Setting aside the financial malfeasance and violation of election laws, should we consider -this- a moral thing to do? Has politics gotten to the point where we use game theory to find advantage but discard morality and propriety as disadvantageous? I think I’ve gotten too old.
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You've got to pull your head out of the echo chamber.
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Yea, yea.  Sources are bad if they aren't your sources.
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Echo chamber? The Miami Herald?
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TPM Muckraker.  Two stories, right in a row.
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True.  I'd have told you if you asked.  So?
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It only makes sense
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Last week's Science Friday had a discussion on exactly this topic
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Material should be referenced
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Back to antiquity, no.
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On further thought, it wasn't really fair for me to lean into alcaray on this.
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On a far more salient note...  WHAT ABOUT THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER?
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Welcome to my world.
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You should own some responsibility for the state of your world.
 
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You should own some responsibility for the state of your world.
 
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Welcome to my world.
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I love you man.
 - I didn't think so, good of you to say so.
 
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On a far more salient note...  WHAT ABOUT THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER?
 
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On further thought, it wasn't really fair for me to lean into alcaray on this.
 
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Back to antiquity, no.
 
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Material should be referenced
 
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It only makes sense
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Oh yeah, you're so clever.
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You asked.
 
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You asked.
 
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True.  I'd have told you if you asked.  So?
 
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TPM Muckraker.  Two stories, right in a row.
 
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Yea, yea.  Sources are bad if they aren't your sources.