While there are some (fairly unpopular, outside of academic circles) branches of moral philosophy that might give you the all clear on this, I’d still say the answer is yes in this case, for a number of reasons.

First, almost no one who has an “affair” ever thinks they’re going to get caught, but statistically, a whole…

Start funding ads to shame them into voting correctly.

You could threaten to take away their committee assignments if they don’t get on board with $15 minimum wage increase. So all of the perks, kickbacks, bribes, insider stock tips, and preferential treatment they receive as committee members could dry up.

Nah, they absolutely deserve shit for it[.]

What kind of asshole promises something they know they can’t do.

Isn’t it nice that West fucking Virginia has the dem party by the balls.

I get what you’re saying—but even if you were to overrule the parliamentarian and put the bill up for a reconciliation vote with the $15 min. wage hike in there, you still wouldn’t have the votes because Manchin has said he won’t vote for it — and there’s no sense in getting people “on the record” saying ‘yay’ or…

I 100% agree with everything you said. The issue is that most people’s response to this will be the equivalent of a child making a scene in the toy aisle of a Walmart because the store is out of the toy they want (basically to throw a tantrum and not listen to reason.)

they never cared about the minimum wage, it’s just chaffe that was ditched as soon as they took office,

well, schumer could find a spine and beat the ever living fuck out of each of them.

I half expect that if you did a google search on lines from the letters they would show up in multiple locations across the country.

I realize people are shitting on Dems for taking $15 min. wage out of the bill, but the fact is that even if you overruled the parliamentarian, Manchin (and I think Sinema as well, but I could be thinking of the filibuster,) won’t vote for the bill with the minimum wage hike in there—and Manchin at least has gone on…

Oh, I could very much believe studio execs using that phrase and being racist, but in this instance, there is the much easier “Wait, why would we center this movie around the least known actor and character when we have some legit A listers here?”

It’s not as simple as the J&J vaccine “only being 72%effective in the US”-

Listening to a doctors on CNN this evening, they said that while the J&J vaccine shows less efficacy than the other 2, it had a later development timeline and included the mutant strains that have been popping up where as the other 2 were finished before that, though they are showing good results. They also said that…

Anna Torv deserves to be a way bigger star.

I’m glad that you mentioned Olivia Dunham and Peter Bishop, because when I didn’t see Fringe listed among the shows that succeeded I went “Pffftt, they totally forgot one!”

Let’s be honest here: Who here....actually even remembers a single line of dialogue spoken by him? In either of the films? Like, do people even recall his name was Dave?

“So which lounge am I in? Gucci? Mercedes?”