It’s a though choice between Newark and LaGuardia though.

Marketing probably asked everyone to write a review on their internal Slack or something.

Yeah, Congress is basically an old folk’s home.

I could see the logic being that you’d end up spending a lot of money and resources on primaries that could be used in the general, but that’s obviously only a problem because money in politics is a huge issue to begin with.

I’d still argue that the upsides (candidates that better represent the electorate, keeping the incumbents on their toes, …) outweigh the downsides in that regard.

You can just install it off f-droid instead of the play store.

Those goddamn woke hippies at Bloomberg.

They’re worth something as scrap, I’m sure.

Yep, so many examples of Democrats not doing the thing they could’ve done when they had the power. Putting Trump in prison (by not hiring a Republican as AG), codifying Roe v. Wade, replacing Supreme Court justices before they die, abolishing the filibuster, getting rid of the debt ceiling, …

And they always point their little finger when people give up on them, even though the facts are that democrats are either just putting up a puppet show where they’re always a vote short for something, or they’re incompetent.

This last election had shown that it wasn’t so much Trump that won, the Democrats lost because too many people stayed home because they’re sick of their games.

Definitely the fittest brain worms.

The debt ceiling is used that way by Republicans for the most part. They don’t want to increase taxes even for corporations, but they try to force a budget resolution by cutting spending when there really is only so much you can cut without hurting people.

Exactly! The Democrats can’t use the debt ceiling, because shutting down the government hurts their constituency more. So it’s a loaded gun that can only be used by Republicans, and whenever Democrats are in a position to do something about it, they don’t. Same with the filibuster, BTW.

The debt ceiling has always been used by Republicans to pressure Democrats into further concessions that would otherwise not have been needed to give. Remember, the debt ceiling is just an extra hurdle towards spending money that was already appropriated by Congress. So Congress as a whole voted to spend all that money and thus a certain amount of debt. The CBO can calculate exactly how much something will cost, so if you’re worried about what tax cuts/spending would do to the debt, you can always find out. There’s no need to have an additional thing on top of that that can randomly shut down the government.

Yep, and last time the debt ceiling vote came up, people on the left were imploring Democrats to raise it by a stupid amount / abolish it so they wouldn’t need to go through this stupid fight again, but that was dismissed because it was ‘unrealistic’ or whatever.

And now Republicans are doing exactly that. After they’ve proven that a small caucus can take down / get concessions from the speaker of the house. Another thing some Democrats were unwilling to do.

Yeah, there’s not exactly a lot of role playing to be done, especially not in story mode.

Mostly because the EU isn’t sending money and weapons to Russia, China, Myanmar and Sudan to continue those atrocities.

Australia is in the same boat security wise. AUKUS is a scam.

I’m not saying it doesn’t count as a genocide, but it’s kind of rich to call this out while providing weapons and political support for another genocide.

Wasn’t she rumoured to have blown him as well?

I did notice that the Murdoch media lost a lot of the influence they once had. The only ones that still care about the front page of the Australian are politicians and other media.

The US supports the current military dictatorship and is apparently fine with the former prime minister bring locked up for no reason. And that’s bipartisan policy, most of this happened under Biden.

Not sure if Imran Khan would’ve let things escalate as far as it has (or even would’ve allowed those initial terrorist attacks to happen).

And as for Trump, I don’t have high hopes of him successfully negotiating a peace between 2 nuclear powers that have been at war since the 40s.

Yeah, if you think the manhunt on Luigi Mangione was over the top, wait until someone takes a shot at an ICE agent ‘trying to protect the country from illegal immigrants’ or however Trump would frame it.

If anyone wanted to try it, they’d need impeccable opsec, because everyone in law enforcement will be looking for them.