She lost her primary because of her anti-Trump stance. She’s overall still a conservative and basically causative for the current GOP via her votes and other ideals but she is willing to stand her ground on that at least.

A heck of a lot of people are also trapped by work, family, and just not having time to keep up with all the changes.

Honestly pretty crazy to me that 45% of legal Gen Z hasn’t had alcohol at all. That’s the craziest data in there for me if true. I guess covid really cut parties out for those prime peer pressure age groups. And it’s a cyclic effect as there’s less drinkers to peer pressure new drinkers.

I enjoy a drink(not wine) but the price and health are real kickers. I want a low abv good tasting beer and that’s hard to find as craft is still chasing the high abv super IPAs. I only have a drink with my weekly dnd and that’s kinda it anyway though.

It’s basically environmental nimbyism, they want those areas for themselves. Unfortunately, they honestly don’t think climate change is a thing or can’t appreciate how it will affect those areas.

Yes, but nothing in the rules of war or international law say you can’t attack the enemy nation’s territory. The people loaning Ukraine weapons are the ones saying that. The same ones that held up many supplies at a critical time during the Spring 2024 offensive.

There must be some moderation or the loudest but stupidest would have the rest of us unable to have discussions. I don’t agree with demoting the entire mod team but ehh, cats are obligate carnivores. Not giving them meat will make them sick and possibly die. Encouraging that contrary to reality is encouraging animal abuse. If they want a vegan pet it can’t be a cat.

This wasn’t so much entitlement as necessity. My aunts moved to get married. My dad and uncles moved for work. Meeting up was always infrequent because it required flying. My grandpa(dad’s side) wasn’t able to make it to my dads wedding and my mom did not get to see her dad on his deathbed.

Just how things were back then.

100% of my family besides my wife and dog are far enough away that flying is the only practical way to visit them.

True but also something that should have been tested for and known before it was upright and fuelled again. I.e. why didn’t safety checks catch the issue(s)?

Doesn’t matter if the outcome is after registration deadlines.

Their are many more moderate sects of Islam, they just didn’t get all the US and Saudi $$$$ to spread their beliefs.

It opened fine for me so I don’t think there’s a paywall.

Because “he’s food motivated, lol” is not the caption of someone who is taking a pet’s obesity seriously.

Please convince your friend to put the poor guy on a diet.

I’m a younger millennial. I was still pretty young during Bush jr term 1 and while there was certainly distrust of Cheney and Bush there was a general positive note towards the actual office of the president and a congress that while slow still did things. I hadn’t learned about Newt’s fuckery nor really understood Bush v Gore. Then there was Iraq and it took a long time before we heard about the lies used to start the war. Then Obama was overall a positive influence on the presidential reputation(deservedly or not is debatable). Congress (at least Rs) certainly lost much of my trust under Obama with the shutdowns and nominee holdups. This is when I started paying more attention. Then, of course Trump made any trust in the office 0 (if not negative) and Rs lost all trust from the repeated hypocrisy and plain evil and of course the impeachment debacles. Biden was improving trust in the office of the president at least somewhat before Gaza. Congress on the other hand (Dems included now because of Manchin, Sinema, Feinstein, etc) has lost any remaining trust I had.

I can’t speak for others but while I generally always disliked congressional representatives I naively had faith in the institution overall for longer than I should have.

The problem is that you can never be certain about someone’s ability to stand their morals atop money until it is truly offered to them. Supposedly Gaben has turned down Billion dollar offers for steam. It is certainly not every person who will do so and it is hard to know how a person will react until that is truly offered to them. I don’t know that I’d turn it down (though I also don’t know how much Gaben makes).

The country isn’t really otherwise ready for a switch to renewables so overall good for the planet but not so much his citizens who will have to do without.

Depends on where those taxes are used. I really hate how much goes to our military instead of social services.

As I said a compromise measure. I’m good with compromise but there are more considerations to that which I haven’t seen addressed in these discussions.

A major one of getting it done state by state instead of all at once is if a large Blue state like California does the split but a large red state like Texas doesn’t do the split then the electoral college will only get further skewed instead of fixed.

Or we could simply get rid of the electoral college and say a vote is a vote.

Like as a compromise measure before getting rid of the electoral college delegates based on % is an improvement but how to split based on % would be very contentious. In a 10 delegate state does 52% 48% mean 5 and 5 or 6 and 4? What about a 3 delegate states. Maine and Nebraska do assign some to the state popular vote and one to each congressional district. But states like Wyoming and Vermont only have 1 congressional district that covers the whole state while having 3 delegates. Their state popular vote and congressional district popular vote literally can’t be different.