And just like Ginsberg, she ruined her legacy by refusing to leave until she damaged the party.

I don't think it's comparable. Ginsburg's refusal to retire did real, lasting damage to both the Supreme Court and the nation as a whole. While Feinstein (or her handler)'s decision to stick it out appears to have been motivated by personal politics, i'm not really clear on what the harm was, though i recall perhaps some missed votes.

Will she resign now?

The state has no business controlling messaging. Not in this country. Suck it, leftist authoritarians.
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Meanwhile, in reality, Republicans in Texas and Florida are the ones who've passed laws restricting social media companies' own ability to privately control messaging, thereby substituting the state's own position on messaging for what private companies would otherwise do.

Jeff loves when the state controls messaging, it just has to be the right state.

Youngkin?
Smells like they're pandering to transphobic, public education hating conservative voters, and the moderate, Hillary voters, who hate transgender people as well.

To be fair, those are also the positions of every other Republican candidate.

I fail to see what Youngkin brings to the table here. But he surprised me in Virginia so i guess now we have to take him seriously.

Has anyone considered that Target simply may not want to admit to investors that they made a bad decision opening small format stores, so they're blaming "muh crime" instead? Walgreens already got caught doing the same thing, and there's an interesting analysis in the Seattle Times about how the closing Target stores had fewer police calls than the ones staying open.

Republicanism, on a policy basis, is supported by a dwindling minority of Americans.

Their only hope is to make voting harder and to consistently ratchet up their antidemocratic tactics. Because when Americans vote and their votes are actually counted, Republicans lose.

Anyways. Republicans do everything they can to ensure millions of Americans remain impoverished and then get out the fainting couches when people steal things. It's really bizarre and unserious drama queen behavior.

Have you seen the state of retail in Berkeley? It is literally completely empty.

That's funny, i walked down Shattuck and University a few months ago and they were both thriving. Mom and pop shops everywhere. Have you ever even been to Berkeley?

Lincoln should have let the south secede. What an abject -------- that drags this nation down in innumerable ways.

In a sense, Jack Smith is lucky he has such a common name, as it probably makes it more difficult for trumper scum to stalk and harass him (though i'm certain they try).

On topic, Thomas is so obviously corrupt and compromised that it is beyond debate at this point. If it were Sotomayor riding around in the Bahamas on George Soros' yacht and Republicans controlled the Senate they would have impeached her yesterday.

I'm America first

Cool.

Given that Americans pay orders of magnitude more per capita for healthcare that ranks below most wealthy nations on virtually every measure of quality, i assume you support a robust single payer system (or some other dramatic reform) that would actually out America ... you know ... first?

Inquiring minds want to know.

Remember when people thought Ron DeSantis was a formidable politician? He looked like an awkward rambling idiot last night. Can he ---- off back to Florida and shut up now?

The weird part about this shutdown is how successfully the Biden administration has dominated the public opinion space and convinced people this is 100% Republicans' fault.

I realize it also actually is their fault, but reality never stops Republicans from flooding the zone, and in past shutdowns the issue is more successfully muddied by competing narratives. Does anyone even know what the Republican narrative is on this shutdown? It's breathtaking how badly they've handled this from a comms perspective.

Please provide actual evidence for the need of the things your comment asserts.

Lmao. I hope that was a rhetorical question.

People vote for who they choose to vote for

I know that, genius. What i propose is that their votes not be run through an artificial filter that renders only one candidate's votes represented in the final count.

Property holders don't ever get to valuate their own property. Appraisers, banks, lenders and tax collectors do. Where is this judge from?

You don't have a clue. Banks use appraisers when financing a property directly, but they still rely on financial statements prepared by third parties to get their arms around a customer's bigger financial picture. Those statements are supposed to be prepared in accordance with GAAP principles which gives lenders assurance that some baseline standards of reliability are being met. If the Trump organization deliberately misleads its accountants into preparing inaccurate financial statements for purpose of influencing a lender, that is called fraud. Suck it up loser.

Over 6,000,000 people in California voted for Trump in 2020, making up over 8% of his vote total. And because of the Electoral College, those people may as well have not voted at all. Republicans are only okay with this patently absurd system, which effectively disenfranchises tens of millions of American voters, because in the end the EC allows their minoritarian candidates to win elections they don't deserve to win.

Mob rule.

Being run by a minority mob is still mob rule. You just like one mob more than the other.

Wouldn't a better option just be for congress to drastically cut the powers of the president to the point where he/she could do little to nothing without the consent of congress?

Why is that better than, or even relevant to, the topic of letting every American have equal voting strength when it comes to selecting a President?

What you are suggesting is an end to the "United States of America," to be replaced with the "State of America."

No it isn't. What I'm suggesting is that nobody alive today was around when state lines were drawn up, nobody controls which state they're born in, and that there isn't a lot of real world difference between living in Erick, Oklahoma or Shamrock, Texas. You can elect a president by popular vote and still have your 10th amendment and arbitrary state lines.

And if you don't like the EC, you must HATE the Senate.

You're right. And the logic of every American having equal political power is unassailable.

Fly over country is never going to agree to be ruled by the coasts

Nobody is ruling over anyone else in a one person one vote scenario. It's every man for themselves. State lines are completely arbitrary to anyone who is alive today.

Running off after telling an egregious lie is par for the course.

There's dozens.

Dumb thing to lie about, really exposes your partisanship/idiocy.

#68 Then show me a pre-2000s successful challenge to a gun crime based on 2A.