We've run the experiment the "pardon the criminal" route (Nixon) and see what we got? Normalization that you can commit a crime as President and get off scot-free, which emboldened Trump to do far worse.
Maybe we should run the experiment the other way, hold him accountable, and watch the next 40 years and see if that improves the ethics of our elected officials - who now know if they fuck around they'll find out.
"Everything worked out in the end"
Yeah -- I sure could have used "parental sign-off" when kids at school started calling me "dinky".
How the frick is this legal?
As should we all.
Dumbest rebranding ever. Wait... no, I take that back. Twiter -> X is the dumbest. But HBO -> Max is way up there.
To be fair, the guy has the face of a sitcom character actor. We should be laughing at every line that comes out of his face. Just not in a "hey, that was smart and funny!", more like "hah! there's that dufus again".
Gee, I wonder why, Mr. "Both Sides Are The Same"?
<cough... and caused Al Gore to lose the election, teeing up everything that followed>
I wonder how far away we are from AOC being able to run for President, and have a possibility of actually winning.
2028?
2032?
Only when majority of the Boomers have died off? Or will Gen-X turn all grump and conservative in their old age and become the new Boomers once they've inherited all their Boomer parent's wealth?
Full disclosure: I'm a Gen-X'er