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The famous story of how they got al capone for tax evasion, which is always used to talk about how al capone should be released, and not to convey that you shouldn't do tax evasion.

If you want to defend the dem decision to just ignore trump criminal conviction on the merits, just do that instead of doing a bunch of bullshit "stop criticizing them and promote them" bullshit first.

You are complaining about the possible election result in 2024.

I am telling you that the president of the United States has way more influence when he fucks up messaging then when I post "biden has fucked up messaging" on bluesky.

Look if Praire is advocating that the entire DNC budget be given to me personally to do what I think is the best messaging with, I'm down for sure.

But I suspect he just means "stop posting things on bluesky I don't like" which is not likely to be as election changing as he thinks.

Lord Businessman, you are obviously incorrect.

Fraudelent records are no big deal. A big deal is when someone shoplifts from Walgreens.

Imagine taking a moment of grace for a war criminal because she didn't get to be president of the United States instead of the billions of people who need that moment of grace more, hundreds of millions of whom she personally made life worse for.

What if you considered that politicians with billions of dollars of campaign spending and also sometimes being the actual president of the United States are actually the ones who keep making themselves lose elections with bad messaging, and not bluesky posters criticizing their messaging.

Because he doesn't have billions of dollars and national media attention, you fucking moron.

I think it's actually an outgrowth of years of Mueller posting.

Now any criticism of garland is functionally saying that the AG's office is political and prosecutions are political.

Which would make all the Mueller posting really stupid! So it must be that the AGs office is competent and indep

Oh god yes.

All her posts are about how there must be a 300 year long investigation before you charge rich people with crimes and its impossible to just file.

I said "if you think that's true, then it sounds like you are saying we live in a dictatorship and violence is the only solution."

got banned for advocating violence. look I'm not going to cry tears if someone shoots alito, but I was saying congress could pack the court and we don't need violence!

You looked great and you really pull it off, but now I'm suddenly extremely self conscious of what I look like with a backpack on.

Goddam autocorrect!

"Putin"

Is outin even a word?

Calling the gop fascists since I was in middle school during the 2000 election.

I don't need Hillary Clinton taking credit for this shit.

Oh god yes "Hillary Clinton was right about everything"

Was she right about foreign policy?

Well she said outin is bad! Okay. Great. A real fucking genius. I definitely needed Hillary Clinton's 2012 condemnation of putin to know he was bad.

This "gop are fascists" shit is like that.

I've been

If you get the reference, it's very substantive. He's criticizing her for saying "It exists just off screen" about obviously fake shit.

It's also weird because the thing Garland is being criticized for sitting on his dick about is january 6th stuff.

I'm sure Bill Barr tried really hard to slow down the January 6th prosecution for 14 days. But Garland took office shortly thereafter, so it was only like a month of delay from Barr.

The part where you spend all your time talking about Merrick Garland's dick and the sacred principle of not dick mentioning sort of gives the lie to your pretend concern about Bill Barr cover ups.

No one is covering up for Bill Barr here, which is the reason you have to performatively dick post.

I simply got banned for "advocating violence" against a politician, shortly after getting an account here.

(Bullshit too, if I knew they were going to treat my non threat as a threat, I would have at least said something deserving it.)

I think the point is "community input" is when the people who are real mad about it show up.

Whereas this would be a randomly selected panel of paid residents drafted to review a proposal. So you get people who want housing instead of just people who have it and hate buildings.

good idea. I would love that compared to what we have now.

Obviously it's silly to say "they respect the rule of law so long as it isn't enforced against them" but also, separately:

Who the fuck in 2024 thinks the GOP has even the faintest recognition or care about "the rule of law."

As a cis child of a "betrayed" parent even when only their side is portrayed from the trans panic parents in media, I still instantly respond by calling bullshit. It's so similar.

Can't put policies on your website if you have no policies!

Wow, thank god the Chair of the Judiciary who big footed his way into that postion specifically to stop the SC from facing an accountability thinks there should totally be a solution that someone else should do while he keeps not doing anything.

Joe Biden: I'd personally shoot them all dead myself. I'm not sure what this proves related to the subject but I like to fantasize about it.

Bill Maher isn't thoughtful about anything.

Just pure reactionary responses to everything his entire life.

Doesnt sound very history and tradition of him!

There was also his past leaking of opinions to his allies, which have openly stated that he does that for them.

Not conclusive evidence that it was him, but it's more evidence then any other person.

Luckily a little under 50% of justices are unwilling to pick their replacement and will die in office.

Unfortunately, they are all democrats.

I mean surely the answer is that a fuck off huge event happened to create new expectations?

To prove it was media and not covid, surely you'd have to also show that the media wasn't doing the same shit in 2015 or whatever, which I've never seen anyone even try to prove.

Today I experienced a real Colorism when a lighter skinned black woman saw me in my completely convincing blackface of a dark complexion and said "you disgusting fucking asshole, you should feel ashamed of yourself."

Truly what does this mean about Colorism.

This pushed the Gamestock people off the bonus episode didn't it?

It's the podcast lady!

It's may and biden will see them all dead before November unless people in the democratic party start standing up to him now.

I mean you can say what you want about "killmonger was right" people at least they exist.

Who was ever doing "bane was right" posts?

This is a really interesting response because biden giving lots of weapons to Russia would be basically indistinguishable from the thing he's actually doing.

issues for each one.

Promising to totally deport all the immigrants and close the border is going to appeal to about as many of them as it turns off. You don't get their vote by swining right, you get their vote by winning a vibes competition with the other guy.

But yeah, I think the most important thing about swing voters is that every one of them that even has coherent policy positions is like "I think I have the right to shoot the police in the face and want to defund them, but also, I hate gay people and want them arrested" but for completely different

I think enthusiaism gap voters are actually way more then swing voters nationally, but I also don't think that necessarily follows in the 3 states that will actually matter in the election.

This is such a weird list of people.

Like, literally what the fuck.

Wow, sure seems like when America "breaks the rules" it indicates that it isn't defending "the free world."

Almost like "the free world" is just a name for the ingroup which laws must protect but not bind, to distinguish it from the outgroup that the laws must bind but not protect.

And less respect, every time a cop shoots a protestor ill give the cops a million more dollars, I fired my chief of staff because he wanted to pass good bills and the donors didn't like it." Ect.

It also helped biden so much that he wasn't president so they could imagine the presidency he lied about "public option, competence, international respect, no kids in cages!" Instead of being faced with his actual presidency of "why won't the gop help me deport all these refugees? More genocides

You did not understand the post you were replying to.

It was not a call to never do infrastructure bills. It was a call to do good things even when you don't get credit for them.

Me seeing a guy getting stabbed, taking the knife away from the attacker, stabbing the victim some more with the knife I now have: I didn't invent stabbing this dude.

I think maybe RFK in 2000 you could find some, but I feel like he's learned who is actually likely to vote for him (anti vac right wingers) and adopted all their positions he didn't already have to make sure not to scare them away.