I think it’s this guy. Don’t quote me, but I think he’s Trump’s internal pollster guy. Apparently him an his outfit released a lot of polls that favored Trump and normally polls are released somewhat strategically (in Nate Silver’s experience) rather than wholesale.

Nixon was explicitly pardoned to avoid prosecution for his crimes.

Congress didn’t have to stop the impeachment of Nixon. They chose too because Nixon agreed to never run for office again.

If we want that to change we need an Amendment that established an Independent, non-partisan Prosecutor whose job it is to prosecute Presidents and former Presidents.

Impeachment is a political process with the ultimate result being removal from office.

And potentially the removal of that person’s ability to ever run for office again.

Impeachment and removal from office does not mean they would go to jail, it is not a criminal trial.

Yes, that’s the design. Because it’s not an “impartial” process but a political one. And because only 40 or so people have been given that protection, it makes perfect sense.

That’s an 8th grade understanding of the concept where you never learned anything after.

The 8th grade understanding is the correct one. As confirmed by SCOTUS.

Remember the DOJ reports to the President. A process where you’re either suppose to investigate your boss or investigate your Boss’s political allies/opponents would be way to open for abuse.

Trump can be prosecuted for what he did before the Presidency (as is being done in New York) and for what he has and will do after the Presidency (should he run back J6 part deuce). But for crimes committed while President impeachment is counterbalance.

That is the correct interpretation of the law. We could punish the Seal Team and their chain if command for following the order. But punishment of Biden himself would require him to be impeached.

And frankly that’s how it should be.

Obama killed that 16 year old in Yemen. He isn’t liable for that. Bush spied on Millions of Americans without warrants he isn’t liable for that. You can argue they should be; but that’s not how our system is designed.

Because every 8th grade civics course says the same thing. You punish Presidents with impeachment.

It should be. But it’s not. Dems needed to follow the Nixon playbook and have a long drawn out impeachment hearing. They punted on that and let him walk.

Trump already beat the charges.

Yes. As much as I hate it. It’s not that big of a story. Either you know and realize Trump tried to commit a coup or you’ve bought the lie.

Until Dems start running on, “He he committed a coup” which they gave up on when they punted on his impeachment; it’s not a story.

The conflict makes it a story.

Maybe because it’s not as big of a story. J6 has been in the papers every other week since it occured.

Is it really surprising that a government that started a war while spending zero dollars on air superiority, zero dollars on artillery, zero dollars on defensive fortifications, zero dollars on civilian bomb shelters, zero dollars on radar and enemy detection and zero dollars on a military college for its officers is losing the war it started with a 45:1 casualty ratio?

If Israel were truly trying to maximize harm in Gaza it could easily be 4500:1.

This is special Olympics vs. Olympics here.

Undoubtedly Harris is an improvement compared to Biden.

I used M365’s’ Copilot. And I asked it to bullet point summarize the article’s text.

RCP has Harris at a 1.8% favorite in its polling average. At the beginning of this month Trump was winning in these polls (granted partially because of Biden’s degraded mental state). So opinions could legitimately change.

Additionally, Kennedy is still at 4.5%, and generally 3rd parties support degrades the closer to the election it gets. It’s difficult to say where that support will degrade to. If Trump’s support falls to 1% and Trump takes 3% of that support, he’ll be ahead in the polls.

Finally, all the national polls have a margin of error between 2-3%. It’s just as possible that Harris is up by 4.8% as it is that she’s down by 3.8%.

So the chance of Harris losing the popular vote is significant.

Bibi has gone in and out of power as leader of a major coalition. Putin has been a dictator since I was in middle school.

Not really equivalent beasts.

Hamas is doing more damage to Israel than has been done in generations, just of a diplomatic sort.

People believe that?

They only bring those policies out when they’re not in power

If your support is never on the table, your support doesn’t matter.

Huh I didn’t know about that. Maybe Walz is a better pick then.

Truthfully, the utilitarian nature of the dish.

I think this was a poor pick. Penn’s governor was a good candidate, but also didn’t have the George Flyod riots in his political past. You’re already seeing Republicans key in on that.

Oh yes, the Bible says Big Dicks are the Best!