It’s milquetoast pandering to help sell explicit stuff. No reason to hate, but I’m not a huge fan either.

There are worse things in the world than being a little bland.

Could be phrased better. I don’t know why you’re “correcting” them. It’s a lot of assumptions when you could assume they agree with you on this. It doesn’t really conflict.

We believe in innocent until proven guilty. That favors rapists.

Neither. It was something else. (Likely fake).

I’m more worried that the current administration will take this as a warning to use more extreme methods of manipulating the vote.

Man, I do miss Thai Orchid from that neighborhood.

I haven’t found Thai nearly as good anywhere in the Midwest.

Seems like it’d be a good place for the last 50 years of gains in efficiency to go.

Time to start taxing the rich instead of worrying about taxing per worker.

We just never get to retire.

By 2030 it’s projected to be 2.0 workers per retiree.

You forgot about the House. It’s the other part of the Legislative branch.

Good luck eliminating the Senate then.

The founders did not have a situation in which we have nearly 40 million people in one state, and 588K in another

They did. When Kentucky was admitted to the Union the population was around 73k. The official population of Virginia was 747,610. Virginia had 10x the population of Kentucky when Kentucky was admitted.

Vermont has 3 total representatives in Congress, one of which is Bernie Sanders. California has 54.

If the Senate was the entire legislative branch, I would agree with you that it’s a problem. It’s not.

The Senate is pretty clearly spelled out in the Constitution. Citizens United is a pretty far fetched, liberal interpretation, and gerrymandering isn’t in the Constitution at all.

Eliminating the Senate is more difficult and not on my priority list, and you haven’t exactly convinced me to support that. It’s a great idea if your goal is to get nothing done.

I guess we can agree to disagree.

I’m going to have to what? Sounds like I didn’t need to do shit.

You’re going to have to prove eliminating the Senate is more important than fixing Citizens United or gerrymandering.

This is not a problem. The Senate is half of one branch of government, and it’s fine to give land limited say. It helps prevent us from turning the less populated states into dumping grounds.

Even if you disagree, there are much bigger issues. Gerrymandering and Citizens United both do infinitely more damage.

Schools are more secure than airports. It’s not just theatre.

She got away with a lot because people did recognize that she belonged there and she was unarmed. And she still got lucky.

$36b divided by 65,000 is about $554,000.

Someone’s telling you tales, kid.

Who feeds you this bullshit?