But Tim Apple, and the rest of the 1%, are only gonna get richer in the long run. Market crashes are a feature, not a bug. Now they can just wait a bit and buy it all back at clearance prices. The '08 crash ruined the working class, but "Tim Apple" et al doubled their wealth a few years later.

93% of the stock market is owned by the richest 10% of Americans. The Dow doesn't measure the economy, it only measures the ebb and flow of rich people's money. Stocks tanking is good for rich people, cuz they can buy cheap, and just get richer. For them, this is a feature not a bug.

That, and some kind of amnesia, are the only possible ret-cons, and both are stupid. He had zero reason to "play it cool". It's just a plot hole, which is fine, and completely understandable, and it's weird so many SW fans are unable to live with it.

True, but he acted like he didn't recognize him at all, and that strains credulity. I'm fine with it being a continuity error, but there's no denying that's what it is. There's no rational ret-con that could explain it as easily as the R2/Anakin issue in the OP.

The REAL question is why did Obi Wan tell Luke when they first met "Can't seem to remember ever owning a Droid before", when they were tight? They fought together, flew together, and R2 saved not only his life, but Luke's mom and Dad's lives too!!

And why don't billionaires pay more taxes and bring their money back from overseas tax-dodges? Billionaires are the problem. Your opinion doesn't matter. Go away.

Yet he'll vote along party lines for anything Cheeto wants to do in Ukraine. They talk a big game for the cameras, but they'll kiss his diaper when it counts.

The "End Racism" stuff was always performative bullsh*t anyway. How they handled Kaepernick showed us all we needed to know about the NFL's true position on racial justice. They are a corporation, after all.
I'm a fan of the sport who's repulsed by business of it.

Stop. Blaming. Voters! Harris and DemCorp could've EARNED those votes by fighting for M4A and an end to corporate rule. Instead they gaslit people who can't afford basic needs with "Bidenomics is the envy of the world!!" If Dems don't learn this lesson, they'll just keep losing.

There are no good billionaires. You are part of the problem. The existence of billionaires is proof of a failed system. Your opinion doesn't matter. Go away.

Billionaires are the problem. Ho away.

They weren't "afraid". They're corporate owned propagandists. They were doing exactly what they're paid to do: distract us.

I can't escape the notion that if the campaign never shifted from centering Walz to centering Cheney, we would be living a very different reality right now. Future historians may thank us for scrupulously preserving the evidentiary record of how THAT particular tactical choice came to be made.

And none of those questions would be answered, and none of them, answered or not, would change a single senator's vote from what they already decided going in.
Also, billionaires are the reason we're in this oligarchy/kakistocracy and should be taxed out of existence. Your opinion means nothing.

Confirmation hearings are dog & pony shows. Hard questions will always go unanswered, and the predetermined results will always be insulated from the questioning. Everyone will vote exactly how you predict they will vote. It's just going through the motions. We are building a kakistocracy.

Let's stop calling them "billionaires" and call them what they are: "wealth-hoarders".

This is more nibbling around the edges of reforming healthcare in America. Every time we play whack-a-mole with these ancillary off-shoots of a broken system, we legitimize that system. A now overwhelming majority of Americans, across the political spectrum, support Medicare for All.