Well, they still represent their party, so their actions could still affect an election. An embarrassing lame duck session would screw the next party nominee.
Mexico is in a very different situation regarding the size and complexity of their administrative state. They’re also facing an entirely different type of corruption and political violence than we have up here…
Would be so much worse… Think about any type of project or policy that takes more than 4 years to complete (and longer to see tangible benefits from).
It’s already bad enough having a GOP president come in every 8 years to undo most of the good things their Democratic predecessor accomplished (with Reagan removing Carter’s solar panels from the White House roof being the archetype).
Imagine having that pendulum swing every 4 years. Literally nothing that takes longer than 4 years would ever get done.
I think the problem with that would be that every 4-12 years we’d have a lame duck supreme court playing tug of war with the last supreme court over a handful of issues.
What we really need is to be able to easily oust justices for ethics violations and conflicts of interest, like what the hell is Thomas still doing there??
Thomas is still there because taking Bribes and Gifts from Billionaires who have Cases before you is FINE! The REAL Corruption is Judge MERCHAN’S DAUGHTER who DONATED some Money once to DEMOCRATS!
Why would he do that before the election? It’s still the same party, and him doing that would do nothing but hurt Kamala at this point. The smart move is to walk the tightrope for a few more months.
Yeah I get it, it sucks that American politicians can’t just say certain things without tanking their career and destroying their political future. It’s fucked up and gross, but it’s real.
A lot of people are talking like this is a done deal, but I’ve seen enough elections at this point to know that a million impossible to predict things can (and likely will) happen between now and November.
As much as you might want the Democratic party to shout support for Palestinians from the rooftops, the current reality is that we need to continue to be very careful. If you actually care about Palestinian lives beyond using them as political pawns, then unfortunately we need to play the game until November.
Because the alternative is an unacceptable outcome for the Palestinian people.
I’ll probably get downvoted for saying it, but it doesn’t make it less true: Harris could behave exactly the same toward Israel as Biden, after being elected, and she would still be the only choice this election.
I know there are plenty of genuine people here, but so much of the “genocide Joe” rhetoric was such obvious astroturfing. Or at least began that way…
But we live in a world of cause and effect. Regardless of what happens between now and then there are a few possible outcomes for Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. But objectively, by a long shot, the worst is if Donald Trump and the GOP (with the hands of the Federalist Society, Heritage Foundation, John Birch Society, probably several lame clubs named after Ayn Rand bullshit, firmly up its keister like a goddam Muppet) take the presidency and immediately give Netanyahu carte blanche to “do what needs to be done” there. Which is what he/they will do.
If you think things are bad now, a Trump win would be signing the death warrant for the Palestinian people in the Levant. And every so-called “progressive” that stayed home because of Biden’s stances on Israel will have the blood of millions of dead Palestinians on their hands.
I consider myself to be a progressive, but the complete lack of pragmatism I’ve seen from other so-called progressives lately has been atrocious. So I hope it was mostly astroturf.
I really don’t think there’s that many people towards the middle or left of the political spectrum that are going to be upset about this if he gets the changes through.
Besides, any changes that might bother voters will still have an effect on Kamala’s campaign until the elections over in November.
Whenever I see a politician mention anything about a constitutional amendment, I immediately stop reading.
Shit ain’t happening… We wouldn’t be able to pass an amendment saying “Pizza is yummy” because Republicans would refuse to agree with Democrats. They would actually stop eating pizza altogether because of it. There would be a movement to outlaw pizza because it’s grooming our kids (stupid sexy pizza).
I was trying to think of something silly and outlandish, and as I was typing this, I realized… This isn’t even that far out of the realm of possibility at this point. It’s like legitimately difficult to think of something too far-fetched for this reality. It wouldn’t be the first pizza-related issue on the right (ahem, Pizzagate?). Or the second (I just remembered the stupid “pizza is a vegetable” bullshit).
The looking glass ain’t shit, we went through it years ago. We’re at the end of “2001: A Space Odyssey” with Pink Floyd’s Echoes playing in sync with it. If we’re lucky, we’ll soon make it through the psychedelic spaghettification, and we will get to watch ourselves as a boring old man before becoming a giant space fetus…
Sorry, got kind of sidetracked there what were we talking about again?
Oh yeah, Jupiter and beyond the infinite…
(Spoiler alert? Lol I couldn’t spoil the end of that film if I tried).
The bill also would allow tomato paste on pizzas to be counted as a vegetable, as it is now.
TBF that’s not even as bad as Reagan’s “ketchup is a vegetable”. Canning is a totally legitimate way of preserving tomatoes at their peak of ripeness with their nutritional qualities intact (many chefs even prefer canned tomatoes to fresh ones) and paste/sauce is just the ground-up version of that. Ketchup is that plus a shit ton of sugar and/or corn syrup.
The amount of tomato sauce on pizza is dubiously small, however.
It was more about the conservative reaction to the situation. Because it was during Obama tenure, and Michelle had the gall to get all uppity and try to make kids more healthy.
It’s bureaucracy. The hearing is well before the scheduled execution, and it sounds likely that the hearing will vacate the conviction, from what I read. The court is just saying that there’s an established process for this and the lawyers just need to follow that process.
ETA: Not to say that our legal system isn’t horribly broken, because it is. Just saying that my interpretation of this case is that Marcellus is just a few dotted i’s and crossed t’s away from being a free man.
Yup, gubna droopy dawg was always terrible. During the pandemic. When the vaccine started rolling out it should have gone to population centers and first responders. It went to Timbuktu. Because the population centers were blue. Vulnerable people and first responders had to make cross state treks trying to get the vaccine. The cities and urban areas were some of the last areas to get it. Because for him, racism and cruelty were the point.
If they did nothing wrong in “Project 2025”, what are they afraid of? Don’t they like free advertisement of their parties agenda so that everyone knows what they are voting for?
Project 2025 information needs to be plastered on billboards in every swing state in America. I wonder how much interest there would be to crowdfund something like this.
It’s getting widespread. Coworker who leans right asked if I Googled it. I’m like, bro I told you about it months ago while explaining why trump is a fascist. At least it’s in the mainstream discourse now.
Don’t rely on the MSM. They are trying to hand the election to the Mr “tax-break for billionaires” guy. There are way more solid sources of news out there. Like this one discussing Biden’s chances of winning.
They can’t know what the meds really have in them like fentanyl without testing them all and considering how many people are invading the country, that would be pretty hard to do with every pill they find
You think people are smuggling fentanyl into the US this way? Do you realize how inneficient that would be. Drugs like that are brought in by the truckload not in a 90 count bottle of blood pressure medication.
Migrants claiming asylum at the border are not who is smuggling in Fentanyl.
Americans are. Because they aren’t searched as thoroughly. This really should be obvious to anyone who looks past the anti-migrant rhetoric and just uses basic logic for a second.
It’s easy enough to find out if the meds they have isn’t fentanyl. If they’re routinely using them without dropping dead then they’re telling the truth. I don’t want to hear “but they might have them disguised among the pills” or some other nonsense.
So the fuck what if they are. They’re not being put into American prisons or society, the risk of them being fent does not influence anything other than the well-being of themselves and anyone else near them dumb enough to take an unknown substance for free considering they don’t have personal belongings in these migrant prisons. It’s just unadulterated malice.
Edit: you’re not wrong, I just needed to angrily rant with you, people are fucking stupid.
Police cant make them ingest the pills to see if they drop dead or not and fentanyl pills are disguised as other pills all the time. And it’s not like they’re being singled out, anytime you get arrested and have pills on you, it’s not like they hold them for you until you’re out of jail. You never see them pills again.
A look at your profile reveals that you are pursuing a political agenda and are only here to spread right-wing propaganda. One question: Do you actually get paid to do that?
I don’t agree with that person, but you’re criticizing said person for having opinions and writing about it. They don’t owe you writing less, writing left-wing propaganda, or reducing their interest in politics.
You could write “you’re an asshole!” and you would be right, but don’t take away a person’s right to comment stuff on the internet.
I have no problem at all with someone expressing their opinion, even if that opinion is not mine. But this account is less than a day old and posts exclusively pro-Trump content. From this I conclude that it is a fake account run by a think tank or similar. I think it’s important to point this out, because organized opinion manipulation with enormous financial resources has nothing to do with free discourse - quite the opposite.
Nope, just a hard working patriot here. I don’t understand why it is that anyone who disagrees with the left gets accused of being paid or accused of being a bot
Anyway, to clarify: it’s just hard to imagine that there can be people who are so deluded that they would follow the dull whataboutism, all those hateful, irrational and mostly simply false accusations of the MAGA people out of their own conviction - people who are not able to see through that at all. So it’s more of a compliment that your account is perceived as a fake account set up to achieve political power interests. Because if it isn’t, which I still very much doubt, you can only be one of those useful idiots who are so small-minded that they allow themselfs to be played for cards against their own interests.
“We must trow away this box of potentially life saving medication just in case its actually poison and someone may get additionally ill from this specific batch, directly risking your life to potentially delay the overdose of an unnamed drugaddict, that is still going to score elsewhere anyway”
Even the stupidest people i know in my life have the cognitive awareness to smell the stink of that logic.
Wouldn’t it be wierdos, not wierdoes? My autocorrect seems to think so.
Also in the UK, where I’m from, we have standardised testing, when i was a kid the tests were all made by exam boards like AQA, OCR and EdExcel. I believe they still are.
Despite the flaws that come with that it was better than allowing an individual to come up with the test as it removed personal bias and, obviously, derogatory remarks about students in the class.
I call my son a goof when he does something silly! In the UK, it just means silly. The image in my head is of Goofy, the disney character.
Good to know if i ever go to canada.
Also, weirdo is so innocuous in the UK. It wouldn’t turn a head. But then i suppose we call people a “cunt” or a “dickhead” and it can be as friendly as saying “love you” or “you are hilarious” and as nasty as saying “die in a fire”
So i suppose i shouldn’t be surprised by the nuances found in language even if we are speaking the same language, especially when there’s an ocean of space between us.
I’ve lived in a handful of different provinces and have family in basically every region of Canada and I have never heard of goof being used that way. Where did you hear that?
Calling someone a goof is just another way to say they’re being silly/ ridiculous, which I’m pretty sure is the same way it’s used everywhere else.
I suspect there’s nuance or personal nicknames being lost from context here. I strongly doubt a teacher (unless they want to be fired) calls students out like this without prior development of the material.
But I’m sure my take is far too rational for the knee jerk wing of my peers.
I don’t think there’s anything close to room for nuance here. No matter how “friendly” you think you are with your students and how much you think they like you, this is not acceptable behavior from a high school teacher.
Teachers can just be cruel sometimes. Some of my worst bullys in school were teachers. One of my teachers meowed like a cat at my friend in front of the whole class to mock my friend for him meowing.
I don’t know about you, but I died of blood clots, cancer, heart disease, myocarditis, and a whole bunch of other things several times over now. Must be the eight COVID vaccines I’ve gotten I guess.
And just don’t ask me about the time I blew up a gas station because my mom called me while I was filling up.
Oh shit I’d completely forgotten about that one.
I mean yeah, at least GSM phones (and I guess CDMA too since the frequency bands are pretty close) did tend to cause funky interference, but the idea that they could somehow cause fuel pumps to go boom was… well, a bit silly.
Pfft, woke cultural Marxist “scientists” controlled by BIG GOBERMENT tell you that asbestos causes cancer or that tiny pieces of plastic can make you sick, and you believe them? I’ll snort a rail of asbestos just to trigger the libs.
But seriously speaking though, while yeah that was sarcastic as fuck, that’s essentially the world view behind why conservatives are increasingly detached from reality; anything “the left” (which, like I tend to quip, is apparently everyone left of the Strasserites nowadays) believes in is by default wrong because the left is wrong. The authorities, researchers etc. who say that CO^2^ emissions are a problem, or that drinking bleach or eating huge doses of dewormer won’t actually cure your COVID – which by the way you simultaneously believe to be a lie perpetrated by Jewish space lizards controlled by Bill Gates – are all “the left”, so those things just can’t be true
“Beryl? Even our Hurricanes are gender non-binary now.”
That’s what he said in response to the National Hurricane Center posting the latest satellite image of the storm.
It’s not nonsense. It’s a sustained attack on both people and science. This kind of message brings the science deniers and bigots closer together, helping to shore up that base and give it common ground.
As it turns out most men and women aren’t weird doomer weirdos who spend a considerable amount of their lives being miserable online. Most people want families, and there’s nothing wrong with that.
Work would freak out if I accepted a gift from a client. I’d probably be fired. Yet somehow, this is okay for servants of the public.
Don’t forget to vote this November. We are stuck with these dickheads until they die or retire because we fucked up in 2016 and Trump installed these assholes in rapid succession after McConnell refused to let Obama seat a justice. I’d also really appreciate more of the capped prescriptions Biden has done, paying $35 a month instead of hundreds for insulin. If he can cap some other medications, we will be one step closer to universal healthcare.
If hiring a convicted felon, rapist, failed businessman, dementia patient means they’ll end up with a bigger yacht to take them to Epstein’s private island, then yes. CEOs will gladly back him.
They think they can manipulate him. Anyone voting for him either thinks that ( or can profit off it), is deeply uneducated, or truly believes that he is the next Messiah.
Let that be a lesson to all those shitty police officers that you will be punished for your unethical behavior with not being able to be a police officer anymore… 30 years after you retire.
Rob Schneider. The SNL guy that had one character, then moved on to being remembered as “The Stapler” on South Park.
What an inspiration.
Edit. Now that I think about it, Schneider is actually being a true comedian through and through here. The golden rule is to always punch up, and Schneider is attempting to do just that.
I thought you were referring to how much he has to punch up, cuz he’s such a a scumbag(expanding on my joke). But looking at your account history… Wtf why are you even bothering?
Lets just cut all the way to the end and “Godwin’s law” for this.
Adolph Hitler is “more accomplished” than me, but I have zero desire to accomplish what he did. So I’m not sure “more accomplished” is really a good measure to try to aspire to.
I wouldn’t want his list of accomplishments. And I say that as someone who didn’t end up a major success at standup. If I had to be hateful to be successful, I wouldn’t take that bargain.
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