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(Well, poop. I tried to keep you safe.)

Yep, the conservative shows have had minor outrage at this, but the Trump voters will go right along with it, if not praise her right on down to the ballot box.

Yes, I'm sure they were instead taken to a nice farm upstate! (No one tell them. Let's let one person have a peaceful life.)

So, she's like Santos, but an animal murderer?

I get decisions on farms can be tough/unpleasant with respect to other animals, but her descriptions of what happened just seem lazy.

Is there some stupid ass quota for using "slam" in headlines? So sick of this sensationalized BS.

Playing devil's advocate, in a crazy accident you may not be able to get to/reach your phone, or even be responsive. If you use the personal assistant function on your phone, it's no different than using OnStar, in terms of privacy.

All of this said, last I heard OnStar was pretty expensive for the average household income. I don't have it, and I don't worry too much about it.

Yes, the first half definitely sounded like the beginning of a death announcement. I'm guessing they did that intentionally to point out his age and make us associate him with old age. They've been making lots of money off of Biden and Trump relating to age and whether someone so old is fit for office.

I, personally, don't care about age. I care about values, performance, and ability to carry out the duties of the office. Bernie certainly aligns with my values, and has performed well in his terms. If he continues to have the cognitive abilities he has demonstrated, I'd support him until term limits were passed.

Boromir and Legolas crack me up.

I make 75k and live fairly comfortably, or I would if the corporations weren't pinching us for every penny. Now I face a house that requires more repairs than I have money and time to rectify, and face a significant challenge for how to educate my young children in a way that will keep them interested and keep up with their aptitude. Can't afford private schooling and public schools will be insufficient. I'm better off than most people I know.

That was not my recollection of how it was supposed to work or how it worked in practice, but I found an archive of the original guidebook, and it says exactly what you said. Interesting. I got passed up by Donkey Kong and Bowser on straightaways all the time, but maybe that's more of a mirror mode challenge thing than a size of the karts things.

My recollection was big characters had a higher top speed, but slow acceleration. Small characters were the opposite. Medium characters didn't excel or suck at either.

"Pecker is pain in Ted Cruz' ass."

Who goes from 2 to 2.1? It's always 2 ½, 2 ¾, 2 ⅞, and so on.

This is my problem. I bought some iron-on patches for the back of my Mario hat so I won't be mistaken. It's a different color red, but most people won't pick up on that.

In many elections, that would be reasonable. The difference here is Trump. We have not had a president who so blatantly breaks the law with the level of support he has while his supporters either willfully ignore it or even support it.

So few thought he had a chance to be the Republican nominee in 2016, including Hillary's campaign. Then, he stomped all of the other Republicans. Still, people he had no chance of winning the general election, and he won. While it is clear he hates learning of any kind (as evidenced by appointing Betsy DeVos, his inability to pay attention to briefings, etc.), his campaign has had opportunities to learn what works and what doesn't. If the opposition is not unified on ONE candidate against Trump, Trump will win. The consequences of that are too dire, and this we gotta eat the white bread with Kraft singles sandwich. It's better than the diarrhea sandwich people keep pointing to.

In general, yes, run a candidate that is popular with voters. You can't do that this year. No one who is unknown would have the time to get enough traction to beat Trump. No one who is well known is liked enough to motivate people to get to the polls.

I don't think people are saying don't criticize Biden or don't criticize the system that resulted in Biden being president the first time and a candidate the second time. By all means, criticize away. He could be worse, sure, but he could be so much better.

What I think people are saying is that when you are comparing Biden and Trump, it's important to point out that while both are not ideal, one is way worse. People who aren't paying attention to the level they should will be less motivated to show up to the polls if they just think "everybody sucks." Biden isn't great, but Trump is a criminal scumbag who wants to let others strip us of our rights so that he can play king.

I think their point was that while both sides may not be great options (the original comment's point), there is a huge difference in the level of how not-great they are, and leaving it at t"hey are both not great" is a disservice to those not immersed in the political landscape because this election could be VERY close and the consequences of not voting for Biden, despite all of his shortcomings, significantly impact the entire world, especially Americans.

Doesn't he look old and terrible now? I thought I saw a picture of that somewhere.

Again, what if they hadn't crossed all of their t's and dotted all of their i's for that one charge? Look at all of the stunts he has pulled so far. There's a lot that goes into making charges stick. This is how the justice system works for big cases, not just for Trump. You're right about him being free all this time, though. That was an injustice against the American people. If most people did what he did, we would have been waiting in jail. That's where his money and influence really aided him. Although, putting him in jail may have caused his supporters to try again, and in far greater numbers, to bring down democracy. That'll probably happen anyway, but him being free has delayed that inevitability.

Anyway, I'm not suggesting we have to like how it has unfolded. I am suggesting that if it had happened some other way, it had a good chance of failing or leading to the fracturing of our democracy.

Many changes need to be made to prevent this from happening again. He's a buffoon and his tactics are obvious to everyone except his biggest supporters. It's almost better that he has done this and exposed many of the flaws in the system, because a competent person would have been successful and wrested power during the last presidential election and there wouldn't be another this year.

It certainly feels that way, but it's important to have all of your ducks in a row before you go after a former president, especially one who has had such crazy influence on a large portion of the country. It would not do well to miss something or make a misstep that results in a not guilty and immunity via double jeopardy. Getting through the investigation and all of the interviews would take forever, not to mention charging others to get them to flip.