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That kinda sounds like something someone would say if they were planning to stop supporting Ukraine after the election.

He also noted that Donald Trump made it clear in his debate

Donald Trump didn't make anything clear except his own mental decline. He was asked directly if he would continue to support Ukraine, and he said he wanted the war to end. That's as muddy as he can make it, and it still implies he will kneel before Putin.

Criminals don't expect to get caught.

I mean, that's a classic political maneuver. Biden is on his way out, proposes a massive tax hike, so Harris can come in and seem reasonable by comparison.

Capital Gains taxes should be higher, and unrealized gains should absolutely be taxed when they are used as collateral for a loan. 40% at the highest bracket isn't even that outrageous historically, considering it's essentially just leeching value from the booming economy. But 40% would never have made it through Congress. 28% is depressingly low, which I guess is what Dems are going for. Something that progressives won't be happy with so it feels like a compromise.

No, but I'm a dad. My last gaming rig had a SoundBlaster card.

I have a PS5 and have never heard of this game. Why are you so keen to talk about it?

There's a 90s movie starring Burce Willis and Richard Gere called The Jackal, where Willis is playing the titular Jackal, a ruthless assassin on a mission to kill someone with a robot minigun in a robot minivan. Or something.

But there's a scene where the Jackal has shot one of the agents in the liver, and he explains to her that she's going to die, but if she applies pressure to the wound to slow the bleeding, she will live long enough to deliver a message to the main character.

I'm picturing Willis as the Jackal reading that headline.

We already have way more farmland than we need. That's how we can produce cheap beef in the first place. The government pays farmers to grow corn and turn it into ethanol because we grow so much corn that it would tank the market to sell it all.

We should be turning cropland back into prairies and forests. Put some carbon back into the soil and create ecosystems to support biodiversity again.

Cattle don't have any of the survival instincts left, and they have been bred to be docile and overproducers of milk and meat. They would die of starvetion or dehydration with swollen udders and any number of horrific diseases.

That's not to say they are better off in factory farms, but if the question is should we reintroduce them to the wild, I would say no.

Actually, I agree that clean energy credits are a form of corporate welfare. We should have clean energy mandates, and businesses should build the cost of not polluting into the cost of doing business. If you cannot do business without being clean, then you shouldn't be permitted to do business anymore.

Yes, that means that some businesses will close. Yes, that means people will lose their jobs. Yes, that means goods and services will become more expensive.

The economy will recover. It always does. Rich people won't be as rich. That's good news. Poor people will struggle, and government should help them. That's the point of a government, to provide services to its people.

The climate is not as resilient as the economy. Life doesn't always find a way. Sometimes, everything just dies, and that's the thing we want to avoid. Everything dying, slowly and painfully. Natural disasters, extreme temperatures, famine, drought, and the associated violence borne of actual scarcity.

So vote for Baldwin, but continue to push forward.

Landlords needn't be from Wall Street to be predatory.

Thank you! It's been nearly 20 years since I watched the Simpsons regularly.

Wait, what's the connection between raygun and the hawk tuah girl?