Zero... on... antitrust.
Those are definitely words that you could string together and put out in front of a world that might possibly judge you on them. But _should_ you? I believe not.
Like, I personally think that Lina Khan's FTC has been operating waaaay over its own skis, and that her attempt to apply the Potter Stewart definition to monopolies rather than any of the classic ones is bad tactics _and_ terrible strategy, but you cannot plausibly accuse them of treading softly.
My entire job is infrastructure and transitioning to renewables and I am dumbfounded that she erased the IRA and IIJA, the largest climate and infra bills in history in any country
Buncha killjoys around here. I mean sure, lying about Biden for clout is a tradition around here, but ya gotta lie about stuff that can't easily be falsified, like his personal feelings about Palestinians or whether he has a plan for X contingency.
And I mean sure, some of this stuff has massively disappointed me too, and I understand her frustration. I've spent most of the last year mad at him for many of the same things I see other folks mention. But I'm sorry, batting zero means what it means and knowing that doesn't make me a pedant
I feel like a real bitch for taking screen caps but it's so rare for me to actually be online to see these things happening in real time. Dinner was late because I was transfixed
Watching people who fancy themselves very smart about politics endlessly complain about having to join coalitions of people with different interests than theirs in order to have enough votes to win and therefore not getting everything they want, ie literally what politics is and how it works. Again.
She should stick to food writing. I guess. She apparently vouches for canned baked potatoes, because baking potatoes for yourself, I guess, is just too hard.
