So wouldn’t the fees be proportional to the price? The added taxes on a tiny cheap holiday home would be cheap too.

Sure they do. Look at all of the posts from my neighbors on Facebook and Nextdoor every time a developer tries to build an apartment building instead of a single family home in our neighborhood.

Usually rich people get out of stuff by hiring smart lawyers and listening to what they say, though.

No, but honestly I wasn’t expecting them to vote to impeach one of their own in the first place.

How did that happen?

Trump can do whatever he wants.

He’s never once listened to his lawyers before. Why would he do so now?

I agree with you, but politics is complicated. If she felt like continuing to fight for nuclear at that time would be unpopular, it might not have been worth it. It probably would have made it impossible to achieve other goals.

But the Supreme Court is part of the whole system of appeals courts. They all have lifetime appointments. It makes no sense. You’d just be giving regional judges more power and the country would have even more stark divided across state lines.

So do you throw out the whole appeals court system? Or just the Supreme Court?

That’s ridiculous, Feinstein is clearly far more gone.

The issue isn’t her replacement, it’s that Dems would lose control of all of the committees she’s on.

I don’t believe for one second that Democrats and Republicans are the same or equally corrupt.

In this case, though, it does seem like they’re both playing the same stupid game due to their own seniority rules.

Here’s the difference.

The Democrats are diverse. You’ve got some true believers who want universal basic income and free medicare for all. You’ve got right-leaning centrists who want lower taxes and less regulation, but they’re not as socially conservative as Republicans. You’ve got some who vote their conscience, and others who are corrupt. It’s difficult to get them all to agree, but when they find common ground, their ideas are generally pretty popular with the people (Obamacare, the Infrastructure deal, etc.).

The Republicans have no platform. They have no plan. They have no consistent views. They have no desire to govern constructively whatsoever. The very few things they can agree on and get done, like conservative judges and banning abortion, are extremely unpopular and set the country back.

You really think there’s no difference between the two parties? The difference has never been larger, ever.

Some of the many things that surprised me:

• They want to try all 19 at once
• They want the trial within 6 months

This may be the most significant indictment, because the president can’t pardon a state crime.

I think there are two distinct groups of people:

About half of Trump supporters just love him. They share some of the same personality traits. They believe in conspiracy theories. They’re mad at the world. They want to “own the libs”. They’re not very educated, they’re very tribal.

The other half do not like his personality at all, but they don’t care because he’s effective and they like his policies. He’s a means to an end. These are the ones that are hurting the country so much more. They know that he’s destroying the political system and they don’t care, because they’ll get what they want. They support Trump over DeSantis not because they like Trump as a person, but because they think Trump has the best chance of winning.

I don’t buy that argument. That would only make sense if Republican voters actually care about “dirt” and would not vote for a politician who was tainted. But obviously we know that’s not the case. Republicans who have been accused of everything from embezzling money to grooming children have done just as well in their elections, because their voters would still prefer a crooked Republican over the most saintly Democrat.