Kalshi today has 48.6 votes to confirm Blanche, and it's logical to assume a bit more arm-twisting of flabby GOP senators will push that up to 51 incl. Hillbilly's vote. This is not a Matt Gaetz troll-the-Dems nomination, it's trump's personal lawyer, mob consigliere, and chief revenge architect that he's sent up to the Senate...trump won't take NO, end of.
This Blance interview will be interesting. If the senate confirms him - there are 4 Rs currently voting with Ds a lot - you can bet there's going to be an mighty big uproar from the people. I wouldn't want to be a R running for reelection.
Primaries are largely over. Barring a few runoffs, the Republican nominees for the Senate races to be decided in November are already determined, or will be before the nomination is brought before the current Senate for a confirmation vote. To that extent, Trump no longer can threaten any of those candidates with a Trump-approved toady primary opponent as a threat to their political career. He still has leverage over their votes, but it's definitely reduced, and gets reduced even more because, absent the absolute destruction of the constitution, Trump will be out of power after the 2028 election, and the lamest of ducks before it. It will only take the defection of a few Republican Senators to kill the nomination, assuming that those few can somewhere dredge up either the shriveled remains of what might have once been a conscience, or the shreds of self-preservation that led the Watergate-era Congress to finally turn against Nixon, and rumblings among the Chosen have already been alluded to by the very GOP-adjacent media. Talk is cheap, though; what counts are actions.
About the only strong reason I can see for putting the nomination forth now is to impress upon the Republican Senators the power and reality of his mob boss rule over them, to even further damn them into irrecoverable complicity in his crimes and guarantee their future defense of him as the only important part of their own self defense. And he may feel a need to do that at a time when his absolute power really is waning.
I'm not confident that Blanche can be denied confirmation. But that denial, whether it happens or not, might just turn out to be the critical inflection point in whether or not our country survives.
And don't forget Ghislane Maxwell.
gop lickspittles will fall in line, as sure as the sun rises in the east,
Kalshi today has 48.6 votes to confirm Blanche, and it's logical to assume a bit more arm-twisting of flabby GOP senators will push that up to 51 incl. Hillbilly's vote. This is not a Matt Gaetz troll-the-Dems nomination, it's trump's personal lawyer, mob consigliere, and chief revenge architect that he's sent up to the Senate...trump won't take NO, end of.
Agree about the importance of this nomination. Confident the GOP will once again fuck the USA
FUBAR.
This Blance interview will be interesting. If the senate confirms him - there are 4 Rs currently voting with Ds a lot - you can bet there's going to be an mighty big uproar from the people. I wouldn't want to be a R running for reelection.
The timing of this nomination puzzles me.
Primaries are largely over. Barring a few runoffs, the Republican nominees for the Senate races to be decided in November are already determined, or will be before the nomination is brought before the current Senate for a confirmation vote. To that extent, Trump no longer can threaten any of those candidates with a Trump-approved toady primary opponent as a threat to their political career. He still has leverage over their votes, but it's definitely reduced, and gets reduced even more because, absent the absolute destruction of the constitution, Trump will be out of power after the 2028 election, and the lamest of ducks before it. It will only take the defection of a few Republican Senators to kill the nomination, assuming that those few can somewhere dredge up either the shriveled remains of what might have once been a conscience, or the shreds of self-preservation that led the Watergate-era Congress to finally turn against Nixon, and rumblings among the Chosen have already been alluded to by the very GOP-adjacent media. Talk is cheap, though; what counts are actions.
About the only strong reason I can see for putting the nomination forth now is to impress upon the Republican Senators the power and reality of his mob boss rule over them, to even further damn them into irrecoverable complicity in his crimes and guarantee their future defense of him as the only important part of their own self defense. And he may feel a need to do that at a time when his absolute power really is waning.
I'm not confident that Blanche can be denied confirmation. But that denial, whether it happens or not, might just turn out to be the critical inflection point in whether or not our country survives.