Agreed, but with the race being between him and Kari Lake, it’s not like there was much of a choice.

Yup, this was the one with MTG yelling “Liar!” at Biden.

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3848586-biden-has-tense-exchange-with-republicans-on-social-security-during-state-of-the-union/

Hey man, nice shot.

One of my favorite stats to pull out in regards to this:

What states have had the most votes for Trump (2016, 2020, 2024)?

AKA we all know this is bullshit, but I’m going to backtrack and cover my ass just enough to not catch a perjury charge

That’s just the poorly designed default position.

Nope, it was reasonably randomly assigned. It’s just that the odds weren’t great.

So he rolled the dice on Florida, calculating his one in 26 odds of drawing the dreaded Judge Cannon were pretty good. The problem is, as they said in “The Music Man,” he didn’t know the territory. The odds were really as short as three to one against drawing Cannon.

The catch is that the Southern District of Florida is administratively divided into five divisions: Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Palm Beach, Key West and Fort Pierce. This is supposed to be for the convenience of the parties and their lawyers, and has no other legal significance.

Cannon is the only judge sitting in Fort Pierce, which is in St. Lucie County, 68 miles north of Palm Beach and 128 miles north of Miami. But, for the purpose of assigning judges, Fort Pierce is treated as part of the neighboring Palm Beach Division. There are three federal district judges in Palm Beach, one of whom is a senior judge. What Smith did not know, or failed sufficiently to appreciate, is that the pool of judges administratively eligible to try the case was not 26 but four. (If you remove from consideration the senior judge, the eligible pool narrows to three.) The grand jury that returned the Trump indictment sat in Miami because the courthouse facilities were more accommodating than those in Palm Beach, but an administrative order deemed the investigation a Palm Beach inquiry.

https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/4052380-how-trump-ended-up-with-judge-cannon/

The chuds at the top (most of them, anyways) know that this will likely lead to ww3, and that’s been the plan. The US is the preeminent military power, so they feel safe, and there’s a shit load of money to be made in war and instability.

The chuds at the bottom voting for US isolationism don’t understand just how much an interconnected world benefits them and how bad dedollarization is going to be for them. But then that goes along with a lot of people not understanding the benefits of concepts like soft power, humanitarian aid, foreign assistance, etc.

“I need ammunition, not a ride.”

Back during trump 1.0, I had an idea for a website where I would take news articles and swap Democrat and Republican words and phrases, like Trump <> Clinton or Obama, Obamacare <> ACA, etc. It was going to be called “45° Angle” (since he was the 45th president) and the tagline was going to be “The Right Perspective” or something like that. My thought was for it to be akin to the Colbert Report, something that passed at first glance but would pretty quickly be recognized for what it was with a bit of critical thinking, all for the purpose of being able to share articles with MAGAts and get them to agree before pulling the rug.

Which then allows corporations to come in and buy up everything for pennies nickels on the dollar. They’re going to pick the US carcass clean.

Gotta be the rwhite color…

It increasingly feels like the closest thing to harm reduction the US achieved was the time Trump fucked up his COVID response and a bunch of his senior leadership choked to death on their own lung fluid.

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Spite and hatred seem to fuel a lot of old people for many years.

Autonomous vehicles are at times both amazingly advanced and bedshittingly idiotic.

I’ve ridden ~25k miles in them for work, and I trust them more than 95% of the drivers on the road. But I’ve also experienced them acting in ways that are still quite far from the way humans would.

You wouldn’t hit a guy holding a kid, would you?

It was his twin brother, Eugene, that was elected. Alexander was on the phone call with Trump and Zelensky, reported the issue to Eugene (who was an NSC ethics lawyer).

I thought the same until like 3 days ago.

I agree with the Idea that being in a position for too long increases the possibility of corruption. But, I’ll counter with two thoughts:

1.) Shouldn’t people have the ability to vote for who they want to represent them? If the people of Vermont want to keep on rejecting electing Bernie Sanders, why should they not be able to? (Valid counterpoint- Dianne Feinstein)

2.) This is the less trivial one - I fear that term limits would invite more corruption, as the representatives understand they only have a limited amount of time to grease as many palms and make as many connections as possible in their limited amount of time in office. We already have issues with the lame duck period, and those are currently measured in weeks. I can only imagine what I’d be like if a large portion of reps had full lame duck sessions.