Well bully for you, here’s a handful of rocks to throw at the sinners. Congrats on being a perfect teen that somehow avoided all the things that became taboo decades later. 

I grew up in a conservative community and as a teen had some abhorrent hateful beliefs. They were not tightly held or organically developed beliefs — they were a reflection of the values widely held in my community.

They are slowly but surely letting that fact out of the bag. They will still often pretend that they oppose illegal immigration only, but it’s just another lie. They don’t want any immigrants, period -- especially if they’re brown.

There is one thing they know about it, and it’s the only thing that matters to them:

What “existing policy” would they have been reversing by refusing to have an off-the-record meeting with a powerful leader? 

What benefit was the NYT going to get from this off-the-record meeting with a known liar? 

Taking an off-the-record meeting with a powerful leader — never mind the actual president of the US — is to abandon most of a journalism org’s leverage.

Taking an off-the-record meeting and then lying about what was said in that meeting would absolutely be stooping to Trump’s level, and would destroy the NYT’s credibility with those people that still actually give a shit.

What would Mags do if she no longer got exclusives on Guiliani and Sister Sarah’s propaganda messaging?

You’re making this way too complicated.

Yes, but I thought it was determined that the killer was motivated by a personal grudge and not politics.

At some point an American journalist will be killed by a redhat, and it will be supported by 90% of Republicans. 

If it makes you feel any better, that’s like $300 when adjusted for inflation. 

And US businesses need overseas markets to support their sales, revenues and cash flows. It shouldn’t need to be said, but trade is a two-way street, and US business benefit massively from selling their products overseas. 

And using an idiotic, meaningless analytical foundation like “If economic growth continues at this pace ...” would get a failing grade.

So he’s just buying paper from Cornifer? And he has a map in his head of the area, but you, the person playing the character, can’t see that map?

Many of the maps you can’t buy at the home base, though. I can think of one area in particular I couldn’t get the map, because the only path to Cornifer I’d discovered was blocked by one of those black energy barriers. 

Actually, I do have an idea, since laid off employees’ feelings on the matter were pretty widely publicized.

... Because men become less competitive when there are women around to impress? 

In my NYC coed volleyball league, they separate teams into tiers based on skill and competitiveness. So there are divisions for those people that just want to goof around and socialize, and there are divisions for teams like mine, where we’re all competitive and actually want to play well and win.