On Jan 20, 2025:
posted by jmogMike Johnson's recent interview about his meetings with Biden and Biden not even knowing what E.O's he was told to sign should be damning and jail time for some people.
Jail huh?
Little much.
posted by Trueblue23Fauci is one of the biggest criminals in American history. What a piece of shit.
Doubt it. There are some pretty bad folks in American History.
posted by iclfan2Biden’s handlers pardoning Fauci this morning, as well as members of the January 6 committee. Hope this makes Trump’s administration investigate them even more.
I shook my head. Way to play directly into Trump's argument.
On Jan 19, 2025:
posted by Ironman92Of course I took the over/under a few min before the half and Rams/Eagles give away quick points and shirt fields and Eagles kicker has been clutch (though that last FG should’ve been from 55 or go for 4th and 8
Bkeh
Over hit for me with ease.
I had Eagles -6, so got the annoying push. If only the Eagles didn't have that stupid safety or miss the two PATs...
posted by jmogThis probably isn’t important, according to geeblock, and I wonder if ptown will ask if the Speaker has a medical degree or not….
Here we are talking about Chinese tiktok and you post a link to tiktok...lol
posted by gutI'm struggling a bit to understand how selling it solves the underlying problem. If the coders remain Chinese, and based in China...
Even if all the code and IP is transferred to the US, how confident are you all the backdoors that inevitably exist will be closed, or that the Chinese won't be able to regularly hack it?
Good point and that may be why it is taking so long to get a new owner as they may not want to give that totally up.
posted by CenterBHSFanI'm against banning tiktok and I don't even use it. I just don't like the idea of our govt picking and choosing which apps sell our data. I also don't love the idea of our govt limiting what we can read, see or basically just communicate with. People have really memory-holed the Twitter Files, haven't they?
I'm for banning an app that is owned by the Chinese government and can be an easy way to gain information and data on the American people. That's why it passed in a bipartisan fashion and was upheld by the Supreme Court.
It's not a free speech argument.
If tiktok wants to survive, they need to change ownership to a non Chinese entity. Plain and simple.
posted by CenterBHSFanBecause it IS stupid lol
Edit:
Actually, it's not. It's a pretty smart move for a politician to know their audience. Kamala ran as an Indian woman in California and won. She ran as a black woman to further her career. Doing the trans racial thing, when you look at it at face value, got her all the way to Vice President. Like her or not (I don't) she pulled off a nice game.
No, your whole trans racial thing is stupid lol.
It's not real life.
People are not solely one thing,they are a whole mix of things. I'm sure you are not just one race or identity. You , like me, are a mix of different cultures and races.
I completely disagree with your entire rational and as I said, it's a stupid line of thinking.
On Jan 18, 2025:
Don't doubt LSU Qbs apparently....
And screw you Daniel Snyder..this is what everyone was asking for when they said he should sell the team....
posted by BR1986FBNot really a "complaint" like the thread implies but it looks like, with the upcoming weather, the swearing in on Monday will be moved indoors to a hockey rink. A month ago, someone predicted that Trump would get shot on live TV in a hockey rink. This week, a 7 year old predicted the same. I guess they're both some kind of psychics or prognosticators.
Uh no. It will be in the capital rotunda, just like Reagan in 85.
There will be a watch party at the capital one arena, maybe that's what you meant.
posted by CenterBHSFanThink of code switching with identity instead of accents.
That sounds really stupid sorry lol.
On Jan 17, 2025:
posted by CenterBHSFanWhat's the purpose of Biden and Harris publicly stating such a thing? What would there be to gain from doing so?
Only thing I can think is maybe someone makes a legal case? But, why wait nearly 4 years and then suddenly declare it now?
posted by jmogNot only that but several states have rescinded their approval by this point and the freaking Amendment was first voted on by Congress in 1972?
Sorry, but it’s not the 28th Amendment. It can’t be a 50+ year process. It had a 7 year time limit for approval, not 50+
And I don’t necessarily have anything against the ERA, but saying this is now the 28th is about as dumb as saying “pack the SCOTUS with like 15 judges”.
Oh I get you, but the 27th amendment wasn't ratified for over 200 years...
Yeah, still a dumb statement. Him declaring it is just funny. Lot of Office memes going around now.
posted by jmogHold on, I don't remember 2/3rds of both houses voting on this and then 3/4ths of the states ratifying this.
Did I completely miss something VERY important?
In 2020, Virginia became the 38th state to ratify it.
But, the question is that it was way later than the deadline set forth in the original bill. The legal question is that deadline was in the preamble, not the main body, so does it technically apply?
The National Archivist has said based in their view, it was too late and have not advanced it to officially be an amendment.
Biden's statement does nothing to change that.
posted by iclfan2Biden and Kamala are pretending that they added a 28th amendment, “The equal rights amendment”. Biden declared it!
I had to look and see if he had the Archivist change their mind and position. But, nope. So, a meaningless statement too late in the game.
I do think the issue needs to go through the courts to determine if the amendment did miss the deadline or not. I think it did, but understand the gray area.
On Jan 16, 2025:
posted by iclfan2
Doesn’t seem like that good of a deal for them. Seems like a lot to give up for a handful of supposedly alive hostages.
I mean each day it goes longer, the less likely all the hostages currently alive survive and pressure just increases on Israel to make a deal.
posted by jmogTo be fair, as much as the Ds in these confirmation hearings are just proving why they lost, many of the nominees are making themselves and therefore Trump look bad with some of their answers. This isn't going well for either side.
I thought Rubio's was good. Funny thing is, the Ds asked actual good policy questions.
If Hegseth would have been asked those same questions, I wonder if he would still be in the running.
posted by jmogTo be fair, even leftist media people who hate Trump but know people in Israel and Gaza who are involved have said "this was basically all Trump, his people even put pressure on Netanyahu to accept" to go along with his threat of "all hell will break loose".
Yeah, apparently it was the same terms that Biden has been offering for months. I don't care who gets credit, as long as hostages are free.
I know hard liners in the Israeli cabinet are not a fan and are delaying the final agreement.
posted by CenterBHSFanNo, I meant the trans racial thing for Kamala because she ran as Indian while campaigning in state politics but ran as black for national politics. Poking fun at her, but props to her also because it worked.
This is where my autocorrect flubbed up because that's supposed to say that "right now he is bitching":
You mean biracial? Wtf is trans racial?
On Jan 15, 2025:
posted by CenterBHSFanEhhh, I don't know, Ptown.
I think society will easily handle and not really care much about students changing schools like changing outfits. Schools are temporary by their very nature and purpose.
But society won't put up with altering a child's body because they (the child) wish they were somebody else. An extremely small amount of people will go along with it because it satisfies an exaggerated sense of empathy, sure. But if the Dems keep pushing this, they will lose the presidency indefinitely, which is where the big campaign money for down ballot comes from. THAT is what will guide them. Not morality, not common sense, not fear of parents. It will be dearth of presidential wins.
I'm not referring to children. I'm more talking about college or high school athletes.
The current law refers to college, where I can see some lawsuits.
I agree with you on everything below high school.