Makeitstop

Let's set aside the horrific implications for a moment. And let's ignore the part about deporting American citizens as a form of collective punishment.

Just reading this in the most charitable way possible, he's saying that we could let businesses sponsor the migrant workers and in doing so allow them to stay. What a clever idea, why haven't we tried that before? Oh wait, we have, they're called work visas. Too bad half your party opposes them (while the other half wants to use them as a form of indentured servitude). Not that it even matters that much when you are deporting people who are here legally anyway.

Doesn't matter what promises Trump makes (even if he had actually meant them), when ICE has an absurdly high quota to meet and free reign to deport people without due process, no paperwork will be able to keep immigrants safe. They will just continue to go for the easiest targets

Because they aren't just doing nothing, they are actively interfering.

What's wrong with the classic volcano sacrifice?

On the one hand, he could dump absolutely unthinkable resources into primary campaigns. Given the sleazy tactics he employed previously, it's safe to say that any primary fight he really threw his weight into would be brutal, dirty, and incredibly damaging to everyone involved. Even if he failed to unseat the incumbent, they would have almost certainly have a diminished war chest and a lot of additional baggage weighing them down going into the general election.

On the other hand, I am not exactly holding my breath while I wait for Musk to make good on a promise. And even if he did follow through, there's no way he would just throw the money at the campaigns and let professionals handle it. He can't resist the urge to make himself the center of attention, which can only backfire.

And third, his objection to the bill is not all that shit that it does to fuck the country, it's that it isn't cutting enough. Anyone he backs in a primary is probably going to be even worse than the incumbent. The only upside there is that the even more extreme candidate might be more likely to lose in the general election. but that's not a chance I wanna take after the last election.

They're the same IP, but they aren't the same continuity. And I wouldn't be surprised if they have the license for the show specifically and not the books.

Look at it this way, if a new Witcher game was being announced, how big of a difference would it make for it to be a spinoff of the existing games, a new adaptation of the books, or a an adaptation of the Netflix show?

Worse than irrelevant, it becomes another tool for extortion and corruption. Why do nothing for free when you can get paid to do nothing?

Are we not going to acknowledge how fucked up it is that someone was behind bars for five years before getting a trial?

While on ketamine.

The article cites a strategist who argues that bringing attention to immigration only helps Trump because immigration is his strongest issue. The unstated assumption is that sentiment on any given issue is basically static and unchanging, that you can't change minds you can only change topics.

Shot in the dark, they're doing keto in the saddest way possible.

Her argument is that they are just cutting waste. Healthcare for people who are unemployed is apparently waste. You only get healthcare if you are working a shitty low paying job for someone who got a tax cut.

It's like my dad always used to say: "The day I can't do my job drunk is the day I hand in my badge and gun."