Without Trump, though, they don’t have that uncanny charisma to be able to direct all the crazies in maga. They basically lose all their power.

Thing is each time the sane ones jumped ship leaving room for crazier and crazier leadership. In the meantime the ones that left keep pulling the other side further right.

I really don’t care to defend Schumer,

Then stop doing it. You’re making yourself look foolish to put it as charitably as possible.

Not just a pedophile. He was a fundamental cog in the trafficking of children.

Ooh, looks like someone just noticed the writing on the wall.

We were over that sort of thing in 2008 when we elected a black president with three equally scary names. I can still remember every single time I was forced to listen to conservative talk radio back then they’d play the soundbyte of school children saying “Barack Hussein Obama” over an over.

He still got reelected.

He was more anti-establishment than anything else. He was also famous enough to be in the big club we’re not in.

It kind of explains a lot, actually.

If that’s actually him, then good for him for covering it up. I’m still not sure if I believe he never knew until now, but at least he’s willing to put in the effort to change himself, quite literally.

If I had Chinese symbols saying I was a nazi tattooed on me, I’d be at the nearest open parlor to get it covered up the same day I learned about it.

If he really did somehow just learn about it during the campaign, it should be gone by now.

Edit: which apparently it is, so good on him for that.

They don’t need it for liability reasons; they just want to sell it as AI fodder.

Whether China is communist or not, I can’t answer. What China definitely is, is right wing.

That’s only if you accept that it is a time travel split and not another alternate universe where the first captain of the Enterprise was Archer instead of April.

So we’re in the Kelvin timeline? Ugh, well, okay, I guess.

You’ve done Duane Gish proud.

Look, I’m not going to deal with all that gish gallop nonsense. I’m just going to say that there is no proof of a causative relationship between higher minimum wage and any particular business failing.

has a very substantial impact on businesses

It has an impact; not a substantial one. Of course businesses will complain. They don’t want to pay workers at all, let alone fairly, but the only real impact is a slight reduction in profits once.

Their plan is “I got mine, fuck everyone else.”

But it could be if it just “accidentally” disappeared.

Personally, I see planned obsolescence as the same thing. It’s all to force you to buy new stuff whether you want to or not.