“You are too poor for this mod, peasant”, basically.

Also, “get reparented” is some very sinister cult programming (ie brain washing) language…

Not yet. His cult only controls the House for a while yet.

If they wanted to and were willing to treat it as the emergency it is rather than insist on constitutional norms, the Biden administration and the Senate could get a LOT of things done before the fascists take the rest of the government and destroys everything good while boosting everything bad.

Fascist kakistocracy is months away and, other than a few press releases, they act like it’s business as usual.

I think you misunderstood.

democracy cannot exist with massive wealthy inequality and money equal to speech

Is supposed to be the affirmative statement afaict.

The Netherlands having low wealth inequality and not equating money with speech (or giving corporations all the rights of people but none of the responsibilities and restrictions) makes it much MORE democratic than it would otherwise be.

For fuck’s sake! Go away and take Hillary with you!

And while you’re at it, take your 1992 strategies for campaigning and legislating away. Just like you, they are not useful to the vast majority of people in the third decade of the 21st century.

He’d have a much harder time spilling blood, though.

Israel literally don’t have the capability of keeping up their genocidal campaigns at anywhere near this scale without the military and financial aid from the US.

No need to reach all the way back to the 40s when there’s a much more similar example in the early 90: Apartheid South Africa.

Israel needle to be made a pariah state like Apartheid South Africa was and their leaders tried for their many crimes against humanity UNLIKE the leaders of Apartheid South Africa.

It’s the only way that lasting peace can be a possibility.

To be fair, that was there the first time around too. People are just done pretending otherwise now, even the “we have to pretend it’s close because that’s what’s best for engagement and thus our profits” MSM and social media.

Even Hillary Clinton, the worst Dem nominee in my lifetime (I was born on the penultimate day of 82*) would have beaten him in a landslide if not for the media wagging the dog in his favor.

Granted, that they did so was partly BECAUSE of her deliberate Pied Piper strategy to make sure he was the GOP nominee, which is a stellar example of the “it’ll always be 1992” Dem leadership mentality that made her such an awful candidate.

*my exact date of birth is irrelevant, I know, but I wanted to use one of my favorite words, penultimate 😁

should be grateful" that it provides a “complex, three-dimensional take” on his life.

He must be trolling lol. The more anyone learns about Trump, the higher chance they have of absolutely loathing him.

Superficial information and lies are the only things that have ever made anyone like him or agree with him.

Those type of podcasts seem pretty easy to produce a lot of though

There’s tons of material to choose from, sure. The challenging part is listening to hours and hours and hours of Jones’ mad and frequently tedious rantings and then cut out the boring parts to make an entertaining show.

I wonder if he has a plan for when Jones suffers a massive heart attack though

Dan and Jordan have often said that they would love for the podcast to become obsolete by Jones never broadcasting anything again.

Whether they have any plans for what to do after that is less clear. Might move on to another propagandist, might make a podcast about something else entirely, might call it quits 🤷

I hope j Jed’s saved for some kind of retirement

I have no idea who that is, but sure 🤷

The one with the alpine elephants?

One of the very few Venn diagrams where Trump and Deadpool intersect.

Joke’s on you! I’m gonna live to 102 and THEN die, like the city of Detroit

Or a typo of “you’re gonna be the one that saves me”

Though that’s admittedly somewhat less likely.

If you think THAT’S bad, please spare some sympathy for Dan of the excellent Knowledge Fight podcast

At the time the electoral college was instituted, only white land owning men could vote, the majority of the population was illiterate, and only the very rich could afford to be well-versed in the affairs of state.

To compare that horse and buggy time with today’s world with near-complete literacy, mass media and widespread internet access is even more moronic than you are pretending that the electorate is.

The problem isn’t that Americans are significantly dumber than the people of other nations.

It’s that the US is one of the most propagandized nations in the world due to billionaires, hectomillionaires, their corporations, and their industry associations owning the mainstream media and the vast majority of the politicians as well as the political machines pulling the strings behind the scenes.

Revered as minor deities as they are, the Founding Fathers couldn’t have predicted the conditions 250 years into the future. Including the fact that the very mechanism they included to make sure that the constitution would be updated to fit the times, the amendment process, would become functionally impossible.

Tl;Dr: the problem isn’t people being too stupid, the problem is that the will of the people has been overruled by organized corruption and propaganda.

are they saying that the ECOA gives the FTC the power to challenge companies that discriminate by not giving credit to minorities, but not the power to challenge companies that discriminate by giving bad credit terms to minorities?

Probably, yeah. It’s clear that they rely on their voters not paying attention to what they say and do.

The corporations and industries they ACTUALLY work for don’t care as long as they avoid or at least delay accountability for them, after all, so they have no incentive to even TRY to make sense.

The lawmakers added that while the FTC is in charge of enforcing the 1974 Equal Credit Opportunity Act, “that authority to challenge conduct under the ECOA does not accordingly permit the FTC to separately challenge conduct as ‘unfair discrimination’ pursuant to the FTC Act.”

As the late Antonin Scalia (may he roast in piss) would have said: pure applesauce.

This isn’t the NSA snooping on your private conversations because it’s a day ending in a y.

This is a search for corroborating evidence against someone credibly accused of inciting a fucking insurrection done with reasonable suspicion, court order, the works.

As for the “gag order” part, Trump is known to routinely delete evidence and there’s no doubt that Musk would warn him to do so if it didn’t put himself in legal jeopardy.

Tl;Dr: you’re comparing apples and hand grenades.

When in fact the only reason why they still win any elections is because of their extremely effective messaging (read: gaslighting people already in the echo chamber) of absolutely radioactive hippo diarrhea.

You’d think that the Speaker of the House would know what the word EMERGENCY means 🤦🤬