What standards? If you can’t get over the concept and f an ideal president, you’re going to be very disappointed the rest of your life. You should absolutely advocate your preferences and cast your best vote. However the reality is that all too often you need to vote against the worst candidate or compromise on the least bad.

Biden may not have been my ideal candidate either but it was an easy choice to vote for him over the other guy and I do believe he did better than most here give home credit for

Here. He ran as a centrist, acted as a centrist, and pursued the most progressive policies of any president in my life, except maybe Carter

Blame education levels when medical advertising is no longer allowed and when companies need to be able to substantiate any health claims. A huge part of the problem is our exploitational and dishonest system: we don’t need an education as much as a skeptical eye and being able to spot the scans, fakes, and lies

Many of them are low information, or high gullibility and won’t even notice because it’ll get blamed on something else or they’ll be told by their echo chamber that it’s not what they think. The important part is they “find out”, and they may not even while facing the consequences

The things that people complain about Christianity, are generally not things I recognize are Christian. Sure, the church tends to be conservative and abortion is a bugaboo, but I’ve never seen the judgmentallism, the hatred, the self-righteousness people complain about. I agree those are not Christian values, but I also don’t see them in y Christian community

That’s weird. Isnt one of the criticisms that they wasted this last election calling people weird and not giving much on their platform? Seems like a very Republican campaign, full of name calling and “concepts of ideas”

Personally, I hope they all sit around bickering for the next four years, so they do as little damage as possible

I’m in!

Seems like for that price someone could write a custom hi that only shows for that one guy. Heck, we could crowd source an entire nazi version that only shows to that one guy

Pretty sure they’ve always gotten paid after the fact. As long as everyone has plenty of savings to fall back on and this doesn’t happen over any major gift giving holidays …… clearly one of those disconnected from reality situations, where the people making this decision have the means for that to not be serious, even if they let themselves be affected

I like the idea you’re going for but it’s not sufficient.

• ETFs can have narrow holdings, or be actively managed
• other investments like mutual funds can have wide holdings and be passively managed
• an appropriate trust can take the person out of decision making for his holding without giving them up

Calling it “the Biden overtime rule” is kind of misleading. The rule was always there: they just tried to change the threshold, plus automatically adjust for inflation

Here’s the thing:

• article points out 2004, and the threshold was about median wage
• Obama attempted to increase but was rejected by court
• Trump increasing by a smaller amount
• Biden attempted to increase but was rejected

Aside from the seeming partisanship in the court, an increase

• was accepted when set to about median wage
• rejected when set noticeably above median wage.

While I agree it’s set way too low and needs to be raised, it’s quite plausible the court decided that too much above median wage is a difference in kind, that should be set by Congress. Maybe if we had a functional Congress ……

Sisyphus. I’ve spent my life pushing this huge boulder up the hill but never quite achieving anything. It’s getting really old. Next time it rolls to the bottom I’m tempted to leave it there

As an American from a state trying to import more Canadian hydro, yeah

Inflation is pretty much normal

It was high for a while from supply chain disruption and pandemic spending, but it’s back to near normal. Obviously the accumulation of the last several years suck. The next administration should take note before going overboard with tariffs

Criticism of nclb is usually the incentive to teach to the test and on punishing schools that need help. Kids may get shortchanged on learning how to think, and on all the material not on the test. However reading is on the test. It’s an attempt to establish standards for reading and to raise them

Are you just repeating what you hear on Fox News? There are lots of reasons to object to NCLB, but lower standards isn’t one of them

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Child_Left_Behind_Act

Wait, what happened to avocados? They were already too expensive-a-lago

Someone should establish a Department of Senate Efficiency to look into whether that is an efficient use of the senates time.