I made a map ringing the 14 MI Congressional Districts around Downtown Detroit & accidentally stumbled upon a 13/1 Democratic Gerrymander from 08. I know it would be much different today, but is crazy how badly Obama slaughtered McCain in 08.
After eight years of warning about the deep state, pro-Trump conservatives are *literally* defending the existence of an anonymous, unaccountable, secret org controlling the spending power of the federal govt. And upset about transparency. Just totally, completely insane.
@THEbadgermaniac@totally_t_bomb That same thing happened to me a couple weeks ago for a Michigan game. I thought I just couldn’t figure it out. You also can’t rewind or pause. That all seems so simple for a streaming service. What are they doing?
PEPFAR has enjoyed bipartisan support for decades because cheaply saving the lives of millions of children is good and the right thing to do. If Congress decided to end it, I'd be devastated. But that's not even what's happening. Congress authorized it! Our democratic government decided to spend money on this!
The state department has ordered a stop-work on funding that Congress did authorize, because 'stop all foreign aid' sounded good to someone. It's not clear that anybody wanted to let tens of thousands of babies die of HIV/AIDS. My best guess is that they just, you know, didn't really know what all of the programs they were ordering halted did.
I'm old enough (like...two years old...) to remember when Republicans considered themselves the party of saving babies' lives. I defended the pro-life movement against charges that they really just hate women, saying that I've been honored to know a lot of pro-lifers who sincerely want to save babies.
But if you can't bring yourself to take a stand on this - that the state department should not abruptly halt a program half a million sick children depend on, which Congress authorized and paid for, with no justification, in a way that will make the problem much much worse when work on it starts again - then you aren't pro-life, and you never were.
@LAFitness your lying IL location is in desperate need for you to fulfill their work orders. Bench’s and squat racks cant be used because they dont have bars. It’s been months & the staff just repeats the same line. We have put in an order and haven’t heard from corporate
Sports on Peacock is the worst. You can’t record it, pause it and the clarity is 80% of any other provider of sports. It’s so frustrating to be forced to deal with them.
This video is 6m 27s long but it’s a Portnoy masterpiece and it deserves your undivided attention.
Unbelievable thing he just did for this pizza place. 🫡
I think a major way I break from a lot of the American left is that I just don’t have this obsessive need to frame every single event through the prism of identity. We’ve become so obsessed with the identity of people in an interaction we’ve lost sight of the actual interaction
A proposal to suspend the debt ceiling until January 2027 is not accidental.
It’s very likely Republicans will control both houses only during the first two years of the new administration.
This suspension allows them to keep spending like crazy while insisting that cuts “take time” and then blame Democrats for no cuts in the latter years.
@RobinHoodlum@Drealemcee@WillCybertron@inveteratelurk1@PatrickHeizer@drmarkhyman Not worked up & lets tackle one problem at a time. Sugary drinks like soda are a low hanging fruit that if taken out of the vast majority of peoples diets would make them healthier. Lets not subsidies bad stuff. Are you saying every disabled person needs soda? Weird take.
@RobinHoodlum@Drealemcee@WillCybertron@inveteratelurk1@PatrickHeizer@drmarkhyman All of those edge cases are so minor compared to benefits for the majority of snap recipients. The type of lodgic you’re using is why we can’t fix big problems. We know Soda is bad for people & we want to decrease health care cost so why allow federal funds to flow to soda?
@Drealemcee@WillCybertron@inveteratelurk1@PatrickHeizer@drmarkhyman The way it would help is it would take the $$ being used by those individuals on unhealthy drinks & instead have them transition into different items at least some of those items who be healthier then soda. Knock on effects would be less obesity and diabetes for snap recipients
Watching sports on peacock is the worst. Why is it so hard to record a game? Why is it impossible to time up fast forwarding through commercials. Why is the resolution 25% worse than Xfinity?