Which is actually pretty hopeful. Once the dude got out of a media ecosystem telling him what to think and feel, and he was presented with the facts in an irrefutable way, he did what was right.

Right-wing media is all about creating an information bubble keeping inconvenient truths out.

We have a nazi problem in law enforcement and that should concern everyone.

Yes. But that rarely happens (usually just because of health issues). There are very few decisions that have been made where all the members didn't weigh in. When even votes have happened the lower court ruling will stand as is. Which is particularly bad when you have places like the 5th circuit trying their best to fascism.

11 or 13. You don't do even numbers on the SC so there aren't voting ties.

The two major issues he's highlighting is the border and gaza. I can't for the life of me understand why THOSE are the issues his campaign has settled on. Well, I guess I understand israel because of the money groups like APAC bring in... but still it's become really toxic among the base (even with most republicans at this point). And the border... like the fuck... we lambasted Trump for kids in cages and biden has decided that we should continue that policy and double down on it?

The only way he's winning a second term is if somehow Trump voters have lost their motivation and devotion to him. Otherwise this election is really not looking good.

There are so many popular issues that also make trump look terrible that biden could run on. Abortion, climate change, hating nazis, raising the minimum wage, expanding workers rights, LGBT rights, the actions of the FTC to reign in big business. He's got so many talking points to really be effective against trump and he's instead doing Hillary's campaign strategy of "Well yeah, look at that guy?".

Back when I bought mine (2018) they were pretty much the best in the business for EVs. There really weren't other options and Elon wasn't flirting with nazis. Now? Buy something else (or at very least don't buy a new tesla or used from tesla). Hundai's iconiqs look quiet nice.

It does not work like that.

The problem with such statements is the energy costs are nowhere near fixed. The amount of energy needed to play a song on my iPod shuffle through a wired headset is wildly different from the power needed to play that same song on my TV through my home theater equipment.

The same is true on the backend. The amount of power Google spends serving up a wildly popular band is way less than what they burn serving up an unknown Indy band's video. That's because the popular band's music will have been pre-optimized by Google to save on bandwidth and computing resources. When something is popular, it's in their best interests to reduce the computational costs (ie power consumption) associated with serving that content.

The hostility towards EVs is misplaced, likely due to both musk being a shithead and tons of misleading articles about how terrible they are. Over their lifetime, EVs have far less emissions than any other vehicle. It's not even close. Certainly there are better alternatives like public transport (which isn't available everywhere) or cycling (which isn't doable by everyone). However, in a car society, EVs are just about the best we can do.

As for the food restrictions, they are just not that common. Most people have access to and can tolerate rice and beans which are a complete protein set. As for vitamins the vast majority are found in high quantities in common plants (such as spinach). About the only thing to watch out for is B12 deficiency. Combatting that, however, does not require meat with every meal.

Certainly it'd be better if more variety and tasty plants were available. However, because plants are a staple to cuisine they are everywhere. If you look at the actual meat in your diet you'll find it's almost always served with a load of plant based food surrounding it.

I'm sympathetic with the difficulties going full vegan and am open to the notion that it's not possible for everybody. However, that does not mean that it's not an achievable diet for most people.

Worse, they were pure PR. A way for a company to say "look how green we are, we are offsetting all our emissions!". Which, of course, they did by finding a shady company that "offset" the most for the least amount of money.

I wonder how many times the same tree was paid for by companies to "offset" their CO2.

It doesn't even kick any can down the road. It's throwing cash at a tree while rolling coal.

Yup. Not only that, years earlier they were under investigation by the doj for their chloroprene emissions.

Denka's arguments here are ridiculous. They are trying to play like chloroprene isn't horribly toxic. It's a human pesticide. No emissions are safe, and that means they can't run their 60 year old cancer factory without rebuilding. Booo hooo.

There could also be an elite group of the gayest people on earth. Or it could just be 2 gay lords.

Basically yes.

Most libertarians are both profoundly selfish and woefully uninformed about history, theory of government, etc. proud ancaps (which is the loud majority) are dumbasses that swallowed koch propaganda. "I got mine" is the real libertarian credo.

I've met more than a few libertarians that view an essential role of the government is banning books that mention gay people.

A lot of libertarians are just Republicans mad the Republican party isn't fascist enough. Their "small government" ideals often include government functions like making sure everyone worships Jesus.

FFS, I've seen idiots proudly waving the libertarian flag AND a thin blue line flag.

There's also so many issues that are way more popular that the Democrats are flubbing on by focusing on the fucking border of all things.

Abortion, climate change, cost of living, housing costs, medical costs, ect. It's a limitless field of popular problems that need fixing and instead of focusing on any of them, the hill they are dying on is funding and arming ICE? In the wake of calls for police reform, they want to empower some of the worst most fascist cops in the US?

These old dog Democrats are the dumbest most of of touch politicians out there.

Not fucking good, the bill is hot garbage and the fact that so many Senate Democrats and Biden support it is an embarrassment.

It's a bill criminalizing a non-problem that creates a worse issue than what it "solves". We don't need or benefit from a more militaristic boarder and xenophobic/racist rhetoric about people crossing.

This garbage kills people and promotes human trafficking. The bill Democrats should be supporting is loosening the boarder and opening pathways to citizenship. We don't need more detention centers to separate children from their families.

This bill is the same as if the Democrats put up an anti abortion bill just to show that the Republicans don't care about stopping abortions. Democrats implementing Republican's fascist policies is not what we need. Not even as a "gotcha".

Behold, how capitalists justify immoral behavior. "it's not my fault my actions hurt so many people, they should have realized I was going to hurt them and stopped me"

Yup. Nobody needs advice from advisors negatively impacted by this ruling. It's a common sense regulation, telling people the best financial move is buying their junk financial implements is unethical and now illegal.

This CRA would make it so a pay day lender could tell their marks the best financial move is taking out their terrible loans.

Nope.

A pardon stops all punishment from the judicial system. You don't have to plead guilty and criminal proceedings stop. A pardon further undoes any legal handicap (for example, you can own firearms again).

That said, if you accept a pardon you can't plead the fifth when it comes to details related to the crime you've committed.

There's also a commutation, which is weaker than a pardon. Instead of having the crime fully forgiven you are simply let out of jail with the understanding you committed the crime and must face follow up consequences (like not being able to own firearms).

Finally, there are also conditional pardons. Those are ones where the president could impose a "you must plead guilty" style rule before the pardon can be applied. He could also apply a rule that says "you must perform 10 jumping jacks".

Pardon powers are some of the most broad we have in the US.

About the only limitation is you can't pardon for future crimes.

Yeah, and that will be another problem. Even with this format, most people aren't going to watch the debate. What they'll watch is clips from the debate from their favorite media outlet.

Biden isn't a great debater, so I'm sure there'll be plenty of clips of him looking like an idiot. And, well, Trump is an idiot and his supporters know and don't really care about that... So... Yeah. These debates will ultimately be pointless. The two are known entities that really don't need exploring. A format change, though, would hopefully help with the 2028 elections.

The terms here are how the commission should have been running debates from the beginning.

Trump will never agree to these terms as they undercut his entire debate strategy. With no crowd there, Trump can't feed off their responses. With the mic time limit he can't interrupt and interject like he wants to do. That leaves him with his rambling disconnected thoughts.