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Sure, lie to yourself all you want. Being a terrible person isn’t the mark of courage you think it is.
December 18, 2024 at 10:01 PM
Sure, lie to yourself all you want. Being a terrible person isn’t the mark of courage you think it is.
Excellent response. I get why Republicans want to get rid of the Department of Education now.
December 18, 2024 at 9:34 PM
Excellent response. I get why Republicans want to get rid of the Department of Education now.
Consulting means a wide variety of things and is not suggestive of a crime at all. President Biden may very well not have known about any of it. There hasn’t been any proof, substantiated or suggested, that he did. And tax evasion is the corporate way. That’s already been handled by the courts.
December 18, 2024 at 9:15 PM
Consulting means a wide variety of things and is not suggestive of a crime at all. President Biden may very well not have known about any of it. There hasn’t been any proof, substantiated or suggested, that he did. And tax evasion is the corporate way. That’s already been handled by the courts.
Bobinski’s testimony was just that President Biden MAY have been in the room during one of the calls, jumping on the phone to say hello at one point. No one knows what is on the laptops (other than a couple racy photos shared by a dumb blonde in Congress), and his son owning LLCs is not suggestive
December 18, 2024 at 9:07 PM
Bobinski’s testimony was just that President Biden MAY have been in the room during one of the calls, jumping on the phone to say hello at one point. No one knows what is on the laptops (other than a couple racy photos shared by a dumb blonde in Congress), and his son owning LLCs is not suggestive
The key (and only) witness said last week that he had lied about that.
December 18, 2024 at 8:59 PM
The key (and only) witness said last week that he had lied about that.
So I can’t find the one I recalled about buying a Republican vote, but here’s a published research paper from 2017 analyzing 5 Democrat votes saying that it takes about $100k/vote. It also says $1k buys you 24% increase in likelihood they will vote your way.
rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
Fifty Shades of Green: High Finance, Political Money, and the US Congress - Roosevelt Institute
Money influences key congressional floor votes on both finance and telecommunication issues. Americans may not have the “best Congress money can buy.”
rooseveltinstitute.org
December 18, 2024 at 8:57 PM
So I can’t find the one I recalled about buying a Republican vote, but here’s a published research paper from 2017 analyzing 5 Democrat votes saying that it takes about $100k/vote. It also says $1k buys you 24% increase in likelihood they will vote your way.
rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
Unsubstantiated, disproven, and repudiated.
December 18, 2024 at 4:58 PM
Unsubstantiated, disproven, and repudiated.
It’s only about $1k to buy a Congressional Rep (I’ll have to go find that article again) and around $5k for a Senator. That’s just for a single issue, but still…
Incredibly depressing and definitely an indictment of our system.
Incredibly depressing and definitely an indictment of our system.
December 18, 2024 at 4:58 PM
It’s only about $1k to buy a Congressional Rep (I’ll have to go find that article again) and around $5k for a Senator. That’s just for a single issue, but still…
Incredibly depressing and definitely an indictment of our system.
Incredibly depressing and definitely an indictment of our system.
Originally read the Farseer trilogy and didn’t realize it was part of a larger series so I’m going back through all of it.
December 10, 2024 at 12:47 AM
Originally read the Farseer trilogy and didn’t realize it was part of a larger series so I’m going back through all of it.
The Mad Ship by Robin Hobb
December 9, 2024 at 11:38 PM
The Mad Ship by Robin Hobb
*disproven, not unsupported. Please stop soft-pedaling these dangerous morons.
December 9, 2024 at 10:43 PM
*disproven, not unsupported. Please stop soft-pedaling these dangerous morons.
Considering it’s a spectrum, there isn’t a true opposite. Just let everyone do their thing and don’t mess with someone else’s happiness. The guiding rule should be “if no one is hurt, don’t mess with it.”
December 3, 2024 at 4:35 AM
Considering it’s a spectrum, there isn’t a true opposite. Just let everyone do their thing and don’t mess with someone else’s happiness. The guiding rule should be “if no one is hurt, don’t mess with it.”
Got your (and all my friends’) back
December 3, 2024 at 4:31 AM
Got your (and all my friends’) back
That’s fair. Star Wars was always bad at physics, but at least the first 6 plus books were (somewhat) consistent. Like I’ve told many people, if the movies just didn’t have “Star Wars” in front of the title, they would be SO much better.
November 29, 2024 at 5:59 AM
That’s fair. Star Wars was always bad at physics, but at least the first 6 plus books were (somewhat) consistent. Like I’ve told many people, if the movies just didn’t have “Star Wars” in front of the title, they would be SO much better.
From my perspective, I didn’t like it because it ignored all of the expanded universe canon that was part of the LucasFilm IP. I grew up on those books, and then Disney just got rid of them. Starkiller Base was also annoying as a whole. Incomprehensible choice, ridiculous physics, and impractical.
November 29, 2024 at 1:18 AM
From my perspective, I didn’t like it because it ignored all of the expanded universe canon that was part of the LucasFilm IP. I grew up on those books, and then Disney just got rid of them. Starkiller Base was also annoying as a whole. Incomprehensible choice, ridiculous physics, and impractical.