No, I mean he could raise way more than his defense will cost. He’s kind of one of the mythic figures of the resistance.

When the early revolution is recorded to history, we’ll remember such luminaries as the Portland Frog, Polka Dot Lady, and Sandwich Guy.

If he hasn’t crowd funded his legal expenses it’s because he’s actively choosing not to. He could be grifting this so hard.

I keep worrying that he’s going to use authoritarianism and a violation of the rule of law to do good things and people will normalize those things as ok, but he seems devoted to never helping anyone who isn’t rich or armed.

I think it would take some exceptional political gymnastics for Hochul to have personally campaigned with him and then justify how his election must be annulled. She’ll just refuse all his plans that need state approval. The state has a lot of power to just try to make him fail in order to teach the people that only neoliberals can be trusted to lead.

Direct Federal fuckery is more likely.

For every human that is moved into the state of Texas from New York you must transfer ownership of another human to the state.

What? Nothing here is evidence they want(ed) a shutdown. They’re refusing a SNAP funding bill because they want the poorly funded program to be leverage for reopening the government.

That they view feeding people, many of which are their own voters, as something that only Democrats care about shows their utter disinterest in supporting the rubes that vote for them, but none of this is part of some Republican master plan or advancing Republican causes.

They can, but your golden boy has not.

There’s another article about 6 in 10 saying the country is seriously off track. It’s hard to figure out the voter that says this and then is unsure who to vote for, but somehow that ends up with 8% saying “I don’t know”.

The Peace Prize has never been about whether you’re smart. She’s a pro business right winger. She wants to be the puppet fascist.

Sure, when you’re free. But if you’re under the absolute control of a government, not being able to just be lost is really important.

We have better tracking for my online shopping than for actual people.

No one thinks he believes #1. Like most Republicans, he’s very obviously not a true believer or he’d be acting differently regarding doing good for people, not just waving the Bible around when he does evil. Two actual Popes have said what he’s involved in is wrong.

Especially the gubment overreach 2A guys. Like I know they’re mostly conservatives that don’t think non white people have rights, but some of them really seemed like they believed. Every once in a while there’s an overstep that gets some of the more libertarian minded conservatives to buck the movement a little, but they’ve been shockingly quiet about all this really egregious implementation of everything they say they fear.

How do you even function in the real world?

Jesus. “Residents gathered corpses from the woods”. The cops didn’t even have an official operation to collect all the people they killed.

What more is there to investigate? What more information could they possibly be seeking out before making a decision one way or another.

They’re just sitting on this until enough time has passed for them to drop it officially.

He wasn’t killed for his opinion. He was a bystander killed by stray bullets from a trigger happy protester shooting at another protester.

I don’t for a second believe the DOJ was scared of disappointing Biden. The choice of Garland alone is a signal to not go too fast or too hard. He’s almost uniquely the worst choice you could make if you wanted Trump to suffer consequences, both in terms of temperament and optics. And on top of that we’re to believe Biden, who explicitly campaigned on restoring normality and healing the county, gave no counsel at all during the selection process or any time over the two years before Garland passed the buck.

So someone who’s driving an organ across town for a transplant and takes 10 minutes leaving the parking lot to wait for a completely clear road without a single car in sight and then slows approaching every intersection in case the light turns yellow and then finally triple checks with management that all the forms have been received and validated, leading to the patient dying, isn’t incompetent?

No, just no. Unwarranted caution is incompetence just as much as insufficient caution, and this was egregious. And this is assuming the story and actions were errors in decision making rather than political direction (which would then be corruption). There’s no possible way an error of this magnitude over this long a time with this great a consequence can be described as just a competent and upstanding civil servant trying to do a good job.

Yeah, it’s particularly bad at the presidential level as most votes just don’t matter. People talk about “if you stayed home this is your fault” but it (for the presidential vote specifically) really is pointless for like 70% of the population who lives somewhere that’s solidly one way or the other. I voted in the last election but all my representatives were decided in the primary and my vote for Harris was useless because whether she wins my state by 10% or 30% doesn’t matter.

It was a fine first draft, but technology has changed and we’ve figured out better systems of government in the last 250 years.