Maybe. On the other hand, none of how the USAen parties settle on a candidate comes from the Constitution. There’s nothing stopping the Democrats or Republicans from ignoring the outcomes of the primaries entirely, instead preferring to put a chicken in a circle and observing which way she pecks.

I dunno. I suspect he won the primaries because he was the closest thing to an out racist fascist who climbed out of the clown car. I remember 2016; every time one of the other candidates pulled into the lead, he’d do or say something stupid and the smart Republicans would desert him.  But when Trump got the…

. . . the ad still makes for an enjoyable watch only for the final seconds in which Paltrow accidentally drops the vial and screams “oh fuck!”

The thing about martial law is the military has to be on board.  That’s possible, but it doesn’t happen when the wannabe dictator is bad at delivering things the military wants.

The fluorine ions need to be present during the remineralization part of the demineralization-remineralization cycle. In practice, the easiest way to get this done is to make sure there’s enough of the little buggers sloshing around in the body that they’re in all the spit all the time.

The president first came head to head with numbers, also known as “integers” in certain parts of the Midwest and south-central Canada,

Ranked-choice is still a first-past-the-post; it just saves time by avoiding having to hold a runoff. Moving away from a two-party system would (I expect, though one has to be careful about being too certain about what humans can get up to with politics) require going to proportional representation, which would be…

Won’t help. House passes some bill, Senate majority leader (as chair) immediately presents the bill, member of majority party proposes amendment that strikes the entirety of the bill’s text and replaces it with their own version, majority approves the amendment.

Concrete example for anyone looking for a specific: In The Dobe !Kung, Richard B. Lee et alia estimated the !Kung they studied spent about 20 hours a week “working”. Amazon link. Library of Congress: https://lccn.loc.gov/83012916 .

Not directly. But when enough other people in the body simply do as he says, he can recognize a proposed amendment to a bill, call for a vote on it, and badda boom, the bill now does two things.

. . . something about the way it’s presented here, the sudden shift from “thank you for rescuing me” to “BURN IN HELL,” is too sudden.

“Better insurance.”

Turn leftover candy corn into homemade ice cream and everybody’s happy

YOU TAKE BACK WHAT YOU SAID ABOUT RUTABAGAS

Per Stoessinger’s Why Nations Go to War, no, they do not have a realistic understanding of what a war is, or how long one is likely to go on, or how effective their own soldiers would be.  Ignorance of these points is a prerequisite to arguing that a war would be short, painless, and triumphant.

Wonder Woman is one of those ancient Greek mythical figures now stuck in an ironic Hell. Her damnation is to constantly be a strong independent feminist before the story starts—but the minute the narrator turns his attention to her, she’s made weak, dependent, and a shill for the patriarchy.

variety.com: Rebecca Rubin - Box Office: ‘Wonder Woman 1984’ Debuts to Robust (for a Pandemic) $16.7 Million goes on to note, “Even more impressive: it outperformed Christopher Nolan’s sci-fi epic `Tenet,’ which debuted to $9.35 million in September when 70% of theaters had reopened.”

Canonically, the only thing that has ever defeated a Pong paddle is another Pong paddle.

Heh. I can hear the editors saying, “Yep, that turned out to be too long a way to go for THAT joke. Well, that’s why we shoot reaction shots, even though we hope not to need them.” Presumably they’re keeping camp Linus in reserve.