I agree with much of what you say, but the idea that this isn’t “gods” earth any more I find risible. Much of this was done in via religion which is a man-made system to capitalize on insecurity and fear.

I’m curious what you mean about “not participating in this fucked up world” and “sacrificing the privileges and comfort of the modern life”. For me, these are highly ambiguous phrases.

The problem is not a modern/permissive/whatever society but the inability of those on the right wing to tolerate anyone who is different and, as we are now finding out, to attempt to erase them. Love is the answer, and I tend to agree this is not compatible with current politics.

Everyone is focusing on the sex-act, but what about the Putin /photos part? This suggests strongly that Putin does have Kompromat on Trump, which is long suspected.

“Liberals” just want to be right - or at least want to be seen as doing it in the right way. The Conservatives believe that the end justifies the means

The justice department is supposed to be independent for precisely this reason. I can appreciate Garland was trying to avoid partisanship and appear to be impartial. But he failed. Dismally. Both of these investigations should have been fast tracked and much more open to avoid any appearance of bias. That would, of course, lead to the problem of a fair trial….

This will be 100% true if the workers are all undocumented immigrants and ICE immediately deport them when the work is done.

I want one…

new Fascism light: All of the bigotry, but none of the blowback…

Is he trying to rehabilitate himself as a “man of reason”? I predict at the first sign of resistance he’ll be back on the plane for Cancun

Maybe he was busy that weekend, being peed on by Russian prostitutes?

By inconvenience, I assume you mean the magnitude of their bank account and/or stock portfolio…

Journalists aren’t to blame… There’s plenty that have written about climate threats because there’s been a lot of Science saying it is for years. It’s the Editors and Media owner that censor those stories that are (partly) to blame.

Extrapolating from there, who influences the Media Owners/Editors? Whomever gives them money - Most likely it’s advertisers, but it’s also rich assholes who buy up Media outlets to control them.

Beyond that, we can also point the finger at Government - They permit these changes of ownership and often exert their own influence.

And, if you want to go full circle, we the population choose what the watch and read, and what we believe.

In short, it’s a societal problem because at the end of the day, we’ve chosen a world where Money is key measurement of how society is doing.

I‘m sick of hearing people say this - It‘s exactly what they voted for. What I would prefer to hear them say is WHY they feel they made a mistake. What about Trumps rhetoric then is disconnected from his current deeds?

I suspect the usual reason is that it‘s impacted them personally and they didn‘t think it would. It‘s the reverse of the boy who cried wolf

I don’t know why people are surprised by this.its not his first time and we all know he’s never read a book in his life.

OK, so next it’ll be the an entrapment operation? And then maybe an assassination?

I mean, if history is our guide…

I don’t think there is anyone employed in any capacity today that is less competent than US politicians.

This reminds me of the time one the states tried to create legislation that the value of Pi was equal to 3…

Love this. For years, tax exempt Churches have been praising Donald Trump and his Christofascist cronies. Despite this being forbidden, no one does jack-shit.

And then a few ultra-rich musicians share that they are not 100% on board with Trump’s 2020’s remake of the movie Idiocracy and he’s calling for a “major investigation”?

Someone’s mommy really didn’t love him

Sound like Hegseth was instructed by his boss’s boss to do it…

There’s an old saying… Something along the lines of “if you want to know who is in charge, look at who you are not allowed to criticize”

He looks like he just realized he shat himself…

Cash a check for $33B?