You actually don't have evidence of that

You actually don't have evidence of that, thusly why after, what, 3 congressional investigations and the FBI having an open case for like 4 years you got... a single gun charge. Oh yeah, who is Alexander Smirnov?

Joe Biden is a far better person than Donald Trump. Mentally, emotionally, patriotically competently.

It's 2025 and I'm on ./ explaining what "chilling effects" are.

The reason this is years long is not just the number but our immigration courts have been vastly understaffed and overloaded for years and years now, mainly because we've had no immigration reform legislation for like 40-ish years, every attempt like the Gang-of-8 bill or the Lankford bill gets shelved for....reasons. It's always a huge problem and priority but for some reason when it comes time to vote those same folks don't want to act.

One of the things the Lankford Bill was going to do was fund more judges and courts and expedite the process and put more restrictions on economic migrants and move them through the system faster.

hard not to notice you could have but didnt

Yeah if only there was a way for tourists to declare where they are coming from

Stop bringing in your money and spending it on our local businesses and hospitality sector.

Ok? That's my point, did you not read who I was responding to?.

Are we all willing to say Congresspeople have the right to say all of those things and censure for any of these cases is ridiculous?

Files were sealed because investigation was ongoing during Biden's term, Maxwell was sentenced in 2022.

Biden was also like a right proper President and was appropriately hands off with the DOJ. Obviously today respecting 2 centuries of norms is a bit woke.

What country do you live in and ill point out the people who are "forced" to keep society functioning and we can argue if we are "entitled" to it.

And another thing. Fuckin Benny Johnson, a private media figure, gets a death threat and then he appears at a press conference with fucking Attorney General of the United States

The fucking Vice President of the United States hosted Charlie Kirk's podcast for like weeks.

Unreal.

True, if we could have had 2020 Biden's brain in 1990's Biden body and energy you'd have like a super-president.

I agree, that's the saddest thing to me, is like if you want to disagree politics with Biden sure but through and through he was a decent person and it's quite sad we can't say that about the leader of our nation anymore.

Unfortunately while I wish it was true I think we're gonna have to do some edge-lord type shit to gain power back, the populace is just too cooked on 10 years of Trump style media. At very least they can't be anywhere as risk-averse as Harris was who while I give credit for doing what she could in 100 days just was just too complacent when the other side is whipped into a death-frenzy all the time.

Like I personally am not really in favor of Newsom being a leading contender for 2028 but I can't deny that I don't appreciate his shit-posting strategy now. Gotta strike a balance in there and tell these ghouls to get fucked... in a still appropriate fashing.

I think there but the argument in that debate over what is "liberal" news because if you ask a Republican they'll say just about everything as, and to some degree vice versa.

Really to me the biggest difference maker in how conservative media has been able to dominate is total media discipline. Only now are are we seeing some cracks forming but particularly in this past decade is that when Republicans, especially Trump make a statement or a narrative the entire media apparatus picks it up and runs with it, on message. From Fox to the cables to the podcast to the Youtubers, when Trump says a stupid thing and there is a talking point to defend it every single media channel will using that talking point.

It's an advantage Republicans think democrats have but really they don't, not to that degree. Again, Biden was excoriated day in day out by CNN, NBC, CBS, all the "liberal" news outlets were covering every slip up and ran negative stories just as often as positive ones. Jake Tapper wrote a fucking book about Biden's supposed senility.

Republicans can cram it about not having media at least on par with whatever they think liberals have. Again, this argument over the media is pretend, it is the talking point and we keep letting them get away with it.

Agree there, he definitely should not have been trying to run for a 2nd term, I think it was the stress of trying to do both at once that really put a toll on him.

The only lesson AB learned is "the public is fickle and news cycles last only days or weeks" they haven't really lost anything long term.

And that's kindof the point, thinking a bunch of individual consumers can affect industries that are so large is kindof unrealistic, it's a massive collective action problem and the power asymmetry is wild. It's a fantasy that the world works this way.

No it doesn't it already fails on the first and most important point: it itself is not a democracy with a protected freedom of press. Fish in a barrel.