Being trans is an electoral advantage?

Cyberchef does this and so so much more https://github.com/gchq/CyberChef

She literally said they were too ignorant of election law to be held accountable for signing and filing false documents.

That usually doesn’t fly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignorantia_juris_non_excusat

Trump doesn’t care if he’s smart or not. Trump traded dropping out of the race and endorsing himself in exchange for HHS. Purely a political transaction.

I bet Chicago could use Bernie in the next couple weeks. Maybe dust off the old civil disobedience.

sheepishly raises hand

It boggles the mind to argue that because the president is charged with faithfully executing the law there can’t be a law that limits a president’s authority to arbitrarily fire officials. All of these protected positions can be removed for cause. If these officials are not faithfully executing their duties in accordance with the law, that would be cause to remove them!

the end goal of the Dem party should be a complete overhaul and something like a parliamentary system.

On the one hand, absolutely yes. Trump has solid control of one of the political parties, but in general, is a very unpopular politician. Yet our political systems have become so dysfunctional that we run a serious risk of him destroying the rule of law and creating an authoritarian presidency. There’s no authoritarian-proof political system, but we can do a lot better than this.

On the other hand, I think any reform that sufficiently addressed our current problems would be the end of the Democratic party as well. Getting a political party to sacrifice itself for the greater good is a tough sell. Not impossible, but I think it would look more like a popular takeover of the Democratic party to be used as a disposable vehicle. The Democratic leadership and their donor class will absolutely be opposed.

The tea party and Trump have shown that seizing a party from its current leadership is not impossible.

I keep trying to eat meat but it just won’t cooperate!

Tit-for-tat is actually a good game theory strategy which encourages cooperation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tit_for_tat

This is the result of the Republican party, starting at least with the Bush neocons, weaponizing patriotism to be a way to slander their critics, and to publicly demonstrate their allegiance to the conservative movement.

After a couple decades now of conservative pundits and politicians responding to criticism by implying their opponents don’t love America as much as they do, or even trying to stifle conversation by demanding everyone profess their love of America on the spot, I think everyone else is pretty sick and tired of the flags and pins and stars-and-stripes punisher tee shirts.

I’m gonna disagree here. The impeachment resolution was a dumb idea, and should not have been introduced. It was never going to be successful. The more impeachment resolutions are introduced and fail, either in the house or Senate, the less likely they are to ever succeed. It looks more like boring partisan messaging, and less like an extraordinary situation. Introducing this resolution makes it less likely that Trump will be removed from office, not more.

I’m not going to take a position on whether it was a good idea to vote against it, that’s more debatable, but as a message to their fellow Democrats they are right that the resolution was a terrible idea.

Did nobody hear her say that the national guard is there to “liberate” the city from their local and state officials? It was in that very same press conference. I get that there’s a lot to track right now, but that seems like a bigger deal to me

https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artI-S9-C8-3/ALDE_00013206/

Sure the American public is going through a bad phase right now, but that’s pretty normal. The fact that having a demagogue capture maybe 15 percent of the public’s support (I’m only counting real MAGA) has caused the entire government to radically change is an indictment of the political systems, more than the public. Specifically gerrymandering, plurality voting, the electoral college, bicameral legislature with filibuster, lifetime court appointments, and an independently elected president. Probably more that I’m forgetting about. Human nature isn’t going to change, but we can change how a nation makes policy.

https://cpb.org/pressroom/Corporation-Public-Broadcasting-Statement-Regarding-Executive-Order-Public-Media

Read CPB’s statement.

Honestly what are you talking about?

I dunno pretty sure they consume groceries

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