I guess, but that’s not why this is news, is it?

Theoretically. I doubt he would. Still, even in that case he has to make a significant time investment. I could reasonably be called an expert in my chosen field but I’d still be justifiably angry with you if you intentionally made me use the skills I’ve learned in my field under threat of financial or other legal repercussions.

Sure, but you shouldn’t have to. Your response makes it sound like the person who appears to be getting money stolen from them is acting unreasonably when they are most certainly not the party acting that way.

I don’t think anyone can do anything without fear of prosecution anymore. That’s a big part of this administrations strategy. Merit of a lawsuit has no bearing on the situation if it costs you hundreds of thousands of dollars to prove your innocence.

Go back in time and release the list during the 4 years that Biden was in charge of the DOJ. They had their chance to be open about this case and they did functionally the same shit Trump is doing here.

Is that why we’re gutting science funding and actively encouraging all our scientists and engineers to flee the country?

They can pay taxes too

Liberals are what passes for the left here, yes.

but he’s gonna find the left isn’t quite as stupid as he thinks.

I wish I shared your optimism. Nothing in my experience of life tells me that betting on the left, especially their elected representatives, to not do something stupid is a good plan.

We’re still accelerating towards the cliff. Mitigation starts with taking our collective foot off the gas, both literally and metaphorically, but that is so far out of the realm of possibility that we might as well be talking about actual magic.

Keep hiding then. I’m sure that will work out great

Russia can’t even fully exploit their neighbor. What the fuck are they going to do to the whole world?

You’re not wrong but everyone seems to think that’s someone else’s job. We’re not going to see actual change until people like you and I start fixing pipes ourselves.

The logic is “I hate my job so you have to hate whatever you spend most of your time doing too”. It makes sense if you think life is supposed to be hard but it seems like the obvious solution is to make life easier for everyone rather than harder for those who have trouble participating in our dumb economic system.

Oh, well in that case it’s a totally reasonable and very much not insane rule. /s

What does it mean to own this result? Getting voted out of congress, which is more than most are likely to get, ends with a cushy corporate job and at least hundreds of thousands more dollars than the people they are fucking over. Even in the best case scenario accountability is a fantasy.

You’re arguing from an informed and logical perspective. That’s not how modern elections work in the US. Voters didn’t know or care that inflation was worse in other places. They knew they were getting fucked in a back alley and Biden wasn’t helping them put their pants back on. That’s really all there is to it.

What was inflation like during Biden’s presidency? I agree that Biden did some good things but framing him as fantastic is a bit much, especially to the average person who doesn’t give a shit about most of the stuff he did. American voters are supremely selfish and Biden didn’t do much for them, at least not in an immediately visible way which is what he needed to do.

Just look at what’s happening now. There’s tons of bad things happening currently that I would call highly visible and polls consistently show that most Americans have no idea that any of it is going on. Biden made some solid efforts but almost none of it spoke to people on a personal level and that was his big failure. He thought Americans were paying attention when he needed to go out and grab their attention.

Maybe keeping in a geriatric neoliberal long enough to skip a primary and force a candidate no one voted for down our throats wasn’t the best choice. Obviously Trump is worse than Harris but if the goal was to drive turnout then the Dems behavior pre-election is about the worst possible strategy I could think of.

They won’t because we are a nation of idiots