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No. There are 23 of them, and life goes on even if you are on a grand jury. People are going to miss once in a while. They have to have a quorum of 16 to proceed.

 

No work permits needed for 14-year-olds?

Again, these laws will make it easier for companies to do legally what they're already willing to do illegally.

 

What's he gonna do? Sit on him?

Christie sees a lane in the GOP primary: Trump destroyer

 

Saw some of the clips of Hannity interview Trump. Every question had a 15 second windup where he tried to groove an answer for Trump or provide a pre-made excuse or equivocation.

 

I do think Rupert is smart enough to have foreseen exactly what Trump would do, no matter how much help given, which is why Rupert let him on in the first place.

 

The cringey, pathetic world of Trumpism in one headline:

Trump touts Twitter poll from '@catturd2' showing him with a big lead over Ron DeSantis

 

Yeah, this is all ghastly, and, frankly, sounds a lot like Trumpism. As you're reading about it, that's what you think, to the extent you almost can't believe it. (I put a link to some info on this situation on the religion thread, although this is about a whole mix of things, though mostly religion and far-right politics).

 

Ultraconservatism in Israel has been a problem since the assassination of Rabin in 1995. It long predates Trump.

And America's evangelical right has been an enabler of Israeli political excess since the Reagan administration.

 

I thought Chris Christie sought exile in Hungary or something after his book sold 18 copies. If Trump wins next time, the rats will scurry back onto the ship.

 

Among the many things you unpack when examining three decades of life as an American evangelical, it gets really messy when you realize you were told that in order to be on Team Jesus you have to cheerlead for a country running the same playbook as apartheid South Africa. And so you did.

 

Why Republicans Abandoned Their Economic Message