Ron can't pull off "night of the long knives"; instead, he presents "midmorning of a short dick".

One company I worked at had more full-time collections people than sales people. Our products were a lot cheaper than our competitors, and it attracted a lot of customers with no money.

Another company I worked at ignored all "first notice" bills they ran up. CFO told me that if a company wanted paid, they needed to send a second notice.

Let's give this a more reasonable title: "Stephen Miller Launches Advertising Campaign / Fundraiser Using Meritless Lawsuit"

The congresspukes who bitch the loudest about the military are cowards who never set foot in a MEPS station themselves.

I'm not saying that you have to have served to have a valid opinion, but I am saying that this guy is talking out his ass.

GOP is a party of principles, and the first principle is that GOP candidates can't have more than 2 pending criminal cases against them.

Anything else is just communism.

After the Citizens United ruling deciding that money is speech, it's clear that bribery is the most compelling legal argument.

• Step 1: GOP loudly proclaims meaningless posturing and frivolous lawsuits to raise donations.
• Step 2: GOP loses in court; sometimes their lawyers are sanctioned.
• Step 3: GOP blames activist judges for the loss; demands more contributions; go back to step 1.

GOP uses governance the same way WWE uses athleticism - it's just a gimmick for quick money.

The real question is, why is a supposed billionaire begging for donations?

The man lies about everything, everywhere, all at once.

Now I'm off to the supermarket to get celebratory ice cream for the latest round of indictments that dropped today.

After watching a parade of January 6 tools catch nontrivial sentences, including for insurrection, the pampered heads of the GOP have decided that they don't want to wear a jumpsuit, too.

If it comes down to testifying or doing time, it's not really a choice is it? Testifying is only a liability if Trump gets re-elected, and if the man can't win the presidency from inside the White House, it's a good bet he can't win it from inside the jailhouse.

"successful" debaters win a second term.

Speaking as a resident in her district, Cathy is a sock puppet for her donors. She's been well paid and will spout the script that her owners/lobbyists have provided for her. I'd be surprised if Cathy has personally filled up a gas tank in the last 10 years. She's a reliable tool for the billionaires.

Fuck her, in the neck, with a spork.

Well, those yield gains are from capitalism subsidized with government-sponsored ag research at hundreds of college campuses, and subsidized by intellectual property protections for patents and copyrights, and government price supports, and government crop insurance, and government land-bank programs to pay farmers to not overuse the land, and ag labor subsidized by special exemptions for minimum wage and citizenship verifications, as well as tight border controls and political vilification of the immigrant labor force to keep the wages low.

But yeah, when society throws enough money into capitalism and soaks up the external costs, it sometimes delivers results.

In short, modern US agriculture is hardly a good example of either unfettered markets or unfettered capitalism. Big US ag is privatized profits and socialized losses, like a lot of other US industry, albeit with much better PR than (for instance) the banking industry.

"Deadlock" is the excuse that your party makes when they only pass laws for billionaires.

Created an account here yesterday, and deleted my Reddit account a couple hours later.

Life is too short to deal with greedy asshole CEOs.

The theory, such as it is, is that the president is accountable to the citizenry both through the congress (via impeachment) and to the public (via elections). So if the president does grossly incompetent things like declassify information without telling anyone, they could be impeached or voted out.

A fundamental problem with any government is that it relies on people of good character to function.

Once enough sociopaths and political partisans and greedy hacks get elected, we're basically screwed. The law can't save us from that much human poison.

Maybe she has no other achievements in her life?

First, Leo is right to be scared. Anyone who subverts democracy so flagrantly is going to anger people. Angry people can get violent.

Second, why they hell haven't democracy-loving Americans stomped Leo into exile?

Trying to keep it PG...

The Navy nuclear power plant I trained on had exactly one IC in it - an opamp in the feed water control circuitry. Everything else was magnetic amplifiers, which were state of the art technology when invented in 1901. I was operating the plant in 1988.

After that, I ended up fixing aircraft on a carrier using automated test equipment based around a 1960 telephone switching matrix powered by a 24K 18-bit word core memory CPU. We had all the modern conveniences like magnetic tape, which was a lot nicer than mylar punched tape. The month before we shipped out for Desert Storm, we got a 1MB fixed disk cartridge that replaced one of the tape drives.

MILSPEC: It might be old, but it sure is expensive.

Seems optimistic to think that Trump will do what a judge orders him.