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No...I used to think along those lines. Now I just don't think the government needs to be involved. A woman or couple facing that sort of tragedy doesn't need for lawyers to get involved as her situation is compared to whatever legal definition of viability is established tp try tp determine the...

I have been saying from Week 1 that McNamara wasn't the answer. He was not good enough with his arm to make up for his complete lack of threat as a runner. There was no guarantee Sullivan would be any better with his arm, but he couldn't be much worse, and the added dimension of his legs was...

The thing about late term abortion, it is pretty much exclusively for medical emergencies or non-viable pregnancies. For example, my sister found out just short of 30 weeks that the fetus had anencephaly (essentially, developed without a brain or skull). That is a non-viable condition, and hence...

Not sure how serious he is about it, but he has tossed out lots of comments on podcasts about it. It is often characterized as Christian Nationalism, that is, using the government to try to impose Christian ideals on the populace. Banning abortion fits with this, along with anti-LGBT stance...

I think he is interesting...I generally like his populism, he has supported Kahn's anti-monopoly efforts, and I agree in principle with his idea of promoting virtue. I do not agree with his ideas of state-imposed virtue, nor do I think any libertarian leaning individual would. I think he will...

That was a bad (or at least stupid) thing to say. No matter the context, why would he ever say, "whether you like it or not." A big gaffe, the kind of thing Biden constantly gets harangued for, and Trump deserves the criticism, too. As you said, he should know better and have more discipline.

He was found guilty for libel for spreading lies about individuals that had no basis in fact. That is much different from making a claim of election interference. Those lies led to death threats and harassment. If I spread heinous lies about you related to child sex trafficking, and then you...

I agree that was his point...but the very specific imagery he evoked of 9 rifles pointed at her sure sounds a lot like a firing squad. With his history of talking out of both sides of his mouth, combined with earlier suggestions that Liz Cheney face a military tribunal, you can see how some find...

He did not enter the Capitol, and he was eventually charged. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-67918709

I suppose he could have been an FBI plant...all the stuff you mention is circumstantial, and Epps was eventually convicted of his role in J6 (given probation because he did not enter the Capitol). Other explanations could also explain his behavior (e.g. he got cold feet, or as the violence...

I will agree with you that suppressing the Hunter laptop story for approximately 24 hours was a bad move. But regarding the election, no proof was ever proffered in a court of law, and that is very telling. I don't care what crazy evidence you have seen on the internet, if no Trump lawyer was...

We might as well save ourselves some time on that one. Let's each go outside and get in a walk in the nice fall weather, instead? I do not see any minds getting changed. That said, I wasn't anticipating changing any minds with my earlier posts, either, sometimes it is just fun to preach to the...

I think it is a good start. I think actual platform moderators/fact-checkers also play a role, but there are many who don't trust any decisions the platforms make.

Legally, he probably does not bear responsibility for the riot, he has always been a master of plausible deniability ("I said peacefully and patriotically!"). He is also a master at talking out of both sides of his mouth, telling one side what he wants them to here, while also throwing in other...

There is no clamoring, and I am not wishing for the 60s. Through the 1980s, we had reasonable confidence in the broadcast news as an independent arbirter of what is true: Republicans have been waging a war on the media since the McCarthy days, with escalations by Nixon/Agnew, and most...

Not to be too far off track, but I really think we need restored faith in media for any of this to work. Right now, we have absolutely no way to reach agreement on what is true. That has always been an issue for gray-area stuff, but right now it doesn't seem like we can even agree on what color...

I have heard some of the pros and cons, but I am far from an expert. Thanks for sharing the vid, I look forward to giving it a watch when I have some time! As I said before, I am kind of at the point where I think ANYTHING has to be better than what we have. I will give some feedback when I...

Now consent to my ranked-choice voting idea, and we have a plan!

I don't think so, in this case. My guess is this is more of an emergent lobby that did not have big influence when he served. Also, it is Iowa State senate, so he is not wielding the kind of power US senators wield. And as a personal acquaintance I know quite well, he seems like the epitome of...

If you put those proposals to the US populace, you would probably have 90% support. If you put those proposals to the politicans that make the rules, <1% support. So, how does that problem get fixed?