I'm not so sure he's much of a security risk, unless he is still in possession of sensitive documents. I sincerely doubt he is capable of remembering anything in the way of valuable secrets. Anyways, even if he did, any adversary would be daft to trust he remembered correctly.

COVID now isn't what COVID was during the initial outbreak. Current mutations are significantly less lethal. Between the vaccines and the fact that almost everyone has had it at least once by now, we are far more prepared to handle it. It's still something that should be taken seriously, but it's also well into the endemic phase. This is the steady state where humanity will have to coexist with COVID indefinitely, not the pandemic where talking about "super spreader events" is reasonable.

After End Game they stopped being Marvel movies and started being Disney movies.

The military leadership is deeply neoliberal. They are definitely not leftist, but aren't fans of Trump and MAGA either. However, expect Trump to start replacing them as soon as he takes office.

I'm willfully educated and a Bernie Democrat, and I've been accused of making "both sides" arguments many, many times. It's almost a guarantee that it will come out in response to any criticism of Democrats.

I don't disagree about disengenuous conservatives making bad equivalency or "uni-party" arguments. However, it's also true that the establishment consensus across both parties is very much outside the needs and desires of mainstream Americans.

I'm just pointing out of that it's really easy to accidentally throw the baby out with the bathwater, and it's not in the long term interests of the Democratic party to derail serious criticism.

I strongly disagree. A little inspirational leadership would go a long way to calming my nerves about a potential second Trump administration. Biden is incapable of winning a mandate for a second term, and we are all lucky that Trump seems capable of losing anyways.

It's easy enough for some voters to be happy with a competent administration. But, for a lot of Americans, that looks like an extremely privileged point of view.

It's absolutely true that voting third party is a really dumb strategy that will never achieve anything good and could conceivably allow for worse outcomes. It's also true that this potentiality is way overblown because of ineffective Democratic politicians using third parties as an excuse for their pathetic underperformance.

Yeah, appeasement works great with glory hungry dictators. What's hilarious is you guys would be arguing the exact opposite of Trump were in charge right now, making up shit about how soft Biden would be on Putin.

Every firstborn son in Egypt will die, from the firstborn son of Pharaoh, who sits on the throne, to the firstborn of the slave girl, who is at her hand mill, and all the firstborn of the cattle as well.

Russia vs NATO might actually be a three day operation, at least in terms of the clash of armies.

Of course Russia's nuclear arsenal is quite an effective deterrent.

Prosecutions generally are targeted at criminals.

How dare you actually read the story!?

I do have some reservations about the idea of a compassionate execution method. It's kinda like tasers. Yes, they are a huge improvement on the alternative, but that also means they get used a lot more frequently.