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Parasites don’t have the capability to learn. That’s why their political positions always boil down to who will buy their loyalty.

If your political opinion doesn't evolve, it means you've learned nothing.

Not a whole lot.

Yeah, whether a mistake or intentional. That's legal malpractice to the extreme.

Oh, they're definitely appealing to make it the original year + postseason. It's just debatable whether they will succeed.

Could be sabotage.

Biden's much vaunted reputation as a dealmaker has ended up being more of a liability, almost explicitly because he's dealing with an opposition that has no real interest in negotiations.

Well, he can't stop Pelosi from doing whatever the fuck she wants, so... yeah.

The arbiter was fairly clear. They're not going to be able to arbitrarily apply a full year suspension even if that's what the public wants and Watson deserves. I don't see anything that would change the judgement since they can't introduce new evidence to suggest that what Watson was doing qualifies as violent (WTF?!!).

LOLJK. It's really just delaying the inevitable. The NFL was originally calling for a year-long suspension but it got reduced to 6 because the NFL has such a shitty domestic abuse policy. The rationale from the arbiter might sound like bullshit, but she was essentially telling the NFL they didn't have the ability to make such a long suspension based on their own policy.

Seems a bit tepid considering he was going to nominate pro-life judges.

Hold your horses.... It ain't over yet.

Eh.... China has been saber rattling for so long, this hardly does much to change anything other than give China another opportunity to draw a line in the sand that everyone is going to ignore. China isn't going to war now with the Ukrainian conflict ongoing and too man opportunities to fill in the void left by Russia in Europe, and they're not giving up on Taiwan anytime soon either. At best, it's the Democrats thumbing their nose at China at a time when doing so is thoroughly unnecessary. It isn't going to destabilize anything, but that only highlights how pointless it was. One could even argue China came out ahead by putting a spotlight on how pointless the trip is for US and Taiwanese relations.

Bit... harsh, but, yeah, there is absolutely no strategic reason for her to be there other than to thumb our nose at China or, possibly, hold off anything China has planned for a few days. It's performative politics at its worst, and it leads one to suspect that she's drawing attention away from something else by doing it.

The vibe has definitely started to change.

Now is a good time to be a regular again.

That center is going to end up killing a pregnant woman sooner rather than later.

Good!

They haven't said. Usually, repounds happen when the immune system is compromised or suppressed enough to make it less capable to clear the virus before the antiviral is complete.

Shut the fuck up. You’re just spreading anti-vax lies.

Catchy:

Supposedly, rebounds are common with Paxlovid treatment.

Democrats were not under the illusion that Biden was anything other than not Trump. You might be misattributing what we’re doing as a us calling it a mandate, but that’s hardly the case. Climate, voting rights and child care can hardly be called wildly progressive considering the overwhelming need. They’re causes that most progressives can agree are really important and frankly don’t need mandates.

That’s true. A lot of the disarray you see from progressives is a result of the GOP self immolating and purging is own moderates creating both an even larger progressive tent and a sense of urgency that a loose coalition can’t realistically meet.

Not to interject, but part of it is about making administering this place less onerous before worrying about who is doing what. Just having someone else try to do what Pat has been doing by himself up to this point is just going to end poorly. It makes more sense to give stakeholders more of a say over their stakes then continue to have one person take all the responsibility for keeping everyone happy.