Eatspancakes84

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[–] Eatspancakes84@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

How could he possibly have been surprised by the response? They are with 9 judges. Three vehemently disagreed with the ruling and even Barret partially disagreed. It’s not like he was looking for some compromise ruling that all judges signed onto. Pathetic reporting.

[–] Eatspancakes84@lemmy.world 27 points 6 days ago (3 children)

There are the Trump cases that are objectively easy to prosecute (especially the stolen document case), since the law is clear and no good lawyer wants to represent Trump. Here the DOJ has clearly been dragging his feet for reasons that are unrelated to the legal system.

Then there are these antitrust cases that are objectively EXTREMELY complex, and where the legal arguments have to be very carefully constructed to withstand a challenge from the best lawyers money can buy. Complain about the former, not the latter

[–] Eatspancakes84@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Lol , Trump just told Israel to start using nukes. I am sure things will be much better with him in power.

[–] Eatspancakes84@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

The youth is already paying for the elderly. It’s called Medicare. The real question is whether the young people who are healthy pay for those that are less lucky.

[–] Eatspancakes84@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

That’s without joking exactly what they do. Now if that one millennial voter is a different one in each cohort of participants you get huge swings in the survey that are not very predictive of election outcomes, and that error is poorly represented in the margin of error.

[–] Eatspancakes84@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Both are incredibly incompetent. However, I think if Bush had not become president he would have been seen as somebody who is a bit stupid, and easy to influence, but otherwise a pleasant personality. Trump on the other hand was a criminal long before he saw the Oval Office.

[–] Eatspancakes84@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Which planet were these pictures taken on? On my planet the sun looks much bigger.

[–] Eatspancakes84@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

I never really get why those types of subsidies should go through the corporate tax. Want to subsidise domestic production? Provide a wage subsidy to companies that employ American workers. The corporate tax code should be as clean and simple as possible.

[–] Eatspancakes84@lemmy.world 7 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

That’s a very interesting poll because in the end HRC got 48 percent of the vote, or 2 percentage points more than in this poll, while DT got 46 percent, 11 percent more than in the poll. One explanation could be that undecided, Johnson and Stein voters changed their minds and (mostly) voted for Trump.

[–] Eatspancakes84@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don’t believe that, even in the face of a full coup, (gun) violence will solve any issues. There’s just no way that a majority of people support a violent militia taking over power of the government, no matter how illegitimate some think that government is.

As examples, look at the recent coup attempt in Turkey, or the Wagner uprising in Russia. In both cases the violent uprisings were used by the dictator to cement his power. Guns will not help you.

[–] Eatspancakes84@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Why?? Every time someone uses political violence the would be dictator becomes more popular and he can make the state more repressive. Even right now, there will be idiot undecided voters that will change their vote to him because some idiot tried to kill him. There are really no upsides to attempting to remove tyrants with guns.

[–] Eatspancakes84@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

People don’t realize just how close presidential elections are. In CA during the last election 35 percent voted Trump. Clearly that’s a landslide win for Biden, but it still implies that even in the most liberal state in the US 6 million people voted for a facist.

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