Dems also get to run the investigation and trial to drag everything out in the open.
Massie gave the reps an off-ramp to bury Hegseth quietly and contain the damage to the rest of the admin, and Dems should be happy it didn’t work.
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The Constitution authorizes impeachment for any damn thing you can get 67 Senators to vote yes on.
The Constitution does not authorize impeachment for a Secretary carrying out the orders of the Executive. That would give Congress direct power over Executive functions
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Article II, Section 4 subjects all civil Officers, including Cabinet secretaries, to impeachment for high crimes and misdemeanors. No exception for following presidential orders. Belknap (1876) and Mayorkas (2024) were impeached.
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I swear two years ago the whole IR story was Tesla vertically integrating building out manufacturing capacity around the world at breakneck speed, and now they can’t build capacity for S, X, CT, CC, and Optimus at the same time?
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Yes.
Harbor Freight’s got 1,000 nails for $32.
I always end up with a lifetime supply of nails for every nailer I own.
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S needed a refresh with of the tech updates from the CT, not cancellling. As an S owner neither the 3 nor the Y are adequate replacements.
Had they kept the S and Elon stayed the fuck out of the Trump admin I’d have been buying replacement S and CTs forever.
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Autonomy doesn’t have to mean stop selling consumer vehicles.
I want FSD that works on a car I own, and cybercabs when I need one. There’s no reason to take the controls out of a personal vehicle.
I’m not going to road trip a cybercab like I do my S.
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Particularly the right-leaning rural crowd he’s leaned into where Cybercab coverage is 10 years away, you actually need a truck, and Alex Jones has been feeding a stream of “they’re going to take all your freedoms away and make you share everything” for two decades.
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I bought my first Model S in 2013, two more since, and a day 1 CT reservation I never took delivery on. TSLA’s made me 7 figures since it was $33.
It wasn’t 100% innocent and it was one of many, many actions that poisoned the brand and are on him.
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Visually distinctive also backfires when you simultaneously tie the brand to the most polarizing political movement in American history so the customers you’ve had for the last decade don’t want to be seen driving the thing.
The politics killed my reservation, not the design.
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And 39 million Californians get the same representation in the Senate as Wyoming with 1/80th the population.
Rural conservatives in deep-blue states are effectively governed without consent. In New York, Republicans win most counties yet still lose statewide by 20 points because dense urban and suburban voters in New York City and its suburbs cast the decisive ballots and vote overwhelmingly Democratic. The result is that rural and upstate communities pay the taxes, live under the regulations, and absorb the costs set by politicians they consistently reject. Same story in California and Illinois. Population density has become a veto over the rest of the state.
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If there’s any Republican that knows when it’s time to walk away from the one you brought to the dance when the going gets tough, it’s ‘ole Newt here.
The scale of the Republican defeat is so great that it makes the race for the GOP presidential nomination wide open.
If the administration had won a big victory, Vice President J D Vance would have had an enormous argument to be the inevitable nominee.
Now, with this go-slow strategy blowing up in Iran and his defense of Vivek Ramaswamy's horrible, inhumane ad featuring his opponent's mother attacking her own daughter, a good bit of the luster has come off the bloom.
The number of people who want to draft Secretary of State Marco Rubio is staggering.
In addition, Ted Cruz, Tom Cotton, Ron DeSantis, Pete Hegseth, Glenn Youngkin, and a surprising number of people may decide this is their chance to take advantage of the chaos of the shocking defeat and seek to be the champion who can rescue the party and the country.
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