No one claimed white people were short on idiots.

I’d be happier if there and actual identity control system in our credit system. Identity theft is stupidly difficult to clean up.

Now try to get them to pass a minimum age for marriage.

Kinda sad really, but traveling up the east coast this year and we can see it in the towns we visit. The social gatherings are more segregated than usual, and they weren’t integrated to begin with. Folks all looking at each other with a side eye, especially along the black/white divide.

There’s too many shit stirrers in this stew.

For the most part, the left would absolutely have someone executed for treason. The left is loyal to ideals, not people. It wouldn’t matter if it were Biden or Trump.

The authoririan left, who might have a problem if it were ‘their guy’ don’t have any loyalty to Biden, because he’s not a communist or populist leader.

DeSantia new guard is intentionally selected to be ready to act against liberal cities. He’s creating the blue print for modern gestapo.

I’m betting garbage trucks actually end up being first. A half dozen trucks per human monitor sitting back at the station, with two guys in a pickup to run out to any problems.

The boat turned off without being told to turn off. With dual generators, and dual auxiliary backups, they lost power to the whole boat. That’s not including the main 55k hp engine. Bad fuel can take out an engine, not 5 of them running from different tanks all at once.

Is it really a claim when there’s direct evidence to the fact?

If not for Reagan, then Newt never would have been elected. Id not for Nixon, then Reagan never would have been elected.

It a continuous line of fail that goes back to the founding of the country.

Need has nothing to do with it. The Biden admin is prepping for Taiwan to be taken by China. Throwing cash at Texas just helps with political messaging.

The problem is that for too many years everyone in power only sees GDP as a measurement of a happy population. Because the two do correlate, a lot. We’re finally reaching the end of that correlation, which is usually when the rich take their profits and leave. As in leave everyone to die, after starting a war and taking all the resources.

It doesn’t have to end that way, but it will.

Food and fuel are both included in CPI, they’re left out of core CPI because they’re noisy. Food CPI alone for the past year is at 2.2, and gasoline is at 1.3.

Also for the latest release, core CPI is 3.8, while including food and fuel it’s only 3.5. Because the cost of fuel oil and utility gas were both over 3 percent negative.

This just seems like a stupid time to be pressing legislation like this. I don’t even disagree with it myself. I just think it’s idiotic from a political perspective. The Dems can see the GoP struggling with the fall out of Roe v. Wade, and they still want to step into this fight now?

As long as it’s not concealed on your person.

Gotta be careful with polling results. By necessity they’re weighted to match the most recent turn out demographics. Which is usually just a bit of an error range. With issues like abortion and weed, the younger vote changes a lot more than the polling algorithm. So the error bars are huge, and adjustments to add accuracy are most likely to just wrong. It’s one of the two major reasons for upsets at the ballot box. The other being the Bradley effect, which could also be very much in play the other direction.

Consider that the 7% lead Trump has right now is the average from two polls with less than a 4% error, that were 5% apart from each other. So at least one of them is just blatantly wrong, and really the odds are it’s both.

Don’t bother, if they can’t leave a message, you didn’t want to talk to them.

It’s entirely rational when you’re building a cult, to only bring in the most loyal to your control structure.

What I said is what got Clinton, Obama, and Biden elected. Not saying it’s a great thing, it’s just reality. Neither party has the base to win on their own, the GoP is a lot closer to being able to do it due to voter turn out rates. So they either chase the middle, or demonize their opponent to get more of their base off the couch.

Why the fuck do we always aim for “slightly better than the Republicans”?

Two party voting. In order to win, you have to get voters that are as close to your opponent as possible, without your base staying home in protest. Having a more objectionable opponent just means you can ignore your own base even more, because they’re not going to stay home when that means the other asshole might win.