If this country ever gets past this (big if), we are going to need a bevy of new laws, if not an entirely new Constitution.

Regarding this topic, either no pardons, or a much stricter review process that does not allow open abuse like this.

A distraction? Are you for real? This is serious shit too.

You really know that you’re representing your constituents, when your bosses tell you not to fucking talk to them.

They are going to wait as long as they possibly can before “officially” announcing it so it’s more difficult to stop. Meanwhile, until then, they will just do everything that they would be doing had they already announced.

It is if you educate them properly.

Meanwhile, I just came from a thread about Musk calling for crackdowns on anti-Tesla protests because a woman pointed at a Cyber Truck.

Whoever told you that is your enemy

Ok… And? I can demonstrate it, they cannot.

Because they invariably never clean up after themselves…

But mostly, in the US, because sex is verboten and more dangerous than literal gun violence.

And how apropos for it to happen under the Narcissist-in-Chief.

Assuming we have social sciences in the future, scholars will study this pathology of these people for decades to come.

Sounds like you just don’t like having your beliefs challenged.

Good luck with… life I guess.

For sure.

The information is there. I’ve had no problem keeping informed. It has been a drain on my mental health, but it’s very doable.

Just stay away from bullshit social media, first and foremost.

My only (possibly last?) hope is that, if he begins some kind of invasion, that it’s over whatever line that our military leaders have drawn in the sand in terms of obeying unlawful orders, and they refuse.

I’m not optimistic.

Put simply: Chutzpah has more of a positive connotation, while hubris is almost always negative.

Maybe two reasons: They don’t have psychotic, chaos-breeding fascists running their country.

It’ll be fixed

Dude straight up just says it and nobody gives a fuck.

I honestly think it will be this.

It’s because people had the nerve to make them feel stupid by telling them something they didn’t know or were previously wrong about.

They showed us.

No, they cannot fund themselves because of corruption, and lack of funding and will (and competent governance) to fix it.