To be fair, the cynic in me says Sanders never would have become president. Even if the DNC had let primaries take their natural course and Sanders had come out of it with the most electoral votes, then the DNC would have just brokered their convention and given it to Biden or Bloomberg anyway. If they somehow didn’t do that and Bernie was the actual candidate from the D side, the mainstream media coverage of him would have all sounded like Fox News or Newsmax fluffing Trump. All his major media coverage would have been Marxist chicken-littling. If, even after all that, Bernie somehow won in November of 2020, he never would have made it to the inauguration. He (and his VP candidate) would have had a little accident, a la Jeffrey Epstein, Paul Wellstone, Vince Foster, Terrance Yeakey, etc.

Gee, I wonder if the corporations will win these cases?

Yep. This is exactly why. It makes logical sense if they only thing that matters is profit. Several places that I worked would allow the public to come in and request these “about to be tossed.” items to take for free. You had sign up, provide ID, and come right at closing time, though, to do it. The employees were not allowed to do this for the reason rumba gave.

Goodbye, Discord. It’s been real.

I think we all know who Tesla’s worst enemy is…

Yoko Tawada’s next novel centers around a Japanese near future where all that is left of their civilization is a few thousand elderly Japanese and millions of robots that provide all the health care, farming, etc. that their society requires, but can no longer provide for themselves. The novel starts of with a prologue that begins just after that event which triggered Japan’s eventual descent into oblivion, February 8, 2026.

I guess I thought it would be longer before I saw openly vapid, grifitng, right-wing, cult of personality in the office of prime minister of Japan. SMH. I give it less than two years before reasonable Japanese wish their government hadn’t installed this clown as prime minister.

If Russia actually had the manpower and hardware to overwhelm Ukraine and achieve their objectives, they would ahave done so years before now. They are stalling. The west could end this whole conflict relatively quickly if they wanted to. Simply sever all diplomatic AND economic ties with Russia and with any country that doesn’t do exactly the same. China and India would fall in line almost instantly and Putin’s efforts would collapse like a house of cards.

So, about 5% of the number of Russian conscript casualties?

Dishonest headline. They didn’t do this to benefit Democrats. They did it because they have already been briefed (6 of them anyway) on how it will make no difference by the time 2028 elections rolls around.

Indeed. 40 years ago bothsidesism could have been an intellectually honest take. If you are doing it today, you are either very stupid or nothing more than a concern troll.

Agreed. The instant pivot to “both-sides-ism” by so many people is a big part of the reason we are where we are today. Always mentioning D politicians in the same breath whenever the R politicians corruption or crime is discussed (when said Rs are many orders of magnitude worse) is the textbook definition.

Michelle Obama’s idea of “when they go low, we go high” only works if your opponent hasvoters have a miniscule amount of morals or shame.

FTFY

It’s both actually. The justices beholden to Trumpanzee were informed that the election will be stolen anyway and so the fallout from them “looking even more like clowns” wasn’t necessary.

TACO

Oh, they most certainly wouldn’t be…I guess I mean that they will say they are behaving themselves and a complicit media will repeat this as if it were the truth. 9 months of that and the same kind of shite who voted GOP will cheerfully do so again. It’s almost like they will be begging for permission to double down even further denying the reality around them.

I miss Bernie Mac.

Is this really necessary? I hate the governments of several countries (my own most of all). I would never call an entire country violent and rotten because of it.

Oh my, so the Trump Kompromot is real!

I am honestly afraid the Repubs will start behaving themselves until after Nov…maybe even be able to somewhat reign in their Orange monkey-god and then wait to begin again with the fascism with even more vigor after the midterms. I live in a purple state with a Democratic governor with an election this year. I am terrified that my state is going to elect a Trump lickspittle this Nov.