> That would just mean that they would take a loss of profits for 1-2 years.

5 billion isn't even a year of profit. They're spending more than that on stock buybacks and shareholder dividends this year.

When Putin finally dies, Prigozhin is going to be first in line to try and seize power in the vacuum, with his Nazi mercenary army to support those endeavors.

> Not so easy to brainwash adults though.

The QAnon movement, among others, shows otherwise. Just show things close to a person's belief and then keep ramping up as they go down the rabbit hole. Jordan Petersen has been a gateway drug to right wing extremism for years (even before he went full mask off).

> It's rulings like this that incentivize the police to NOT learn the law.

That's intended. The entire idea of qualified immunity is a judicially-created concept. It has no basis in law itself since Congress once considered it and then explicitly decided not to implement the idea.

However, since the judiciary in the US has never had its continued self-granted expanse of power checked by other branches, these kinds of abuses continue and will continue.

It is. The person who sent it belongs in a windowless cell for a few decades.

> The court said that even a witness called by Lake to testify had confirmed that ballots that couldn’t initially be read at polling places could still ultimately have their vote counted.

Forget the facts, gotta keep the right wing outrage machine going.

> Prosecutors like that should be disbarred.

Prosecutors like that should spend the rest of their lives in prison. Same with any judges who help deny justice.

Even Japan's legal system has to be aware that executing this guy will take him from hero to martyr for a ton of people.

Iran's leadership came to power through a revolution, they know full well what their future holds if this one isn't stopped.

> I wonder how Mitch feels about stealing Obama's Supreme Court appointment now.

Unless a conservative dies in the next 2 years (or 2 months, depending on the GA runoff), McConnell is going to spend the rest of his life seeing a 6-3, or worse, SCOTUS that he made happen. If he had to give that up in exchange for a Senate majority for a few years he wouldn't ever make that trade because he's one of many working towards a long term goal and judicial capture is a major factor in making permanent minority rule by Republicans a possibility.

The only rules that exist in war are those determined by the winner.

> keep in mind that here in the west we have a huge social safety net

*offer of huge social safety net not valid in US.