The scuttlebutt is he's headed to FLL. Pix with DJT at Mar-a-Lago upcoming, no doubt. Game knows game!

The Dems held the presidency from 1933-1953. Granted it was 2 men.

Redacted or not?

The Republicans got busy in the state trenches during BHO's 2 terms. I visited this site: https://www.ncsl.org/about-state-legislatures/state-partisan-composition to see what happened. There are reports going back to 2009 (very convenient!)

In 2009, Dems controlled the legislatures of 28 states. In 2025 Republicans control 28. In the U.S. House, Ds held 255 seats to Rs' 179. Now we essentially have a tie. The D ground game totally went to shite in the intervening 15 years.

Obama didn't get much done because he was stymied by an R minority in the Senate. If people are worried about what Congress is doing now, they'd really freak out if Rs ever got a filibuster proof majority in the Senate.

It's a lot easier for people to understand the proximate cause than the remote cause.

If he didn't say it, someone ought to!

Also true. The level of vitriol is truly astonishing.

Perhaps the more befuddling thing is the voters don't see this.

IIRC, Gore didn't ask/specifically declined Clinton's help on the stump. For all of Slick Willie's failings, the guy was a master politician.

Of all the cuts recently made, seemingly doing away with the CFPB is the most befuddling. For a supposedly populist administration, one would think this one would be top of the list to keep, if not expand.

https://www.fastcompany.com/91283520/i-need-job-why-fired-federal-workers-struggling-replace-government-work

Gracie Lynne, a 32-year-old fellow at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, who lives in Eugene, Oregon, took a pay cut when she started her job four years ago.

Her parents lost their home during the Great Recession, which led to their divorce, years of financial angst, and Lynne’s own interest in financial regulation. She found herself following the nascent CFPB’s rulemaking and poring over 1,000-page bills on bank regulations. She wrote her master’s thesis on the bureau. She couldn’t pass up the job.

“This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity,” she told herself.

My thought exactly.

Seems to have worked for the TX university system, though I'm sure Chris has a better take since he's a resident.

https://news.utexas.edu/topics-in-the-news/top-10-percent-law/

This was brilliant.

If DOGE can show evidence of lease renewals for buildings that have no employees in them, I'm all for doing something about that. Absent that, we're just calling normal business practices fraud.

Hell's bells, it happens here once in awhile.

I think I've demonstrated my understanding of that. Keep going, if you will, this is fascinating.

I think you just restated what I had summarized above. Is it bad journalistic practice? Of course. Is it a straight line to electing Donald Trump president? Let your imagination run wild. If that's all it takes, you had one foot over the cliff already.

This smacks of "Look what you made me do."

A lease is a lease, man. Landlords don't care who's there. (The company I work for is in the same boat.)

Would I put it past people who think there is some vast overarching conspiracy against them based on video game magazine and chatroom behavior to vote for Donald Trump? Of course not. There's always someone controlling things one would think are uncontrollable. There's always the omnipotent "they" to point the finger at.

Worked for Goldman Sachs. Not a wonder.

Here's my take after reading that essay and doing a little digging on Reddit. What a wild story!

Guy meets girl. Guy falls for girl. Girl likes to get around. Guy is heartbroken and writes a long blog post about it. Gaming magazine gets involved for some reason and does some journalistic stuff that ain't quite on the up and up. Gaming community takes umbrage to that and does stuff it really shouldn't have. Gaming community, despite probably being right about journalistic malpractice, wonders why it's being portrayed as the bad guy. Fair?

I’m going to read it. I got a couple of paragraphs in before I posed my question. I dearly hope it’s a little more than a bitter rant about a romance gone south.

Before I read that post, did she ever publish a rebuttal?

In answer to your preamble, of course! It was a self-published free game. What possible beef could there be?

As for the next branch, I would have a strong preference for choice 1, but I would be interested in hearing your thinking behind 2. Bearing in mind, however, that you're asking a layman to understand the context of what appears to almost any lay reader choice 1.

Well, that just muddies the water a little more. Write that piece! It'll get a million comments.