I’m terribly amused by Kripp’s attitude in this video. He comes off as the conspiracy theorist who has just miraculously been vindicated and is whispering into the mirror ‘I was right, I knew I was right all along!’

Yeah, this is the kinda crap I’m talking about. Once we start genuinely espousing ‘guilty until proven innocent’ we’re kinda turning into scumbags ourselves. Wray has done nothing to really earn our ire yet except have legal associations to people we don’t like.

It does? It mostly mentions his firm’s history with Trump associates, namely Christie. It also mentions the Federalist Society which... an absolute crapton of conservative-leaning lawyery-type folks belong to. It mentions he donated to Romney and McCain’s campaigns which I mean... so what? Most rich Republicans…

Understand that my replies are all made in the context of the article above, which is ostensibly written to make the reader feel that this man cannot and should not be trusted, and that we are all somehow worse thanks to his appointment. I think it’s a bit much when he hasn’t really done much that’s on the level of so…

Well, I wasn’t really trying to imply he was paycheck-to-paycheck or something, but if we’re going to judge him for *choosing* to take on a lucrative client, what exactly is the verdict we’re trying to come up with? That he’s unfit to practice law? That he can’t be trusted, or something? Since we obviously can’t judge…

Not forced, no, but they go where the money is. I don’t hold a murderer’s lawyer accountable for his client’s actions, to use an extreme example.

Fair point, but again worth noting:

For my own part, I’m going to give him the benefit of the doubt for the time being. Lawyers, while they do have good control over whom they represent (depends if they’re leading their own firm or not of course), really shouldn’t be held accountable for the actions who they represent. Chris Christie’s sins are his own,…

I’m not exactly sure what you’re going on about, but government officials go to the same hospitals and doctors as the rest of us. Honestly, US healthcare may be an absolutely catastrophic mess thanks to insurance and costs, but one thing it isn’t is objectively bad when talking about the care itself. The actual…

Nothing says A+ political strategics like threatening the lobbyists with more money than anyone!

Oh! Oh, that makes a lot more sense, thank you.

I still don’t quite get it, I guess. Why would he demand such a thing from them?

This is probably a mistake, but I’m trying really hard to parse and understand this tweet right now:

Still tens of millions of astonishingly gullible, stupid people. Some of them are racists, but every single one of them without fail (save for maybe anarchists!) was a gullible dumbass that believed a Trump administration would somehow be good for them. The Trump administration hasn’t even been particularly good for…

Remember it wasn’t half of all voters, just the slightly less than half that bothered to show up.

My cat’s litter box is better administrated than the Trump White House.

I’m not saying that whatever their proposal is should be passed right now with the Senate as it currently stands. That would be unreasonable.

I will not be so spiteful towards McCain that I will not acknowledge the fact that his obviously planned performance to first vote for this whole ‘debate’ farce to happen was just so he could destroy it with a no vote was not an admittedly satisfying way to see the GOP get a nasty spit in the eye from one of its own.

Not speaking facetiously, I genuinely have no god damn idea how 90% of GOP members could ever possibly be swayed into believing in single payer healthcare.

They didn’t need to vote on it. They knew it would pass anyways, and they got to gut the ACA to hell and back through 14 months of committees. They claim over and over that Obamacare was ramrodded through Congress, but it’s just not true. So many concessions were made to the GOP to get the bill through committees to…