That could be a really interesting argument, actually. Strictly speaking, is there anything about “controlling a weapon” with the way the law is written? Or just about owning a gun? Or possession of a weapon? If someone, for example, handed a controller for an armed drone to a felon who could not have a gun, is that a loophole?

Edit: thinking about this a little more and looking into it, the president is Commander in Chief of the military. The military does not generally allow felons, but there is a waiver for that. I think that if push came to shove, there could be a pathway there.

According to her, Jack Smith isn’t a legitimate prosecutor. That should make him a normal civilian who can say whatever the fuck he wants

Kinda related, I studied in Spain for a semester. Was taking with my fellow American roommate about the debate of if a tomato is a fruit or vegetable. Our host mom’s daughter’s boyfriend (Cuban, fwiw) overheard, and we told him about the “controversy” in the US but all 3 of us agreed it was a fruit. Host mom overheard us and asked what we were talking about, and the Cuban told her. “Well yeah, of course it’s a vegetable”

I couldn’t understand every word but when I could tell they were arguing about some vegetables having seeds or something like that I knew I spread something.

He was probably thinking of the Bombe, which broke Enigma’s encoding.

I’d be curious to know for funsies, but do you really expect it to be anything that would make one rethink solar?

Very well said. I think at the end of the day, the human element is too easy to overlook and that’s a problem. We have one bot, a search engine, keeping an eye open for content. SEO wants to stand out for that bot, so it demands content (and in a certain way) be created so the search engine picks it up… But that takes effort, so we have another bot creating content to get the attention of another. And the thing a person wants just becomes an afterthought and dead Internet theory is that much more real

I have a bit of a compulsion to scan the grocery store for marked down fancy cheeses and bakery stuff. I’ve tried some pretty awesome stuff I never would have gotten otherwise.

You asked what he did, and I told you. There will always be problems. The fact that we’re recovering from a historic pandemic and other countries are feeling the same things (often worse) should tell you there isn’t a magic lever the president can pull to reduce costs over 4 years (2 considering the house flipped halfway through)

wtf did he do that deserves any kind of praise?

Inflation reduction act, chips, a pretty decent student loan forgiveness program (best he could do with SCOTUS), pardoning federal marijuana convictions come to mind…

Untie healthcare from employment first, please

Sixty hundred.

I’ve seen some pretty awful, rambling posts with virtually no punctuation that were pretty clearly written with speech to text. That gave me the impression that that was a pretty terrible invention, so I never bothered using it, and knowing that it censors words like “asshole” reinforces that.

You can say “asshole” on the Internet

And if you want to be that guy, Wray is technically a Trump appointee

I thought you were going to mention the time Feinstein had to be told that they were announcing she wouldn’t be running again at that press conference. Should have resigned that day.

There’s criticizing, and then there’s running a business and using your office to increase its profits, holding your ally’s defense supplies hostage if they don’t help you politically, claiming an election was stolen and inciting a riot over it, holding (and refusing to return) documents to which he has zero personal ownership, appointing your family to high-level jobs in your orbit…

Seriously, you thought this was just about criticism?

Or resign so Kamala can in the last day if he can’t.

I want to see that just so all that 45+47 stuff refers to Kamala