@00pi Yes, the party faithful have rejected Haley so far, so the demise of Trump would not necessarily make her the nominee.. But whoever it turns out to be will lose to the Dems in November.

@dauphin87 Stacks of money burned up. Happens every campaign. The heavy hitters can afford it - they’re gambling, after all. But the average person sending five, ten bucks to a candidate they like for whatever reason - and continue to do so even if it’s a grift - that’s sad.

Nikki Haley, as long as she has donors, is doing the right thing, even if she gets trounced in S.C. If something derails Trump, there needs to be someone left to carry the R banner. If she drops out, who would the Rs pick for their last-minute candidate?

@lenaoflune Ah, but what to do with the embryos already created?

@SupplySgt Yeah, with honors from Trump University.

And what if the company which houses these embryos goes out of business at some time in the future? Will Alabama take that company over?

Lots of questions that reveal how short-sighted the Alabama ruling was. Look before you leap, people!

The Alabama Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos are children, and destroying them could constitute murder. So this raises a number of issues. Keeping embryos frozen is an ongoing expense, borne by the partners of those in vitro fertilizations, presumably, and forever, presumably. Will their descendants have to continue to pay the “rent” forever? What if the original partners can no longer pay? Do the embryos become wards of the state - an embryo orphanage as it were?

“You’ll get tired of winning.” So said Trump a few years ago. What, besides being granted delays in his criminal cases, has he won? Most of his hand-picked congressional and gubernatorial candidates have lost, he lost the lawsuits against Trump University and the Trump Foundation, he lost the last presidential election, he lost the defamation lawsuit - twice - and now he’s lost the NYC fraud case. Maybe his supporters should get tired of losing?

@SECRET_ASIAN_MAN Yeah, the same guy that is responsible for Hunter Biden’s prosecution. What have you done for me lately, right?

Bless their hearts. After an exhaustive investigation into Hillary Clinton’s role in the Benghazi disaster came to naught, they still said, “What about Benghazi?” when debasing her record. Now that their two star witnesses for Biden’s corruption - one who flew the coop and one who was arrested for lying to the FBI - have been neutralized, Republicans will still talk about the “Biden crime family” without any evidence. Of course they will, because that’s who they are.

All this worry about Trump’s several trials not being completed before the election misses the big picture. Let’s say at least one will be done, ending in a conviction. Well, that will be appealed. By the time all appeals have been exhausted, Trump could be president. Assuming the conviction is upheld, then what? Drag him off to prison? That’ll never happen. SCOTUS will rule that he gets to finish his term. Only that term will be indefinite, because he’ll refuse to leave. Gotta beat him in Nov.!

Trump disparaged McCain”s service record and insulted a Gold Star family. He called soldiers who died defending our country losers. He says he’ll encourage Putin to attack any NATO country that does not fulfill its financial obligation to that alliance. And yet the majority of the military and veterans vote for him. What’s wrong with this picture? Trump saying these things is scary enough. But millions of Americans who apparently agree with him boggles my mind.

Could Biden have made a worse choice for Attorney General? Well, sure. But the choice he did make has only hurt him. Delaying the Jan. 6 investigation, delaying the retrieval of classified documents from Trump’s clutches, and now allowing a biased, inappropriate assessment of Biden’s capabilities by the right-wing Special Prosecutor in Biden’s classified documents case. Shades of Comey’s inappropriate assessment of Hillary Clinton in 2016 that helped doom her candidacy.

@Kaydenpat Not yet this year, but she did for the 2020 election.

Remember when Republicans were outraged a few years ago when quarterback Kaepernick took a knee during the Star-Spangled Banner before the game? They were going to boycott the NFL! How did that work out? Now they are outraged again by Taylor Swift. Because the Super Bowl has been rigged so that she can endorse President Biden at half time, they say. So are they gonna boycott the Super Bowl? Be my guest.

@PussyFootingAround LOL!

I have my doubts that SCOTUS will take up this civil case, so Trump has only the Court of Appeals standing in the way of forcing him to pay E. Jean Carroll the 90 mil he owes her from the two lawsuits. But that will take an eternity. Hey, maybe Trump will not outlive Carroll, and Don Jr. will have to pay the verdicts from his inheritance.

@KazzyH Trump has to post a bond, but I don’t know how much that is. And I don’t think he can wait for his idiot supporters to donate the money to him for this, because they’ll surely want to.

The verdict is in - Trump has to pay - again - for defamation. This time, 83 mil. But will E. Jean Carroll ever see a dime before she dies? That’s the question.

#politics Despite the efforts of Republican legislatures across the country to rig the 2024 election in their favor - purging voter roles, eliminating polling places, banning drop boxes, etc., the Dems could still win. But wait, no, they can only win if they steal the election! Trump, Stefanik, and other Republican voices have already said, in effect, they would only recognize the winner if it was a Republican. Classic heads I win, tails, you lose.