Harris’s proposal specifically includes an income limit to prevent people like hedge fund managers and lawyers from structuring their pay as “tips”. Trump’s version predictability does not.

Or a James Earl Jones. I’m not picky.

Biden can just mint a trillion dollar platinum cost and pay the debt with it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trillion-dollar_coin

I’m not going to pretend that I don’t have asinine opinions on guns, but there is very little anything but the most authoritarian gun control can do about school shootings without first addressing the social problems behind it. We would be just as likely to get kids building bombs or driving cars through crowds.

One would think it would be a bipartisan idea that a kid with two parents who are addicts should receive some sort of government intervention.

This shooting in particular shows major society-level failures. The parents were victims of the opiate crisis. Society failed to treat that problem at an appropriate level when it first cropped up and they failed to claw back the profits pharmaceutical companies made off creating addicts. We failed to fund school mental health services that could have helped a child who everyone knew was struggling. Society failed to recognize and address the domestic violence situation, failed to intervene when the child was being raised by addicts, and failed to remove guns from such a volatile situation. There are so many levels on which any significant intervention could have prevented this chain of events.

Zombie Prostitute gets stuck in my head on a regular basis.

That’s so cool! I’ve been a fan of Voltaire for a long time. Saw him live a couple times and the show is always a blast.

One would think, but no.

They are experts in law, not experts in how unethical Republicans can be.

According to Model Standards for State Trial Courts, 75% of felony dispositions are to be resolved within 90 days, 90% within 180 days, and 98% within 365 days.

Trump was indicted March 30, 2023 and was arraigned on April 4, 2023. That means we are at 18 months now. With this decision it will be nearly 21 months.

The best description I have heard is that the support of Trump over any fact or reason is because it is kayfabe. They choose to live in a fantasy because it’s more appealing than the reality.

Losing money is all Trump understands about business.

I’m more worried about billionaires who have literal armies like Erik Prince.

Owning land is not the same as governing land.

It’s just so weird to get so upset about solar that you have tshirts and signs made to protest. Even if I don’t agree with it, I can at least understand the angle most protestors are coming from. But this? What’s to get so mad about solar?

If you are running in the Olympics, it doesn’t matter if the 2nd place guy is 5 seconds or 10 seconds behind you. You still get the gold.

My point is that he didn’t lose a significant amount of money.

Even with all the losses, he is still the richest man in the world by more than $50 billion. Musk dumped more than half of his Tesla stock and is focusing more on SpaceX now.

Musk could easily buy himself a governorship or a senatorial position and work up from there. That’s not his goal. He wants to be the next Thomas Edison. He wants to be admired and remembered.

Dictator’s opulent displays of wealth are to stoke their egos. They don’t care about the money they spend because they just took it, they didn’t earn it. They care about how much control they have over the people around them. They don’t care if people like them ,only that they fear them.