Because the USA doesn't have the concept of absolute power, Donnie Dipshit's pet Catholic Court notwithstanding, and those files were sealed by a judge at the time. There are a lot of fundamental ways in which the two parties are up to the same bullshit, but Democrats tend to obey court orders.

Corrupt, yes.

Requirements, maybe. Meeting them, absolutely not. They aren't just reporting an amount spent on classified projects and therefore we can't have a breakdown, they're saying they can't figure out where an awful lot of money went at all.

Obama was more like the Republicans than they think. For example, he was fully behind the MIC, blowing people up without due process and so on. Obviously there is a big contrast, for example we know he did a lot of drone strikes because of his EO which gave us information on how many strikes were used and where, and Trump was doing about four times as many strikes per month when he rescinded that order so that we wouldn't know how many he's done since.

Even the ACA was a Republican health care plan, spruced up a little bit but still writing profit for insurance companies into the law. So no, the pendulum just wasn't pushed that far at all.

Revolution. The chances of us rewriting the constitution for that (which is what it would take) are roughly nil otherwise.

They were specifically chosen for their respective lacks of merit. They aren't DEI hires, they're anti-DEI hires, like matter vs. antimatter. And the purpose is to cause destruction when they come together.

To you, the centrist (pro-corporation, pro-authoritarianism, pro-incarceration, pro-MIC — based on voting records) policies of the Democrats are "too far to the left" when actual leftism includes far more liberal ideas. This is because you are too far to the right to even see the left from where you're standing.

It's a Thomas Jefferson quote, and he was talking about The People rebelling against a tyrant, not invading other countries.

I hope something even worse doesn't set in. It's not like capitalism and greed don't rule anywhere, only the degree differs. I guess we will find out.

Except of course for Peter Thiel

But I think people have figured out that the only thing AI is good for is taking their jobs and taking all the water and electricity.

For everyone wondering AI data centers prefer to use drinkable water because it's cheaper since it's very clean and when they're done with it the water is useless because they put chemicals in it to prevent it from corroding their pipes.

Meanwhile large parts of the world have water shortages because of drought brought on by climate change. So it's about the worst time possible for this shit to be happening.

I think the AI companies will eventually focus not on actually lobbying people to like or support AI but will instead get behind the culture War bullshit that they can use to wrangle voters into voting for politicians that are useful to them.

Remembering politics you don't have to get the public on your side directly. You just have to get them to support candidates that will do what you want and it doesn't matter how you get those candidates.

It's going to be hard to put AI bullshit directly on a computer. It's going to be a huge headache for Windows 11 because it just guzzles ram and it was expecting that 32 GB would be standard and 64 not uncommon...

IOW more countries are going to have to build fabs, first and foremost, because you can't trust anything if you cannot trust the silicon.

It would be great if we got some kind of technology for cheaply making high-end ICs at home like we can with plastic parts now, but it's just not reasonable. At some point you have to trust someone. It's unfortunate, I know.

And you didn't even notice because you lack any basic critical thinking skills whatsoever. You like those skills because they didn't teach them to you because they didn't want you to be anything but a useful idiot. It's up to you to decide whether you want to stop being their useful idiot or not

Also Trump fucks kids.

What he used was emboldening Nazis. The entire reason those people could vote for him is that their views didn't evolve past "the brown people made my life bad".

When we already have NASCAR! It's got more letters man it's better!

So the Republicans pretty much can't win the house in the midterms even with all the cheating they are doing and all the gerrymandering they are doing.

But it's basically impossible for the Democrats to win the senate. The current map heavily favors the Republicans with a shitload of what are perceived as moderate Republicans up for reelection. Now in reality they are all extremists that voted with Trump 95% of the time and remaining 5% were strategic votes where they were allowed to vote against him for appearances sake on legislation that was already going to pass...

Most voters are too low information to know that and they're too full of anger hate and bigotry not to vote Republican. Never mind the general perception that Republicans are better for the economy and less likely to get us into wars because billionaires own the media.

So we are unfortunately stuck with that fat fuck rapist until he either dies of Alzheimer's or if we're really lucky 2028 he won't win a third term.