chaogomu @ chaogomu @kbin.social

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Government cheese has been a thing since at least the great depression.

Part of the problem is the progressive in question is currently running for that seat, and is trailing in the polls. If Newsom had appointed her, it would have seemed like he was putting his thumb on the scales of the election. Butler might be an insider, but she's not running for election. She will finish out this term and step aside.

From 2018;

Seven senators — John Kennedy (R-LA), Richard Shelby (R-AL), Steve Daines (R-MT), John Hoeven (R-ND), John Thune (R-SD), Jerry Moran (R-KS), and Ron Johnson (R-WI) — and one House member, Kay Granger (R-TX), are all in Moscow over the Fourth of July holiday this week for talks with Russian lawmakers and officials, according to reporting from the Washington Post, NPR, and investigative reporter Julia Davis.

A month later, you had Rand Paul in Russia on Trump's orders.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-russia-idUSKBN1KT1RV

Aside from the free vaccines and ad campaigns trying to get people to get the updated shot this fall. I've seen that TV spot a dozen times, and I barely watch TV.

Freshly baked cornbread dunked in milk is quite nice.

Or just freshly baked at all. Eat it within about 5-10 minutes of taking it out of the oven.

About 4.5 billion years.

Technically, they lose about 20% of their generation capacity within a few hours of first exposing them to sunlight. It's one of those weird quirks that researchers have been trying to solve for decades.

Also, they tend to lose the rest of their generation capacity over decades, not millennia. The industry standard is for a panel to be able to produce 80% of installed capacity after 25 years.

Poe's Law strikes again.

All of Kennedy's platform positions are firmly right-wing... and so is all of his support. He should have been part of the Republican debate, he'd have fit right in.

Look at Trump's current unhinged nonsense on his little twitter clone. In the last two years, it's gotten progressively worse.

Dementia patients rarely admit they have dementia, even when they struggle to put a full sentence together. It's depressing to watch.

Honestly, Georgia RICO is a mess of a law, and likely unconstitutional.

While the Georgia indictment is the most satisfying to read, it's also the weakest of the four, structurally speaking. There are a lot of serious charges in there, but there's also a lot of fluff that a more polished indictment would not include.

Jack Smith's two indictments are probably the gold standard for streamlined and bulletproof cases. Fani Willis' indictment, on the other hand... well, it's a bit of a mess.

I'll put it this way. If Trump is convicted on all charges in all cases, the conviction in DC and Florida would have very little room for appeal, the one in Georgia would have a fairly decent chance of being thrown out, or at least being sent back for a second trial, minus a bunch of charges.

All that said. Yeah. I think the RICO charge for Trump in Georgia is wrong. Trump would not qualify for federal RICO, and Georgia should have a standard higher than "Two or more people who talked about a crime before (or while) committing the crime".

Son of Sam laws mostly deal with profiting from the crime you're imprisoned for, there's no evidence (that I've seen) that this guy used any of the guns in his serial murders.

That being said, he's on trial for murder, and doesn't get to have guns. In the extremely unlikely event he's found innocent, those guns will be returned, but until then, no. They stay in police custody.

Cheaper, or banned entirely by the Egyptian government. Valve is sort of in a tough spot here. The EU will fine them, but so will every authoritarian regime that bans anyone in the country from downloading banned items.

1; https://www.forbes.com/sites/ewelinaochab/2021/07/08/united-nations-concerned-about-organ-harvesting-in-china/

2; Some buzzwords that you don't seem to understand the meaning of, with some conspiracy theory nonsense thrown in.

3; yup. US history is full of horrible shit, but we're trying to be better. Well most of us. China is not trying to be better.

The US once engaged in genocide, and China is using that past to justify several ongoing genocides.

The US has often failed to fully live up to its ideals of freedom and equality, and China uses that to justify not having any freedom or equality.

The US holds freedom of speech as sacrosanct, often to the point where harmful ideologies are given platforms, China uses secret trials to jail people for the study of their own heritage.

The point being, China fucking sucks for anyone who isn't a rich, ethnic Han, flawlessly loyal to the CCP.

Harvesting prisoner organs to give to the wealthy/party members.

Executing people for things they've said.

Quartering party loyalists in Uyghur homes, particularly the forced co-habitation of Uyghur women with male party loyalists.

The list goes on because China is a totalitarian dictatorship, and the US, for all its many, many, faults, is not.

The main difference is that the US is mostly trying to be better, and China is actively embracing the crimes against humanity.

I've always been partial to saying "about as sharp as a pound of wet liver". It just seems more visceral.

You do need a leader for any legislative body. Under normal conditions, this is fine. The problem is when you have a minority obstructionist party in power through gerrymandering, voter suppression, and an arbitrary limit on the number of members of said legislative body.

That last item is a major one. The House is capped at 435 members. It's been capped at such for just over 100 years. The US population has tripled in size since then, and we've added two states.

This arbitrary limit was in response to fierce fighting over apportionment that lasted almost a decade. So in 1929, congress said fuck it, no more increase in size.

It solved the problem of the past, but created the current problem of today, where a minority party can easily gain majority status.

Yes, the Electoral College is a bad idea, but you come off as an idiot for still trying to link it to the Speaker of the House.

Again, Electors only exist for 60 days every 4 years, and then aren't actually paid for the job they do, And per the constitution, cannot be elected officials.

So again, you have no fucking clue how government works, but you're railing against your little pet peeve, trying to link it to things completely unrelated. I already told you how to mostly fix both problems, but you don't seem to have understood. Given the quality of your comments in this thread, it makes sense.

But that's not the Electoral College at all.

If you want to criticize something, it's helpful if you know what it is first. Neither the House nor Senate are part of the Electoral College.

The size of the House and the Senate together determine the size of the Electoral College, but no Senators or House Representatives are allowed to be members of both at the same time. In fact, no one holding any office at all can be eligible to be an Elector.

Also, the Electoral College only exists during presidential election years from the Second Tuesday in November until the Sixth day of January. That's it. Roughly two months every four years. And they aren't actually paid by the federal government. They might be paid by state governments, but I can't find any evidence of any state paying them, just laws that issue fines if they act against the will of the people and cast a faithless vote.

So no. It's not the Electoral College.