There’s not going to be higher turnout in *any* demographic in a midterm than there is in a presidential election year. Its been like 150 years since that last happened, and it’s lately something like 40% lower in midterms.

I’m about to start a new job with benefits, so this won’t affect me in the near future. But I’m so glad that other people who have preexisting conditions like myself are somewhat safe for now.

Yeah, because the only thing that can stop a bad guy with a gun... is 50 other people with guns in the grandstands spraying bullets in his general direction.

The office of Speaker of the House does not have to be a member of congress (although it always has been). Steve Bannon could be elected Speaker by the house membership without actually representing any district or serving as a congressman.

Its not going to happen, sadly. The American electorate is pretty much “default Republican” these days, and it takes a lot of energy and momentum (the kind you only get when there’s Obama-level turnout in a presidential election year) to overcome the default and elect Democrats.

Nobody automatically becomes a VP. If Trump left office for whatever reason, Pence would automatically become President, and have all the regular powers of the President to appoint another Vice President (which would have to be confirmed by the Senate). He could also leave the office vacant for as long as he wanted…

Correct that the Speaker the power to control an impeachment proceeding, but not when you go one step after that.

Oh, student government types in college are FAR more interested in political maneuvering and whipping up scandals, for the sake of their own personal drama, than they are doing anything that actually affects or represents other students. Its pretty much guaranteed the student government at any school will spend far…

On the other hand, having both gone to college myself and worked at several universities, there’s nothing student governments love more than pointless political drama.

William also flies helicopters and was in the military (mostly doing domestic search and rescue though).

I recently moved out of a 20-story circa-1962 apartment tower. The entire thing was built like a tank, with double-thick concrete walls (there were NO neighbor sounds at all), and an even thicker concrete floor above the extensive basement storage and mechanical areas. Turns out, the basement was actually a designed…

For one thing, the exterior features and architectural design of the temples often imply big spacious interior spaces that aren’t actually there. I (a non-Mormon) toured the Gilbert, AZ temple when it opened a couple years ago (they run public tours after each temple opening, before they close it to the public and…

I grew up in the United Church of Christ, which is about as progressive and liberal a christian denomination as you can get in the United States. It was a very positive place to grow up - even though I myself am an atheist now, I have absolutely no bad associations with that experience. I count myself extremely lucky,…

South Korea has an official government position for monitoring (and presumably translating and advising about) Trump’s tweets:

I don’t think it’s so much baby steps as an easy way for Chaffetz to pretend he isn’t blatantly ignoring all the other, much more serious shit Trump is involved with.

WTF is the point of being teetotal if your face still ends up looking like you drink a fifth a day?

No, releasing taxes are not required by law. But that’s not the point being made here. The criticism above is that Trump and his administration generally doesn’t give a shit about law *or* convention (and, critically - they have very little understanding of the difference).

Had they not showed the $1200 price tag, and the guy snipping splinters off with scissors, I could have almost believed this was insane but true.

YOU’RE THE PROBLEM

Neither Beatty or Dunaway can be blamed... they were both looking at an already-opened card for Emma Stone’s best actress award. He got confused when he saw it, tried to show it to Dunaway, she blurted out “La La Land” (which was printed on the card next to Emma Stone’s name) and then immediately realized her mistake.