It definitely makes sense that Leia had Jedi Training when she’s in space and “force pulls” her way to the ship in TLJ. I was wondering how the hell she did that if she DIDN’T have any training. So for me, it made sense AND fit in with events in TLJ.

Fair point. Mass. is also more of a swing state than Texas is. It’s not like he won a historically blue state for the first time in decades.
Given Beto’s Assault rifle ban stance during his Presidential run (which I don’t believe he voiced during his Senate run), he’d most certainly be wasting everyone’s time and…

With Beto’s fizzle out of a Presidential run he needs to stay out of politics for the time being. You can’t pivot from a failed Presidential run to Senate, especially when you already lose a Senate run.

Copy/Paste for Texas... Cruz/Cornyn don’t give a fuck. 

Nice one on L’Impératrice; I stumbled across that song about a year ago and it’s been on my regular rotation ever since. Now if they’d only tour more US places than NY/LA/Chicago...

I have no idea who this girl is or why she’s famous, or if her apology is sincere, but can we all stop acting like we didn’t do stupid shit when we were younger? I’d bet that most of us knew at the time it was stupid, yet still did it. The problem now is it’s all documented because people are dumb.

You put too much faith in the government to use that money wisely.  And it would only work until that gravy train of money runs out, which given our current deficit would be fairly quickly. Again, it masks the problem, it doesn’t solve it. 

Well the fact that you think the problem is Jeff Bezos has too much money is part of the issues I have with a wealth tax. Bezos started his company from the ground up, literally a culmination of the American Dream.
The fact that you think having wealth is a problem is your problem you fucking idiot.
You think that…

Well it will never happen so it’s all nonsense either way.
We had a budget surplus under Clinton without a wealth tax, or a tax bracket over 40% and we can do it again.

$2 billion worth of Amazon stock would increase the average trading volume by 0.15%.

I make 30K a year and yet I’m taxed for money I have sitting in stocks and mutual funds.

If you increase the available supply of shares for sale, why would people pay the same high price when they can bid lower and if you need to sell them you’ll go lower on your ask. You increase the supply of shares for sale, the price will go down.
High volume only drives price up when the shares are in demand and can…

Shoot, wealth tax doesn’t even sound good in theory to me, based solely on the scenario in my comment under another reply about what would happen if Jeff Bezos was taxed on his wealth.

The thing is, no one has “$10B in cash” they have investments. All this talk about taking money based on a wealth tax misses that point entirely. People rail about Bezos being worth billions and that the wealth tax would take billions from him, but fail to realize most of that is Amazon stock that makes up his wealth.…

NO to a wealth tax, just no. Raise the top tier income tax rate (or create a new one), but no wealth tax.
I also oppose any tax rate above 49%, ever, and even that is too high.
All these candidates supporting a wealth tax are killing any chance they have. 

You ever spill something on a roll of toilet paper, and then have to replace the roll? Good luck if you do it with this one.

This also explains why, apparently, some people have to flush 10-15 times. I’ve dubbed it “Charmin’s razor” the amount of TP used is proportional to the amount of TP available.

You ever spill something on a roll of toilet paper, and then have to replace the roll? Good luck if you do it with…

What shitty think-tank conjured this up?
The original “Squad” was 4 newly elected congresswomen, of varying backgrounds and nationalities, representing democratic diversity.

This kludged together “Conservative squad” is 4 white women, two of which are just candidates. Way to think outside the box...    

It’s absolutely assault.
One definition of assault is “knowingly causing physical contact with another person knowing the other person will regard the contact as offensive or provocative” 

Random plug of a friend’s band - Obsequiae and their new album ‘The Palms of Sorrowed Kings’
Went to high school with one of their members and always thrilled when I see groups he’s with still crank out solid music.

Wonder how this would work with overbooked flights.
Would they let you give up your extra seat to them for the voucher? (I guess not because they’d try and book “you” on the next flight, but you’re already on the first.