Yeah, I still have champagne in the fridge from his last health scare.

The mainstream media has always had a problem with just calling a lie a lie.

I used to run it for a while (it might actually still be running, I’d need to check my VPS and delete it if it is), but I feel like RSS readers kind of got overtaken by Reddit (and Lemmy). I tried going back to it again a few times, but the lack of comments felt off after having experienced Reddit.

Yeah, those people that think having a businessman running the country would be better are either business owners themselves, or have never actually worked in a business.

Congress has cameras. If you’re lying to Congress about factual things, your memory of the event shouldn’t matter.

I mean, that’s literally a change some states made in response to the Weinstein scandal. If it’s reasonable to assume the truth isn’t going to come out before the statute runs out, I’m definitely in favour of making it longer. It should probably still exist, but 5 years seems very short for serious crimes, especially considering how slow the justice system works.

Democrats should definitely take something from that playbook, but there’s been many cases of someone lying in front of Congress and not facing consequences. It happened in the leadup of both Iraq wars, and I don’t think people should just be allowed to get away with stuff like that just because the clock ran out.

Obviously part of the problem is that Democrats don’t seem to be interested in prosecuting stuff like that in the name of bipartisanship, but that’s how they got where they got now.

The problem is that the DOJ isn’t as independent as people would like it to be, so you basically need a change in administration to hold someone to account, which could take longer than 5 years.

I know these particular charges are probably bullshit, but I don’t think there should be a statute of limitations for lying to Congress.

The ADL has no credibility though. They count saying ‘free Palestine’ as an anti-Semitic attack, even when a Jew says it.

I can’t think of any recent cases besides the guy that shot Steve Scalise. Do they have a list of cases they’re going off, because 67% seems low.

What was Kamala’s plan for achieving peace in the middle east exactly? If you think things would’ve been different with her, she definitely didn’t tell the voters how she’d do that. It was Biden that defunded UNRWA based on fake stories and kicked off this famine.

Do you have any evidence that things would be better in Gaza with Harris? Neither Biden or Harris gave any indication they’d be prepared to withhold aid for the genocide.

They literally pointed out the difference between them. It’s both sides suck in different and unique ways.

Funny how the blue no matter who people won’t endorse Zoran or any other left candidate that wins a primary.

I’m just saying, Democrats didn’t seem to want to do anything to win. They wouldn’t commit to reappointing Lina Khan, for whatever reason decided that running around with a Cheney would be a good idea, and messed up a million other things. It wasn’t just Gaza, they did everything they could to make sure they wouldn’t win, seemingly, in service of the donors.

The donors were happy, gave her more money than Trump got, and they still lost because you need to give the voters something beyond ‘Trump will be worse’.

And that’s after years of gaslighting about how the economy was doing great under Biden while ignoring how much real wages got inflated away from the pandemic until now (and I’m not saying Trump is better on any of those issues, mind you, his voters just tend to not notice when they’re being lied to because the right built an information bubble that’s impervious to the truth).

Guess it was more important to make sure children kept getting massacred than winning the Muslim vote in Michigan.

The telegraph is a conservative newspaper, yes.

I’d argue this isn’t limited to just the US.

You probably don’t want to look up what she said when a crazy right wing guy shot a bunch of politicians in Minnesota.