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called JD Vance a "conspiracy theorist"
I'll say. The guy is still going with the "Biden gave us such a bad economy, and it will take a lot of work to fix it" bullshit narrative. That kind of conspiracy theory is truly unhinged; we could all see the data from last year and things were headed in the right direction on so many things - until these asshats took the helm.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook-pm/2025/12/16/vance-touts-an-a-economy-00693051
The problem is that the target audience of this gaslighting will never bother to look at last year's data, and will just parrot whatever talking points are vomited up.
Yep. Even if they lived through both and experienced both and this is not even their first rodeo on the ups and downs of the economy. If Donvict or a proxy says something, by golly, it's true, even if part of them knows otherwise. Gas is now fifty cents a gallon and it was 5 dollars a gallon just last year! Taco is creating millions of jobs here when there were no jobs to be had just last year! We (well, at least white xtian cishet males) are going to deport and tariff our way to all be billionaires!
You could almost forgive someone too young and naive to know better; it's the people who have been around a while and seemingly have learned sweet fuckall in the process that are the most infuriating.
And even if they're shown the data, they will just choose to ignore it
My guy, that's not a conspiracy theory, because he doesn't actually believe it. It's called "lying".
This lady seems too smart to make these "unguarded" statements as an accident. Is this image rehabilitation before jumping ship or trying to enforce the end of the "revenge tour" by sabotaging the cases?
Wow, this some candid stuff. I wonder how long before she's out on her ass?
What does this mean
It means that they're taking revenge for imagined slights by attempting criminal prosecution on bogus pretexts
I mean... No shit lol
It means that when there's a claim for malicious prosecution being done by this administration, there's another piece of evidence to put into the record. Probably nothing that would make or break anything, but still something to help.
Collaborators often claim that they were there to prevent even worse abuses. It's a load of sanewashing, self-serving bullshit. Trump's harassment of Comey and Tish James is nothing but payback. A US Attorney resigned rather than do a bullshit show-trial prosecution, that's how Halligan was unlawfully appointed (and still pretends to be a US Attorney after her appointment was found to violate the law).
Wiles is an enabler, even if she likes to pretend in an interview that the's the only sane person in the room.
What I find so weird about these modern times on the web is that I cannot read NYT over a VPN even on a gift link. Same goes for trying to browse archive.is. For some reason, it seems very difficult to read information without having to give up at least your IP to someone's server, and I don't really understand if there are any (valid) reasons for that.
I think the amount of content scraping being done to feed the LLMs has led to a lot of news outlets making it harder for anybody who can't easily show that they're human to access their work
I believe that; the unfortunate side-effect (if it even IS only just a side-effect) is that it becomes even easier for your ISP and/or the various web sites (and tracking companies, etc) to build a dossier of exactly who is reading what.
Under a regime like this one, that could spell some real trouble.
The ISP will get which news outlets you read, but not which articles. Not ideal, but perhaps not as bad as you fear
I'm reading the linked article now using a VPN, and Archive links always work with a VPN as well. Seems like you might have something misconfigured, or your VPN provider does.
Yeah, could be. I'm using PIA.