What are you talking about? She doesn’t even trade stocks. She was one of the reps trying to ban trading.

How is telling a staffer to get out of her fucking shot supposed to be a serious political issue? That’s so mild.

If only the courts could actually respond to major governmental overreach in a timely manner the general public wouldn’t have $166B stolen from them. They somehow always defer to just letting the administration do the thing even when it’s a major change and doing so causes injury to regular people who cannot recoup it.

This could have been quashed in May 2025 when the lower courts ruled against an obviously unconstitutional usurpation of the power to lay tariffs. Instead they stayed the ruling at each appeal and waited until the Supreme Court found the exact same result as every lower court in December. And that was them moving quickly.

These seem totally inadequate. According to the Department of Agriculture, a complete meal is supposed to be “a piece of chicken, a piece of broccoli, a corn tortilla and… one other thing”.

Your argument would have merit if these were simply amenities provided to all tourists, because they all pay the same fees. They don’t give Swifties free transportation. Or a real “regular guy” traveling to the city to actually visit the city. If FIFA wants a special perk for their attendees they should use some of their profits to purchase it.

Why would host cities be expected to give a freebie to fans for a for profit event? Do they do it for Taylor Swift concerts? For Superbowl attendees? If tourists or the event organizers aren’t paying for their rides, the residents are. Cities should stop doing what’s expected by for-profit companies and start doing what’s good for their people.

So he’s going to recuse himself from all future cases involving progressive groups, right?

The old timers have been itching to go mask off fash for so long. They could just maintain the illusion of judicial objectivity for a couple more years and be more effective to their rotten cause, but this guy has been floating around social events with Heritage ghouls for decades now and he wants to be free to join in with his friends.

Not punishing them hasn’t worked. Two Democratic administrations have decided that the people unjustly wielding government for self-enrichment, bigotry, and war no longer being in power had solved the problem and we shouldn’t get distracted with the past. And now we’re once again in a war in the Middle East for political purposes and seeing corruption and bigotry flourish. With some of the exact same characters and a whole new cast freshly emboldened because they think nothing they do holds any risk. And they’re using the powers built up during those prior sprees that were never dismantled to enact their goals.

That’s worked so well every other time we’ve removed criminals from power and just decided to move on and put the past behind us. When there are no consequences for corrupt use of power, you might as well take your shot and take what you can. The worst it ends is you just going back into private society and living the same life you would be otherwise. And then the next generation of fascists, warmongers, and corrupt officials see it and plan their path.

I just want you to know, I’m downvoting you for your thorns, not your opinion.

I feel like that’s kind of the core of the birth rate panics across the whole age spectrum by the billionaires. None of these fuckers think 20 years in advance to care about a smaller future workforce, but what a low birthdate impacts immediately is the financial solvency of those potential childrearing parents. Fewer and later births means one fewer pressure they can use to exploit workers.

Why the fuck would anyone care about that?

People who compare Biden to Clinton and Harris and see gender as the difference are missing the much more obvious difference in that Trump was the (chaotic) status quo. Every election except for Obama 2 has been a “this sucks, do something else”. Biden won, because he was something else, but he didn’t do nearly as well as he should have and he was cruising for a loss in 2024 even before his brain leaked live on stage.

And while that would point toward better odds for an uninspiring moderate, I do expect we’ll be in danger of vote suppression and manipulation and can’t trust simple “change” to push literally anyone over the finish line.

I think there are a large percentage of those people. I think they’re all MAGA though. There’s close to zero cost from anyone that would vote for Democrats though.

Charisma and policy are the two tent poles. Put someone up who has the charisma to navigate gotcha questions and policy that makes people think their lives will improve if they’re elected. Oh, and don’t do absolutely repugnant things like support genocide.

Identity is a flavoring at most. We know that because Barrack Hussein Obama was the best performing Democratic candidate in decades.

Polling published by Pew that was conducted last year similarly puts the number at 41% (including those who self-identify as “Lean Democrat”, “No Lean/Refused”, “Lean Republican”), while Gallup data puts the percentage of Americans who identify as Republican-leaning independents, non-leaning independents and Democratic-leaning independents at 45%, which the company said was a “new high”.

Bernie Sanders is a “Democratic-leaning independent”. “Independent” is not a synonym for “centrist”.

Yeah. Mackenzie Bezos inherited her fat stacks and she’s been dropping like a stone on the wealth rankings. Inherent in the state of being a billionaire is having more money than you could ever need and not using it to help others.

Reprieve found that only 23 of those killed had links to terror organisations.

There was a link. They were killed by one.

Press photography does not need to be flattering. It can also be framed to tell a story.

If it “works” it’ll be in being applied selectively. They can not apply it in red zip codes and apply it in blue ones, aided by whatever voter database Republicans build. Say some sort of grandfather clause where certain types of existing voters (like those whose grandfathers were all voters) didn’t need to reapply.

If anything, the more he leans on them the less they do his bidding. They’re all part of the same fascist project, but some of them want to do it the old way where they pretend to be serious people doing a job. Their words often end up as legal nonsense, but they’ve gone through the motions and formatted it as if they were professional. Trump showing up to stare them down is an insult to their pride.