Haha I’m right there with you. It’s like someone going “Hey, remember when you used to do heroin and hate yourself? I know you’ve gone to rehab and cleaned yourself up, but wanna try this new Heroin-Lite?”

Jesus fucking Christ. This reminds me of “Whites Only” bathrooms and water fountains. It’s nothing more than trying to dehumanize people by attacking their basic needs.

We live in a world where we’re looking for Mitch McConnell to do the right thing? Oh yeah, we’re absolutely fucked.

…the worst impulses of Hitler and the Nazis could be “controlled” or “tamed” once they bore responsibility for leading the national government (rather than criticizing others’ administration of it).

I’m sure it’ll be different this time around /s

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Sunk cost fallacy hits people hard.

It’s true. I never deleted my reddit posts and comments because I spent like 13 years with that account. A part of my brain says “don’t delete those, you might need them later.” It’s like a natural hording instinct.

Keep in mind that’s Income Tax. Most rich people don’t actually have income, they have capital gains.

“This is you as an old man. I’m ugly and dead alone.”

Lol I didn’t even know they were actually bidding. I saw a Lemmy comment yesterday saying they should, but I didn’t think they actually would do it.

That’s what is ridiculous to me. The consequences are literally that they might lose their job. Yeah it sucks for them a little bit, but the alternative is destroying our fucking country. It’s amazing how many of them choose to bend the knee time and time again.

I know! I hate myself for it but I can’t unsee it. I think it’s the chin that does it for me. That and the sleaziness…

On a random note, not sure how many Monkey Island fans there are around here, but I can’t see Matt Gaetz without seeing Stan the used boat salesman.

Shouldn’t this dude be in prison for sex trafficking?

Thanks for the clarification. I’m glad that presidents can’t just overturn Justice Department policy when they want.

Wish we had a remind me bot so I can check this comment in 4 years and see if that’s still the case.

I dunno. The human part of me wants to believe that there would be something that would be to much for his base to stomach. But the pessimist in me that’s still processing last week’s election makes me think there could be a video of Trump and Epstein raping a 13 year old and his base wouldn’t give a shit.

Is there an app? I use Voyager and Sync for Lemmy.

I still don’t understand how this is an official DOJ policy. I always see it referenced as a DOJ memo from the 70s. Who gives a shit about memos? This is supposed to be a country of laws, not 50 year old memos.

But yeah, would love Garland to issue a new memo overturning that policy. Let Trump’s first official act be to overturn an existing policy to prevent him from being investigated. Not saying he would even hesitate to do it, just saying I’d like to make it an explicit step he has to take.

I feel like we need some data points. That was definitely true in Colorado.

Seriously great question at this point. In 2016 it was commonly accepted knowledge that if Putin released a video of Trump getting pissed on by a woman in a Moscow hotel, that would be the end of his political career.

Since then, he’s been found to be a rapist in court, has attempted to overthrow the government, and has been found guilty of about 3 dozen felonies with more charges pending - which doesn’t matter any way since Trump’s judges have granted him legal immunity to anything he wants to do. And he was just convincingly reelected with his party winning both the House and Senate.

At the point, Putin could put out a video of him personally pegging Trump, and it would make no difference.

Trump used to have sex with his “friend’s” wives. So this actually seems something he’d be used to.