"Atomstrom wird so billig sein, dass es sich nicht lohnen wird, Stromzähler einzubauen."

Atomstrom ist halt überall auf der Welt subventioniert. Ob jetzt in den Sicherheitsgarantien, die der Staat trägt, oder in der Kostenübernahme für Rückbau und Endlagerung, oder in direkten Subventionen wie in Frankreich.

Das Irre an der Sache ist, wie viele Leute auf den Strompreis in Frankreich gezeigt haben mit der Behauptung, so günstig wäre doch Atomstrom, ohne auch nur eine Ahnung davon zum haben, wie sehr das in Frankreich subventioniert wurde.

Regular counselor? Sure, doesn't need to be on the bridge.

Mind-reading empath, though? Massive strategic advantage in any encounter, friend or foe! Put her on the bridge!

There's not one single person in the world who should own a thousand million dollars, never mind hundreds of thousands of millions of dollars.

The pure existence of billionaires is unethical and immoral - doesn't matter whether they're being stupid and fascist in public, or quietly pulling strings and bending society to their will in the background.

Chutkan has other options besides a gag order with a threat of jail if Trump doesn’t comply. She could summon Trump to court and admonish him directly, subject him to escalating fines with each confirmed violation, or threaten to move up his trial.

Alright, let's see some of those consequences.

It's completely preposterous that Trump can keep breaking rules, laws, regulations and court orders with impunity because the entire nation is too fucking scared about what might possibly happen if we held Trump to the same fucking standard as everybody else.

Trump swore a presidential oath to “preserve, protect and defend” the Constitution, but the text of the 14th Amendment says it applies to those who have sworn oaths to “support” the Constitution, Blue pointed out the sematic difference in an Oct. 6 filing in the case.

Both oaths “put a weighty burden on the oath-taker,” but those who wrote the amendment were aware of the difference, Blue argued.

“The framers of the 14th Amendment never intended for it to apply to the President,” he wrote.

Absolutely despicable.

That's a lawyer arguing that a president is free to engage in insurrection because of a semantic difference between the 14th Amendment and the wording of the Oath of Office sworn by the president.

All of these people are fine with America descending into a totalitarian dictatorship, presumably thinking they're the clever ones who would be doing the dictatoring.

How long are we, as a society, going to allow shit like this in the name of free speech?

It feels that those nations that experienced the Nazi terror of the Third Reich have a much better idea of what constitutes dangerous speech.

Allowing this kind of stochastic terrorism out of some misguided notion of "free speech" is just not a good idea.

The likely Republican candidate for president is a convicted fraudster and known rapist who tried to install himself as dictator and is currently facing 91 criminal charges - and the GOP is celebrating him as their savior.

That's the answer.

The entire party is rotten to the core.

John Yoo, a Berkeley Law professor and former Justice Department official in the George W. Bush administration

It's insane that a guy like this who tried to get government torture legalized in the United States has now had a long, well-paying, distinguished career and is being referred to as "a Berkeley Law professor and former Justice Department official" instead of "torture guy."

I guess having zero morals and ethics really does pay off.

Russia must have some very serious kompromat

I hate this narrative, because it implies that the person in question - whether it's Musk or Trump or the Republican representatives who travelled to Russia on 4th of July or whoever it's about - are acting in a way favorable to Putin and Russia against their will and only because they're being coerced.

The reality is that a lot of wannabe authoritarians who look up to Russia and to Putin simply admire Russia, admire the totalitarian system, admire the silencing of any opposition voices, admire how the press is being reduced to pro-Kremlin propaganda, admire how regular people lose their rights, admire how anyone can be tossed into prison on a whim, admire the hate campaigns against LGBT+ people, admire the white supremacist, nationalist kind of conservative state religion, admire how Putin is wielding military power to annex territory, etc. etc. etc.

So Elon is now going for the severed horse head under the bedsheets approach to persuade advertisers?

That's a bold move.

That entire song is just a thinly veiled threat saying "we're going to murder you if you're trying something we disapprove of here in this place, where we have all the power."

It's absolute insanity that something like government emergency alerts get broadcast via an unregulated, privately owned, privately run for-profit service that answers to absolutely nobody.

One would hope that this episode would bring about some rethinking, but realistically, the reaction now is probably going to be "whew, crisis averted, let's change nothing and continue exactly as before."