volkris @volkris@qoto.org

@itslinklauren from what I've seen, the majority of Americans don't even know what the charges are, and so really don't have informed opinions about the trial.

But even without a trial, it's not like the money being spent on it would go to fixing overseas wars or whatever.

Heck, Trump's fines might help pad those budgets!
@vivekgramaswamy

@NewsDesk funny thing is that this administration has called into question whether those privileges can be claimed during future administrations, so the criminal shield might not stand either.

What a mess.

@dougiec3 The reporting has that backwards.

The LA motion was about PRESERVING voting rights after a lower court was acting screwy against them.

Sadly, the general state of voting law in the US is pretty screwy these days, but still.

This was a victory for voting rights, or at least not a defeat.

@sundogplanets it's all about balance, looking for the balance between risk mitigation vs advancement of public interests.

Like, everything we do can kill people. Do we not do anything? Ever? No, we sit down and work out risks, reasonable strategies for addressing the risk, and then we do our best to get that balance right.

I don't find this terrifying at all. It seems like the reasonable and acceptable outcome, with all of the oversight and risk management that's in place.

We can't just live in fear.

@JohnBarentine sure it can be both.

One possibility is that there was disruption that lowered performance by a few percent. Disrupted, but not terribly so.

Another possibility is that there was significant disruption over the weekend, but after that passed, now they're fine.

@PChoate I think you are mistakenly focusing on Trump and ignoring his voters.

You're looking at his strategies and changes changes in what Trump can do but overlooking people who actually vote for him, or might be willing to vote for him, when in the end they are the core of the situation.

To put it a different way, Trump likes to act like he is the center of the universe, but he's not, but you are falling into his preferred narrative, agreeing with Trump that he is the center of the universe.

@stevebenen It's also the opposite of reality.

No, the round of tax breaks wouldn't benefit them the most, just as claims about the last round of tax benefits didn't benefit them the most.

Outlets like MSNBC keep crying wolf, and they lose credibility with anyone willing to follow up to see how their frantic claims worked out.

@yogthos I mean they lay out their reasoning showing that there is no genocide there, particularly the efforts taken to avoid killing.

They deny it because they have the evidence that it doesn't exist.

@BeAware@social.beaware.live just view it as a language that you might not be fluent in.

Don't feel dumb, just feel like it's another language that you get rusty from not using!

@mcnado Yes! Let's actually talk about the larger picture so we can fix these problems!

Heaven forbid we actually try to save babies!

@MarvinFreeman Biden's own administration says otherwise, though, as the data coming out of official sources support those claims

@pomegranate_stew because they were nominees who had the support of our elected senators?@uspolitics

@gregggonsalves No, it's just people being held accountable for the agreements they made when they signed up.

If they didn't want to live by the rules of the institution they shouldn't have signed up for the institution.

@mcnado when you resist looking at the bigger picture, when you resist the context, then yeah, you are saying things about not examining the bigger problem.

And that's why your post comes across as so laughable.

@sj_zero

No, I was talking about the other half of your statement.

I don't vote for bad candidates.

And it's important to emphasize that because primary voters need to keep in mind that if the primary elects a bad candidate, they will lose votes.

Republicans chose Trump, and Democrats chose Biden, and I will not vote for either of them, so it needs to be emphasized, Republicans and Democrats, you'll get more votes if you nominate better candidates.

@Rasta @Free_Press

@BowsacNoodle Right, and then immediately insert all of the reasons why that study was dumb, had a methodology that didn't actually prove its conclusion, and call out people citing that study on social media as bias confirming even though it didn't actually confirm their biases.

Every single representative was elected by the people. We should stop electing people we don't want to actually represent us.
But it's up to us.
It's so important to recognize that we are choosing these people.
We should not act like we don't have power, because we are the ones using our power to elect these people.
And if we don't like these people, we should stop voting for them.

@Rasta @Free_Press @sj_zero

@sj_zero I certainly don't.

If a primary chooses a bad candidate then I don't vote for them.

@Rasta @Free_Press

@realcaseyrollins I'll joke back that, plot twist, #Trump is lying about his wealth anyway

@sj_zero that ignores that voters have a say in it all

@Rasta @Free_Press

@mcnado Well it might be nice to talk about why it happened, but never mind that, you want to go for the simplistic story that doesn't look into context or background or cause or anything else.