Yes, but not in the way Sen McChucklefuck thinks. Senators are a famously ornery bunch. They’re not going to respond well to threats.

Big Essential Oil ruining the day again.

As Trump is about to remind us a second time, the presidency actually has a fuckton of power behind it.

Why is it when Democrats are in office they claim no power, and Republicans are in office we find out the rules are made up and the points don’t matter?

Some things Biden could have done.

• Built housing through HUD and charged no more than cost for rent.
• Create a federal grocery store that only operates in food deserts and monopoly areas. Prices are at cost, not market.
• Federal hiring as a last resort. Anyone willing to work but unable to find a job can get this job. Duties are being a gopher in your local government building and attending 4 hours of job training every work day.
• Directing the construction of federal wind, solar, and battery complexes to further shift us into clean energy.
• Directly paying gas stations to install level 3 chargers, starting in areas with few public chargers.

Inflation is a piss poor excuse to do nothing.

Oh a passive vote for Trump. Somehow I think you’d call anything other than a vote for Harris that. Which is complete bullshit. The only vote for Trump is a vote for Trump.

The who published what?!?

Holy shit those knives came out quick. I need to get some popcorn for this internecine fighting.

I think that was the point. To be silly.

I’d argue we should call all migrant workers expats. Unless they’re literally working in a migratory fashion, spring here, summer there, fall somewhere else, etc.

I always saw expats as something between immigrants and tourists. They aren’t trying to switch countries and they aren’t just on vacation. There’s plenty of good reasons for this category, like being sent somewhere by your employer. This naturally creates a community of foreigners who aren’t necessarily worried about fitting in as a new citizen or permanent resident would be.

But yeah, this idea that Western countries have expats instead of emigrants is weird.

There’s two kinds. In one you snore. In the other your body just forgets to breathe.

Get checked for sleep apnea.

It taught me everything. We rigged their side of town with radioactive bombs. Nothing could possibly go wrong with this plan!

The boomers were actually better than Gen X. The only reason we think people get more conservative is because we had a generation with reliable news. Then as they got older they kept Fox News on whenever they weren’t watching something else, just all the time. They didn’t realize Fox was propaganda and Gen X hasn’t realized CNN was bought out years ago with the specific idea of turning it into Fox News 2.

What we need in this country is some media literacy.

53 percent voted for Jill Stein. Harris tied with Trump. That’s pretty solidly not going for Trump.

Oh no, I didn’t mean it that way. If they thought about it then they would care. But most Americans are years past thinking about the Iraq wars, until you mention Cheney. Then it’s all memories of service member memorials on prime time news. If they sat down and thought about it more I’m sure they’d get to thinking about the Iraqis again, it’s just normal human stuff to think about the stuff closer to you first.

See my other comment for the answer to this utterly bad faith line.

Of course that would be a bad thing. Are we really at the point where we have to declare that bad things are bad things? But the Biden administration would have greenlit it too as long as Bibi said there was Hamas there.

We actually have AOC asking her constituents why they voted for her and then also voted for Trump. So yeah that happened. Harris underperformed down ballot races all over the country. And yes that’s my current speculation as to at least part of why. We know why Michigan went red, but the other states are still being dissected.

I care about the 4,000 dead Americans because they are Americans. People Bush was responsible for and he lied to send them into harm’s way and then used them as a sacrifice to win re-election. The dead Iraqis sucks but are largely irrelevant in this context.

You’ve been given evidence she took a hard right.

Yup but the average American really doesn’t care about that.

Yes, by law. specifically the Leahy Law and the Foreign Assistance Act. Congress can appropriate the money, it can even be spent to buy the military equipment. The equipment itself cannot ship until those laws are satisfied. Old man Leahy even came out and said Israel is a perfect example of why the Leahy Law was made.

You’re assuming the meme above is correct and that everyone worried about Gaza went and voted for Trump. Stop assuming that.

The Arab people that have lived there for thousands of years? You sir, are ridiculous.