It's just like insurance. Costs more to root out fakes than to just go with it.

Bovino’s conduct is so flagrantly unconstitutional it should rise to criminal conduct. There’s no “oops”ing this as an understandable mistake.

This implies that it will take months for benefits to restart even after a budget is passed. That is an absolute absurdity.

Because elections for all too many conservatives is something you keep doing until you get the 'right' result - and then stop. As if this was an algebra problem in junior high we had to do over and over again until we satisfied the teacher.

He's not demanding that you already know it ahead of time - he just wants Americans to do some work before giving someone bad advice, like investigating what will happen if you inject bleach to cure covid before recommending it in public.

Then you aren't who I'm talking about, and I completely respect the anger at being forced to that choice. I also completely respect that you made that choice. I was hammering those who did not.

And yet the end result is someone beyond any hope of convincing to have a change of direction. He moved the embassy to Jerusalem, ffs. You just abdicated on every other disaster/cruelty/horror, and didn’t even oppose the guy who will even more wholeheartedly slaughter Gaza than the last tosspot.

This is beating people until morale improves. Unless those people are a: actually capable of working, and b: there are jobs they are able to do for them to move into, it isn't happening.

But voting to reopen literally means closing the argument in those public policies for the next year. What the fatuous hell does he think will change that?

And the claim that 'they retracted that?' He's not just disputing the figure, he's claiming that those providing it actively withdrew it for being wrong.

In a country with as low turnout as the US has in elections, they won't notice at all. They won't think about it because they can't identify the impact.

And yet there are other issues that will continue to be issues regardless of that. If you aren't going to get a candidate addressing your main priority... yeah, it sucks. But ignoring that the world doesn't queue up crises and issues one at a time is just asking for disaster.

It amazes me how many groups do all the work in figuring out ways to break the system for their opponents. Be a naysayer! Don't bothsides it!