Jordan Lund @ jordanlund @lemmy.one

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Hilarious that it even embedded the tweet so you can see it's not an accurate quote.

Bad enough when humans do it, adding nothing.

Weird choice of graphic. Why flip the US and place it on the left?

The Chinese map isn't flipped, so it's not a case of the entire graphic being mirrored...

"over-50 demographic"

Hey, hey, hey, don't group all of us in with those assholes...

Calm Rick sounds spot on, angry Rick not so much.

Morty sounds pretty good generally but there was one line that sounded off...

Still, given the circumstances, I don't know what else they were supposed to do...

"Hey, it's us, Rick and Morty! From a dimension where our voice actor wasn't caught grooming children!"

Pointless survey since we don't have national elections.

We won't have a real understanding until we can count Trump primary votes and compare that to the state by state results in the 2016 primary and general.

Then it's matter of following state by state polling until election day.

"Additionally, Mr Biden’s age remains a problem for many who believe at 80 years old, he is too old to run again."

Trump will be the same age Biden is now in 2026.

I would love to teach again, but aside from the fact that, physically, standing and talking for 8 hours a day is outside my reach now, I would also take probably a 66% to 75% paycut to do it. :(

I would not describe any movement in the US as "leftist". :(

"Gaming"

"Sub $1,000"

My gut reaction is "choose one".

You might be able to get a gaming laptop under $1K but get ready to replace it in 2 years.

It's a common theme:

"We want state's rights!"

"Great, my state wants legal marijuana, gay marriage, safe and legal abortions, and physician assisted suicide."

"No, not like that!"

I could see a purpose for it:

"This is 'propaganda' kids. It's designed to teach you things that aren't true. Here's how to learn it isn't true, and here's how to learn who is behind it and why they want you to be taught things that aren't true."

Yup. I, personally, want 100% vote by mail. We've been doing it in my state since 2000, it's safe, effective, results in high turnout and engagement, really nothing to hate.

Oh, except Republicans lose when more people vote. ;)

The Supreme Court was thrown into chaos because republicans refused to appoint any justices under Obama

Now, now, Obama DID get Sotomayor and Kagan. McConnell only blocked Merrick Garland.

That being said, in my lifetime, Democratic Presidents have only put FIVE members on the court, Republicans got 15. Carter is the one who drew a blank.

Nixon/Ford got as many in their two terms as all the Democrats since then COMBINED.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/about/members_text.aspx

Ginsburg, Ruth Bader - Clinton
Breyer, Stephen G. - Clinton
Sotomayor, Sonia - Obama
Kagan, Elena - Obama
Jackson, Ketanji Brown - Biden

Burger, Warren Earl - Nixon
Blackmun, Harry A. - Nixon
Powell, Lewis F., Jr. - Nixon
Rehnquist, William H. - Nixon
Stevens, John Paul - Ford
O'Connor, Sandra Day - Reagan
Scalia, Antonin - Reagan
Kennedy, Anthony M. - Reagan
Souter, David H. - Bush, G. H. W.
Thomas, Clarence - Bush, G. H. W.
Roberts, John G., Jr. - Bush, G. W.
Alito, Samuel A., Jr. - Bush, G. W.
Gorsuch, Neil M. - Trump
Kavanaugh, Brett M. - Trump
Barrett, Amy Coney - Trump

And Trump should have been removed when he was impeached.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/13/politics/mitch-mcconnell-acquit-trump/index.html

It's less the economic definition than it is this:

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/banana-republic

noun - Usually Disparaging.

1. a small, poor country, often reliant on a single export or limited resource, governed by an authoritarian regime and characterized by corruption and economic exploitation by foreign corporations conspiring with local government officials.
2. any exploitative government that functions poorly for its citizenry while disproportionately benefiting a corrupt elite group or individual.

Unlike the House, Senate races are state wide and can't be gerrymandered.

It's going to take a major effort focused on reforming the Supreme Court to flip those seats, but looking at 2020, we flipped BOTH seats in Georgia which is about as red as it gets.

I don't want to cast aspersions but:

"about three miles from the Kentucky state line."

Seems to hit a couple of different stereotypes...

We need to look forward to 2024, take back the House and get a 60 vote majority in the Senate, along with the White House...maybe then, things will change.

I dunno if "serious problems" is quite it. There are 535 active members of the House and Senate, 50 active Governors, and lord only knows how many living former members of those positions.

Each case is a political tragedy, but coming up with a couple dozen cases out of multiple hundreds of people doesn't seem endemic.

One the author seems to have missed was the 28 month long DOJ investigation into Democratic Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber for influence peddling.

Ultimately, it resulted in 0 charges, but Kitzhaber was forced to resign and was hit with multiple ethics violations.

https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2015/02/gov_john_kitzhaber_resigns_ami.html

https://www.opb.org/news/article/john-kitzhaber-us-attorneys-wont-charge-former-oregon-governor-first-lady/

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/ethics-panel-finds-former-oregon-gov-kitzhaber-guilty-of-10-violations/