Yeah a lot of his supporters seem pretty pissed right now. I'm reading murmurings of an Ivanka Trump Governor of Florida run which would be amazingly terrible, and if he tries reinventing himself as some kind of centrist pardoner-of-celebrities-and-millionaires for 2024, I could actually see his base crumbling and failing to get the nomination (unless he runs third-party and guarantees as Rep loss). I mean, fucking Mitt Romney of all people is now grilling Biden's cabinet nominees over the incoming immigrant caravan, and Trump has said jack shit on his main 2016 platform basically ever since the wuflu hit. If Trump gets socially/culturally out-righted by a neoliberal "principled conservative" former Massachusetts Governor, he's toast.
EDIT: Oh and I saw that Tom Cotton held up the nomination of Avril Haines temporarily until she answered a question to his satisfaction. When I first read the story on CNN it was difficult to even figure out exactly what the full context was, seeming odd that Tom Cotton (a relatively junior Senator) would be talking about investigations around CIA waterboarding from the 00s. Then I realized that the entire media was, in the most poker-faced way possible, essentially saying that Cotton forced her to commit to not pursuing criminal investigations of the obviously illegal act of torturing, trying to make Cotton look like the good guy for the sake of incoming Avril Haines who had just given him the thumbs up.
Waterboarding/Guantanamo/etc was never really my big schtick to begin with so it's not like I'm personally outraged, but it shows first and foremost that the priority is always in the state protecting its own, and secondly how shallow Biden's commitment to any real progressive causes will be. But hey there's a deadly virus and an insurrection going on, we can't afford to wait.
Anyone thinking these next four years are going to be boring is crazy.
I dunno, more like a 45 at most. I've never thought Trump was particularly honest except in the "He blurts out whatever he's thinking at the moment" kind of way, but I didn't expect him to so blatantly shit on his own MAGAtards regarding draining the swamp. Based on what I know of Lil Wayne's pardon I actually support it, and I get the pandering intent to it, but pardoning a bunch of ultra-millionaire fraud scumbags and an ultra-corrupt Democratic mayor over any number of other candidates is just insult to injury.
