A bunch of people who were expecting to be paid to vote for someone they were probably going to vote for anyways now learn it is “the democrats” blocking that payment. This will probably make them even more likely to vote out of spite AND save Musk a bunch of money. Good job?

A top-two runoff system is considered democracy. A system where the two parties are just the same thing, like in North Korea, is not.

Americans consider their two parties as very flexible about what they stand for. If there is a big enough group not represent by the incumbent, the other parties’ primary will be biased towards this group.

What we saw this time around, though, was two incumbents running against each other with no room for the non-represented group to be reflected. Thus, to that group at least, it felt like there was no difference (at least in the represtation).

Those that believed that there was no difference are now finding out how much of a difference it was - and they are now yearning for another vote to fix things.

People seem to think freedom and democracy are synonymous. Places can be free, but not have democracy; places can also have democracy and not be free. When a simple majority of the voting public supports cracking down on freedoms - you will have one of the two, but you can’t have both.

Trump is only serious about it because if Canada isn’t part of the United States, Vice President Musk can never take over when he is gone.

Someone should ask Trump if he is successful with this and deporting permanent residents for being against the government, what would stop the next president from deporting Baron Trump?

Wait, I though the man survived a record 100 days and then got a normal heart. Is this the same guy or a different one?

Pump and dump: Buy shares of a bad company, do something to pump up the stock price, sell the shares for a profit (dump), let the company crash and burn.

Crash and control: Take a good company, cause the share price to drop, buy low, take control.

I think it is more of the latter.

Excel isn’t a problem unless all of it was done on one sheet and the only function used was sum()

Anyone want to provide insight on what this would do to IEPs in schools? I know it doesn’t change the law but it might get rid of all enforcement of said law.

Can we all get behind a progressive challenger to him and Adam’s right now? Like, maybe AOC wants to run since the house isn’t treating her right?

60-hour workmonth? Sign me up!

I tried search the web for a particular comic - I think it might have been smbc - where the person’s prediction of when the singularity was inversely proportional to how long they had to live, but I can’t find it.

The last panel was an old guy saying “The singularity will arrive by Friday! Hopefully before 5…”

I feel like a good guide to “good policies the next democratic presidential candidate should promote” should be the opposite of the list of things Trump did in his first month.

Its going to be a 60 year-old rich democrat from New England promising to “work across the aisle” and “promote small businesses with tax cuts and less regulation”, but hopefully some of this stuff will be undone.

Just as long as the foreign agents bill doesn’t conflict with the EU’s law on press freedom. If it does, Mexico will never be admitted to the EU. Wait, I’m thinking of Georgia. Never mind, carry on.

Why is Musk’s bullet shield ranked above Trump?

Well, yes, but it was a very weak case - but people were so sick of Bush that that was enough.

There is saying things, there is not doing things, and there is doing things.

Trump could say: “What if there was one day where there was no laws and people could just do anything, like the purge…” and… oh, he did say that during his first term. And democracy still survived. Saying things just make people loose respect for America. It is why Obama got the Nobel peace prize. Cause he stopped saying the shit that Bush was saying.

What people should be worried about is actions and inactions. It takes competency to do things. The more fascist a thing Trump wants to do, the more competent people leave and the less likely it is to be done. The true problem is it takes no level of competency to not do a thing.

So Trump’s end game is “Ask not what your country can do for you … because it can no longer do that.”

Can private citizens bring charges?

This, strangely, is one thing republicans have in the past been upset over - and I have no idea why. You would think their support of for-profit prisons and there support of detaining all undocumented immigrants would mean this would fit perfectly, but from Clinton out to Biden every time someone tried this, Republicans got irrationally upset over it.

May I introduce you to Terry Pratchett’s Boots theory?