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I'd say they're already on Plan B(iden). Now, they'll surely go full steam ahead with Plan C(heat as much as possible).

Regrettably, she'd be represented anyway, because -- I gather -- not all states are winner-takes-all. She has 19 delegates from DC, but 43 in total, at present.

That seems... very susceptible to abuses of various sorts. I can sort of intuit where it came from, and the original impulse behind such a set-up was probably even noble. But I'm not very that it's well-suited to an age where political organisation is no longer a matter of organising your own...

You could make it six months, sure. 12 is an indicator here, not a definitive proposal. It also depends on what the contribution would be. If that's substantial enough to be a bit 'discouraging' to dishonest actors, even three months could suffice. At present, I'm not even sure that American...

If that's your position ("people who don't pay should get a say"), then your argument is functionally that people who contribute zip -- aren't even paying party members -- should have a say. That's like saying non-citizens should get to vote in the general election because they're just "the...

Isn't the obvious solution to just make participation in party primaries exclusively accessible to people who have been a member of the party for a given period beforehand (e.g. 12 months)? That way, if a Democrat really wants to infiltrate, he at least has to pay 12 months' worth in...

In other good news: Nikki Haley lost the (meaningless) Nevada primary to that most formidable opponent, None Of These Candidates. :p As I understand it, she's not taking part in the Navada caucus, which actually awards the delegates, so those go to Trump pretty much by default.

Stefanik's voting history is rather iffy. All conservative and libertarian intitutions give her a low lifetime score. (Indeed, by one reckoning, her voting record is worse than Ilhan Omar's...) She started voting more right-wing since 2021, but is that a genuine change of heart or a ploy? Noem...

I'm afraid you're completely missing the point, because your assumptions about the situation are fundamentally wrong. Yes, they want violence. And they'll have it. They'll have it if you "don't sink to their level", which is specifically and most exactly what they want, because it's by far the...

Believing that "democracy and decency" still exist is "playing their game". Don't be the good guy. There are no good guys in a fight to the knife. At the end of the day, you have to be the one standing, and the enemy has to be the one dead on the floor. where you stab him doesn't matter...

In escalating cultural conflicts -- and what we see here is merely the political facet of a cultural conflict -- the universal rule is that the least tolerant and most ruthless side wins. If you try to be the "good guy", you lose, because you limit yourself, while the enemy is not so...

Trump with Vivek as running mate this time around would be great. Then Vivek can be Trump's anti-assassination insurance for oe term, and then he can run with Trump's endorsement in '28, since Trump is term-limited anyway. Neither Trump nor Vivek is anything close to a perfect candidate, but...

As @Blasterbot notes: who whould they bring in, exactly? I'm not saying you're wrong in theory, in that Trump really could quite plausibly lose to a hypothetical "generic non-polarising Democrat"... but can you give us some names? Harris, the VP, is universally regarded as incompetent and...

"The name's Who. Literal Who."

"The time has come. Start fueling the bombers." "Who are we attacking, mr. President? Russia? China? North Korea? Iran?" "Yes."

Like... Donald Trump in 2016? Mind you, I'm not claiming Vivek is great -- mixed bag, I'd say, and no good shot at getting elected -- but "he has no experience" is a bullshit argument. Some of the most experienced politicians are also some of the worst swamp creatures in existence.

Prior experience proves the lie. But then, I said that you're a habitual liar, there's no need to prove it twice over. You've done enough. You've served your purpose. It's been charming, as always. To be clear though: you are incapable of insulting me. To be insulted by someone, I first have to...

See, there we go. Precisely the behaviour of which I accused you. You truly can't help yourself, can you? This is the highest level at which you can operate. Thanks for this. I couldn't have done anything more effective to prove my point.

As I said: it hardly matters what your position is, as far as the point I was making. I left that undecided. My point is that Marduk always posits complete bullshit, like "everybody I disagree with is a left-winger". Even if I agreed with him on everything else he said, those types of statements...

You "know" that. I, on the other hand, know that you're a habitual liar who comes up with insane bullshit and pretends that it's a fact because you say it a billion times. I know that essentially every opinion you have on history is wrong to the point of debilitating retardation. The only...