Also, a great argument against tax cuts if you compare Nebraska to Kansas. Brownback is a fool for not following Pence’s lead in implementing the Medicaid option. It benefits the recipients, providers, and saves money in the long run.

4) WTF? FDR’s New Deal included a single payer healthcare system which Truman tried to get Congress to pass in 1945. In 1955, Eisenhower asked Congress for a “Federal health reinsurance service to encourage private health insurance organizations in offering broader benefits to insured individuals and families and…

It makes me want to cry that our female candidate knew she had to practice not being physically intimidated by her opposition.

Keep in mind that most places that pay min wage also don’t hire full time workers (benefits are the most expensive), so it’s not 7.25/40 hours a week, it’s usually more like 7.25/25-35 hours. One of the biggest reason people need multiple jobs just to scrape together 39 hours a week.

Very interesting info, thank you! I’m learning so many new things, and it’s both depressing and - I must admit - rather fascinating.

“I mean...isn’t that what should happen in a functioning democracy if a politician acts out?”

Having a really hard time dealing with the fact that our national security interests are getting subsumed because of these morons’ fee-fees.

As others have noted, the surface problem is that Congress, the branch of the government that has the Constitutional power to remove the president from office, is controlled by Republicans.

I keep forgetting that you guys have a two-party system! Here in Germany, even though Merkel’s party has the highest number of seats in parliament they are still not the absolute majority. It does seem to be a pretty smart way to prevent giving one party too much power.

That would be just fine.

Ha! We haven’t had a Scarlet Pimpernel in a while! Not sure how the market would react to a tale of noblesse oblige. If they told it totally straight and marketed it to women (per the OP), it would work.

I wouldn’t mind a well-done Epic of Gilgamesh adaptation.

A Baba Yaga movie done right could be terrifying.

I left the Academy shortly before my third year after I was assaulted aboard a ship and the school refused to investigate my allegations. I remember standing in front of one of the administrators pleading them to at least never send another woman to that ship. They wouldn’t even do that much.

I’ve mentioned it in the past, but I attended a United States federal military academy. It’s amazing how much gets normalized in small group cultures. Sexual assault as a prank or a form of camaraderie is very common.

I live in the south. This is absolutely true that Fox is what these people live and die by. Every restaurant, doctors office, and any other place with a TV will be tuned exclusively to Fox News. Fox has trained them to not trust anyone but Fox. It’s the classic Jim Jones/Scientology tactics of “everyone who isn’t us…

You guys. You guys.

Seriously, I only just found out and I’m still trying to absorb the shock that I can never use that emoji anymore.

Why did they ruin the “OK” hand sign?? What the hell. That doesn’t make any sense. If they started claiming “waving” or “thumbs up” or flipping the bird as a sign of White Power we’d laugh and say “nice try, idjits” and go along our merry way. Why are we letting them have the OK sign?

A friend of mine graduated from university last year and wore his kente cloth with his gown. He’s a mechanical engineer and a baptist preacher. The idea that this would be done to a high school student is outrageous.