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This is what it looks like when the billionaires go after democracy.
This is what the billionaires going after Joe Biden looks like.
Sadly, because of this and the Chevron reversal the Court is going to be busy AF in the future. The only remedy is expansion.
There are 11 US federal court districts, not including D.C. and Puerto Rico. EXPAND THE COURT!!
There are 11 federal court districts, not counting D.C. and Puerto Rico. There should be at least one justice for each. EXPAND THE COURT!!
I am too outraged to read through the comments, so sorry if this has been said before. It is time to drown Trump-world in its own shit. We need to protest every Trump appearance "en masse" and get this fucker out of our political life.
I am an older dude who grew up with pot. As the memes suggest, it was a police officer who first clued me in to its existence and potential for fun. The current pot available at my local dispensary is way too strong for me. I want to smoke it and I have tried several varieties, but it is just too strong for me. Here is hoping that weak weed becomes a thing.
Yeah you fucking morons. Biden did this. Jesus. What fucking morons. And fuck Bernie Sanders. It will take a a shitload of Biden acceptance before the democratic SOCIALIST will have any chance. You are fucking morons who have no chance of affecting US politics. Get a life and figure out how you can help!
I spent many years teaching at a Korean university, with five months off each year. Paid. 2.5 months in the summer and 2.5 months in the winter. The reality is that if you do spend your time off traveling, you remain broke. But in just a few years of time off without traveling, you could accumulate a little bit of wealth. Not really that much, mind you. Not enough for retirement, for example (unless it was a lot of years).
However, the free time was irreplaceable. Take time for yourself, if you ever have the option.
I was spanked on the ass by this diminutive history teacher in 8th grade. She was gorgeous, albeit small. It was glorious. She was a great teacher, by the way. I learned that authority was not absolute.
Not long after, the local police chief along with the president of the local community college held an assembly to warn us against drug use. After that assembly, I vowed to try marijuana at the earliest opportunity,
This is correct. The masses seen on his shoulders are the result of the push-press, a maneuver rarely seen in nature.
What a fucking asshole. I'm sure you are the epitome of moral perfection. Well, I was sure until I read this moronic bullshit you spew.
As a young teen, my favorite thing in the world was baseball. I was really good at it. I threw an 18 strike-out game (in a Babe Ruth League 7 inning game). I also made a solo triple play (I was playing First). The line drive that no one believed I could catch happened. I caught it (1st out)), despite the odds. I tagged the runner between 1st and Second (second out), and because the second baseman had dived to catch the ball and was out of play, had to run to second to tap out the runner there who was half-way to third (third out).
But my favorite one was in the state championship, which we lost. I was playing center field. There was a runner on second. The ball was hit well and bounced off the right center field wall. I fielded it, turned and fired it to the catcher, my friend. It bounced once on the grass and into the catcher's mitt at exactly the millisecond the runner passed by. We won that game.
Nobody believes this, but it is absolutely true.
If you meet such a person respect them. And no, it is not. The poor work hard. They are not paid enough to support themselves because billionaires decided to keep the money.
fuck you, mod. I am trying to help and you know it. Fine. I will post elsewhere
I think it is time to deliver the caregivers of America a real thank you. That would be money. We all imagine what they need from our support, but we don't really know. I myself thought that perhaps a "spa day" would be a decent gift. I now realize that I have no idea what such a person might want.
I don't have the technological knowledge to achieve this, but I believe that America should give a great big thank you to them in the form of actual money so they can choose for themselves. It is Christmas. They have been serviving in horrid conditions for almost a year.
I know that the hospitals, which overcharge us for so much on a daily basis are not to be lauded. But the nurses and other support personnel have been awesome. If someone out there could design a GoFundMe page that efficiently collected money and a way to deliver it directly to the hospital employees across the country, I, as a member of the official poverty class, would donate $25 dollars. I would only support a voluntary campaign that did not have ANY overhead. But I would support it if it was entirely voluntary.
We, America, need to give a big "Thank You!" to the nurses, nurses assistants, custodial workers and the whole teams of people who have suffered and guided us in this pandemic. We need to give them a big Christmas gift and the best of gifts is MONEY because they are all unique individuals who need different things.
So Redditors, I ask of you, someone here is capable of designing this GoFundMe. Please help! Let's deliver this year's Christmas gift to those most deserving. I do not think that a goal of $1 billion is over the top.
After Bush Jr. won in the 2000 election stolen with help from Jeb, he acted like he had the mandate of a landslide winner. That is what Republicans do. Dems must do the same. Winner take all is the game they play. That is why all focus for us now must be on winning the two Georgia Senate runoff races. I don't have the links to show how to help them, but they are all over Reddit today, and I hope that people of means do everything they can to support those Democratic Senate candidates in Georgia. (I am neither a person of means nor do I live anywhere near Georgia.) I also hope that one of those people with the links will reply to this and add them below. I have to take a break now and will add them in an edit in a bit if I can find them. The point is, to really get the ball rolling our new President really needs Democratic control of the Senate.
Don't know about the "Trump in jail" thing. But I see a huge opportunity for our country. There are Trump republicans (the racist base) and traditional Republicans (the fiscal and social conservatives). There are also the progressive Democrats (Bernie) versus the Democrats (Biden). If the Trump Republicans are defeated decisively enough, there is a clear possibility that four parties could emerge. We need to get rid of the "winner take all" thing, so that the votes of the minority still matter.
The battle between science and (some views of) religion is older than you suggest. But there is hope, I believe, that science will ultimately prevail because it is the search for truth and not superstition.
Previous science denial movements have lasted longer than this one will (I hope) and hopefully, future ones will be even shorter in duration. But they will continue to happen.
I have faith that we are on a continuous upward trend to truth. Still, I expect that there will be disruptions in our endeavor to be free and even enlightened, even more significant and long lasting than the current one. I will never believe that the people who prefer to live in falsehood will win.
Dog, keep on keepin' on.
Young people are traditionally not included in polls that measure "those most likely to vote" surveys because they do not vote. Young people, Please! It is time the next generation take the reigns.
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This is exactly what we should do. The imbecile, for a very brief time, pretended to be a General in charge of a war against an invisible enemy. Then suddenly, he was a by-stander in a war between the Governors and the "local" outbreak. His actions are all we need to concern ourselves with. I would like to see a bit more reporting about this.
just finished a watch of seasons 11-15,ep13. I'm sad it didn't end at 1313, but who am I? Nobody. That's who. looks like the reaping will take place in the finale but I am prepared for a twist. Heyzooss, will Dog end up in Hell?
This is our timeline. This is real world now. While the answer to your question is complex, it is also simple.
The economics of Nazi fascism is little reported, but it is central. Basically, Nazi Germany, as it took over other countries, funneled all the wealth to the center, i.e., Berlin. This was the model.
The totality of the economic gain of all of the people of Germany, Austria, Italy and all of the pact members was to be funneled to Berlin and directed by Hitler to fund German Military (and general) Reconstruction (hindered by the Treaty of Versailles) and eventually, the war effort. It was the Reichskolonialbund that handled the day-to-day, (IIRC).
This stood against the American and British versions of how the international economy should be run. "Free Trade" had become a standard, though it was clearly not as thought out as it might have been.
As you may know, the 20th Century's key feature was the American destruction of empires. World War I destroyed both the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Empires. World War II decimated the British Empire, already weakened by WWI, as well as the French Empire and the proto-Empire of Japan.
So, the simple answer is that Hitler's Germany tried to return the world to a mercantilist vision of the world economy, aka (imperfectly) aggressive colonialism, but that did not fit with US economic aspirations. In such a world, the US would not have been a significant player, at least not in the short term.
After WWI, the US recognized its potential power. Pushing and shoving among the political class led first to neutrality, George Washington's creed, but over time, and with the NAZI threat to existing American trade interests, we stepped up and slammed them down.
We then created the most open trading system the world has ever known and brought billions of people from poverty and hunger to something resembling a normal life.
And now, this clown of a man, our President, wants to retreat back into ourselves at the behest of the Russians of all possible people.
It is my hope that we as a people step up and prevent this economic nationalism, the very same mindset that powered Hitler, from becoming reality. There is only one way to do that, the vote. And this option will most likely not be available to us in four years if we do not make the right choice now.
VOTE...PLEASE VOTE Young people!
Historians: Please correct me where I am wrong.
You are all fucking insane. This is a billionaire-positive post. Biden is not dropping out nor should he. Regardless of polls, there is no world in which Trump has gained (and Biden lost) 7 million votes.
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