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Sixty five isn’t that old. It’s just a year after what’s considered middle age. Plus, every person ages differently, look at Nancy Pelosi who is older than both Biden and Trump. Her strongest years as a politician was after she turned 65. There wouldn’t be much of an age issue if there were term limits on federal offices like the House and Senate where people hold them for 50 years plus.

There needs to be fact checking. I don’t see how anyone can keep up with the endless flow of bilge from Trump. It’s not just he lies, it’s that he lies a lot and really fast which is just like a sewage pipe busting over your head.

Trump is awful and even though he sounds “less old” than Biden, his sound bites about Roe and the like are going to be useful.

The other Trump World conspiracy from Dr. Ronny Johnson (that's his name now as far as MAGA is concerned because Trump can't be wrong) Don Jr is very concerned that Biden is jacked up. (A roided out Biden running across the stage and tearing up Trump would be cool to see, though): MAGA Pushes New Conspiracy to Prep for Trump Losing Biden Debate (msn.com)

I got relatives in Sweden. They like their personal space there. Russia doesn't seem to understand how much Swedes love their personal space. I guess they've decided to fuck with the Swedes because they've already got their ass kicked by Finland once.

From the mind of Trump: Donald Trump’s Wild New Debate Claim Has People Saying, Hmm, OK (yahoo.com)

This is the sort of thing that happens when locally-owned media dies. People are too busy tuning in to cable news and social media get their rage high instead of bothering to learn the name of their mayor or congressman. I keep hearing the stupid "School gives Furry kid litterbox" story from different people, always a different school. If they only had a local news source that actually covered school board meetings.

He's pretty much a goldfish at this point, just chasing whatever pellets he sees in front of him at the moment. I'm bemused over the mental gymnastics his MAGA believers can do in order to try to make his word salads make sense.

Whatever happened to Nabs? He finally have the ultimate melt down and turn into a puddle of piss?

I thought that in 2021. He'll disappear for a couple of months, Republicans will say they're ready to "move on," Trump will start making new demands and then they'll start following them because most of them only face real challenges in primaries. They're either cult members or sniveling pussies, they aren't going to change until Trump is either gone or somehow physically incapacitated from speaking or whatever he does on Truth Social. Also, he pretty much owns the RNC now. Unless they remove the people he installed, it's not going to change for a long time or until it is totally bankrupt. I'm sure it's just another ATM for him to make withdrawals from right now.

If they could actually be challenged to a duel, I doubt most of the GOP would bother to be there. I'm kind of surprised that people still show up to vote for guys who've had their wives, parents and children insulted by Trump but still snivel and grovel about he's the greatest thing since flushable toilets.

Sounds like religious people who pollute science news pages on social media just so they can say "SCIENCE LIES!"

The Constitution was written at a time where personal honor was something people lived and died (even killed) by. For many of them, I think it was inconceivable that someone like Trump would make it to the heights he has. That culture has pretty much died but the Constitution hasn't changed to reflect that. If politicians of today challenged people to duels over infringements on their honor, we'd be having special elections every other week.

Just the start. He's going to drag this on for years in appeals. If there is one thing he is good at, it's gumming up the gears of the justice system and making things move as slowly as possible. If the conviction stands on this case in 2025 or 2026 when he exhaust appeals, he'll probably get probation or a suspended sentence considering it's his first offence (that he's been convicted of) and his age. The other cases, he'll drag those on until he's out of money or meets natural causes. If they do reach an end, he'll probably be too out of his mind with age-relate cognitive problems (runs in his family) that there'll be no point in locking him up. By the time everything is over and if he's alive, he'll probably be an old guy who has no idea where he is and who's around him surrounded by secret service. I'm kind of curious how long the MAGA people and GOP will stand by him when his cognitive decline is no longer something that can be outright denied, explained away or hidden.

My 7-year-old daughter likes it. It's pretty much the same plot over and over again, so two episodes back-to-back is enough for her. That's the 1992 season anyway.

Where Russia has excelled is convincing low-information voters and RW media addicts that it is a "sleeping bear." I use that term because some guy I work with at a Head Start nonprofit is apparently MAGA and started going off about how NATO is hurting our program to this guy off the street who said he appreciated what Head Start does. That random guy was like "WTF" and parted ways. I yelled at them that I didn't want to hear about politics when I was trying to eat lunch. Another real life experience was at a volunteer thing I do and one of the guys is very left wing started talking about how "NATO is no better than Russia" when Ukraine was attacked, referring to Russia trying to how Russia was just trying to "protect itself." What I get from this is that the US needs to inform its citizens why NATO is a good thing, how much life would suck without it and why Russia has to be quarantined.

Russia wouldn't win a ground war against NATO, probably not against most NATO states. The only reason it's still in Ukraine is because Ukraine is not in NATO. Similar story with Georgia. Putin is panicking. The illusion he's been able to present internationally of Russia being a global player and an existential threat is falling away. The main reason it has any sort of global reach no is its natural resources and its willingness to send its mercenaries anywhere to support tinpot dictators. It's rotting from the inside and Russia as it is now will probably die shortly after Putin.

Up next, Thomas gives his opinion on why he'd side with the majority on Dred Scott and then hands himself over to the descendants of the people who owned his G-G-G-grandparents to spend the rest of his life in servitude. Dude would probably do it no matter how stupid that sounds.

The Supreme Court is probably the least democratic institution we have. I don't think they should be directly elected or anything but there should be some sort of term limits in place and a limit to how many justices a single president can appoint per term. If Trump is president again and the court decides he has full immunity, he could just have the three liberal seats and Roberts taken out by Seal Team 6 and appoint a bunch of 20-year-old MAGAs to the seats. He's every accelerationist's wet dream in that regard.

You say that yet there's Family Guy that's way more everything anime outside of hentai can be. I can't think of a single anime that AS or Toonami broadcasted that wouldn't be OK for broadcast TV.

Digital subchannels are pretty much like cable in the 1980s and 1990s now. Want a history channel? There's an OTA for that. Want a law & crime channel? There's one for that too. Want a cooking channel? There's one for that. Like sci-fi? There's one for that. Probably only a matter of time before there's one that appeals to the AS or Toonami demographics. Only drawback is that you're not going to get all of them unless you're in a major metro. Cable TV without an internet package is quickly becoming irrelevant. Most of the channels, like MTV, seem to be reruns or blocks of single-show reruns all day anyway.

Not as much stoke as borderline terrified. I mean, the US isn't perfect, but electing Trump is like playing Russian roulette with only one chamber empty.

If he had the guy killed in the U.S. or an allied country where we already had resources on the ground or something like a NATO/allied country, it'd definitely be something at least impeachable if not criminal. A warzone without anyone in charge and no way to have local authorities capture them is quite a different story, especially if they're a clear and present danger. Plus, if presidents were allowed to pull out all the stops to prevent the constitutional transfer of power, like stage coups or assassinate opponents, we'd be Venezuela at best or North Korea at worst. I don't really want my descendants being indoctrinated to believe that the Trump family was born on Mount Denali and next to divine or shit like that. I had an essay I wrote for a website when I was a newspaper columnist about the supreme court and the fact that it's really in need of reform. Because I don't want to blast my real name, I'll just bullet point what I said and you guys can just shit all over it. Limit Justices to a single 18-year term A single Justice is appointed in each odd year to replace one term-limited out, limiting presidents to two justices per term. That would mean that even a two-term president would not be appointing more than half of justices. If a justice dies, the replacement is appointed to fill out the dead justice's term, no longer. I didn't do anything too complicated. I figured an 18 year term is long enough to keep stability on the court but also bring about generational change, preventing stagnation. It would also mean that most reasonable presidents would appoint judges in their 40s and 50s. Of course, some white dudes who hate change got butt hurt by it and let me know.

Long term goal should be ending the electoral college and putting it up to a popular vote. The electoral college came at a time when there was no real American identity, the population wasn't nearly as mobile and more than half of Americans had no right to vote.

I wish someone would just offer Trump a deal where he just promises to disappear to Mar-a-Lago and never be heard from again. If he just went away, I wouldn't care if he were charged with a crime. It's getting to a point where I know I had almost four full decades of life without Trump invading every corner of society, but every day it's getting harder to imagine a time when he's just not there. Now I'm like three years from finishing my fifth decade and I'm facing the guy who was president when I was 40 being president when I'm 50. It makes me SAD.