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If you believe it’s bad precedent and that a regulatory agency shouldn’t regulate something clearly within their purview, then what are we doing here? What would you rather see?

I don’t know … four months is a long way away …

And this doesn’t even contemplate the idea that the particular peculiar belief he subscribes to might not even be the right one, and that when he dies, whatever other god is actually there will be super pissed that your good friend didn’t believe in him instead.

Tell me I’m wrong about it!

I still don’t see the value in blaming the voters of a single city for the loss of a candidate running for the American Presidency. If poor blacks don’t vote, thus preventing us well-heeled liberals from getting the winner we want, I think it has to do with their historical feeling that they no stake in America, more than anything else. That feeling goes back generations, has been hardened through their unique experience, and which continues to this day. It has hardly ever mattered to them who’s been president—Democrat or Republican, they have still experienced the same institutional and even legal barriers we white people have the luxury to never even have to think about. Most of them feel that, regardless of who the leader is, they will still have to cobble together a life for themselves under oppressive circumstances anyway, so it really makes no difference. If abortion becomes outlawed, it won’t matter to them that a Republican did it. They’ll just do what they always have: find a way to work around it. Unlike white people, black people don’t have a sense of entitlement when it comes to legal protections. They just make do. So if white people want black people get “get up off their asses”, or however one might put it, and vote so that our candidate can win, they need to feel they have something at stake in the outcome. How can that be arranged? And arguing that they have just as much stake and that they’ll benefit as much as everyone else ain’t gonna work, because they know it ain’t true.

We weren't voting for the President of Detroit, or the President of Pennsylvania, or the President of Wisconsin. We were voting for the President of the United States, and more than three million more voters across the United States voted for Hillary than for Trump. Democratic voters did their job. They were failed by a system constitutionally-rigged to help wealthy slaveholders a quarter millennium ago.

Punishing well-to-do white people won't get them the lower middle class white vote. Punishing poor brown people sure will, though.

Also, ending the Stay in Mexico policy will give Republicans a solid motivating issue to campaign on to blunt the Democrats' power to campaign on choice.

Republicans must have told the Court they need cheaper labor than even Americans of color will provide.

Republican mega-donors sure are getting their money's worth out of this court.

Hillary got over three more million votes than Trump. If Trump was handed the White House as a result, the problem isn't the whole of Democratic voters voting individually. The problem is the system that punishes cities and large states to the benefit of rural areas and small states.

Yes, of course. We’ve been talking for a couple of decades about how helicopter parenting was going to maladjust this generation. The debate was whether it would cause them to mass rebel against authority as in the sixties, or mold them exactly in that image. We’re getting our answer in real time, because instead of striking out on their own and putting in the work to make their circumstances better, they’re waiting for parental saviors to fix everything for them. That’s probably what the whole superhero graphic novel/movie craze is all about.

Three and a half million more people voted for the Democrat than the Republican that year.

So are they saying she’s the shortest midget in the circus?

Kapler should of yanked Wood. 😏

Quick, call the election for tomorrow!

TBF, it was kind of an unforced error, something that doesn’t have the upside of advancing the case at all but has the total downside of derailing everyone’s attention from what’s important. It was the opening they needed to throw doubt on everything being said int he proceedings. No way she could have been a deep plant specifically to plant that doubt, right? 🤔

Related to this, I was very excited when NBC released practically all the SNLs from 45 seasons on their steaming app, and just as disappointed that practically none of them included the music performances, basically because of rights issues.

I mean really.

All that’s missing is “look into it.”

I think Bob Seger is going to be OK.

I would clarify that I am not an atheist per se. That would suggest that I am certain these is no god. I am certain of nothing. We cannot know until there is either a revelation, or perhaps after we die we learn some truth, which I am holding out as a possibility, since there’s no way to know beforehand absent a revelation.

Like you say I think it would have to take an out-and-out revelation. Otherwise you have to have faith and nothing else, and with hundreds of thousands of gods that have served 100 or so billion people across the millennia, which one do you choose?

Especially since he’s vulnerable to prosecution himself.