My understanding is that the mayor of Miami-Dade County is far more powerful than the mayor of the city of Miami.

A cheap but fun 45 seconds of entertainment is to tell it something insane that just happened, have it fight you that it’s not possible for such a thing to occur, and then turn on web search and ask again.

You’d hope that eventually politicians will realize that running on unspecified “affordability” in opposition is becoming a perpetual dog-catching-the-car situation when they win on that message.

Especially considering what a total disaster that election is turning into without a clear, vetted frontrunner!

Every few months I randomly remember one of the thousands of weird ideas he had on his campaign website.

There have been multiple incidents this year that were also feared to be predicates of a totalitarian crackdown, and the administration was either unable or unwilling to exploit them to that end.

I’ve also seen people saying “it could be someone we haven’t even thought of yet”, but there really aren’t politicians with serious presidential ambitions who can be *unknown* in the same way in the age of social media.

Pension eligibility kicks in at five years, I think, so she’s getting there by two days.

It certainly feels different than previous scandals in terms of how he’s reacting. It’s always bluster, but there’s no confidence to it this time.