It would only be a viable agreement as long as 270 electoral votes remained in the hands of Democrats. Realistically the way this would play out is that the first post-compact election would be mired in legal challenges, and then by the next election at least one state would probably pull out, having lost its Dem majority, and that would be the end of it until the next blue wave. But it could possibly be a bulwark for one presidential election.
This increases the chances that he will shit himself and die on live TV
TFW the Texas redemption arc is kind of like the third best redemption arc of the last hour or so.
He didn’t lie though. They didn’t ask him if he got a blowjob, they asked him if he’d had sex.
I mean there’s a reason they don’t talk about the banality of charity, after all.
Ok guys, can we leave OP’s mom out of this for even one thread? This is serious.
I have been pointing this out for like 20 years. Even with good sanitation and PPE, lead residue from shooting is surprisingly hard tocompletely eliminate. I was as shooting maybe a couple of times per week, primarily with a bolt action rifle and shotgun, wearing gloves, wiping things down, and I could still find detectable lead residue on my range bag, and in my car (!).
Someone who is putting hundreds of rounds per week of dog shit ammo through their AR is 1000% exposing themselves and their family to a slowly increasing background supply of lead.
It’s the shy voter effect. When politicians are unpopular, people don’t like to admit to supporting them. In most historical cases, this correlates with low turnout, so the effects on polling tend to cancel out. When Trump has been on the ballot, this correlation hasn’t held up the same way, and polling has slightly underestimated MAGA turnout.
Basically it depends on how “real” you think Trump’s unpopularity actually is. Are these people done with him, or just annoyed enough not to talk to pollsters?
A rare moment of lucidity
Hell yeah brotha
Your mom definitely doesn’t say no to my body.
Religious people do not understand the depth of accomodation we provide them as a society. We already go around tolerating an insane collective delusion in our personal interactions with them, and they’ve leveraged that good will into an attempt to force that delusion onto everyone else.
Personally I think that’s where the social contract ends. The second you attempt to legislate your religion, my duty to tolerate it in any form ends.
I have been calling attention to this since 2016. Virginia has a similar story - it’s has paper ballots the whole time and has been one of the only “swing” states to not routinely run more red than polling suggests, and has been getting bluer both in federal and state elections (with one exception for governor).
Bro the oldest millennials are like 42
This statement is literally unconstitutional. Plainly, unambiguously, no mask, no nuance, just unconstitutional.
The Treasury handles all of this accounting and congress directs spending. The Executive does not just get to use revenue received from its activities as a slush fund. Basically all of the US Government’s revenue is collected by agencies under the Executive. Claiming that they can simply take tariff revenue and turn it into dividend checks is the exact same constitutional argument that he could take IRS revenue and turn it into Bitcoin.
It’s so plainly illegal, and it demonstrates exactly why the current SCOTUS obsession with extremely strict standing requirements is a flawed concept.
I have spent enough time in a very poor town to know that they just don’t see this in each other. They all hide their SNAP like they hide their drinking from people at church. They don’t pick up on the “learned poverty” shit that they do which is exactly the kind of stuff they identify in the “ghetto.”
It’s all the same kind of, always having to pick from a bunch of bad choices, not having a good education, sometimes feeling culturally bound to bad habits, etc. The biggest difference as far as I can tell is that they defend and even embrace the conditions as something their father and his father and his father perfected and bestowed upon them, whereas in the hood people are still rightfully angry about being asked to integrate with their oppressors.
We are still in the growing pains stage of that democratization IMO. Media literacy hasn’t quite kept up so we’re worshiping unqualified nobodies because that’s what’s available. Real expertise and academic authority hasn’t really had much incentive to move to social media until very recently because old media and walled gardens are still lucrative. It will hit an equilibrium eventually though, and not just with the quality of content available, but people will learn to navigate misinformation better.
I know people really hate AI around here, but one of the things it’s doing is forcing us to re-learn some things about information chain of custody social media broke over the past decade.
He was maybe one step above being a nobody before they started boosting him. Far right online influence campaigns are definitely effective when they target terminally online progressives, but this is like trying to go the other direction and trying convince my mom that Hasan Piker is coming for her Subaru, which is definitely not going to land, because my mother doesn’t use reddit.
They literally already tried this and the courts shut it down within 24 hours.