Probably revenge for calling him X Æ A-Xii.

Didn’t work out for Michael Jackson and Prince. Eventually it’ll spiral out of control.

Wait until they bring back scrip under the guise of a company crypto token.

Seems like his issue is more about them getting caught doing it.

Some off them are illegal under Israeli law as well, but it’s obviously but enforced.

It can work if targeted and coupled with industrial policy. Eg. The CHIPS act coupled with a tariff on Chinese chips, stuff like that. Everyone agrees that Trump’s way of doing it was counterproductive.

Eh, Dubya was equally worshipped after 9/11, and now you’re not going to find one Republican that will admit to ever supporting him. The strength of conservatism is that you’re not expected to have values or be consistent ideologically, it’s about being told what to believe.

When Trump finally dies, everyone will pretend they never liked the guy and prop up the next horrible guy.

Yep, exactly this. Force everyone to use Medicare so there’s no political incentive to gut it instead of a two tiered system.

That’s how you end up with massive AWS bills.

They’ll nationalise it and make the government pay the fine to itself.

If he’s terminal I don’t think he even cares what happens, he might not even make it to a trial.

Yeah, the West Bank is basically just a collection of little concentration camps at this point.

I think I’d probably still pick the train in that case.

It was definitely fun in the olden days when you fucked up your xorg.conf and you had to use elinks to try to look up a solution. At least nowadays your smartphone can be that second working computer.

Yep, the Nazis defined socialists as degenerates, so I expect any sign of empathy to be seen as a sign of low IQ.

And he’s showing all law enforcement that he has their backs, even if they do something illegal. He also cancelled a bunch of consent decrees that were designed to stamp out abuses in other cities (not that those are sufficient, obviously, but it was something).

Yeah, it’s basically a way to give political cover in case a pardonnee goes on a killing spree afterwards. But Presidents on both sides of the aisle have unilaterally pardoned people as well, of course, especially at the end of their second term.

They have a process to vet people that apply for pardons, and while not mandatory, most pardons historically have gone through this process in modern times. The DOJ will then recommend the ‘deserving’ ones to the President, and the President will sign them if he feels like it.

You’re falling for his PR strategy, he’s not a good guy.

It’s common in multiple European countries.