What they needed was an archery contest if they wanted to catch him.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pussyhat#Name

I recall asking a lady what she was wearing while wearing that beanie. I genuinely had no idea. She was too embarrassed to explain it to me.

It’s a hat with cat ears. What’s embarrassing about that?

😂

she came down in a bubble, Doug!

Or something… 😂

This is it folks. If he is able to transform our election system with his own two hands, we’ve had our last fair election, I guarantee it. Fraud will be baked in, circumventing any design elements that are ostensibly there to guard against it.

This is the scariest thing I’ve read since the election.

Not only do I agree, but also it has been my feeling that the Starbucks footage and visit was a performance of some kind, and the water and phone they found were a distraction. Dude seems to have otherwise thought this through pretty well.

I admit that’s nothing more than a hunch though, and I can’t really defend it against anyone who disagrees.

That’s certainly a perspective I’d like to agree with, so I hope you are right!

Everyone in the country was vulnerable to Covid too; you see how long that unity lasted. Just one example for my pessimism.

2 or so years ago I’d have agreed with you.

But it’s become clear that the wealthy and powerful are beyond the reach of our justice system. coughdementedfeloninthewhitehousecough

So fuck 'em.

I understand why they will prosecute him if they catch him, but I wish for him to never get caught, and I feel really confident (given the other signs of planning) that the phone, water bottle, and very public appearance at Starbucks in recognizable clothing are nothing but a red herring.

You’re insulting people because you have nothing constructive to say.

You know, that’s fair.

But, I’ll be interested to see your reply to cecinestpasunbot, since both the first and second half of your sentence seem to be untrue for their reply.

Weeeellll you see there’s having money, that’s one thing, sure.

Then, there’s the question of how you got your money.

Not as disgusting as becoming fabulously wealthy by directly shortening the lifespans and quality of life of tens of thousands of your fellow humans.

Yep. This is the third or fourth such event that I can think of in my lifetime. (not specifically related to healthcare) Every time I think “hey maybe that means something will change.”

So far, it either causes no change, or things get worse.

I’ve got my fingers crossed on this one.

Until there is some movement on our healthcare system, I will shed no tears for this guy, nor any similar events that occur in the future.

Diane, an oncology doctor, says her field has also suffered.

“UnitedHealth Group in particular and Optum, which is their pharmacy benefit manager, make their money by profiteering off sick people, and we have a health-care system that is perfectly constructed to create great wealth and power in large corporations and is increasingly badly constructed to actually provide health care to patients,” she says. “The frustration from patients, from their caregivers, from the people who love them, from doctors, nurses, everybody in the health-care fields is just so huge right now. I’m saddened but not surprised at this event.”

Fucking Amen

Sure it is, but I feel you are ignoring the context of the branch of it you have chosen to participate in, as I’ve already attempted to illustrate.

Having said that, if you don’t get my point, nothing I say now is likely to make a difference…

My dude, my point is you are arguing against a viewpoint that has not been expressed.

Haven’t you effectively just added a second side track and lever? It’s still the same choice.

Ah, the anti- student loan forgiveness argument.

It’s like you are having a different conversation from the other person.

Them, repeatedly: These conditions will create people desperate enough to take measures into their own hands, like we’ve just seen.

You: Well it won’t work. And I’m going to provide a logical example of where similar things have failed.

Them: I’m saying these are the conditions that create the sorts of acts we’ve just seen. People are or are becoming desperate enough that the possible futility of their actions won’t be a factor.

You: Well those acts will fail. Ever hear about…

People who are desperate enough to take these actions aren’t weighing their decisions against historical record, or against any concern for any rational assessment of success. The point is that we’ve reached the point where people are desperate enough to take these actions, and the level of desperation being felt at large is unlikely to decrease during the next four years at least.