There is never a path for the speaker of the house to become vice president. Either the President and Vice President are dead and he’s president, or he’s still just the speaker.

As others have pointed out, before or after the electoral count is completed, makes a minor difference. It would be interesting to watch it play out.

It has informed legislators that laws they otherwise might support, have racially biased flaws. That’s pretty much the sum total of it’s influence on anything.

It’s not a policy question it’s a media question. The right started taking over news media the day Nixon resigned. Repealing the Fairness doctrine, ending League of Women voters debates, propping up Fox news, and Sinclair media buying out all the local stations. That’s the decades long community goal they’ve been running. The left needs to understand it, and how to fight it, because MSNBC isn’t doing it.

It’s lack of direct evidence. Trump operates like a mafia boss. No paper trail, always use euphemisms for direct action, use intermediaries for voice communication. That’s why everyone around him got caught and prosecuted, but he didn’t. The entire case would be hearsay interpretations. Federal guidelines wouldn’t let a prosecutor take that to trial. Usually in that case they go for intimidation to get a confession, which doesn’t work on a megalomaniac narcissist.

Don’t stop a damn thing, put a billboard up for every victim.

If he’s using AI scraping, we should set up bots that invent other Trump family members as orangutans. Also label all cat and dog photos as the opposite. All insect pictures labeled as republican or conservative.

I dunno, I can imagine a LOT of corruption.

Gaetz is a loyalty test for the Senate, to see if they’ll really let Trump be a dictator. If he gets blocked, expect calls for senators to resign.

He’s rich, not a branch of government.

Kind of curious where he gets the funding for that board.

Propose policies that actually fix what people are angry about, in an immediate way.

At least in summary.

Nothing but anecdotal, but it kinda looks like Bluesky is becoming a thing. Couple that with a lot of people taking a step back from the world right now.

The US still makes massive amounts of cotton. That all gets exported to other countries before getting turned into garments and things.

Coffee, tea, and everything you’re wearing right now.

They won’t shut it all down, just localized areas in order to ‘protect the safety of officers operating in the area’.

Probably best to stick to coordinating movements to isolate and neutralize paid provocateurs and provide secure wellness stations, while maintaining a recording of EVERYTHING done by officials. Remember to broadcast everything, not just record. That way recordings can’t be seized.

At some point they’ll start shutting down internet access to prevent recording of their actions. But that will probably coincide to when protest isn’t the most efficient of methods any more.

Right wingers only see problems when it happens to them personally. So the only way to get rid of Trump is to give him enough rope to hang himself. This is just a tiny string in that rope. I’m hoping he gathers up enough to end up like Mussolini.

While I fully support these protests, they need to be planning for the responding violence from authorities. It’s coming the day Trump takes office.

They sell the targeting, from there it’s simple for the advertisers to compile the list with the tracking cookies left behind.

Google has that list, and it’s for sale. Regardless if you tell them, they know.