He has been impeached twice and it failed both times. We don’t have any more votes than we did the last two times, so we would just be banging our heads against a brick wall.

If you can’t run a business that pays you $25 an hour, it’s not a viable business. Work a job that pays and do the art you enjoy for the love of it.

Because raising the minimum wage when the economy was on the verge of collapse from COVID shut downs would have been idiotic?

Conspiracy theory nonsense

Thank you! I was going crazy with every affordability discussion I heard only talking about cutting taxes and ways to lower costs here and there. Raising incomes fixes everything.

It sounds like the shooter was stopped at the metal detectors from what I read. As for vetting, this administration only seems to vet brown people.

There is a stupid amount of security for the President. More than people realize.

When he was Prez, Clinton came to speak at my high school. They had scuba divers check a small pond for explosives, evacuated homes in a nearby subdivision, and had a fucking ground to air missile battery in the countyard. And that was before 9/11.

There is a Behind the Bastards episode on him

https://youtu.be/gaJtZ5cF8Ac

That’s a good idea. I might have to steal it.

I would say that no person should be able to run for office after the federal retirement age, but I suspect that would just lead to retirement age being raised.

It is a virtual certainty that at some point a meteor large enough to wipe out all multicellular life on the planet will strike the Earth. It is an absolute certainty that the Sun will eventually burn out leaving the planet uninhabitable. Something else might wipe out our species long before either of these things happen, but it’s not a bad idea to have another inhabited planet or two as a backups.

Because they have lots of oil and aren’t Christian.

“The Trump administration argues that the common view of citizenship is wrong, asserting that children of noncitizens are not “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States and therefore are not entitled to citizenship.”

So if children of noncitizens are not “subject to the jurisdiction” of the US, then they cannot be detained, deported, or held accountable to any of our laws. Can’t have it both ways dummies.

Karrot is a used item app that has a feature where you take a picture of an item and it IDs the item and tells you what it’s worth. It’s pretty impressive. It could ID my houseplants better than some dedicated plant ID apps I’ve used. It’s not great with one of a kind items, but otherwise it’s surprisingly accurate.

I would say that is comparing personal identity to a medical definition, two independent and separate concepts.

Personally, I look at people pointing this out like I look at people that feel the need to point out to others that a woman has breast implants. It’s her choice to do what she wants to her own body and pointing it out makes you look like a rude asshole.

Sounds like a great way to fake your death. The only problem is that everyone will think you died driving a Tesla.

They can open up Cayman Island bank accounts just like the billionaire tax evaders.

Efficiency and resilience are opposing forces. Think of the spare tire on a car. Is it efficient to carry around a fifth wheel all the time? No. But it is resilient because it will make it possible to quickly recover from a disruption (i.e. a flat tire).

The housing system needs a certain degree of resilience or people end up homeless. If that costs landlords money, too damn bad. It’s the job of government to force them.

I’m not necessarily saying rent control is the best response. It’s just that raising property taxes is going to raise rents which is exactly what the city doesn’t need.

That assumes market forces are doing what you want. There are always levers that can encourage the market to move where you want it to go. For example raising property taxes but giving a 10 year tax break to converted office spaces (and changes to zoning of course).