A few 9/11s a month. If it were terrorism, we’d write a new constitution.

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This might be the worst thing trump actually does, including the Jan 6 insurrection. I’m serious. The implications are enormous. Far greater than a million people will die if even a small but significant fraction of people believe his lies, and act accordingly.

When you kiss you are forming a torus with buttholes at either end

Mustang marketing department doing overtime

Could just have a lamp at that point

Yep! Elections are different because they’re on a relentless schedule. Even a judges injunction ain’t worth much

Motherfuckers

This is a really fascinating scenario. As far as I know, we’ve never had an election re-do. I wonder what in heck could trigger one

I have too, and paid dearly for it. I’m of mixed mind. Most people are trapped.

It may be unpopular around here, but the pardon power of the presidency needs to go.

Especially the power that pardons people for all crimes

It undermines the rule of law and sets a precedent that the president is above the law

It isn’t a check on the judiciary, it’s a way to negate the idea that nobody is above the law.

Case in point: Ford pardoning Nixon Case in point: Biden pardoning his family for any crimes in a time period

“Claude, no function should be more than one or two lines long” lol

To illustrate with just one small example: all recent negative reviews of Yosemite National Park on Google Maps complain about the $100 non-citizen fee to enter. Teddy Roosevelt might be pissed off enough to climb out of his grave.

Yep it’s an authoritarian people that put in an authoritarian state. The war on drugs got us far, and the USA PATRIOT Act got us further. It’s completely bipartisan.

There are no true and viable classical conservative or libertarian parties in the US.

Unfortunately, with many peers in Europe at this stage. They were ok for a while when the memories of the war and later the east German police were fresh, but people eventually begin to demand perfect safety at any cost. And the cycle repeats.

Excellent analysis from an obvious connoisseur

Good point

This plus needing to show off some kind of thing to their management

I think there is a fraction of Trump supporters who would change their views in response to people cutting them out of their life and who have told them that is the reason. Sort of like how all politics is local.

If enough were peeled off like that, they wouldn’t seek refuge in the consensus of the majority.

Americans who have kept in touch with their Trump-supporting relatives generally don’t put NEARLY the amount of pressure on them that they should.

So these ideas at Thanksgiving become legitimised to some extent. Especially if someone at the table says something like “we should avoid talking politics”, or “regardless of our political views, we need to get along”.

But the mistake is that these are not political differences. They are differences of ethics and basic decency.

Once it goes through CAB of course