People have a deep-seated fear that if COVID hadn’t happened Biden wouldn’t have beat him I think, which is fair, but now is very different.

I think it would be a heavier lift for Boston politically as the city is way more car dependent imo, but all the more reason to do it.

“I never thought immigration enforcement would be so bad”

She wanted the easy way out of this and thought it was by voting for the bill. The “accused of a crime” language was widely reported on at the time. Now the tide’s shifting back and she wants to shift with it.

(Well, there will be, but only if everyone distills this down to “there must be deeply embarrassing evidence showing a President touched kids or I don’t care about it” instead of a story about rich people protecting the worst of the worst of society because he was fun at parties and gave them power)

Not to say that’s what you’re doing — in fact I think your assessment of all this stuff is right, I just think there’s a lot of people, mostly MAGA but also some “blue no matter who” libs, who want there to be an easy way out of this for their favs & a smoking gun for their enemies. There won’t be.

Tbh I think it’s better to err on the side of overstating how bad being associated with Epstein is rather than boiling everything down to “is there proof they actually touched kids, and if not who really cares?” Clinton/Trump are still sex pests who protected their much more evil bestie.

And in this context, we need to let bad things be bad on their own. Trump/Clinton might be clean of any actual crimes, but they hung out with, benefited from, and likely protected history’s most vile sex pest. They are deeply immoral people even if they aren’t as dirty as Epstein’s actual “clients.”

Widespread betting on any news event is truly bizarre. I guess I’m fine with the concept of allowing people to bet on elections but the extent to which these markets have been shoved in our face is pretty dystopian

Like, we don’t need to be ending news stories about the Brown shooting with “Kalshi markets say there is a 25% chance the shooter will be caught by Friday.” This is an exaggeration, but not by much.

The inclusion of gambling markets in nearly every news story by certain networks is also insane.

This is kinda real life succession

I’m hoping it’s an executive but if it’s not I’d be psyched about Van Hollen or AOC or both on a ticket.

Stupid and lazy defense of a stupid and lazy person with a stupid and lazy worldview.

Scrolled to the top and got so happy to see who he was hate tweeting about

They can’t conceive of not worshiping your politician like a god king.