I am shocked and appalled… Wait not “shocked”… What’s the word? Oh yeah “completely unsurprised.”

The Tate brothers thing was a bizarre one though. Soon as they landed in Florida they were being investigated again by US authorities and then they immediately hopped on a plane back to Romania.

From when he first came into office he was talking about “Lying CNN” on the official Whitehouse website. I think it was cooked long before this.

As long as we classify “TDS” as people who wallpaper their whole house in Trump election signs

This is why settlements are bullshit. Companies get away with stuff all the time just by paying off whoever sued them.

The difference is that ignorance can be remedied. If they were just evil for evil’s sake then that’s it, might as well give up now.

It’s not the consequences for them I’m worried about, it’s the consequences for all of us if we give in to this dumb “they’re just plain evil and the only way to win is to physically fight them” mentality.

Ignorant is not the same as evil. Ignorance can be fixed. It’s easier to just write people off but it doesn’t solve anything unless you’re really eager for another civil war.

I mean it has the same incentives. Try to ask something that goes against the group ethos and you’ll get downvoted to hell pretty quickly. Not quite as bad as Reddit I’ll agree.

It’s frightening how many people on “our” side are willing to simply believe that half the country is irredeemably evil by nature and not just taken in by a smooth talking conman after having been abused by the system for decades.

Great Trump will be celebrating our withdrawal from our neighbors all day. The best thing that can happen to him is for us to keep yelling “you’re evil” at half the country. It just reinforces his position with every cry of hate.

Are there some actual ideological Nazis following Trump? Of course. But the vast majority is just sick and tired of the status quo that does nothing for them. And as a result they got taken in by a huckster politician.

You write of half the country a just basically evil by nature and you’re playing his game for him.

3. They are purposefully sowing more confusion. All the chaos being a smokescreen to hide the obvious fact that they have both hands in the public coffers and are grabbing what they can.

Americans will sign up for any crazy scheme that drains their wallets as long as you don’t call it “paying a tax for public access to healthcare”

You’re right, but to be honest I would not have thought the slide to authoritarianism would go this fast. We still have to see of course who will win the legal battles, the courts or Trump, but it’s not looking great.

Probably should consider moving the foundation to the EU or at least somewhere not so hostile to fact based information services.

Fair, although I don’t think he gives a damn about them either.

I doubt Trump gives a damn what happens to the US so long as he can profit in the short term.

Unfortunately they won’t care. By the time you can explain they’re 5 scandals along. Trump just has to scream bloody murder about something else every day. Reality is irrelevant.

Get out of here with your woke straws. If it isn’t guaranteed to kill a dolphin every time I take a drink I don’t want any part of it.

One of our most important institutions. I worry they’re going to be the first against the wall.

We can parade around and yell “we told you so” or we can welcome anyone who wants to add to the resistance. It’s up to us. That said, I don’t know if WSJ will ever be of any meaningful value to the resistance.