Lol, that wasnt for lack of trying... Trump decreed a whole fuckton of stuff that various staffs and agencies had to low key backpedal on. Dude was publishing major policy on Twitter on a fucking whim every other day....
Don't be scared... Dont let anyone tell you that voting for Kennedy splits the trump hotel and is really a vote for Biden (or the opposite...)
Google what's gonna be on your ballot, read the wiki for all of em, and simply mark your ballot with whatever the best option is for you. Not what's most likely to be a "win vote", not whatever is most "gamesmanship" friendly for your state.
Your voice, your choice, simply tell them what the best option on the list is. Your own personal big boy/girl/whatever voiced opinion of the best candidate.
Aight, lemme see if'n I can't match the goofy ass rant energy here...
Motherfucker, we had lawn darts... 6" long finned metal spikes that you threw across the yard at a hula hoop. Think Cornhole, but with giant stabby things... We shot each other with bb guns, on fucking purpose... You know why?
Because TV had maybe ten channels. VCRs didn't even exist. If you wanted to watch a movie, you dug through 15 pages of schedules in a little comic book looking deal that came in the Sunday paper (and if you didn't get a Sunday paper, well fuck you..) looking to see if it was gonna show that week and when, and hopefully you were able to watch TV whenever the hell it was gonna be on, which never once fucking happened to anybody ever...
We had cartoons on Saturday morning until a bunch of singing Mexican kids came on, and then it was whatever was on the damned thing. You got days of our lives, Dallas, some fucking nutjob recruiting for shit like jonestown (there was always one on one of the channels), mr ed, or the fucking muppets... We watched the fucking muppets because it wasn't in fucking black and white, didn't have a talking horse or a bunch of goofy ass Germans making bad jokes, and we really didn't give a fuck who shot JR because we didn't even know who the fuck he was...
Knight Rider and A Team were "prime time", wich didn't mean it was what everybody was streaming, it meant it showed in the hours betweern school/work and bedtime when people had time to watch. There was exactly ZERO ability to make anything appear on that fucking TV except whatever 10 options you had at any given time, until the Atari came out.
The Muppets were our Biden. Not great by any metric whatsoever, but the alternatives were all crap, so it was what we went with and we all enjoyed the lack of shitshow alternatives...
Theres a very easy way to sort out the issue of bias that's gonna be inherent in journalists reporting an alleged bias against journalists...
(From NPR)
Over a month into the war in the Gaza Strip, international news organizations have little, if any, access to Gaza. Israel, which is bombing Gaza in response to the deadly Hamas attack on its soil, controls access. And with the exception of brief tours with a limited number of reporters, Israel has not been granting journalists access to the region.
Law enforcement has removed the individual liberty of thousands over something that is perfectly legal in like half the country right now...
The judiciary branch can, and will, argue that their actions were, at the time, criminal activity. They can't really roll that back without some really fucky precedents happening on the process.
It's one of the very few instances when the executive "checks and balances" are truly warranted, and these types of pardons should be absolutely rampant right now, even without a federal descheduling. It's one of the few times we it's simply the right thing to do vs the political dog whistle its generally used as.
It should not be symbolic... But I will concede that it should be a gubernatorial matter :)
I am 100% one of the people you speak of... The last time I witnessed a transaction involving nutrition assistance, it was food stamps. The actual do not fold or spindle coupons...
The whole point of EBT was to make it invisible... You could buy $1k worth of crap at Costco wit your "food stamps" and I'd have absolutely no clue you'd done that. It doesn't look different anymore, you don't see it, there's no monopoly money being used, and the last time I had anything to do with the program personally, it was monopoly money... You know?
I'm the guy you're suggesting might not know... The quintessential textbook example of this person you claim needs the qualifier... And I say all of that to simply say that it's silly AF...
I suspect there is a certain portion of the population that doesn't want the stigma to disappear, but that's purely conjecture on my part ;)
I agree whole-heartedly, the bar isn't set very high at all, but trump wins the race to the bottom IMHO. Like I said, I'm gonna vote for an actual functioning adult without any regard for the "you're voting for the other team" crap (because both sides say exactly the same shit), but I won't be upset if Biden gets re-elected...
It isn't much, but it's all thats being offered if you're invested in the big two game.
Ya know... There were coupon books instead of stamps, for like 30 years, and there's adults now that have no clue what even the coupons looked like...
Do we really need the (food stamp) clarification still? I go back far enough to have seen the actual fucking stamps, and nothing about the term SNAP is in any way confusing to me personally... Who the hell are we still qualifying the term for?!?
How do you "broadcast directly to Black and Hispanic voters" exactly? I'm reasonably certain there's no non-racist answer to that question, and it's rhetorical in nature... I'm just saying... That's not how you support minorities... Pardoning 11 whole ass people doesn't sound all that supportive either.
The fuck does he plan on telling these directly targeted minorities? That he's gonna do something for them? He's an incumbent, he's had four years to do something, are people really gonna give a shit that he woke up from his nap because it's election time?
I hope he carries the vote, but God damn is the bar low right now...
To be fair, he's definitely still not trump... Basically all of the value of that statement is still valid. Maybe even more so now.
I didn't vote for that, I voted libertarian, but objectively speaking, if it was worth a vote four years ago, it's worth the same vote now. If you aren't willing to vote Dem on just that, you shouldn't have last time either :)
Likely they didn't know for the same reason I don't... Dudes just not memorable ;)
Norm did bash the everloving fuck out of OJ tbh, but as far as in concerned, that shit was funny. You get a pass on stuff as a comic, ya know? At least until will smith shows up...
It's absolutely disturbing how avidly people seem to want to ignore that inconvenient truth...
"The people will own the means of production". Except it's never once worked out that way.
"Everyone will be happy to go to work, because it's for the good of all". Except it's never once worked out that way.
"Nobody will ever have to worry about basic needs". Except it's never once worked out that way.
Socialism has historically consolidated both power and wealth just as reliably as capitalism has, and frankly, I don't buy that the impetus behind the growing advocacy for socialism even is actually equality... I think it's a desire to have more shit, with less effort required to get it (and that sounds sketchy, and I think people are generally averse to stating it openly due to this)
I personally think the most likely means to achieve that is ironically the capitalist system we currently have, with a huge boost to the economy in the form of universal basic income.
Give literally everyone $50k/yr. Period. Even musk, the zuck, bezos... Everyone... The people who don't want to do jack can sit around and enjoy the product of labor that will inevitably be increasingly provided by automation, out of necessity. The dream of the 1960's, of having robots do everything for us while we sit around at the park, will come to fruition finally, because while we've had the ability to do it, we've not had any means of paying our bills while sitting around. UBI would provide that, and "the capitalists" will have the incentive to automate because there will be less labor available.
Of course, we're talking about a massive spike in income tax here... But we're also making the labor far more valuable, by way of rarity. Harder to find workers, so you pay them more, and even with the increased taxation, even a modest salary reflects economic advantage over a nonworker. The guy that used to make $50k/yr is only making $25k/yr if we slap a 50% tax on him, but he's still putting $75k/yr in the bank, aint he?
I think "socialism" is the wrong direction. 180° exactly in the wrong direction. Unless by "socialism" people are actually advocating the "advanced welfare" Nordic approach...
If you have more than a nanogram THC in your system and you get in a serious auto accident, it counts as an OWI.
That is entirely unenforceable if gets descheduled... It's questionable as is, but there's a vague implication that there's a federal violation involved despite the obvious.
How do they prosecute someone for impairment they can't prove though? There exists a shadow of a doubt, inherently... It's a complete non-starter...
Lol, that wasnt for lack of trying... Trump decreed a whole fuckton of stuff that various staffs and agencies had to low key backpedal on. Dude was publishing major policy on Twitter on a fucking whim every other day....