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The consensus answer will be relevant to my interests.

I don't care about the points. I'd like the drive-by magas to stop for a discussion sometime.

Seems like a case of good cop / bad cop. The democrats drag their feet on actually doing anything til the end of their term and then just a few months later the republicans work to undo it.

Oh yes this is absolutely true for current Dem leadership.

So, 1992, nothing was done, 2020, nothing was done. Who's with me in 2048 when we try again to achieve policing which respects life, avoids needless harm and death, and no longer rewards the cops who can't seem to get those things right?

And let's not forget. Tens of millions of magas, having witnessed the past few months, would vote him in again tomorrow if we gave them a do-over.

As furious as I am at the oligarchs taking over every last thing, evil greedy bastards gonna evil greedy bastard.

That anger pales in comparison to my rage at the tens of millions of my countrymen who dragged the rest of us into this fucking hellscape with them for no reasons beyond:

-Ignorance

-Hate

The ratio of those varies from maga voter to maga voter, but IME those are pretty much the only two reasons I see for why they have condemened not only themselves but also the entire rest of the nation to life in this emerging dystopia. They've already killed people in this country with their vote, and the numbers will only go up.

Yet somehow we all still have to go to work and get along every day, but I truly don't care if I never see or speak to a single Trump voter ever again, and that includes so-called friends and family members. They are all dead to me, or as dead as familial and work obligations will allow. Every last one can choke on a bag of dicks and razor blades as far as I care.

Edit - I beg you, random silent downvoter, to explain to me where I've gone wrong in the above.

That flows directly from the bedrock of our culture which is "Your worth as a human is determined by the work you do in service of building wealth for those above you."

There seems to be some debate on that, but he definitely wrote a song in 2017 that should have been released a couple of months ago. 😁

That's part of "techie reasons" for me. 😁

And there will be no measurable consequences even if all evidence should happen to point to insider trading. If there's even an investigation I'll be amazed.

And THAT is what "undermines faith in government and the markets."

I dunno, I hope you are right, but every time I see a headline like that it turns out to be a feel-good article based on two random disgruntled twitter posters or something.

Well, after years and years and years and years of hating Microsoft for techie reasons, then privacy/"telemetry" reasons, and removing them in all ways from my life wherever possible, now I can hate them for being morally bankrupt in other ways.

On the plus side, they continue to validate my nearly twenty years of touching their software only when paid to do so.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/opinion-trump-s-threats-to-send-citizens-to-el-salvador-aren-t-idle/ar-AA1FdmLc