Part of it is that they want to placate their “moderate” wing too (read: the donors). If your plan is Medicare for All, you can say that and it’s easy to explain to people. If your plan is the Affordable Care Act, you’ll still have the for profit death panels, so you’d have to say something like: ‘we’ll regulate the existing death panels slightly more and force you to sign up to them’, which doesn’t actually sound that great.

Trump definitely has nothing to do with Epstein not being alive any more…

This was all public knowledge, the DOJ just dropped the charges instead of prosecuting him because Merrick Garland is a useless piece of shit.

From what I read, only one Republican on the ethics committee needs to defect to the Dems side to be able to release the report.

I don’t know enough about any of the 5 members to guess if any of them are likely to want to break with Trump on this one.

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-11-11/ty-article/.premium/the-idf-is-allowing-gaza-gangs-to-loot-aid-trucks-and-extort-protection-fees-from-drivers/00000193-17fb-d50e-a3db-57ff16af0000

https://archive.md/t28IY

Defense officials confirmed that the IDF is aware of the problem. They said that at one point, the government had even considered making the clans to which the armed men belong responsible for distributing aid to Gaza’s residents, even though some of the clans’ members are involved in terrorism, and some are even affiliated with extremist organizations like the Islamic State.

So source: the IDF

If you’re not even going to believe Israeli media…

Every private insurer has a death panel that is only accountable to share holders. Progressives need to start framing stuff in those terms instead of letting the Republicans bully them into accepting their framing.

Accuse Hamas of being Isis (after supporting them financially for decades), then turn around and support actual ISIS to aid in their genocide. Warms my heart to see the most moral army in action.

She’s actually threatening the Republicans explicitly, I assumed she was going with the ‘both sides do it’ argument.

It didn’t work for me last time I tried, but yeah, it could have been fixed by now. It’s definitely the right direction to try, it’s the perfect solution for OP.

Does it work in game mode now? I thought it was only in desktop mode.

I’m sure he’ll get something. Looks like this time Trump is only looking for loyalty, his previous cabinet still had a ton of people that were only there because he felt he needed to keep McConnell happy. This time there’s going to be no ‘adults in the room’.

They’ve been doing it for decades, and the media is always complicit. It’s like Chomsky wrote “Manufacturing Consent” specifically with Zionism in mind.

Those are rookie numbers, you’ve got to pump those up.

I mean, they settled as soon as they found this, as they knew how it would’ve played out in a trial. If you can show a judge that evidence was deleted, the judge/jury would need to assume that the missing evidence would show the guilt of that party.

The needle in the haystack part was that Vivendi were trying to bury Valve in evidence, as they assumed that they wouldn’t be able to afford to hire a bunch of Korean paralegals to go through everything. A wealthy opponent will do that in order to put you in the position where you have to choose between settling or paying a fortune to go through the evidence that may or may not contain anything useful.

Destroying evidence is a big no-no in a legal case, and would allow the judge to draw a negative inference, so I’m guessing that gave Valve the leverage to settle the case.

That’s probably not what the DNC chair should be doing. Their focus is to kick out all the high paid consultants that keep losing them elections, and move fundraising away from billionaires so they are free to run on a popular economic message.

Thanks, Merrick Garland. Way to let a guy credibly accused of like 6 different Federal crimes (including a whole ass coup) just walk by slow walking investigations because you didn’t want to look political.

Yeah, it’s basically a requirement at this point.

RFK Jr and Trump should be in this list as well. It’s probably faster to list the ones that aren’t sexual predators.