Raptorpat

you say that... https://scri.siena.edu/2024/12/10/hochul-job-approval-favorability-ratings-up-a-little-remain-negative-only-33-of-voters-would-re-elect-hochul-57-want-someone-else/

He's going to try and leverage something NY desperately needs to get Hochul to pardon him, or Hochul runs but completely fizzles out in 2026 and Governor Mike Lawler pardons him on day 1.

Maybe I should t have said "spot on" and should have said "most accurate presidential polls of the unending Trump era"

Can't read the full article but I think you're on point with regards to government. Local gov't (NYC in particular) wants to be responsive to all the convenience store and lunchtime restaurants etc. that built their business around catering to office dwellers who disappeared overnight, as well as the deep-pocketed real estate industry feeling that hit in demand. Are there merits to in-person versus remote, when it's all office work that's done on a computer? Yeah sure in some cases, but it's not really fair to the worker when they are being forced to commute because someone else made an investment with the expectation of that worker being in proximity during lunchtime.

Most polls/aggregates showed a tight race that would be decided by which candidate modestly overperformed relative to their polling. That it was Trump who overperformed in the end obviously defied my expectations, but mathematically it was not unrealistic. https://split-ticket.org/2024/11/10/2024-showed-the-value-of-polling/

The polling in 2024 was mostly spot on.

The Gaetz ethics report will be released, all it took was a secret vote after he wasn't the nominee. https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/18/politics/matt-gaetz-ethics-report-committee/index.html

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technically yeah, but it's not as widely popular as internetizens think, at least outside the 18-29 demographic

"Terrorism" generally is the use of violence to make a political statement or to coerce policy changes in some way. Assuming everything we know is true, it's hard to argue this doesn't fit that bill - even if it's a sympathetic issue. The state will have a more specific definition of terrorism within the penal code, so it'd be on the the prosecution to prove that it checks off all those relevant boxes.

it was literally one incel that everyone hated, and one or two regular Republicans you're making it sound like the first thing a toonami lawyer sees is a pervasive nazi quadrant of its user base, and not one persistent incel stirring up the angry politics folder lol this was all before katt even reached out, but if anything would have turned them off at inception it would have been the nsfw fuggs/whatsherface cooch-offs and present company's repeated use of trans porn to troll packard

yeah luuv had the whole "no rules free speech triumphs" philosophy and there was a problem user of the alt-right variety, but i kinda disagree with your general characterizations of "shady site" and "severe nazi problem"

what

what does it mean if SK successfully impeached its president and we failed twice

happy day

I'm interested, but also actively avoiding spoilers

happy birthday @GuyBeardmane and @Big_Eyed_Fish!

I do recall him saying that if Harris won he'd end up in jail

You know, that's a good question. I know that there are some folks out there who are into that archival aspect of things, but I don't know off the top of my head if anyone retained a master list of ASMB avatars. Maybe someone plugged into that side of the world can pop in?

https://www.propublica.org/article/unitedhealthcare-insurance-autism-denials-applied-behavior-analysis-medicaid

He said in the Time interview that he can't actually make grocery prices go down.

Maybe grift is a strong word, but I guess I disagree. She was an interesting figure in that she's from the inside and all that background, and it was interesting to hear her viewpoint about him and their ongoing family drama up to a point. Sympathetic figure and the schadenfreude and all that. But the eventual shift to every tweet just teasing the tip of some story about every twist and turn to hawk of her subscription-based website to read the full thing was such a turn-off. It feels like a very Trumpy turn to take, like proof that they are related. But I'm also probably overharsh because I kind of resent that whole chronically online "resist lib" ecosphere that I'm lumping her in with.

I lump her in with the 'resist libs' grifters, those who got popular and then monetized their adjacency to relevance (e.g. the "mueller she wrote" lady). The folks where every other post they make is "[comment about the latest shocking news] and what it means for Trump and Democracy. If you subscribe to my website, you can read my analysis in full." Unless I'm totally mistaken and she's not charging anyone anything to subscribe to her. But people who use that framing just trigger me, it's literally DJT in reverse.