"You also have the option of not wearing pants. But if you don't wear pants you probably shouldn't go out in public."

Most pants generally don't penetrate you.

A better comparison would be circumcision (both male and female), since many people believe it prevents (or lowers) the spread of diseases.

"Do you have the right to infect someone else with a potentially fatal disease?"

You can still infect others even if you're vaccinated. Not being vaccinated is not the same as having a contagious disease.

Scandinavian metal is pretty good.

Conservatives are always opposed to change.

"Yes republicans could learn a thing or two from history.
Turns out that cutting down all the trees you can and ripping the hearts out of people and bouncing them down the steps to cheering mobs really doesn't help prevent climate change."

I actually agree with you about conservation (never really understood how conservation became identified with the term "Liberal"), but that's obviously not the analogy I was making, nor is it really a valid one. People who want to cut down all the trees they can do not see it as a sacrifice that can influence many types of natural disasters or prevent the extinction of humankind.

"I would understand why members would want to bring that forward."

He has to say stuff like this because of the political tightrope he's currently on. It certainly doesn't sound like something he's eager to do or waste political capital on.

The Aztecs were very concerned about climate change. They did everything they could to try to influence it, according to their scientific understanding at the time.

Here's a crazy thought, but hear me out. Maybe Team Biden wants to muddy the waters in Trump's prosecution, at least until Trump gets the nomination? It would be a very shrewd political move.

Hard to believe that aviation computer outages in both the U.S. and Canada on the same day is just a coincidence.

21 years, 122 days

"It's ridiculous to try to argue that Russian disinfo didn't have sufficient effect to change just a few thousand votes in a few battleground states. Even here, people were defending the disinfo as if it were factual."

It's even more ridiculous to suggest that countries don't try to influence each other's elections all the time with information campaigns. It happens in every election. If you'd had a halfways decent candidate in that election, it wouldn't have mattered.

"#1 Yet."

Doesn't matter. Calling for someone to be immediately deported when they haven't broken the law here and haven't been charged, much less requested for extradition elsewhere is off.

There is no extradition request, so he can't be extradited.

It is strange how people on here want to give primary blame to foreign actors for how 2016 turned out, but the topic never comes up regarding 2020 (in either the violent lead up to it or the aftermath).

"Russian PsyOp groups "Muslims for Hillary" and "Black Matters.""

There were at least as many domestic clickbait groups, which probably had just as much if not more influence.

It's interesting how views on abortions and guns intersect, and how the bases of each major political party have inverted views on prohibiting one but opposing restrictions on the other.

They should find out where the kid got the gun from and prosecute that person to the full extent of the law.

Then they should let kids play with finger guns and obviously plastic toy guns again, so they can identify and address behavioral issues without this sort of thing happening.

"Nancy should be the first to call for a no confidence vote, just for fun."
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I know you're trying to be funny here, but no way. Unless there's a clear ethics violation, nobody on either side will want to go through this again "for fun". If one of the Trumpers calls for it because they don't get what they want, I suspect many Democrats will just vote present.

He said one of the first hearings will be on the southern border. I thought he meant it literally.

Now I know my ABC's.

Will Boebert do a split this time?

WTF just happened?

Maybe they were at the ceremony for the anniversary of the other Jan. 6th attack.

They can nominate anyone. The Speaker of the House does not even need to be a congressman.

Maybe he was looking for the Deputy.