Democrats launching congressional investigations into SpaceXAI, META and Apple

Forgive my ignorance, but how do you make these links?

Not "where it will score political points" or "where we really want to get that guy". Where just and applicable.

So the investigation into Nancy Pelosi's fortuitous stock trades is starting next week?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2026/11/05/what-de...

We can raise the minimum wage ($12.50 in 2027, $15 in 2028, $17.50 in 2029, $20 in 2030 then indexed to CPI); expand Medicare (I’d add neonatal and pediatric care); restore the ACA subsidies; call a War Powers Resolution (to end Trump’s war in Iran and ban the on-and-off trick); and cut the deficit by slashing DoD and DHS funding while also impeaching and removing Hegseth, Blanche and RFK; while also pursuing the Epstein cover-up; while also investigating everyone who made donations and received a pardon; while also investigating Musk’s treason and the Cabinet’s self dealing and the crypto corruption by David Sacks et al.

Hell, if I were Speaker I’d announce a special schedule for Year One that has Congress running over time every week until these priorities are passed.

Unfortunately that also means housing can't become affordable because housing can't simultaneously be affordable and a good investment.

I'm not just being cynical. It's genuinely a hard problem, since crashing real estate would open the door to the next generation while bankrupting all previous generations and causing a banking crisis.

We are very much painted into a corner here, and the US doesn't even have it the worst compared to other developed nations.

hide your power levels if you are going to play the village idiot, it is more convincing. just extremely bad faith commenting

And when you try to have meaningful conversations on this topic, both sides will use Gish Gallop until you shut up or go away.

Also, Congress can do more than one thing at once, if it puts its mind to it.

1. Destroy the country

2. Complain your opposition doesn’t solve all the problems you contributed to

Both sides are wrong on this, giving or accepting.

But more than that - giving bribes is fucking over people who cannot afford to give bribes so they are treated unfairly.

So not only it's a crime - it's also morally evil.

... Wait, what? You prosecute _both_.

> Working with law enforcement is... uh, not a crime, definitionally.

The "just following orders" defence is, fairly, notoriously, weak. "Just following requests" is presumably even weaker. If you assist law enforcement in doing something illegal, you shouldn't assume that you're magically in the clear.

[^0] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/30/dona...

You had every chance to fix this yourself. In Trump's first term, in between terms, and again in his second term. But it appears you are incapable of self-imposed accountability. Now it's our turn to enforce the law.

The rule of law no longer exists when crimes are ignored in fear of the appearance of political retribution.

Holding people accountable and fixing the cracks in the system are the only way to ensure the Trump administration doesn't serve as a trial run for an even worse administration in the future.

The worst possible outcome would be for the Democrats to repeat their behavior under Biden and spend all their effort attempting to return to the status quo while pretending the Republican party won't try again the moment they regain power.

For one, what you consider “wasteful”, others might not.

Maybe consider being an entrepreneur and go start your own country?

Of course, you'll end up paying most of your income as tribute to the various warlords, but they won't be taxes! They'll be "payments in lieu of death."

Or, you could live in the real world and pay taxes because they enable things like...preventing warlords. Also unimportant things like roads and police and clean running water.