SwingingTheLamp

It's time to move past the salt. For one, it's not helpful now, and it's also not even true. There weren't enough protest voters to affect the outcome. Worse, the latest information I've heard from Democratic Party analysts is that his margin of victory would've been higher if more people had voted.

Or Short-Man Syndrome. I have a 6'4" friend who used to joke about SMS, until I pointed out several men we know who behave the same way, but are tall, and asked what syndrome they have. Kudos to him, he started seeing the discrimination, and now uses his "tall privilege" in group discussion settings to direct attention to the short members when the group ignores/talks over them.

I'm super jealous that you can feel as though getting with a hot person that you pass is something that might actually happen!

Both the real President and the fake President have a long history of reneging on deals, and not paying up. DGE seized the Treasury's payment system, so they could remove money from the people's bank accounts. The tariffs have a good chance of plunging the U.S. into recession, and $1 million really isn't that much compensation for taking on the risk, especially if inflation gets going in earnest. They'd be on the wrong side of trade barriers with the economic bloc that's geographically easier to trade with. Would this regime bail them out?

In short, trustworthiness matters.

I'm not versed in modern military strategy, but I've heard others say that the U.S. carrier fleet has been a dominant force because the U.S. has only taken on adversaries that didn't have submarines, and anti-torpedo systems aren't foolproof. Also, it seems to me that they're for force projection, and not so great for defensive action, to since there are only 11 of them. That is, the U.S. has a lot of assets that enemies could strike while the carrier groups are elsewhere.

I guess I'm not convinced that the carriers would be decisive in a conflict with a modern military, instead of the usual U.S. MO of picking on the weak.

You noticed this, too?! I live near a major regional medical center/hospital, and just minutes before the start of shifts is when the really insane drivers are on the streets, headed that direction. I know it's medical staff, because of their vanity plates.

We're still on this bullshit? The problem with phones is the cognitive distraction, but yes, let's pretend that it's safe if you just keep two hands on the wheel.

Which was always the plan. They were pretty open about it in the Hebrew press.

No, how do we stop the deportations, and get the people back from the prison in El Salvador? What can I do, today, to make it stop? Hell, what can I tell Sen. Cory Booker's staff to have him do to make it stop?

I'm sick of this condescending shitting on anybody who does anything to resist that isn't either striking the exact, right spot to fix everything in a single blow, or the leftist liturgy of mutual aid. There is no simple fix. It's going to be a long slog, and take the accumulated efforts, big and small, of people everywhere. Symbolic efforts, even, because those can raise awareness, rally, and encourage people. Organizing against ICE is singularly ineffective where I am in a place that ICE isn't active, and one, lone voice like mine can't even get people off of corporate social media. Americans have such a herd mentality that they're scared of anything that doesn't have a logo and a brand name on it, so if their leaders act like nothing's amiss, they're not going to step out of line to challenge things. That's what makes a Senator pulling a stunt like this so valuable. Tens of millions of people watched yesterday. Finally, a leader giving voice to the anger and unease so many of us have been feeling. Maybe it'll catalyze more action.

Or, maybe not. But, Jesus Christ, take the 'W'.

It was always pretty damn clear that this was Israel's endgame no matter who was in the White House.

Including Wisconsin. It's been the law for over a decade. This just put it in the *constitution, for some damn fool reason.

ETA: Interesting story. We had a whistleblower testify in court that the legislators who created the law intended for it to suppress voter turnout.

See, this is why that judge should let the company pay its CEO that $55 billion! Without the proper incentive in place, it's not getting his best performance.

/s