Trump has made 5 billion - 40% of his total net worth, just this year. When I tell people that they are amazed and wonder why nobody is talking about it. We should have billboards across the country and in key districts with digital counters showing how much Trump has made and keeps making.

So I think as Dems we haven't done much at all on the corruption issue. It's mainly because a lot of Democrats think voters are accepting of Trump's corruption, while more progressive Dems prefer to widen the aperture and make it about the corrupt rich elite of which Trump is just one member.

In the global struggle between liberalism and illiberalism - Infantino has clearly put FIFA on the illiberal side.

Ennio Morricone's score for La Califa, his score for Maddalena, his score for I Malamondo., etc., etc.....

I am totally with JVL on this, but the fight against early Xmas decorations is clearly a losing battle.

She has left the cult compound and can finally be her true self.

It's interesting how much There Will Be Blood has endured while the movie that beat it for Best Picture - No Country for Old Men - has faded from cultural/cinematic relevance.

And we don’t want to admit that the combination of Facebook and GOP acceptance of Trump made her Qanon true belief possible. We prefer to believe people MTG are either manipulators or crazy. She’s putting a face to the human costs of being a MAGA diehard.

Exactly! Almost everyone else on the right never believed the Qanon stuff - they just used it and went along with it (even the people pushing it didn’t believe). MTG did. It’s reminds me of the scene from the Master when Joaquin phoenix realizes the cult is a con.

Her journey is more reminiscent of the experience of ex-Scientologists rather than a political repositioning.

I genuinely see the same thing you do - MTG was a Qanon true believer and found Trump coverup of the Epstein files as shattering to her entire worldview. I think people are more cynical about it because they understand political ambition more than Qanon true belief.

I agree. D+10 can happen

No I missed it. What happened?

If you go an inch to the GOP side they are super nice to you. They invite you to Mar a Lago and love hearing how the D’s betrayed you - see Fetterman. We don’t even treat fellow democrats that well.