An unfair review, and doubly unfair to make that the image for this story.

I wouldn’t object!

Among other things - she’s on the transition team. She’s well connected! She knows a lot of qualified people! They have to staff up a whole administration in two months. Seems like a good person to have around. It doesn’t mean she’s going to be in charge of some imaginary Dept of Fining JP Morgan.

I have never believed that he killed himself. Given the immoral, repellent, grotesque, horrifying behavior of all these people, what possible claim could there be that murder would be a step too far?

I don’t know when Kamalamentum ended, but it was right around the moment Bill Clinton took the convention stage. This isht is toxic to Democrats even if it isn’t to Republicans, and anyone involved needs to be put on an ice floe, whether Obama or anyone else.

Yes this is totally a president who’s going to be able to produce a new and better healthcare plan.

Ah yes, noted baseball lifer and former manager of the Durberville Tramps, Thomas Hardy.

The number of people who understand this reference is surely declining, no?

(Speaking as someone who recently had to explain “Hee-Haw” to coworkers.)

Fair w/r/t the prolonged suffering. But then why make people suffer at all?

If you’re going to fight, then fight. Don’t join the fight if your heart isn’t in it.

They can say no.

Their constituents are literally in the streets telling them to say no.

Even if they lose. Because there’s no scenario where they win anything with a president ad a party that just ignores the rules.

That is an extremely literal response that misses my point.

The difference is one of attitude, approach, and messaging.

A minority party believes it can cooperate with the majority and win concessions. An opposition party understands such a thing is impossible, and brings the fight.

If you want people to see who is standing for them you actually have to stand for them.

… and that might make one either greedy or inclined to disregard the rules of what appears to be a rigged game.

But what’s the pressure? What’s the incentive when every next paycheck is for a way bigger sum than these gambling “winnings.”

Just the thrill of the heist? Come on.

The usual triangle of fraud is pressure, opportunity, and rationalization.

Clearly Clase thought he was clever enough for this to be an opportunity [Narrator: he was not.]

I can see rationalization in the sense that he signed a contract for way less than he would have gotten on the open market.