I am admittedly underwhelmed by the Live Nation news

[misanthrope]

with the fate of our nation looking more perilous by the week. Our justice system appears to be on the verge of failing us in prosecuting the leaders of the 2020-21 coup. The highest hall of adjudication in that same system is now obviously corrupted and beholden to forces that would erase more than a century of stare decisis in favor of a return to the Gilded Age.

In light of all that, pardon me if a focus on concert ticket prices leaves me unfazed and disappointed. I am more concerned with losing civil rights and the social safety net.

[Silent Type]

1. Same. At best, ticket prices will decrease a dollar or two.

[stopdiggin]

2. understood. but .. if you're looking for a showcase of purest corporate greed ...

(and of opinion that it should perhaps be of concern) - it's hard to find a more glowing example.

(even drug prices probably have a better argument in their defense .. )

[LisaM]

3. It's one of the few things both sides agree on.

It could also set good legal precedent. I'm on board. I hate having to download an app and pull out my phone just to go to a concert or a game.

[ecstatic]

4. exactly.

I couldn't believe the clip I saw of garland today taking a victory lap over this. Wow. This is what he's throwing his weight behind while trump's holdovers at the doj unfairly target black prosecutors and the gop continues to commit crimes with impunity?

I know I've criticized garland a lot but today marked a new understanding for me. I'm starting to feel like he intentionally delayed going after trump to make sure that no federal trials would ever see the light of day. Just as with nikki haley -- ALL of them are loyal to the republican party, not the United States.

I'm going to have to take a break from politics and this site because I'm disappointed in everyone right now -- even my fellow americans who, based on what the news keeps showing me, are ready to send us back into the chaos and cruelty of trump again. Did these people get permanent brain damage during covid or what? Like how can you be that stupid? HOW?!