Sorry I can only count in full bananas. Reddit really got my brain.

What?!? You’re telling me Hurricanes in Tennessee aren’t normal?

Anybody want to buy a house? Half price, only floated down the river once.

I laughed but I also figured some people probably don’t know the general conversion is that easy. I’m not sure who’s so salty they down voted you.

Yup

That was the thing about Arizona it took the Democrats realizing it was a purple state and they should vote. That’s why these states seem to flip so suddenly. Then of course it’s a decade or two wait to get a state legislature that’s not gerrymandered to hell and back.

With the abortion issue there’s new organizing going on in a bunch of previously locked down red states.

Even if contributions guaranteed policy that still speaks to my point of an elite that wants to support an apartheid government and a people waking up and getting mad about it.

The government and our laws really aren’t that put together. If he were to defect there would be no visible reaction to us. And the stuff we couldn’t see would be purely defensive, waiting to see what he could actually compromise and then trying to stay ahead of that. That’s what we have systems and procedures for and that’s what the government runs on.

Districts aren’t really a good way to measure though. As you point out some of them are pretty well gerrymandered.

Yes but that would -

Involve effort

Not get them some actually pretty tasty meat. (sorry vegans it’s true, they’re tasty.)

Not give them an excuse to cause suffering among the natives, whose land they were farming on anyways.

Yup. Although to be fair it was always there lurking. There was always a part of America that dreamed about killing, exiling, and/or enslaving half the country.

There’s a massive difference between watching someone commit arson and watching a document get delivered that turns everything into a RICO case. You’d never know unless you knew the business details.

he has to set all this in motion before a guilty verdict is delivered.

Well that ship sailed.

They aren’t assassins. They’ve spent up to a quarter of their career keeping this guy alive, they aren’t going to turn around and shoot him. In the highly unlikely case Trump let it be known that he actually had a photographic memory and wanted to write it all down for Putin the secret service would simply be recalled. And his plane would fall apart mid-air, as they tend to do when the CIA or FIS (Russian flavor) gets involved.

Most likely scenario is we all remember Trump didn’t even read his intel folders and we wave a fond bon voyage while offering free tickets to Russia for any die hard MAGA fans who want to go with him.

No. Just no. It’s to prevent someone from un-aliving them for stuff they did as President.

Yes, but extradition back when the court issues a bench warrant would also be extremely easy. If there’s already an order keeping him from traveling they’d have to enforce it. Which is part of why that New York judge getting scared was bad, the system is poorly designed for rich defendants. Usually it handles it by getting their passport and restricting them from traveling.

People keep making the mistake of thinking the super rich have loyalty to a country.

So then you’d be interested in looking up the background of Biden, Obama, and the Clintons. They’re hardly from the elite. The stupid truth is we’ve destroyed social mobility so badly we can’t conceive of a USA with good schooling and cheap college so that making it on your merit really is a thing. But their entire generation benefited from heavily subsidized college and schools. I’m not going to say they were good politicians but this idea of a dynasty on the left really doesn’t track. Biden, and both Clintons worked in politics for decades before they got a shot at the highest office.

Bush on the other hand comes from a family of political elite that goes back to a World War 2 era pro fascist senator that tried (badly) to mount a coup against FDR. He spent Vietnam barely keeping his slot as a national guard pilot who never deployed because he was a bad pilot and a worse officer. Then he worked family jobs until he was airdropped in by the GOP to run for governor of Texas. And from there he ran for the Presidency.

But yeah tell me more about this attempt to conflate people who had to work their ass off with a trust fund party boy that got funded.

Take away New York, or Baltimore, or Detroit, or any city really. It has long since ceased to be a state level thing. The system however is still running like it’s the 1840’s.

Yeah but when you know what they’re messaging on you can absolutely prepare for the worst ones like After Birth Abortion and Immigrants eating pets. Which were the two big fact checks.