I actually agree. I think she should openly challenge Schmuck for his seat, and make him fight for it, or quit. Then go to work in the Senate, destroying any attempted MAGA SCOTUS or Cabinet appointments.

Tear up the Senate for a term or two, and then start looking at a presidential run, or a Cabinet post, depending on the timing, then a presidential run.

Or just stay in the Senate, and run your own joint. It’s a whole separate branch, after all, equal to the president. It would be good to have someone running it who isn’t afraid to remind them of that.

She’s smart enough to navigate a track like that.

Like I said, their choice.

Biden will always be in the bottom 15 of presidents for not crushing MAGA as a National Security Threat after the Insurrection and hundreds of stolen documents, and allowing them to rise and take power again. Trump should have been executed for his treason, or at least put in prison for the rest of his life.

And they had the Epstein Files, too.

Unforgivable political malpractice.

You are applying the corruption of past political dipshits to someone who has shown no indication at all to be corrupt. She has been extremely consistent, and you have no reason to believe that she will change.

when I’m Governor, the stealing stops. I’ll cut your taxes, slash your utility bills in half, and put your hard-earned money back where it belongs – in your pocket, not Mamdani’s."

Exactly what Trump said. Exactly what every MAGA/Republican has said for 50 years. And yet, here we are, and none of those promises have EVER happened for anyone but the very wealthy.

I’ve seen polls as low as 32%. He’s going to drop below 30% soon.

It doesn’t have to be that way, it’s totally their choice.

When this is over, we have to purge MAGA from our government and our society, and reconfigure our country so that the wealthy understand that they keep their fortunes at the pleasure of the Citizens, and that fortune is required to serve the Citizens. The moment their priority shifts to increasing profit at the expense of the Citizens, their entire fortune is confiscated, their corporations nationalized, and they are improsoned.

We do not work for them, they work for us.

including wiretapping Trump Tower

Trump Tower was full of Russian mobsters, laundering money, running illegal casinos, etc. A Russian Oligarch lived beneath his offices, and was bugging him.

If the FBI had wiretaps and bugs going in Trump Tower, it was because he was consorting with Russian Mobsters and Spies. Investigating that sort of thing is exactly what the FBI is for.

This is like the groom on his wedding night, going on and on about how fuckable all the Bridesmaids looked, and then being shocked that his bride is pissed off at him.

I’m not too worried about the speed, slowing down the process would probably be good in many cases.

I don’t see a problem in seating them all. They have to show up for work every day, like anyone else. If it’s a court day, they’re expected to be there.

Nah, she’s STILL a true believer, she’s just separated MAGA from Trump, which is something very few politicians have done publicly, and very, very few voters have done.

It’s going to backfire. If MAGAs can’t vote for Trump, they’re going to want to vote for whoever Trump endorses, and it ain’t gonna be her.

Of course industrial robots have always existed, but technology is much better now, and we have AI to power them now. These aren’t your grandpappy’s robots.

The combination of automation and AI is going to lead to the elimination of entire human powered industries. The technology currently exists to automate EVERY fast food outlet in the country, and every one of those companies already has a system ready to roll out. The only reason they haven’t is because nobody wants to deal with the backlash when it happens. But once it does, the rest are going to follow, quickly. A lot of these jobs are first jobs, second household incomes, retirement supplements, etc. The loss of those jobs will be felt deeply.

How many people are supplementing their income with driving a ride share? How many older workers are doing that after losing their jobs? Both Uber and Lyft make it very clear on their website that they intend to replace their ENTIRE fleets with autonomous vehicles, which are nothing more than AI powered robots. These are people who aren’t on the unemployment rolls because they have managed to scrape together driving to work. Without this, they go right back to being on the unemployment rolls.

I just saw a report on autonomous trucks, predicting 170,000 on the roads with a few years. That’s 170,000 lost truck driving jobs. What are those professional drivers going to pivot to?

AI/ Automation won’t replace every job, but we will eventually have to live with a permanent unemployment rate over 50%, and if they could figure out to replace EVERY job, they would, enthusiastically.

The overall problem with humanity is that we think we’re as smart as humans can be, so we are at the pinnacle of human achievement.

I just saw a video about the first synthesizer. It was built in 1897, and it took up the basement of a building the size of an entire city block. They had the technology to do it, but not to do it well. But they didn’t see it that way. To them, it was the pinnacle of technology. But 75 years later, and we can put that same instrument in a suitcase.

Data Centers may be something that will be useful in the future, but our tech isn’t good enough yet. Right now it takes an enormous building, and mind-boggling amounts of resources, and does incredible damage to the environment, as well as the damage to the economy and the job market.

It’s like realizing that you can talk with two tin cans and a string, and then running out and installing a giant international system of tin cans & string, instead of waiting for the tech to advance to a point where we can do it properly.

Maybe in 50 years, the tech, regulations, and policy will be caught up to the ambition, but right now, we aren’t ready for it at this level of technology.

Nobody has said that AI will replace everyone, except rhetorically. But it will replace MANY people, on an increasing basis, as each new iteration gets more powerful.

It won’t take long before we have a PERMANENT double digit unemployment rate, and the government will gaslight us all into accepting that as normal, even as it rises to the 50% or more.

Definitely the phone.

You have to drop trou in open court.

So he doesn’t believe in transgender, but he believes in transLIFE?

Empty G is still full blown MAGA, she just recognizes that Trump is heading for the exit soon, and as in all Cults of Personality, there is no #2. She’s angling to be the new MAGA leader, attracting those who have soured on Trump, as well as weak-willed Trad Dems, to give her an edge over those that only draw from MAGA.

Don’t fall for it, she’s still the same psychopath she’s always been. Hating Trump is a low bar, she’s going to have to do better than that.

Yep, someone had an agenda they wanted to promote, and thought it would be a good idea to pitch it to an audience that is geniunely terrified that the career they took out $150,000 in student loans to pay for no longer exists, and they will somehow have to make a monthly $1500 loan payment with a minimum wage fast food job - until they get replaced by a robot.