" Also, real children images are uploaded"

This is why we need NIL laws.

" literally suggest the bar be lowered?"

Sorry: literally suggest the bar IS lowered?

"It would be more accurate to state that SOCTUS levels the bar for discrimination suits"

Doesn't that lower it for the straight, white woman, who used to have an infinite bar?

"Kinda like the part I put in bold."

Doesn't the part you put in bold literally suggest the bar be lowered?

"overturn a ruling by a federal appeals court that required Ames to meet a higher bar"

That would mean LOWER bar...right?

Let's see if I've got this right:

Underfund the Headstart programs.
Ignore educating the baby mamas.
Shortchange in inner city education programs.
Slash support for child care.
Treat teachers as the cure, AND the enemy.
When in doubt, blame the teachers again.
Slash school budgets, citing waste, fraud, and abuse.
Increase blame on the teachers until the sensible ones leave.

Finally, act surprised when the system doesn't work.

Coda: Use the failed system to pass billions to wealthy parents via vouchers.

Did I miss anything?

"What could possibly go wrong?"

Well, considering we're all Slim Pickens, sitting atop that A-bomb....

"So, I'm not the only one who sees an issue there?"

Ignoring trillions of debt, and the hundreds of billions of interest we pay every year???

What could possibly go wrong?

"The headline supposes a view apparently not the Court's."

It depends on the reference, doesn't it?

If it means "Lower than others" that's one thing, but "Lower than before" means something else. If the first was meant, you're right. But...

Before, the bar was, she had to be a member of a named, protected group. Now she doesn't; she can simply be the backlash to the protected group.

That lowers the bar, yes?

" change how that change is evaluated "

Republican Math is a dangerous thing, kids! Stay in school!!!

"which would assume that extending tax cuts costs $0 because they're already law."

Something the markets won't assume. Because that isn't the truth.

But watch how soon this dangerous lie BECOMES TRUTH in MAGA world. What's the over/under on how soon Hannity starts spewing this nonsense? How long till the Money Honey gets drunk enough to agree?

(I'll take the under on both.)

Pointer #1: Jump on moronic statements.

The more moronic, the more ridiculous the poster will look when, instead of admitting the obvious, they double down.

Pointer #2: If they keep digging...offer a shovel with a longer handle!

"You wouldn't know what a flex is"

Dude.

You're still back at misunderstanding basic math. I'm not sure insulting someone else's intelligence is apropos.

Hell, I'm not even sure you know what apropos means.

"I don't tell myself anything."

Not exactly the flex you think it is.

" I can do basic math."

Not if your conclusion is America "gets zero benefit from NATO". Basic math requires being able to identify numbers LARGER than zero.

I mean...you don't seriously believe that crap, do you???

"Sounds like the "titans" failed math..."

Riiiiiiiight. Keep telling yourself that. It's why they're wealthy, and you're not.

"...and get zero benefit from."

Titans of Industry on Line #1 for you. I'm not sure, but it sounds like they're all laughing....

#155

Oh, please. She had heart, and empathy.

"Trump did call today "good TV""

Using that barometer, Trump standing their pissing his pants would be "good TV", as folks would watch the stain widen and widen, mesmerized.

Meanwhile the rest of the world saw a guy unworthy to tie Zelenskyy's shoes.

Sorry...two guys.

"There's actually a few questions people still discuss having to do with 'the big guy' and Hunters lack of experience in energy and lack of qualifications. That's what still stinks."

What a riot.

What "stinks" is the double-standard. EVERYTHING being complained about, would be lauded if it were Ivanka using her father's clout. Smart business when it's a Republican, corruption when there's a (D) after the name.

"Trump plays by rules I don't fully understand"
~BillJohnson, aka Baghdad Bob for the Anti-Christ.

"When I got out of the army after 10 years of service. I was offered more money than I had ever seen in my life to go to Iraq as a contractor."

A longtime friend's BIL took them up. He used the money to buy a mammoth RV, the kind with two pullouts and three large-screen TVs.

"Land of the Fee, and Home of the...

...Grave", a year from now.

"It is clear that there is an answer to "What does Russia have on Trump?" that has not been uncovered yet and whoever lands that story is getting a mega Pulitzer"

...posthumously.

"Yes. Much of Russsiagate."

Hey -------, I've linked The Rubio Report several times. You don't get that talking point lie any more.

But it's rich, isn't it? Republicans ADMITTED there were over 100 contacts between Team Trump and the Russians. And here you are, denying what Republicans admitted..

"More water, Gunga Bell!"

#42

Any and every source of revenue "contributes". Why are you pretending an income tax dollar is somehow more valuable than a dollar of payroll taxes or a dollar of excise taxes?