In almost 30 years of posting online, I don't know of any instance in which I've ever gotten anybody to reflect and shift their views on anything.
I presume it's happened a time or two, but I have no knowledge of any specific instance.
Broadly, while I necessarily write in response to other posters, my responses aren't really intended for them - they're intended for the lurkers.
So he's saying he's never going to step down?
I can't see any situation in which I would.
Mostly I have zero interest in sucking any dick (other than maybe my own, and I'm not that flexible).
But beyond that, $20 just seems wrong no matter what - if I wanted to do it, $20 would be pointless and if I didn't, it wouldn't be near enough.
According to a February Quinnipiac poll, about half disapprove of how Democrats in Congress are handling their job, compared with about 4 in 10 who approve.
How can even 4 in 10 approve? What is there to approve of?
There is no "doing their jobs well" or "doing their jobs poorly " - most of the Democrats in Congress aren't doing their jobs at all.
It doesn't "expose" anything really, since that implies that it was formerly hidden and it very much wasn't. Trump and his co-conspirators and mercenaries have been very clear that their position is that the rules only apply to other people literally since day one.
Legal concepts are only relevant if they're enforced - if they're not, then they're just meaningless mouth noises that might as well not exist at all. So the real problem isn't that Trump et al consider themselves above the law, but that damned near NOBODY in the entire fucking government is doing one single thing to disabuse them of that notion.
We need a phrase even more pointed than "the pot calling the kettle black" for things like this.
Nobody's as bad as he is, but she's certainly an awful human.
But that's not really relevant. It's just that from what I've seen, she tries to stay as far away from him as possible - preferably in another state. So I assume being given an excuse to be in a different coutry would be okay by her.
I get the impression that Melania would be fine with that - that she'd take any excuse to be as far as possible away from that stinky lump of congealed fat and bronzer.
...he wants the ground of the debate to be at Columbia, to be conflated with Gaza-Israel, to be complicated by questions about protests and student discipline and the nature of Ivy League education.
It's actually even simpler and stupider and more predictably childish than that.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/nyregion/trump-columbia-university-400-million.html
There's no depth to which that corrupt piece of shit won't stoop if there's money to be made.
And apparently no limit to the blind eyes the rest of the government will turn to him.
That's a gamble though.
If itcwas Trump on his own - yes. All we'd have to do is sit back and watch him fuck up, because he's not only an idiot, but an idiot with the emotional maturity of a toddler, so he just careens from one tantrum to the next.
But this time around, he has a number of smart and devious people whispering in his ear, and while he's not one for taking advice, he can be manipulated by someone who understands how to play him.
It seems though that they're having a hard time stopping him from being an idiot toddler, so there's some hope. But it's still a gamble.
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