I always thought that Joe Biden’s campaign slogan should have been “Make Politics Boring Again”

I would have voted for Pikachu

FYI, Newt Gingrich has a Ph.D. in European History…

Maybe he can reprise Captain Hammer and do a song and dance number in the Superhero Retirement Home.

But you don’t understand! Some of those Charizards were shiny!

Well, there is some wiggle room, as the date of Federal elections is determined by Congress. The current election date is set by statute. So, it can be rescheduled with a statute as well.

However, the term of Congress is set by the Constitution. And House seats, in particular, must be assigned based on election results. If the election is postponed into the New Year, then all House seats would be vacant. So if a Federal law either abolishes or postpones elections so they cannot be certified in time for the new Congress to convene, States would immediately challenge, and Blue states would probably hold the election on time anyway, anticipating a ruling in their favor. We may end up with a new Congress controlled by Democrats, only because Red states never held elections.

It would get a fast track to the Supreme Court, and then who knows? The outcome might depend on what gratuities are promised by both sides…

He realizes exactly what’s going on, he’s counting on it. It wouldn’t surprise me if he is working through back channels to ensure that Iran launches a major terrorist attack in October. He needs that to try to cancel elections.

Zelenskyy has been President all this time, after all, because they suspended elections while his country is being actively invaded. Trump heard this and thinks it can work here, too. It shouldn’t work here, but who knows? Congress has abdicated it’s ability to declare war to the President, they might just concede their ability to schedule elections too.

Well, Trump did pledge $10 Billion of US money to his Board of Peace, which is kind of his personal slush fund…

Right, but a lot of Catholics voted MAGA last time around, solely on the basis of abortion policy. Not realizing that Catholics have always been on The List. Maybe after pregnant women, immigrants, and trans folks. But eventually, MAGA is coming for them too.

Not many, but more common than you think, particularly in HCOL areas where real estate prices have spiked, and even a modest house is over $1M. You might think “Yeah, but those folks have no equity”, but there are plenty of people who bought in 20+ years ago who are sitting on all that equity but can’t do anything with it until they sell.

Also, retirement assets count in that, and even though we see headlines talking about how unprepared most people are for retirement, there are plenty of people who are.

Add in the fact that most countries won’t hand out residency to anyone unless they are in a key field, and you will find that the people with the means to decide to emigrate are often the ones that have these assets in the first place.

There is some truth to it, that exit tax is not calculated on future income, but is calculates on one’s net worth, including real estate, investments, and retirement funds. They are basically looking for people who have chunks of unrealized gains accrued while still citizens, then file to leave the country so that they can sell those assets without paying capital gains taxes on them. So, before leaving they make you pay taxes as if you sold it all.

Yes, there are exceptions and exclusions that make it so most non-rich people wouldn’t owe anything, but it’s still up to you to prove that.

There are services that specialize in this, I found this one with a good writeup here. Note that they are looking to sell their service here, so may be overestimating the impact of non-compliance.

That’s chump change compared to his war

I am afraid to ask what Donald Trump thinks are the services a good “escort” provides…

Honestly, I’m just surprised this is the first time someone has dared to put a phone SOC in a laptop chassis.

I’m probably missing something fundamental, but isn’t this just a Chromebook?

May as well just pay the bots directly then…

The article lists an insane revenue of $1.6B, yet the losses are only on the order of $42M in the last 3 months. Against that much revenue, it looks to me like they are managing the company at a slight loss on purpose. They probably could close that gap if they wanted to, but have some favorable tax implications or something by running that “slight” loss.

(And who knows, maybe this is part of the attempt to close that gap and show a profit before the founders cash out and it all gets sold to a Shittier company)

there are 69 current representatives and senators who are retiring

Nice!

Haha, Philly might be the one place on Earth that is more hostile to Trump than Iran…

I just use the same combination that I have on my luggage

Because the techbros are pushing AI (really LLMs, but that is too many letters) for everything to justify their insane stock valuations