Better fuckin defend her. I’ll still vote for Harris, but Lina Khan is the best thing to ever happen to modern governance.

You don’t know my values. Good luck with yours though

Then don’t vote and leave it to the rest of us to maintain your ability to post stupid shit online, legitimate though it may be.

Tim Scott is their DEI bitch, but no one said anything about that.

They’re going to recycle the same bullshit talking points anyway. They don’t need research

Eww. Grow up and love yourself, dude.

And in every case. They cannot be happy: their happiness is range-filled delight

Upvote because you’ve obviously never listened to Five Four Pod. Their banter is exquisite.

Coffee badging is the practice of going into the office for a few hours to “show face,” which could entail coffee with co-workers or sitting in on a work meeting — but then leaving to work remotely.

So, they comply institutional requirements to waste time for no reason before going elsewhere to do work? And this is characterized as being disengaged?

This doesn’t make any sense. Is this a joke? Who came up with this? Wtf is this journalism?

In a sense, that’s how this works and always has.

Presidents are very limited in what they can do by design. Most presidential campaign promises rely on the planets to align (i.e.: Congress to actually do it’s job and legislate, which it often doesn’t). Presidential failure is misnomer, imo, because it’s Congress who writes the laws. Biden’s executive orders can be overturned as easily as he overturned Trump’s. At best, the president provides a vision on where he thinks the party should go but Congress does the heavy lifting.

And if he fails, not only do we not get the progressive promises, but the other president takes more away.

That’s how conservatives think too about their president: if he fails, not only do they not get to roll back the administrative state, but then a progressive can tax the more to put more criminals on the street.

The misconception is that this must be a bad thing. What makes it bad is that Republicans are bat shit insane and want control of everything. But if their views were not moderate and they believed in democracy, then it wouldn’t be so bad. Still disappointing though.

Term limits.

A president’s first term tends to follow a particular pattern: bold action at the very beginning to see what they can get through Congress. They focus on things that will improve their chances to be re-elected. Biden likes to cite the Inflation Reduction Act and it’s policies and some others.

Toward the end of their first term, they start looking forward to our year long election season. There’s less policy implementation and more campaign promises.

Assuming they get re-elected, they can’t be president for a third term so why not go bigger than the beginning of thy first term? Now they can get to work with worrying about the political consequences because there are none for them. And the greater their accomplishments in their second term, the better their party looks.

In short, political incentives differ between terms, with term limits making bolder action more desirable and likely.

Upvote because all cherries are gross

The sympathy campaign begins

It’s hilarious until he wins. Now he can play the sympathy card, his supremely stupid peons will feel even more justified in their stupid ideas, and people who were on the fence, as the pure, unadulterated, grade A morons they are, will think that if a candidate is getting shot at, then he’s obviously doing something right. And of course, they should have compassion for him since he got shot because they otherwise don’t know how diabolical Trump is.

This is a huge loss for the world all because one person had to be exceptionally stupid in their hubris.

I use a computer frequently. So I take the time to learn hot keys and shortcuts. The two minutes it takes to learn them is quickly made up for in productivity.

I don’t have the skills

I don’t really have any advice for anything else you said, except this bit. You don’t have the skills now, but you can develop them. Everybody was a beginner that tried and tried again.

Damn. Now I have to read the article. I feel those paragraphs in my bones.

That’s racism with extra steps

I have an iPhone for work and it’s unintuitive.

I love that podcast. I just subscribed to them for their premium episodes and its so worth it.