Don’t know if you’ve noticed, but he’s not been president for a while. A third term would not be consecutive.

I totally accept that quantity shouldn’t matter more than quality. I mean that’s how we are where we are. I just don’t think zero publishable results is a good sign either.

Well yes, obviously. It’s even in the top post that the original was in 1959.

…but then they should perish (not literally).

If you’ve got nothing to publish, is your work valuable?

He’s going to turn into a sand-worm?

With a journalist in the group there’s no need for FOI requests. Think of the money saved!

Last thing he wants to do is liquidate. His twitter loans are secured by Tesla stock. He’d only liquidate if he gets a margin call on those loans.

The “tea party” was never a third party. They were a faction of the republican party.

Then you’ll have GOP for decades as the non-GOP vote splits between parties.

The US is solidly a two party system and you need to work within it.

Personally, I think the problem the Democrats have is that they’ve become corrupt. Becoming more corrupt isn’t going to help them.

They rationalise taking bribes from corporations as “fund raising” and say that it’s the only way to win elections. Well you know who wins elections without lobbying? Bernie and AOC. Both run through publicly funded campaigns., and this is why they can represent the needs of the people and not corporations and billionaires.