Whoa! Thanks for the recommendation, looks sick.

Where is my cyberpunk french revolutionpunk rpg setting crossover??

“Comfortable, wealthy neoliberal who does interviews with and works with fascists and is not personally targeted by them bravely says some macho stuff while his state’s residents get disappeared and shot at.” Is the actual headline here, but Gavin is hoping that a little grandstanding will let him make a presidential run later without actually doing anything for his constituents. He should be doing so, so much more than he is and yet so many people seem desperate for a win that they are willing to call this a victory rather than like, a potential signal that he might, potentially, care about his citizens a little, hypothetically.

Rich people just go to rehab in the form of a long vacation then get addicted again the moment they come back in contact with society.

I know your question is rhetorical, but hypothetically China could do that with the aim of whipping up their population into hating the American government more, making them more willing to swallow local authoritarianism and foreign imperialism framed as national defense. That’s basically what the US is doing in the current arrangement, only reversed.

It’s already on for real. Hypernormalization is a bitch. That might shock us all for an afternoon but we’d be back to the same discourse a week later.

It’d be a bit like if China and it’s entire sphere once a year went crazy commemorating the Kent State or Haymarket Massacre. They wouldn’t be wrong to say these are bad things, but it’d clearly be in service of some ulterior motive.

The ruling outlined that official duties includes pretty much everything he does while president, unless he explicitly states it’s not in his capacity as president or for national interests, which he won’t do in court, so effectively, yes, he has complete immunity. The “official” part is just a fig leaf to give the ruling the appearance of jurisprudence.

Also it was because we didn’t do reconstruction, which was because the landowners were too strong.

And the landowners were too strong in the 1860s because of compromise in the 18th century, on account of their ancestors being too strong.

Actually, come to think of it, aren’t those the same people that elected Nixon, Reagan, and Bush?

Perhaps it’s not so much that history repeats itself as that we have had the same intractable problem for hundreds of years: aristocrats.