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No worries. I've never played a ttrpg, just have a passing interest and thought I'd ask. Cheers!

Is this a body-swap thing, or just the players having to play different characters?

Trump, and a large portion of the US electorate, don't understand soft power. The idea of propping others up helps yourself; of graciously taking a back seat in one area to strengthen your position in another. It's fucking infuriating, and it's going to have ramifications long after Trump joins Kissinger.

You counted 21, but that didn't include Alaska and Hawaii. That's how OP got 23 states / 46 senators.

"Cluster headaches"

Sitting in my closet, rocking back and forth waiting for it to be over. Exactly the same, I told my wife afterwards "If I'd had an ice pick, I would have shoved it through my eye."

Alaska and Hawaii.

In before: AG Ken Paxton!

Trump nominated Jay Clayton for the spot yesterday.

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/privacy-and-data-security/trump-taps-his-former-sec-chair-jay-clayton-to-lead-sdny

A distant family member of mine was (is) a Marine, and made it to Drill Instructor before the effects of his PTSD from 3 tours and a TBI became too much (ie he basically had a psychotic break) and he medically retired.

After he got out, he and I talked about it one time. He told me that he'd had a lot of trauma growing up and was fairly bigoted when he first went in. But that after a while he couldn't care less about someone's sex, gender, race, religion, etc (at least as far as the people who had joined; he admits civilians are still a tough thing for him), because when you're in the suck, none of that matters. The only thing he cared about is whether the person next to him was properly trained and willing to put their life on the line for him, just like he would for them.

It's not to piss them off, but to send a message. Just like Putin, he's going to put the screws to somebody wealthy to send the message "I did it to them, I can do it to you."

2 reasons, I would presume.

1. He doesn't want his appointees to have to deal with the questions that come up during the confirmation process, and

2. This way he can appoint the worst of the worst without worrying about Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins persuading 1 or 2 others to defect.