In before: AG Ken Paxton!
Trump nominated Jay Clayton for the spot yesterday.
A distant family member of mine was (is) a Marine, and made it to Drill Instructor before the effects of his PTSD from 3 tours and a TBI became too much (ie he basically had a psychotic break) and he medically retired.
After he got out, he and I talked about it one time. He told me that he'd had a lot of trauma growing up and was fairly bigoted when he first went in. But that he couldn't care less about someone's sex, gender, race, religion, etc (at least as far as the people who had joined; he admits civilians are still a tough thing for him), because when you're in the suck, none of that matters. The only thing he cared about is whether the person next to him was properly trained and willing to put their life on the line for him, just like he would for them.
It's not to piss them off, but to send a message. Just like Putin, he's going to put the screws to somebody wealthy to send the message "I did it to them, I can do it to you."
2 reasons, I would presume.
He doesn't want his appointees to have to deal with the questions that come up during the confirmation process, and
This way he can appoint the worst of the worst without worrying about Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins persuading 1 or 2 others to defect.
Yes and no. California isn't done, along with a few others. The numbers will continue to go up for both of them, and Harris will close the gap, but all in all it won't change things too much.
"Authoritarians get voted in. They never get voted out."
Fuck Kyrsten Sinema and her fucking curtsy.
I know it was during the $15 minimum wage vote and not the ACA vote, but this thread reminded me of it.
It's not about the House or the EC, it's the Senate. 2 more reliably R senators makes things worse
Primary and secondary schooling is just practice to be good little worker bees. That's why conservatives view college/tertiary school as iNdOctrINATIOn cEntERS
Had similar problems with my P6P. There are multiple areas in my town where I show full / nearly full bars, but my service is terrible or non-existent (!). If I toggle Airplane Mode, I'll get great speeds until it drops out again. Sometimes this is 30 seconds, sometimes 30 minutes, sometimes hours/days. But at some point it will drop out again. Ugh...
It was pretty funny to see these back to back in my feed.
Alaska and Hawaii.