No, 129 million.

Every once in a while, the winds calm, the sun comes out, and a gorgeous butterfly will come floating along, to land right in front of you. It’s good to appreciate these rare events when they happen. But the storm will return soon enough.

Counterpoint:

This is why we need LEO body cameras at all times, and in all places.

So, there’s no way we can get Chris as President Of The United States?

Only if you drive it boringly.

Well said.  But whoever wrote that up there isn’t a doctor, they are a stooge.

Trump doesn’t really want anything he says he is in favor of. He only says those things to resonate with a certain voter base. And once he says it, and has their support, he completely forgets what he promised to do.

He still has frat boy acne.  It’s disturbing.

The Green Party was advocating almost everything in the Green New Deal even before it was on most peoples’ radar. One of the nice things about the Left, is that there are a lot of different people, with different focuses, who have great ideas. Ranked choice voting is one of them.

Great questions.

Well, the accumulation of experience tends toward wisdom. But only if you’re paying attention. Some people stay at the peak forever. True.

That’s just a risk/benefit difference. What makes taking any risk brave? Are you saying sociopaths are the bravest, because they risk their whole lives on behavior that is so out of bounds that they will have their lives destroyed if it goes poorly for them?

I hear she makes big, bold, brave choices.

You mean like you? Nah. Never.

“Be satisfied with what you have now” is the wrong thought at a time when the nation as a whole is looking for new ideas. Instead, we need to be actively challenging the notion that the two party system is adequate to represent our widely diverse electorate, and be moving to change laws that entrench power in an…

Age per se isn’t the issue, except in the sense that you need to have enough life experience to be able to have sufficient wisdom to make decisions for 300 million people. In that sense, some of those running aren’t old enough. Even if they meet the framers’ age requirement.

Or go straight Green Party.  The GP has been screaming about this longer than anybody else.

Interestingly, the ‘Defiance’ series got canceled, because the writing eventually became clearly racist. The discussion surrounding the villain characters ALL being black was quite provocative at the time, as I recall.

I am enchanted by your choice of the words ‘newsy and superfluous’ here.