wonderingwanderer

It’s not everyday you get an opportunity to have your name put on a wikipedia page with people from the 1st century…

When was the last time somebody was excommunicated? Did they deserve it as much as he does?

I honestly don’t get the reference, but it sounds like something they would do…

They should bring back excommunication just for him.

You mean to say one cannot simply throw away the SIM like in super-sleuth films?

“Bro, I’ll deport your wife if you deport mine”

Like when they played “Born in the USA” at a “patriot” rally…

No, the DNC was too intent on taking the high ground and proving that they’re not like maga. They fell into the trap that had been laid. Maga spouts nonsensical accusations, most of which are projection, so that once it comes to light that they’re doing the thing, nobody is willing to accuse them because they already made it sound insane.

They’ve done this about many things, and it’s unnerving how effective it has been. “Weaponization of government,” “targeted political prosecutions,” etc.

Now when you call it out they say “You didn’t mind when your side did it.” That’s because the other side wasn’t even doing it to begin with!

They effectively created the “both sides” -ism, because it obfuscates all the ways in which they’re demonstrably worse.

Except this time there’s actually some evidence of tampering worth looking into, and there’s been no investigation. Whereas investigations were conducted last time and there was no evidence.

Election data was uploaded over starlink, and Elon Musk bragged about winning the election for trump. He also openly paid people to vote republican.

And there were some weird requirements in some districts for wifi-enabled surge protectors, whatever that was about.

And Dominion voting machines were bought by a trump sycophant.

And there were multiple districts in swing states that voted blue down the ballot except for the presidential election.

All in all, these are anomalies at least worth investigating, especially since some bs claims of fraud warranted investigations in 2020. But no, there was no investigation in 2024.

So you’re saying “there’s no proof,” but how would there be “proof” if an investigation was never conducted?

It would have been nice if they had published this before the election. It might have made a difference.

I kept trying to tell people Biden’s policies were intelligent, but it would take time to see the quantifiable result. It’s hard to cite sources that haven’t been published yet. Science moves too slow to keep up with a four-year electoral cycle.

And now all this progress will be undone and worse due to anti-intellectualism taking the helm. Typical…

In essence, I agree with you. Perhaps that just means that all capitalism is crony capitalism. It’s not that big of a distinction to my mind.

And yes, I too would much prefer an economy that’s planned for the good of the common person. Why does that feel more like a pipe dream with each passing day?

Some capitalists might argue on ideological grounds that government intervention is not a truly free market (although none would turn down government funds if offered, because they’ve sold their souls to the infinite pursuit of greed).

In reality though, most modern capitalism is crony capitalism. So the distinction loses meaning.

Cronyism implies someone with their hands on the levers of power pulling them to help their friends/accomplices, which this certainly is an example of.

tRump hands out favors to anyone who bows to him. It’s cronyism.

Cronyism. They always say “There’s no money for that” when it comes to helping people who need it, but as soon as it comes to helping their rich friends or building monstrosities of vanity, suddenly they find the money for it.

At this point, ordinary income-earners in america should just stop paying taxes, because they’ll never see that money come back to help them in anyway. It’s all getting funneled directly to the rich, who also happen to be receiving enormous tax cuts.

It’s stealing from the poor to give to the rich…

I wonder how many staff members are Hispanic immigrants. Is ICE just gonna save those for last because they’re changing their sheets for them, and round them all up the morning before they move on to somewhere else?