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I'd throw the primary system into the mix. That ensures the extremists (in both parties) control who gets to run for election. Combined with gerrymandering, the primary system ensures that its mostly the loonies that get to run the show.

Remember, it’s not dementia until you believe it too.

At 11:40pm on April 14th 1912, the ship Titanic struck an iceberg. At that moment, the ship was doomed. It was going to sink and nothing anyone could do would have stopped that from happening. It didn't actually founder (go under) until around 2:15am on the 15th. During that time, there was a hell of an argument over whether or not the ship would sink, if the lifeboats should be loaded & launched, in general 'what the hell should we do?' I don't personally believe that 'we are doomed'. But I also believe that we will face a hell of a disaster if we do nothing. Note: the "we" is an 'editorial we'. The more severe effects of AGW aren't going to come until well after I'm dead and gone. Anyone who pays actual attention to what the scientists and experts REALLY SAY about it knows this. Right now we're seeing (metaphorically) the water rising in the lower decks. Not a big problem, right? Not yet, anyway.

We are really in a crappy place today. Justice Clarence Thomas is arguably in cahoots with his Qanon and conspiracy theory believing wife who participated in the January 6 insurrection. Both Kavanaugh and Coney-Barrett apparently lied to get their seats and, by any honest rational opinion, Gorsuch sits in a stolen seat. If you read this and think "sucks to be you libtard" or "it's about winning and we won" you are no patriot. You are no true American. You are a traitor to our fragile constitution.

https://the-pipeline.org/bidens-bottomless-energy-foolishness/ Key takeaways: *Oil production and refining margins are at or slightly below average for all American manufacturing industries (so much for that leftie talking point) *Biden’s grasp of the oil and gas industry is as simplistic and confused as every other aspect of his doddering administration. *Biden said he’d halt further oil and gas production on public land, while encouraging Wall Street to cut off capital to the industry. *Every government investigation of high gas prices since the 1970s has failed to find any evidence of price fixing or collusion in the oil industry, because there isn’t any. *The dramatic revolution in domestic oil and gas production that began about 15 years ago falsified two of liberalism’s most persistent clichés—that we had reached “peak oil,” and that the U.S. couldn’t “drill our way” to energy independence. Have a great Juneteenth weekend

Well, there it is, of course. We'll all be long gone when unhappily ever after hits. Unfortunately some of us think peeing in the pool just before we climb out is poor form even if it would save the 25 cent fee for the public toilet. Others, too many others, simply don't care.

Because “woman” only has one meaning to him. But that meaning is biological, cultural, legal, behavioral, and temporal, and to mix them up is to use people for one’s own ends, rather than to treat others as they would be treated. Consider how someone 150 years ago might have described a woman; how someone in Afghanistan or Saudi Arabia would describe one, how a Southern Baptist would describe one, and how an American lawyer in their legal capacity would describe one. Only the lawyer would want to know the context — because to the others, women don’t have enough agency to completely define themselves. That doesn’t eliminate others from assuming women have complete agency, it’s just some examples, with religious and national assumptions stroked broadly Wendy P.

There seems to be a willing audience here who must be enjoying the interactive performance. I don't get it, but there it is.

By taking the most extreme lay characterizations of predictions and anointing them as the goalposts, you’re making your position clear. Kind of like how everything that happened under every Republican was good, and everything that happened under every Democrat bad. Or, if it’s incontrovertible (e.g. 9/11 happened during the Bush 2 presidency), then it was the predecessor’s fault. You know that, you just don’t give a shit, and don’t have enough respect for others’ intelligence to use them for anything other than an audience for your comedy Wendy P.

Personally I think the electoral college is our biggest problem. Everything else, including Supreme Court and gun ownership stems from there.

So you are a proponent of strong price controls and a heavy government hand on businesses like in China? We're at 8.8%, Germany is at 7.9%, your data, in business we call that the same number. France is at 5.8% and the Netherlands is at 8.8%, again your data. All economies do not react to inflationary pressures in tandem owing to structural differences. For example, you don't see people going to shop or pick up the kids in gigantic, gas guzzling trucks in Europe. Truly, with you it's like arguing the existence of God with a priest.

Biden has increased gas prices and ordered that inflation increase - all over the world. And every single country obeyed. He is the most powerful man the world has ever seen.

We have! Our visit there was one of the things that convinced the husband to get our first machine. :)