>This is who republicans are quoting whenever they repeat the phrase that “you can indict a ham sandwich”.

Do you think that only Republicans say this or something?

No, but there’s more incentive to propagate the trope of you or your friends find themselves in a position where downplaying a federal indictment is a PR move you’d want to make. Yes, that could be anyone, but the indictment rate by party of administration sure is an interesting statistic.

The democratic party is the party in the US more often concerned with the interests of people accused of crimes by the criminal justice system. Republicans are more often concerned with the criminal justice system being insufficiently punitive and therefore tolerating crime.

Unless the crimes are alleged to have been committed by the political classes themselves.

Lists of indictments (and convictions) by administration over the past 50+ years (dating to the Nixon administration) shows a sharp majority under Republican presidential administrations.

<https://gigafact.org/fact-briefs/have-there-been-significant...>

For a longer history: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_federal_political_scan...>

Note that the US has had (by general consensus) six or seven party systems, with significant re-alignments occurring at several points.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_eras_of_the_United_S...>

The two most recent shifts, which Wikipedia traces to roughly 1980 and 2016 have substantially changed what were traditional hallmarks particularly of the Republican Party. Whilst in rhetoric the GOP remains "tough on crime", in practice it rather more consistently hews to Wilhoit's Law: "Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."

<https://crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/liberals-against-progre...>.

Consumption itself is unethical.

Have you considered the possibility that Enoch Powell was right?

There’s a scandal/controversy occurring right now after someone leaked photos of the inside of Ariana Grande’s apartment.

yikes! that's pretty gross. I hope there's some appropriate consequences.

I just don’t like the name.

I've definitely been in situations where managers tell me to "spend X amount before the end of the year." They don't want higher ups to think they can cut our budget.

Indeed I would bet he knew he would lose money on Twitter but did it anyway.

He tried to back out of the purchase after signing an agreement, but was forced to buy it for $44b in the end.

"The burn rate is unsustainable: The US fired 850+ Tomahawk cruise missiles in 30 days but purchased only 57 in the FY2026 budget. That is 14.9 years of production consumed in a single month."

Does the author think the US can only make 57 missiles a year?

Do you think the US has idle capacity that can be activated at a moment's notice?

> Do you think the US has idle capacity that can be activated at a moment's notice?

I'm sure some very smart MBA increased profits by eliminating spare capacity or making cuts that would make it much harder to spin up. That's American business culture: focus on this quarter or this year, nothing else matters.

Indeed, regular drinkers know what to expect as far as pour and price from any given bar. If I drop into a new bar and I feel ripped off then I don't go back. I do the same with burritos.