Used to think there's no way Epstein was dumb enough to keep detailed records, but the longer they fight this the more I think there must be something there, and it must be so catastrophic it's impossible to cleanly edit it out. They've certainly had plenty of time...

Is there another candidate offering these policies and ideals?

Like, I get it, there's plenty of time to find another option, and the folk of Maine probably should, but people might be sticking with Platner because Mills isn't offering the same things.

These people made some computers agree with whatever they say, and now they've let those computers drive them mad.

I dunno, if I were the Republicans, "the President wasn't quite aware of everything so everything he signed is null and void" is not a precedent I think they'd wanna set....

Counterpoint: Dismantle the organization, investigate any and all violations of rights, and prosecute to the fullest extent the law allows. Salt the earth and warn away anyone who tries it again

And we're gonna get there by gutting Medicaid, Medicare, the VA, the ACA, the CDC, HHS, and obliterating all science and research funding...

They're so bad. They're so, SO bad at pretending to know what the fuck they're doing.

The America that emerges from this moment, one way or another, will not resemble the America we've known in our lifetimes.

A ham sandwich could do a better job than Musk

Hey America - just a thought here...what if we just got rid of this Medicare Medicaid ACA marketplace fight altogether. Let's just do a government-run universal healthcare and we just never ever have to hear another argument out of these ghouls about it again.

"Palpable dread" over Mamdani, but armed masked unidentified thugs disappearing anyone they feel like with no due process?

These people are not to be taken seriously. Shame we give them all guns and nearly unchecked power

All it took to turn the media into a fascism-consent-factory was some Conservatives calling them "left-leaning" for a couple decades. Too afraid of bad-faith claims of bias to actually defend the fucking truth.

Political arsonist. Nothing he won't sacrifice to avoid even the slightest compromise. "Give me 100% of what I asked for or I'll burn it all down".

Why do we want a Qatari air base in Idaho? Why does Qatar want an air base in Idaho?! What strategic objectives does this enable for them?What targets does Qatar need to strike that they can reach from Idaho but not Qatar?

War powers should never have been abdicated to the President, and the slow creep of "limited strikes", "enforcement operations" and other cover-terms for military action has allowed the Executive to steal power that should've stayed with the People. Fear it's too late to claw it back now

Altogether way too much of "I didn't see it/I haven't read it". What the hell are these politicians doing that they're not seeing, hearing, or reading what the administration is doing? Stop letting them use that as a deflection, it's obviously untrue!

"All these things we were already doing, well now we can blame Democrats for it, they're bad! Reopen the government so we can continue doing the bad things tho plz"

Look, I want my soldiers to be prepared for war. It's why we hire and train them, they protect our nation and I'm glad they do. But "the only people who deserve peace..."?! Fuck no, everyone that lives a life of peace *deserves* peace. Everyone.

This is what we're spending our tax dollars on instead of universal healthcare, universal day care, green energy, public transit, higher education - just robbing the American people blind so some cops can hang out on a street corner and try to kidnap anyone they feel like...

Also, where are the voices in our leadership calling out just how blatantly insane "war-ravaged" is? His justification for doing this is just unhinged ranting lies. We shouldn't be deploying military resources based on unhinged lies, it makes us less safe.

Hell, maybe they sell Bioware to a studio who actually gives a shit about RPGs. Stranger things have happened...

not what the meme's saying. Of all the imprisoned people in the world, 22% are imprisoned in the US (2024 numbers are actually more like 16%) - for context, the US has around 4.5% of the world's population. The US imprison more people than China, they have 4x more people than US.

One wonders if, when faced with a threat by the admin, what would've happened to Disney's share price and Disney+ sub numbers had they said "we're going to fight this threat to free speech, and we could use your support"

Ah yes, the Anti-ICE shooter whose tactic was very cleverly not shooting any ICE personnel and only victims of ICE.

There's a large portion of the political consulting class getting rich off of selling losing strategies to the Democratic party again and again. Given the evidence, it's past time to consider that this is not incompetence, perhaps it's malice. A deliberate strategy by the right to subvert the Dems.

How likely is the H1-B visa fee to go into effect? Gonna impact a lot of folks in my sector...

Really, really great job on the part of the "Let's wait and see" crowd. Absolutely batshit braindead reasoning there...

It's always "what if instead of any actual principles, we just run as Republican-lite?" and then shock when people choose full-octane Republicans instead. A party that stands for nothing appeals to nobody.

A company whose product has been shown multiple times this year alone to be deeply open to manipulation by the owner is STILL valued this high...should tell you something about what the investors are hoping to use it for....

They control SO MUCH media, it doesn't seem like it'd be hard to paint a picture of themselves standing up for the First Amendment against an authoritarian overreach

This doesn't even seem hard. Tell people you're gonna fight for American principles, all ABC content available on a free tier of Disney+ with ads in case they yank the broadcast license, rake in subscriptions, keep the ad money, look like American heroes.