They probably didn’t see his testimony as valuable given that they seem to use the “speech and debate clause” as a “get out of consequences free” card.

In my experience playing Original Sin 2, it really depends on your party members and how invested they are in the story. Generally we’ve had a party leader who essentially leads what’s gonna be happening that play session.

Truth, they’ll never stop trying.

This seems semi-reasonable, especially for Judge Cannon. Most analysis I’ve heard expects going through the CIPA process to really slow down discovery.

“No such thing as bad publicity” comes to mind.

Are there any apples in there?

So first let’s be clear. I’m not "both sides"ing. My point is clearly that the overton window for centrists is so far right, that the parties would essentially meet in the center if the republican party hadn’t fully embraced the culture war insanity.

Voting against Trump (a member of the opposing party) is like, the least they could do. They should hardly get back pats for that.

How about this for “real things”. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi opposes banning Congress members from owning individual stocks

She later did an about face and said she would bring legislation to do that, and what do you know, two years later and still nothing.

The last time Trump received a target letter from the DOJ (6/7/23) he was indicted two days later (6/9/23).

Let’s hope for a similar timeline.

That’s how you know they’re starting to feel the pinch of people being fed up with them.

Centrist Democratic Politician: we want to exploit labor and centralize weath and power, but we want people to like us so we’ll do some incrementally good things things to keep folks satisfied

Centrist Republican Politician: we want to exploit labor and centralize weath and power, and fuck you. If you don’t support us rapist minorities are going to rape you to death, or you might have to see people who aren’t like you in public.