I tend to agree. Nothing seems to touch trump…on top of that there’s no move to prosecute him for anything. He has no fear of prosecution thanks to the captured judicial branch and spineless authorities. So this whole “war to distract from the files” idea really falls flat. War to keep escalating and look for reasons to not step down as president or cancel midterms? Absolutely.

But Epstein…? Probably not even on the radar. His family dgaf, his supporters barely twitched, and trump just keeps going.

Trump is just swinging blindly like those dementia-afflicted old people that are angry and lash out at everything who see conspiracies everywhere. The imagined “The nurse’s aid in the care home stole my socks” is now “The Iranians are threatening my ego” or some other imagined momentary fit of pique.

Yeah, this. A half century of playing power games at the expense of the people. Not just him, but all the dems as they’ve slid further right. Too many of them content to play power games at the expense of the country, letting us argue over pronouns, bathrooms, and crosswalks while they quietly take a knee their corporate benefactors. Utter failure to shore up protections against trump even after it was painfully obvious that people like him were going to get elected.

Yeah, Joe did do some decent things, same as Obama, but both of them were the failed barriers that allowed the Right to be the fascists they are now, particularly by letting McConnel and the republicans to prevent nominations to the Supreme Court, essentially capturing the judicial branch and taking trump’s leash off.

Desk? If anything a low table or directly on the floor.

Make it all conformity and make it easy to exclude others.

Why is he wearing Templar tabard? The Templars were barely restrained religious fanatics that hoarded wealth and placed themselves above those around them…oh. So incel republicans?

Are you arguing about the use of “resurfaced” instead of the blatant hypocrisy?

It was buried under the tsunami of bullshit trump, the republicans, ICE, and all the rest have been generating.

Yes, “resurfaced” is correct terminology and usage in this case.

No doubt.

What will democrats do to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory regarding this?

It’s almost self-reinforcing poverty. You can have one person stay home and take care of the kid(s) and lose the income, or you can give what amounts to an entire year’s wages to the daycare to take care of the kid while you work full time. Some may be able to squeeze some part time work in if they’re lucky enough to find a job that doesn’t try to make them work shifts outside of daycare hours. Some day care is raising your kids for you as a bonus, they start off life without you around much.

Only a matter of time before the combined stupidity of AI and human laziness result in someone just believing that nuclear war can be winnable.

Yeah, this isn’t cheap at all. It’s either a huge chunk of money up front or you have to uproot and move your family only taking what you can afford to the next country, a huge upheaval, with probably no support network at all where you move to. Ans that’s just residency, you’re not a citizen until you’ve put in years and meet whatever citizenship requirements.

The flood of troll farm misinformation and lies by both China and Russia as well as right wing ownership of MSM all aided in trump’s rise. Yeah, our shitty electoral college that is DEI for mostly empty States handed trump the win.

You might be one of the lucky ones that got it and had zero effects. My kid got it and my other half took a test too to see if she had it. She did, and had absolutely no symptoms other than feeling a little tired. Hard to believe after so many years nobody in your family got it, but I suppose it’s possible.

They’ll just blame the protesters/liberals. “Look what you made him do!”

Maybe AI/LLM being programmed by self-serving interests has bled through to the “thought” process. Do unto others before they do unto you.

Easily won war = decade-long conflict.

You are absolutely right.

Or maybe people that have unhealthy lifestyles that generally might include more foods or living conditions more susceptible to microplastics intake. IOW more plastics packaged foods and drinks, living near roadways where tire particles and exhaust both add to poor health and stress, etc.

Thank you for your service. Critical personnel like power and other utilities, medical and the rest that keep the lights on and save lives are undervalued.

Too bougie of me.