I bet if another storm heads toward Louisiana they’ll have a vote faster than you can say "Fucking Hypocrite!’

In particular, it’s just lazy to escalate to a permaban right away. Even if they have a rule against reposts, removing a post along with a warning not to do it again is sufficient to educate the vast majority of people there who may not have seen the rule and only did it for the first time.

But that would take a few extra minutes, I suppose, to check someone’s post history and see if they are a serial rule breaker. Much easier to just wield the ban-hammer then ignore.

They did before the trade, he’s also their most reliable running back

They are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know …

Is it possible to cover up “serious decline” with a serious dose of uppers? I’ve assumed he is on a steady diet of pills ever since he accused Biden of only being able to stay awake if they put him on meds.

Maybe this is how he is when his meds wear off.

It might end up being different this time around:

• much of the opposition to nuking the Filibuster was done by people with Respect For Senate Traditions, like Manchin, who are not running again.

• Democrats that remain remember the shit McConnell pulled when he was majority leader, and are not as likely to have this Respect for Senate Traditions when they know Republican leadership will not hesitate to shit on those traditions if it suits them.

• since Senate terms each cover 3 sessions of Congress, they are divided into three classes, where 33/34 Senators are in each class. Counting the independant seats, Democrats have 23 seats to defend in this Senate class. If they retain their majority this election, it will be easier to maintain over the next 6 years of their term as Republicans have more seats to defend than Democrats in the next 2 elections. They may be more willing to go full Nuclear if they don’t have to deal with the fallout for a few years.

The National Popular Vote movement is a shortcut around the need for a constitutional amendment. States that sign on to it change their EC allocation process so that their state’s votes go to the winner of the national vote – but it only kicks in when enough states sign on to constitute a majority of EC votes.

IIRC it has passed in enough states to be just over 200 EC votes, but getting the last 70 will be a tough process. Still, it is an easier lift than an amendment. And maybe if it ever passes and makes the EC irrelevant there might be more momentum around the amendment to get rid of it altogether.

What?

… Damn, you got me

I wouldn’t respond directly to the letter, either, but you bet I would march off to whoever administers elections where I am and make sure nobody un-registered me. I shouldn’t have to, but I would anyway.

It’s good that Aaron is calling out the bogus RTP penalties, but a lot of the other penalties on both sides were totally legit. The game was worse than sloppy, they were just mauling each other out there. I get the teams hate each other, but that’s no excuse to sneak in crap when they think the refs aren’t looking.

The Bills had several key Jets penalties negated by dumb PFs away from the play. Do they keep stats on how many penalty yards got negated on offsetting penalties? I think the Bills came out in the wrong end of that metric.

This game had so many penalties

I’m not a big fan of the idea of reparations. The generational harm seems too great to fix with money. Besides, once there are any payments at all, you will get losers who claim that racism is over, because we paid it off.

Republicans didn’t get to their positions of power by listening to experts…

So what? If we cared about what a majority of Americans thought, then Hillary would have won

He is making lots of passes at Laura Loomer

We shouldn’t be surprised at all that a man who is famous for not paying vendors is using software that doesn’t work as advertised. The vendor is probably slow-rolling support tickets in favor of clients that pay.

Also note the end of the article: it mentions many alternatives, and why the Trump team rejected each one because of ties to other Republicans that Trump hates.

You might be a bit optimistic there

There’s no guarantee that it will all turn out positive, though. That’s why they call it “risk”.

Those first few years will be the most vulnerable, as you are not paying down principal very fast. All it takes is a job loss combined with a modest short-term real estate downturn to end up underwater on their house but still needing to sell.

But if someone is able to buy in now, maintain stable employment, and keep paying that mortgage for 5 years or so, then they will likely be better off than if they had rented all that time. How many people here can say they are confident in their job security over the next 5 years, though?

Theres no way Trump would float at all, especially after all that weight he lost.

This is actually the way the law is written. Anyone who aids in any abortion, from the clinic performing it to the Uber driver taking her there – is now subject to being sued by random tattletales. The women themselves are not subject to the same thing.

They did it this way on purpose. They didn’t want the optics of the State going after these people so they specifically made it so that the State AG would not be involved in all. It would just be a bunch of private busybodies looking to get all into other people’s business.