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In Georgia, another Republican lawsuit was just struck down. The Republican party sued, arguing that the absentee ballot boxes (that you can use if yo...
December 26, 2020 at 22:52
I'm not sure why this stupid comment. If the data shows disproportionate deaths to a certain group, the risk factors (e.g. lack of access to health ca...
December 24, 2020 at 14:06
Articles of impeachment, a vote in the House, and a trial in the Senate all over the Christmas and New Year's holidays just so he could be removed a d...
December 24, 2020 at 01:53
Trump exerted great pressure on Republicans to contest the election: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/21/trump-pressure-campaign-overturn-electio...
December 24, 2020 at 01:48
The distinction between a conspiracy theory and a scientific theory is that the former holds that a theory is provable by hypothesizing motives and th...
December 24, 2020 at 01:37
The statistic used to show increased number of deaths during the pandemic doesn't depend upon the subjective classification of the death by the report...
December 23, 2020 at 22:33
Even now FoxNews and NewMax have begun retracting their claims regarding the Dominion software being designed to flip the votes in Biden's favor becau...
December 22, 2020 at 14:14
There was his semen on her dress. Only then was there the confession. I don't compare Clinton to Trump though. Diddling the intern is really bad judgm...
December 22, 2020 at 04:56
But I doubt you'll concede that if the homelessness doesn't result from exploitation, then society has no burden to cure it. Surely you could have all...
December 19, 2020 at 04:40
There are two theories we can work from here: 1. The Republicans all know that Trump lost but they're willing to pacify him by pretending otherwise so...
December 14, 2020 at 14:35
I expect some condemnation from both sides over this. Alan West is a nut job. He previously argued in favor of the Confederate monuments. A pro-Trump,...
December 12, 2020 at 04:42
Not to brag, but while you were pissing around trying to obtain the perfect pitch, I obtained the perfect smell. It was a cross between unicorn, marsh...
December 11, 2020 at 20:13
My dream, because everyone wants to know, is to be able to sit around and dream all day, or not, or do whatever I want to do. It would seem that a dre...
December 11, 2020 at 20:06
Do you live in Afghanistan?
December 11, 2020 at 20:03
https://youtu.be/DC8QS0XKguo Yeah, well, I'm forced to listen to your Christmas music.
December 11, 2020 at 01:20
It surprises you that the Titanic had a vagina?
December 10, 2020 at 20:53
I'm all for fairness, which is what the courts are used for, not generally this rarely used law that permits legislators to act as judges. Legislators...
December 10, 2020 at 20:04
It seems we're a better lot than we were overall 1,000 years ago. It's a historical question I suppose, but it seems we do a better job not bludgeonin...
December 10, 2020 at 19:58
No, the issue is whatever the challenger makes the issue and the power of the House is anything from ordering a new election to deciding which of the ...
December 10, 2020 at 18:27
Well, you can't decontextualize this either. For a Democrat whose party currently holds the moral high ground on this issue, now is not the time to wa...
December 10, 2020 at 14:53
But this wasn't what I was responding to in @"Pfhorrest"'s post. He said it was not apples to apples because all the Iowa candidate wanted was a recou...
December 10, 2020 at 14:30
My attitude is that I cannot support anyone who engages in undemocratic behavior. I recognize that Trump's interference with the democratic process ex...
December 10, 2020 at 14:14
The recount was already conducted and the Republican win was confirmed and the result certified. This is an appeal to the House to hear evidence to de...
December 10, 2020 at 11:26
A Republican from Iowa won a House seat by 6 votes and her opponent seeks to invalidate it by appealing it to the Democratic controlled House. https:/...
December 10, 2020 at 04:00
I don't think the argument that living logically entails suffering is one anyone reasonably makes. It seems a strawman. Surely one can envision a life...
December 09, 2020 at 19:42
The theory that he plays into the fears of the beleaguered white man who sees his power escaping as the nation's culture and ethnicity change, so he h...
December 07, 2020 at 22:02
There are plenty of really good new ideas: https://www.pocket-lint.com/gadgets/news/137775-20-crazy-inventions-you-won-t-believe-what-you-re-about-to-...
December 07, 2020 at 21:24
And so you see, there is good in everything, even in those who insist there is good in nothing.
December 07, 2020 at 16:02
I took the OP as a probably accurate observation that there is a significant divide between optimists and pessimists. Why the two see the world distin...
December 07, 2020 at 15:55
I don't think they're stupid. I think leaders actually lead, which means there are people who follow. If Trump would have said the election were fair ...
December 07, 2020 at 14:28
I consider myself an optimist, but that doesn't mean I deny reality and insist there is no suffering. The position is that through suffering much is g...
December 07, 2020 at 14:19
Oh, and you're welcome. So it doesn't go unnoticed, you brought up your sister, and not a single inappropriate comment from me.
December 07, 2020 at 12:49
They object to the mail in ballots that have now been separated from the envelope bearing the voter's signature, claiming fraudulent ballots have been...
December 07, 2020 at 11:31
I would come visit you, but I think I'd have to quarantine a couple of weeks before you'll let me in public. Anyone can come here. We still openly acc...
December 07, 2020 at 11:24
Your question is an empirical one as you've phrased it, and I suppose the term, like any, is used in a variety of ways by different people in differen...
December 06, 2020 at 04:12
As it turns out, Lin Wood is a really a nut job. I mean really. https://www.motherjones.com/2020-elections/2020/11/meet-the-lawyer-behind-the-georgia-...
December 05, 2020 at 05:22
It is actually comforting to know US courts are a bastion of reasonableness. The debates we have had over judges' various interpretative philosophies ...
December 05, 2020 at 01:48
Yes, this is what I'll do.
December 04, 2020 at 23:22
Not sure why that made me laugh. Politics is so fucked up.
December 04, 2020 at 18:50
I've not seen the ad you're talking about with Ossoff. The Atlanta Jewish Times (which I'm sure you also subscribe to) had full page ads for Perdue an...
December 04, 2020 at 16:45
Thank you for doing my legwork. There's a guy at my office who was celebrating there finally being conclusive proof of fraud. I told him it sounded li...
December 04, 2020 at 16:24
News out of Georgia: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/brian-kemp-georgia-brad-raffensperger-signature-audit As I understand it, on election night at a...
December 04, 2020 at 14:34
Leave it to the Republicans to squander their gains by radicalizing around the nutjobs. If Trump reemerges in 2024, I've got to hope a moderate right ...
December 04, 2020 at 12:47
I have a story sort of like that. Every Sunday, I would mop all the floors, vacuum, clean all the laundry, make all the beds, polish the floors and do...
December 03, 2020 at 16:58
Your post seemed to be a conversation with a certain someone. I'm not sure who it is or that it's terribly relevant, but it seems there is someone in ...
December 03, 2020 at 16:39
Good article on why Trump sucks: https://news.yahoo.com/trump-stress-tested-election-system-130724112.html
November 26, 2020 at 04:40
Enoch 7:2 describes them as 300 ells. An ell is about 18 inches. That makes them just slightly larger than a Neanderthal at about 8/10 a mile tall. A ...
November 25, 2020 at 05:03
In 2012, the federal conviction rate was 92%. That was admittedly a very high year, but the suggestion that crimes are being prosecuted that would onl...
November 24, 2020 at 21:41
Well, there's a Hebrew Bible canon as well that the monks didn't get a say in. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development_of_the_Hebrew_Bible_canon The...
November 24, 2020 at 21:34
De mortuis nil nisi bonum.
November 24, 2020 at 14:28