That’s called a taint squeeze.

I can say that unqualified judges generally cause the corruption more than the qualified ones.

To be fair to us, the brain worm guy dropped out.

Yeah, the naval base is the big thing.

For Ukraine, it’s about the principle of the matter. Taking Crimea back would mean “we are a real country and you can’t push us around.”

Just the dirt is worth a lot. Even if Russia conducted a genocide without anyone noticing, and all the buildings flat.

Most of us don’t worship our dads.

We have some good memories and some bad ones. I know I do. Walz reminds me, and I think a lot of other people, of the good memories of my dad. My dad is a flawed human being that struggled to do the right thing sometimes but he did struggle, and I love him for the things he taught me and the good memories he left me.

That’s warm fuzzies, not worship

He probably doesn’t want to get shot.

I wouldn’t feel safe letting a stranger in to shower. My wife would be very upset with me.

They could have a bottle of water and a sandwich.

Inns like that existed during the enlightenment up through the invention of the railroad. In the medieval era you slept in a church or maybe someone’s home.

Heitterslly said he would be.

People don’t buy cars based on emissions. Car makers make them based on emissions because lower requirements are easier to meet while including things people do want.

Literally cooking the planet for next quarters metrics.

Station wagons were subject to sedan emissions standards. SUVs wer subject to truck emission standards.

Sorry to come with “um, ackshuslly” but they didn’t ask if they were convicted of a crime. The question was "were they jailed? And according to your post, they were not.

The balls on this guy. I bet you blame the Palestinians for the bombing of Raffa.

You would blame World War II on the Polish.

Crime in rural areas is, on average, higher than in cities, per capita.

Vermont is safer than large cities, but that’s never what the right wingers are talking about when they say rural.

Only once. DM had a circular dungeon. We started a fight and got split and a couple PC’s fled the fight deeper into the dungeon.

Some out of game drama leaked into the game and one player sprinted their character through the whole dungeon, brining all the enemies together behind him as he looped back around.

It was a shits and giggles evil campaign, we weren’t, super attached to our characters, so we kicked that player out and started a new campaign.

There is no plan in a democracy that resulted in “people do what I want to do.” You could try a coup.

There are things you can do outside the ballot box. Unionize your workplace. (Or your apartment building, or your student body) create or join mutual aid societies. Volunteer for local organizations. Create and support power centers outside the government.

The political parties won’t listen to singular people. Even billionaires, for all their wealth and power, struggle to get what they want from government in a timely manner.

Creating power centers like unions outside of the government creates a lever of power that can move things in the future.

Electoral politics is a game of inches. Refusing to play just cedes a few more inches to the opposition.

It’s not regardless of anything he does. There is a floor. It’s Donald J Trump, and project 2025.

If he was doing, or likely to do, worse things than grifting the American people for his personal wealth, pardoning dozens of heinous criminals, stripping our rights away like reproductive healthcare, overturning the affordable care act, rigging the tax code in favor of small businesses, rolling back environmental regulations and any progress we have made towards decarbonizing our economy, backstabbing our allies and gutting the administrative state in favor of christofacists then trump would be the better choice.

I can’t imagine what could be worse, but I couldn’t imagine Trump before he took office either.

Withholding your vote for Biden is an endorcement of Trump and the Republicans. Democrats and leftists will never hear “Oh man I should be offering people some real left wing policies so they will finally turn out for me.” They will 100% of the time hear “people really like this right winger, I need to be more like him if I want to be elected.” And the Republicans will see it as a signal to move even farther to the right. The Overton window will shift until balance will be restored.

Denying this reality is a failure of imagination. Things can ALWAYS get worse. The Dems will ALWAYS be the better option. But they could be a better or worse depending on how many of the last few elections they won.

If you care for the Palestinian people, you will vote for Biden and the democrats instead of the party that are frothing at the Mouth to accelerate the genocide.

That is indeed the point of my post.

He will get another stern talking to and he will definitely shut up this time.

Or else the legal system will coddle him even softer. He can’t possibly get away with it this time!