Everybody who voted for Biden didn't even vote for Biden. The 2020 election wasn't about Biden or Harris, it was about Trump.
Aren't society's norms arbitrary? There are certainly societies where showing tits is normal.
The rise of fascism is always the result of a long strong of causes. In a democracy the final cause in that chain will always be voters, but I think it's intellectually lazy to assume that makes the failure of voters "worse".
Most of the voters who don't show up are just disinterested in politics for a variety of reasons. I don't think there area many that say "Oh, no, a problem! Better ignore it"!
Blaming voters might be somehow cathartic, but the voters you're blaming aren't going to care. That's the way to go if you care more about assigning blame than actually addressing the problems.
AIPAC is dumping a boatload of foreign money on American elections aimed almost exclusively at eliminating progressives from both state and federal offices. Where is Hillary's gang and their hand wringing about foreign interference?
Whether the US is a net importer or exporter of oil and gas is actually pretty irrelevant to gas prices. It's important for other reasons, but oil is a global market regardless of where it's produced.
Israel is a state actor that has not signed on to the ICC, just like the US. Hamas is a non-state actor over which the ICC claims jurisdiction, just like the Taliban and any number of other terrorist groups. The US is really afraid of setting a precedent here that might impact it in the future.
I'm not sure that Ukraine sees this as a test war, but I get your point.
Any new DEA administrator would have to be approved by the Senate, and an an appointment that was a defacto decriminalization vote would not pass.
The bar that was set in this discussion was that Biden hasn't done anything to improve lives. I have already made a comment elsewhere in this thread indicating that I do not suffer from the delusions you are putting on me. Biden absolutely should be doing more, that just wasn't the bar presented.
Nobody thinks Biden will lose the primary. That's what rightfully has people scared. If Trump gets elected again, I wonder if you'll have the insight to regret that Bernie lost in 2020. Probably not I'd guess.
He's clearly suffering cognitive decline already. It's not the dementia that Republicans would like to claim, but I think he would be in trouble facing a competent Republican opponent.
Texas plane, 300 migrants land in Rockford; 8 buses in route to Chicago drop off migrants in suburbs
Great post, but I want to correct the inference that undocumented immigrants don't pay taxes. That isn't true.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/18/us/undocumented-immigrants-taxes-cec/index.html
For those that don't pay income taxes, they are no different than the 40% of US households with low incomes. Gaining documentation is not likely to push their income to a level where that would really change.
They also pay sales taxes, and property taxes (indirectly through rent).
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Agreed. It's pretty telling that none of these corporations would accept an open ended arbitration clause in their dealings with any other corporation.