Biden can not punish them directly (probably) but he can certainly antagonize them. Do a tour of West Virginia and eat pancakes in every diner there if you have to. Do town hall style meetings where you lay out your agenda and get all folksy if the charts are too boring. Point out how the child tax credit helped…

He’s requesting (x) millions of dollars out of her. She has never and will never make that kind of money. It is purely for his ego.

But at least I get to choose how I get under the bus.

It is a lot easier to play the doomed moral victor who wafts about why they couldn’t do anything, than it is to actually do something.

I hate this particular ad very much.

Yeah, as before, I think he was the “main” abuser. Unfortunately, if you fight back you can get accused of abuse, in turn, so there’s no winning if you are a victim. I think her details of their time together are more clear and consistent while he, despite his saying otherwise, was high or drunk most of the time and…

I think a lot of people can’t see what’s really been apparent since the beginning of his relationship with Amber: He has been in a mid-life crisis and wants desperately to go back to the 80s like every other boomer.

The Dems needed to change strategy multiple election cycles ago. The GOP wins because they actively look like they’re doing something. Even if it isn’t helpful or useful, they’re LOUD and it makes them look strong. The culture wars are disgusting but they’re winning by virtue of having something to yell about.

Unlike Bruce Willis, his persona is very niche and with his new accent and manner of speaking, I just don’t see him being able to have a career revival. He can’t read well and he’s too used to being a superstar that he thinks he deserves blockbuster rolls. He won’t do anything for money and complained on the stand…

Exactly. He’s acting like they can all shake hands behind doors and it will all work out (for them, personally) in the end. That’s not how it’s working out. I don’t agree with the narrative that he’s just a puppet, but he is either voluntarily or being handled in such a way that he is not in touch with his government…

They abused each other. This is established. Depp is trying to prove that he didn’t abuse her ergo it’s defamation that she would imply he did.

I’m going to agree to disagree re: legality of wiping federal student loans. I’ll agree to disagree that the amount they’ve forgiven thus far is adequate. I will agree that reforms to higher ed are needed as a permanent fix.

I would love to live in a multi-party system with ranked-choice voting.

I get your points. Biden does not have infinite power. He’s operating on a slim majority.

Could it also be that the President’s powers are also semi-vague and presidents from Teddy Roosevelt to Trump found ways to get their agenda pushed through and at times deliberately bypassed Congress to do so?

There truly is political class of people who have no bigger dreams than maintaining the neo-con handshake that was made forty years ago between Democrats and Republicans. They truly think you should just be happy that your political party is in power.

I really don’t understand what the human mind is capable of. Is it a survival tactic cooked up by evolution that we all can’t agree to the outlines of what constitutes “reality” ?

It’s hard to believe his defenders are real people but it’s also hard to believe people worship Trump or believe Ukraine needs to be de-nazified.

You are correct.

They both admit to hitting each other. The specifics of the degree of the abuse from one side to the other only really matter because Depp decided to drag this into the public so that now each of them has to provide details to either prove or disprove the degree of abuse and therefore justify one or both of their…