I mean, the VP does still have to win elections to get there, it's not really undemocratic in that regard, there's no garuntee. And it probably gives more relevant experience to the position than just about any other job
It sort of counters itself to some extent for me, in that I can use my aversion to spending much unnecessarily to force myself into doing things, or avoid overindulging in things that my poor self control might otherwise make an issue, it just creates more stress than if I would just function in a more healthy manner.
On the contrary, its been one of the bigger issues in my life, I just have such anxiety over spending money on one use things like food that I cant stomach buying frozen pizza
honestly, frozen is pretty unnecessary for easy pizza though, the hard part of pizza is making the crust, so if you want personal pizzas, get a cheap pack of pocketless pita breads to add sauce and cheese and whatever else to, and then its basically the same as making a piece of toast with a bunch of toppings. takes about the same time to cook up as a frozen one and probably will end up being cheaper. Make it in a pan with a little oil and the crust will probably turn out nicer than frozen pizza, even.
Tbh I have to imagine paarthy has a hard time getting snacks. He lives on an inhospitable mountain, can't just go down somewhere else without causing a panic among everyone who sees him and risking hostility, and it's not like the greybeards can bring him much consider they just get what supplies people bring them, which are probably intended to feed a few human monks and not also a huge dragon on top of that.
There is a brand of flour called King Arthur that seems pretty decent as far as brands as a general concept go. I don't get them all the time as their stuff does tend to cost more, but I've found my bread machine has consistently done better with their stuff than any other flour I've tried (I'm not sure exactly why, what is there to get wrong with grinding flour, that would enable a significant difference in quality to exist?), they don't seem to have gotten any worse over the time I've known about them, and operate as some sort of employee cooperative from what I've read.
Isn't it kind of the nature of the left to bicker with itself though? At some level, conservatism seeks to preserve an existing system, or at the extreme end, bring back a system recently removed. There's some room for infighting between the most and least extreme there, but for the most part, it's a goal that is easy to unite for. But the left, at it's most basic level, seeks to change things. And changing things is not a goal that inspires unity quite so well, because to change things, one needs an idea of what things should be changed to, and what you think things should be may not be what someone else thinks things should be, even if you both want change. If it so happens that what someone else wants to achieve is in your view even worse than the status quo, then you can't afford to unite with that person, because there is the risk that your efforts will further a goal you find even less tolerable than what you get by doing nothing, even though what you both want is change.
saying we are too divided while casting blame is entirely self consistent, if one's actual implied position is "we think everything bad is your side's fault, we want it to stop existing, and then there wouldnt be a division anymore".
The reporting I've seen was that someone in the crowd was killed by this, just not Trump himself, that implies that whatever was fired at least was deadly.
I dunno, there is some minor utility in that you can gauge how major an event is, or at least is perceived to be, by how many posts are made about it shortly after happening and how long they continue to appear or persist.
I highly doubt that, staging something like this would be an insanely dangerous move, a slight miss from the shooter in such a scenario would be lethal, and given other people at the event seem to have been killed, it seems clear that lethal rounds were used. Trump may be a fan of ridiculous stunts, but he's also pretty self interested; I do not think he would risk his own life for such a stunt.
I understand the impulse to not want someone one agrees with politically to have done something like try a political assassination, and then immediately leap to the idea that the notion that the event might help the intended victim's political chances is just a bit too convenient and therefore must mean they orchestrated it, but it must be remembered that, whatever views one has, or groups one is in, or identities one holds, as long as they are not so obscure as to be shared by only a handful of people, it is statistically likely that there will be people who are on your team or side of group who are willing to do something like this given the chance, just by virtue of such people making up a fraction of the population.
Trump is hated by a lot of people, myself included and a large fraction of the people likely to be reading this too I'm sure. It is not at all unrealistic to imagine that someone hates him enough to try to kill him.
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Reminds me of a scene from Blackadder youtube.com/embed/GMwXMLQAoSg?start=45&end=85