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The constitution was never meant to be a living document.

See the 27 amendments and the process laid out in Article V for actually changing the damn thing. I think it's weird you referenced the literal part about how to amend it and came to the conclusion that it wasn't supposed to be amended. Just cause politicians have given up on their duties to work for the general populous doesn't mean the document wasn't meant to change.

Edit: previous author rewrote and clarified their meaning.

Almost like the emoluments clause had a purpose.

Yeah with the actual work that's happening it's almost as if the state is paying people to do a job.

Corrections and Clarifications

An earlier version of this article misstated the amount of money spent by the state of California on each violent sex predator.

That $1.7M is the total divided by the individual, BTW. That really isn't an outrageous cost over the time frame though.

My brother in Darwin, You are the enemy within.

Convenient

This whole thing just makes me want to steer clear of wordpress entirely.

• How: Spoiler candidate
• Why: paid for/useful idiot/ego

It's crazy to think that to her, she'll consider a Trump victory a win even if she loses.

I pulled up to a crossroad, stopped at the stop sign, and waited for the 2 vehicles on the main road to pass. Another car pulled up across from me and came to a complete stop at their stop sign, they waited for a moment, then started to go. They looked again, saw the other vehicles coming, stopped (not yet in the main road), then started to proceed again. They stopped again (this time in the main road). They started to go again and got hit by the first vehicle on the main road. The next vehicle on the main road was an ambulance who saw the whole thing and stopped.

Honestly not sure why you would stop at a sign, see traffic coming then go and stop multiple times if you weren't on something or trying for some fraud.

"At that moment, that was the most scared I had been in my life because I thought at any moment he would pull out a gun and just start shooting me," he said during his testimony at trial, later adding: "I didn’t have the luxury to wait and see a gun because I knew in an instant I could be dead."

Then you shouldn't be a police officer.

The dude was reaching into his waistband after he'd fallen down. How the fuck do we know he wasn't just pulling up his pants?

Also stealing something is not an action warranting deadly force. Stuff can be replaced, there's insurance, and whatever store he robbed from ain't gonna suffer. You think they're just gonna take whatever blood covered loaf of bread and put it back on the shelf?

Honestly, most Americans should be worried about fraud. Republicans have spent the last 4 years putting election deniers in key positions of power, purging voters' registrations, and changing laws on how someone can vote and whose vote counts. There are at least 2 Supreme Court Justices that bought into the lie last time and will not hesitate to give the win to Trump if given the opportunity. They tried to fraudulently steal the last one and the same people are still in power. They will try again. The only legal way to stop them is to vote in such high numbers against them that the decision is never sent to Congress or the courts to resolve.

Or like the game instead of the credit card collection form.

There are actually quite a lot of DRM free games on Steam, BTW.

Many Christians believe that living together before marriage is wrong. Many conservatives are either Christian or appeal to Christian values (as they're both largely patriarchal and controlling; at least as practiced). This guy's conservative.

It's unclear who'll win the next US election. Zelensky wants support from whomever wins. Zelensky therefore has met with all the candidates who have a chance to win to try and bolster the chances of continued support.

State communication should not travel over private channels that can arbitrarily limit access to that State's communications.

There actually was a wolf in that analogy. Just cause the villagers decided to ignore the warnings didn't make him not exist.

• The grass is always greener in the hand.
• You can lead a horse to water, but you can't look it in its mouth.
• We'll burn that bridge when we come to it.
• Caught with his pants in the cookie jar.

Tray-less microwaves have a spinning metal "stirring fan" below a plastic floor you set your food upon to mix the bounce path the microwaves take. Since they expose fewer moving parts to the end user they are easier to clean and more resilient making them a good option for commercial / high volume settings.