As a Presbyterian Texan i doubly support a blue wave in Texas on the grounds that Talarico winning brings us one step closer to the loving jaws of Calvinist governance.

I think you’ve lost when one side of the argument is “here’s my polling data” and the other side of the argument is “well I don’t have any data, but here are some abstract reasons polling can fail.” Like, surely at this point we should conclude $180 is probably not a reach for most households.

Kind of a silver lining that everyone has a “break glass in case global supply chains become radically more expensive” emergency plan laying around from five years ago.

Large chunks of Gen Z embracing communism, fascism, misogyny, and sex negativity is just… like are they intentionally trying to pick the worst parts of the 20th century?

This is a terrible decision but this part seems clearly right. “Legal” vs “fact” is in this case a term of art. Think of it as the difference between the questions a jury decides and a judge decides. Obviously, “how should we interpret the establishment clause” is a question for judges.

I mean, most relevant to this context hundreds of war criminals have been imprisoned or hanged by international courts without voluntarily agreeing to their punishment.

1812 overture but at each point a cannon would go off a footballer blasts the ball into your nuts instead while a bassoon warbles “god save the czar.”

Sometimes people get away with domestic crimes and sometimes people get away with crimes under international law, but it’s very real to the people who don’t!

Does not seem arguable to me under IHL that U.S. leaders committed the crime of aggression, given that it’s own casus belli was “need to end the nuclear program under the made-up doctrine of preemptive self defense” and not “responding in self defense to prior attacks by Iranian proxies.”

On a more fundamental level, any con law professor having his 1Ls read a state disbarment opinion needs to be fired or put on emeritus status or something.

For hundreds of years the most interesting letter you could get was one marked, “URGENT COBRA INFORMATION,” and we ruined it.

“Do what I say or I’m going to take all my stuff and go live in *space*, you’ll be sorry then” is maybe the most 12 year old boy idle threat ever issued by a powerful man in history.

Can’t believe this is happening under our “amateurs talk tactics, professionals just constantly talk about the culture wars” civilian leadership.

“Man, good thing I believed in Jesus and got to enjoy this experience” I think as the mantis men shovel hot dogs into my mouth.

Been watching some track and field and it turns out the race is to the swift, like, all the time. Major flaw in the scriptures.

“Men make 14% more annually per year [citation], and because market participants are best modeled as rational actors maximizing the net present value of their lifetime income [citation], it is logical to assume all women have, to maximize income, already become men. More empirical work is needed.”

a man is standing in a dark room and says no more half measures . ALT: a man is standing in a dark room and says no more half measures .

Daughter is playing with her unicorn academy dolls and Wildstar just trampled Ravenzella to death.

“I didn’t previously realize how helpful it is at dealing with stupid questions I don’t want to waste time answering. For example: *pastes AI answer to their question*”

“Leftists would rather have a former mercenary nut than a Democrat” seems like a pretty foreseeable consequence of leftists spending a decade arguing the Democratic Party is rigged and responsible for all our policy failures.

Does “they blow something up in the straight in the next 45 mins” count as them saying they didn’t agree.

I wonder if they’re secretly jockeying to be positioned in the part of Orion the farthest from earth when the craft hits apogee

Even beyond the war, I feel like “I will in great detail revel in and describe how I masterfully and decisively solved the huge problem I created” is this administration’s entire comms strategy.

This is good but “it always has been, m’am” is funnier to me.

Four year old thought the lyrics were:

“Watch me unravel, I’ll soon be naked
Lion on the floor! Lion on the floor!
I’ve come undone”

Which is obviously better.

“The phrase ‘direct, concrete military advantage’ by its own terms clearly encompasses as a proportional target any structure directly made of concrete.” — some JAG who loves war crimes

That may be politically convenient, but the USAF has a history of pretty horrible war crimes and I don’t think it’s going to stop until we go after the officers actually dropping the bombs.

So we basically pulled off an eagle claw lmao

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I think it’s funny that Trump is just trying to appoint normal right wing sycophants and instead he gets, like, “anti-Catholic Methodist from 1920” to run the pentagon and “thinks the four humours theory of disease is making a big comeback” to run HHS and etc.