I’d like to agree with you, but I’m afraid I’m less optimistic. Trump’s approval rating could fall all the way to 0%, and he won’t be impeached by the current Congress. As long as he signs the bills that get to his desk, the Republicans have no incentive to give him the boot.
Alabama is on the cusp of electing a gigantic POS who was banned from a mall for chasing teen girls. Have you ever known anyone banned from a fucking mall??? But, R’s don’t give a fuck. They won’t give a fuck about anything Grab’em by the Pussy has done.
Well it is Alabama. The phonebook has 3 last names in it, and they are blurred.
Even the marriage ceremony has additional options. Do you take this sister/aunt/cousin to be your lawful wife?
As a long time back of house employee, I was in favor of tip pooling. Servers should be too. When a server fucked up an order, and told me that he needed it recooked “on the fly” I really didn’t care all that much, it’s not like it was my tip.
The server is the one who takes the reward or the punishment for what is really 90% other people’s work.
If employers are taking a cut, that’s not really all that cool, but redistributing to the employees who actually make the experience for the guest makes more sense to me.
If this does go through and become common, then if you give the server a cash tip for them to keep, then they get their above MW pay, plus their part of the tip pool, plus the cash tips that you gave them and they did not share with the other employees.
No two examples of authoritarian states are the same. Fascism in America wouldn’t necessarily go to the same degree as what existed in Nazi Germany, and when I or others point out the parallels between now and late 1920s Germany, I don’t mean to suggest that we’d end up with Jews being rounded up and sent to concentration camps in Nevada. And you’re probably right: it could well result in a crack-up of American states and local municipalities without the entire landmass coming under direct control. But let’s just say that if it got that far, it wouldn’t be good, whatever form it might take.
Side note: NPR this morning had a long and thoughtful conversation with an Alabama voter who brought up something that I don’t think had been mentioned before: this race is really all about abortion. He hates his choices but can’t bring himself to vote for a pro-choice candidate.
While I absolutely, one hundred percent believe the USA is vulnerable to such things just as anyone is, the fact that the states hold the elections whether the feds like it or not makes it quite unlikely such a thing will happen. I could totally see Trump convincing his sycophants to do this, but convincing 50 state governments all at the same time? Because you have to convince all of them (or, to do it permanently through a Constitutional amendment, 38 of them.) Not super likely - if you try to do it one state at a time, the first state is conceding its power over the feds to every subsequent state that doesn’t get on board. In this regard the founding fathers were very clever.
I would further say that I do not think for an instant Donald Trump gives a shit about democracy, and he would cancel elections in an instant if he thought it to his advantage - but to do so would be very, very hard, and would require more intelligence and foresight than he is capable of.
It is of course sad that we’re even at the point that if a President were to try this he WOULDN’T be impeached in a day.
Wouldn’t it be nice if guys like this would just, like, NOT HAVE ANY ABORTIONS THEMSELVES and leave the rest of us the fuck alone?
I don’t think that’s what’s stopping them; Pence can sign them just as easily. I think ditching Trump when the base (and I do mean base) are still drooling over him would cause them to lose the next election. Can’t have that, can we?
I think I heard the same piece, if you’re referring to the guy who said his daddy told him never to say who you’re voting for— while making it glaringly clear that despite the coyness and the pretense of aggrieved soul-searching, he was absolutely going to vote for Roy Moore, because there is no more important issue in the world than abortion, and even a bobby-soxer-fondling Pharisee is better than a baby-murdering Democrat.
I’m not sure I’d call him “thoughtful,” but being that he only has one goal, his position is logically sound, I guess.
Look closer. Those aren’t separate options. They are all the same person!
Abortion has been discussed quite frequently as the ‘single issue’ that many Republican voters use to justify their support for morally bankrupt and incompetent politicians like Trump and Moore. Many conservatives will just never vote for a pro-choice candidate, no matter what. Never mind foreign policy, or climate change, or education, or any number of other issues that some of these voters may take more moderate stances on. They will always pick the pro-life candidate over the pro-choice one.
Although, it will be interesting to see how tightly they cling to that conviction when the Republicans inevitably come after their Social Security and Medicare.
“If your family tree does not fork, you might be a redneck.”-Jeff Foxworthy
True. The notation that the military is gung ho for Trump is incorrect. Although there is support for Trump among the rank and file, the officers have basically the same dislike for Trump exhibited among the rest of the US population.
We are more likely to have civil war or a military coup than we are to have a slide into dictatorship.
That’s an excuse to vote for the pedophile, or at least to not vote against him.
And, somewhat amusingly, the are lead to vote for these candidates who play lip service to pro-life on the campaign rail, but do nothing about it when in office.
Not only would it be difficult to really restrict abortion the way they want it, but if that were to happen, they would no longer have the wedge issue that gets them votes.
Conservative politicians have no interest in passing real pro-life legislation, they would become obsolete if they did.
And this just demonstrates that he is pro-birth. Not pro-life.
Exactly. Once those babies are born, the heck with them. Evidence: let CHIP expire.
The joke I heard:
The guy says “I’d like you to meet my wife and my sister” and you look over and there’s one woman standing next to him.
As we’ve seen in the past, there’s absolutely nothing stopping them from getting (or advocating their wife/girlfriend/mistress get) an abortion, even while crying MURDER! at the top of their lungs. Their reasons for abortion are totally legitimate - it’s those other people that shouldn’t be allowed to have one.