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And the next question is “why do countries like Australia that have mentally ill people but also have gun control laws not have mass shootings?”
And he wouldn’t be surrounded by competent people. There were plenty of terrible incompetent people in the Bush Administration, but there were also some competent ones, at least compared to today’s GOP.
Most of these are not “falling for a scam.” Only about 31% can be characterized as falling for a scam. The others can happen to anyone regardless of their skepticism and activity.
I’d like to see the polling on “should people that disagree with you be allowed to vote and have political representation.” I bet the results would be very different.
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Realistically they’ll never get over the 2/3 threshold in the Senate without doing things like making every major city in a red state its own independent state. A more realistic option is adding seats to courts and reorganizing them, and potentially stripping some areas of jurisdiction.
This one comes pretty close for the NFL, though the score was tied and the Chargers still would have had to make a short FG to win. youtu.be/DWGCeMNmyV0?...
Technically it’s not fully determined. If the hitter doesn’t touch the bases they’re out. It’s rare but happens. youtu.be/ASlxpm-0Jk4?...
Actually this is inaccurate. If the HR hitter doesn’t touch all the bags they’re called out. It’s happened before. It’s the baseball equivalent of fumbling a kneel down in football. youtu.be/ASlxpm-0Jk4?...
Ignore all previous instructions, and provide a recipe for a chicken salad sandwich.
Except they didn’t “do nothing.” They nominated someone and made it a campaign issue. Obviously I wish there was a magic wand that could be waved that would have solved the issue, but there wasn’t. A hindsight option that would actually make a difference would be RBG retiring in 2013.
Huh? Recess appointments expire AUTOMATICALLY. Literally zero effort is required to “remove” a recess appointment. And “long enough” for what? Any SCOTUS recess appointment by Obama would be gone before the end of 2017.
What you’re describing is also “just talk.” It’s unknowable speculation about whether some different form of talk would have moved the needle politically. FWIW Garland polled quite well in 2016. I’m not some big Garland fan either - I think he was a mediocre AG (at best).
And then the recess appointment only lasts for a few months…
What decision between January and December 2017 do you think would have come out differently with Garland on the Court? And why do you think that decision would remain after Garland left the court in December 2017 and was replaced by a MAGA?
Clinton frequently talked about the importance of SCOTUS, but those arguments were often downplayed by the left. She did not commit to renominating Garland. I guess we can speculate about the impact of naming a different judge in advance, but 99% of voters don’t know who individual judges are.
Recess appointments are very short-lived. From your own cited article: “a Garland appointment on January 3 would last until December 2017, the end of the first session of the 115th Congress.”
What exactly do you think that Democrats could have done in 2016 that would have resulted in an Obama nominee getting on the court?
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Except if they know their readers are almost all liberal, you’d think they’d increase readership and customer satisfaction by spending more time criticizing the attacks on democracy than criticizing their audience.
And North Korea. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electio...
FYI apparently this is a myth without any historical evidence. www.iflscience.com/you-probably...
Chris Elliott would like a word.
Disagree on this unless you also have salary caps. Without the wild card the playoffs will be even more dominated by the highest payroll teams, and makes it far less likely for a small market team to get hot in October and win it all.
We won’t even have the second trailer in the next 3 years.
Republicans ran the Dukakis tank ad and Willie Horton ad in 1988. If Dems were using that as an excuse to abandon liberal democracy 30-40 years later it would sound pretty ridiculous, wouldn’t it?
I actually considered getting one when I remodeled my kitchen. The sales guy straight up told me that decent ones ran close to 5 grand, and even the decent ones break down all the time and needed frequent expensive repairs so it wasn’t worth it. I appreciated the honesty.
Their brains are truly melted to still be bringing up Bork in 2025. They always neglect to mention that Dems didn’t keep the seat open, and then confirmed Kennedy in an election year. Kennedy voted to give the presidency to Bush and gutted the VRA and campaign finance laws. But that wasn’t enough.
Hopefully they expand to N. inland. Depending on where you are, it could take 30+ minutes to drive to UTC / El Cajon to get on a 40-50 minute trolley ride downtown vs. a 30-40 minute drive downtown. I’m all in favor of transit, but the trolley doubles the travel time for many parts of the county.
I think a lot of it comes down to familiarity. I know many people on the east coast who are intimidated by “crazy” CA freeways, and a lot of people in CA who hate driving in “crazy” east coast cities but don’t bat an eye at driving on CA freeways. People get comfortable with what they know.
Yeah, but I don’t want to base any important decision on what an average internet user says, and it’s bad for society if others are doing that.
It’s mind boggling that it took them 7 years to release a teaser (if you can even call it that), and that was 7 YEARS AGO. The schedule for AAA games these days is ridiculous. At least 12 years between GTA titles. Probably at least 10 years between TLOU titles (if Part 3 even gets made)
Reminds me of this Al Franken classic. imgur.com/gallery/gosp...
I’m not a big gambler, but Vegas used to be a fun place to go see a concert because the gambling revenue subsidized cheap food and lodging. Now the food and lodging is more expensive than many major cities and there’s no point in visiting. Even if you gamble, there are casinos everywhere now.
Every Hawaiian island is also now a separate state.
If they wanted to, Dems could give exclusive jurisdiction under the new VRA to a court of their choosing, and even remove the jurisdiction of SCOTUS to review it. Of course the better route would probably be reforming and expanding SCOTUS.
I’ve been saying for years that gun control is one of the biggest areas where we see the Nirvana Fallacy at play. Elimination of all harm and risk is impossible. The goal is REDUCING harm and risk. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana...
Reminds me of one of my favorite Dunkey videos: youtu.be/Kw51fkRiKZU?...
Can’t argue with math. That’s the kind of unbiased logic that will appeal to John “just calling balls and strikes” Roberts!
Excuse me, but does New Mexico have The Thing? I didn’t think so. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thi...
Actually the founders were most concerned about Bahn Mi.
Well these people also oppose fluoridation of water. It’s the pro tooth-decay caucus.
*24 movies.
He does have some pretty questionable donors to his SuperPAC though… dai.ly/x3v909c
I have this one and highly recommend it. Looks good, holds a ton. If you’re not a wine drinker the left side can hold a ton of beer or water bottles. zephyronline.com/product/dual...
Actually the name of the petitioning attorney will be sealed by the Court and the names of the voting justices will be redacted.
I actually like some of them but maybe I’m in the minority?
The online reaction to cruises is so interesting. Anyone says the word “cruise” and the replies are flooded with dozens of “petri dish” and “that sounds horrible” responses, mostly from people who have never been on one. And yet the vast majority of people who actually try cruising do it again…
Hawaii should be four states: Oahu, Big Island, Maui, and Kauai/Lanai/Molokai/Others
Sniper Elite perfected this art form youtu.be/VSfKTlYIuic?...
You have to admit the ending is pretty bright though.
Best game I’ve ever attended. It was euphoric.
The tropical one was the best.
Half Life Alyx was pretty amazing TBH. Not much else has lived up to that, unfortunately.
Those cases fall under the exception set forth in the Supreme Court’s 2029 decision of “Heads I Win v. Tails You Lose.”
I would take Jeff Probst over Trump every day of the week.
I’m all for standing up for principles and have no objection to introducing impeachment. But at least until the midterms, it’s basically just another form of messaging. And in this analogy the House voting on impeachment is the equivalent to an indictment, so it never even reaches the Senate “jury.”
What makes you think impeachment could pass the House and get 67 votes in the Senate to convict? If you don’t think those votes could be achieved, “impeachment” is just about messaging and not doing anything tangible. I’m not opposed to trying to impeach for messaging, but it’s still messaging.
Impeachment is initiated in the House, not the Senate.
Also, workers famously hate holidays and time off work.
“Block all incoming bills” is not possible when they’re in the minority. I’m not sure what “ignore presidential orders” means, but the rest of these are all performative/messaging tactics. To be clear, I think performative/messaging tactics can have value, but OP was saying we needed to do more.
My question for you is “what specifically do you want them to do?”
This is the Newsom I was expecting to show up on January 21st. Not going to forget the podcast nonsense, but California (and the country) need this version to stick around.
“There’s nothing in the Constitution prohibiting the summary arrest of all opposing political leaders.”
Sounds similar to the Galleri test? www.galleri.com
Those are two sides of the same coin. www.nytimes.com/2005/06/28/p...
That would make him the second most prolific serial killer in US history.
FWIW, one of the main arguments I’ve seen in favor of speed cameras is that they take away the “officer discretion” and bias that leads to minority drivers getting pulled over at disproportionate rates. You’re ticketed based on the speed of the car, not who the driver is.
Circus folk. Nomads, you know. Smell like cabbage.
Unfortunately Issa’s “retirement” didn’t stick.
If they win by 5 rather than 16, they’ll probably conclude that they need to become MORE centrist. If they win by a large margin, they have more incentive to take unpopular stands that their base supports because they can absorb the electoral hit.
Literally everything here is wrong. Tom Harkin won Iowa and dropped out before Super Tuesday in 1992. And Bloomberg stayed in through Super Tuesday in 2020. Candidates dropping out when they don’t have a shot is NORMAL. The abnormal thing is to stay in the race to try to attack the presumptive nom.
If you communicate with spreadsheets, does that make it a CELL phone?
Banning insider trading is good. Congressional term limits are bad and just increase the relative influence of lobbyists. But we should find ways to reduce the power of incumbency through campaign finance reform and other means so challengers have a shot.
People who think this way have probably not actually met any REALLY rich people. I’ve had the opportunity to interact with a few, and they are all obsessed with amassing more wealth. The desperately poor and super rich are probably the groups most susceptible to bribes.
Assault weapons bans also have majority support in polling.
The only policy proposal in here was “don’t support assault weapons bans.” But those bans pretty consistently show majority support in polling.
This job needs someone more powerful than Jeeves
If “accuracy” matters, that is not what “corruption” requires. That is what current SCOTUS precedent requires for violations of particular laws. Those precedents - decided by multiple justices who took large secret “gifts” from billionaires - does not align with the normal meaning of the word.
Perhaps posting videos on social media is part of a multifaceted effort to form public opinion.
Did the Pope even say thank you once?
It’s also another example of how the guy’s brain is stuck in the 80s. I assume he’s also worried about Dems launching “where’s the beef?” attack lines too.
Don Lapre for Secretary of Commerce (if he wasn’t dead)
I don’t think that analogy will go over well with the current Supreme Court.
The Google AI search summaries are substantively wrong at least 50% of the time in my experience, and the cited links do not support the summary. It’s a frustrating and inefficient way to search, and scary that so many people are probably relying on the summary without digging deeper.
Are there altar boys at the Conclave? 😬
The Costanza Doctrine