wisdom is that Social Security is a so-called "Third Rail" of politics. Nobody is going to touch that and live to tell the tale.

Of course, we would have had a similar thought about non-controversial stuff like "cooperating with the World Health Organization," so there are no guarantees, but wholesale restructuring of the program would (hopefully) cause more backlash than any politician wants to deal with.

The blueprints he's working from doesn't say anything about SS by name: https://www.newsweek.com/what-project-2025-could-do-social-security-1923892

Despite being over 900 pages long and spanning most of the departments of government, including defense, homeland security, agriculture, education and energy, the mandate text does not provide direct policy positions on Social Security or its government agency.

That's not to say the program will be entirely unaltered, but that page suggests the extent of the (public) policy proposals seems to be raising the retirement age by a few years. Not great, but nobody seems to be loudly advocating for slashing existing benefits.

It can happen, but it's hard to imagine that it could change the outcome.

https://www.npr.org/sections/biden-transition-updates/2020/12/14/946080856/who-are-electors-and-how-do-they-get-picked

Generally speaking, the parties send a slate of names to be electors. If Trump wins a state, the electors sent by the GOP are sent to Washington. If Harris wins, the Dem electors are sent. Many (not all) states outlaw faithless electors.

When it does occasionally happen, it's a useless vote that wouldn't have changed anything anyway. For a group of party loyalists to all work together to flip the outcome would be ... unimaginable, frankly.

You have not experienced Shakespeare until you have read him in the original Klingon.

Or some sports games. Madden 2025 is almost entirely obsolete by January 2025.

I don't see the original source (probably some dense campaign finance disclosures), but there's some numbers going around on bluesky the last day or two:

Trump's "small dollar" donations are only like 1/4 of what they were four years ago. Three different billionaires have each spent more than all the normal people combined.

The grassroots support sure seems like it has cratered, and he's being puppeted into a virtual tie by a very small number of people.

How does this keep happening? Is there some secret contest to see who can drop the ball closest to the line?

Just hold on and hand it to the ref. It's not rocket science.