You’d be sitting on 10,000 unsold units of “Lets go Brandon” nylon banners right now.

Yeah, but I assume the entire plane isn’t running the original 24 year old parts.

The point is, if this was a design flaw inherent to the design of the aircraft, it would have shown up earlier than 24 years later on a single plane.

Expectations are really that low that all it would take is listening.

If she listened then did nothing, then the message would be she’s heartless after hearing about all the suffering.

There was no way to win this for Harris. Politically she did the right thing for the campaign.

Looks like a few buildings survived, but WAY more blew up than I expected for how separated they were.

I like the end result that ISPs are pushing back on this, but don’t mistake this for altruism on their part.

Their businesses make money selling internet service. Were they to support cutting off those accused of piracy, they would be losing paying customers. Further, the business processes and support needed for this to function would be massively expensive and complicated. They’d have to hired teams of people and write whole new software applications for maintaining databases of banned users, customer service staff to address and resolve disputes, and so much more.

Lastly, as soon as all of that process would be in place to ban users for piracy accusations, then the next requests would come in for ban criteria in a classic slippery slope:

• pornography
• discussions of drugs
• discussions of politics the party in power doesn’t like
• speaking out against the state
• communication about assembling
• discussion on how to emigrate

All the machinery would be in place once the very first ban is approved.

Vance said that under Donald Trump’s plan, Americans wouldn’t be put “into the same risk pools.” In other words, healthier young people wouldn’t be in the same risk pool as older people more likely to need medical care, lowering costs for younger Americans.

If this statement is true to their plan there’s a bigger implication that should worry more than 50% of Americans.

Americans wouldn’t be put “into the same risk pools.”

Men wouldn’t be in the same risk pool as women. Guess which group has higher overall health insurance because one group has a much more complicated and functional reproductive system?

For those that don’t remember life before the reforms put in place, men were charged a small fraction of health insurance premiums compared to women. I remember as a young man when I learned this by comparing my pay stub with a woman coworker that was the same age as me at the time. We were both in our early 20s. To reiterate; we were the same age, same employer, same insurance company, same plan, the only difference was gender.

I was paying $23 every two weeks. She was paying $110.

I was shocked and embarrassed. I fully supported the reforms that lead men and women to paying equal rates even though that meant I had to pay much more than I had in the past.

The GOP have been huffing “traditional family values” for so long they thought everyone did too. They make a jab at Harris for not fitting the traditional family values, which they thought would land with the public, but it fell flat because “traditional family values” includes the subjugation of women, abuse of children, and a big helping of toxic masculinity. Naturally those ideas are rejected by the majority of Americans today.

The GOP got high on their on supply.

The first “sorry” is sorry as in “I’m sorry you found that offensive” which isn’t a genuine expression of sorrow, nor is it an apology.

The statement said withhold Medicaid for states banning IVF. Aka if you ban IVF, the bill would punish the state by withholding Medicaid. Seems to be the opposite of what Republicans want with IVF.

I see your confusion: (many) Republicans want to ban IVF.

Look at the title of this post we’re in. “Republicans block Senate Democrats’ IVF bill”. That bill protects IVF, and the republicans shot it down.

You lost the ability to vote against him.

He freezes in shock when someone discovers and destroys one of his Horcruxes.

But that’s not what that statement says.

I read the OP again. I read your statement again. I’m not seeing a different meaning than the one I came away with and commented on originally.

What are you saying the statement says that my comments contradict?

that would withhold Medicaid funding from states that ban IVF, but it was blocked by Democrats.

Withholding Medicaid funding doesn’t seem like a great idea. But on the whole being against banning IVF seems like a good idea. Am I missing something?

Republicans don’t want to secure IVF and don’t want to pay for Medicaid. GOP state’s would happily block IVF to get Medicaid defunded.

This is my new head canon.

Embarrassment suggests he has a sense of shame. He has already conducted a number of shameful acts already (taking gifts) without any sense he’s embarrassed.

Scott, your logic is thwarted by the fact that efforts by states citizens working to get abortion rights put to a vote as ballot initiatives are being blocked by every measure possible by the GOP. Ohio is a perfect example:

• State GOP lawmakers with the GOP Governor’s support and approval passed overly restrictive reproductive rights limitations over women’s bodies through the state congress against public opinion.
• Citizens started efforts for a ballot measure supporting reproductive rights (including the right to a legal abortion).
• State GOP lawmakers broke their own rule to run a pre-election to try to make passing ballot measures near impossible. Voters voted that down. The GOP effort failed.
• The GOP Attorney General interceded in the abortion rights ballot measure language to make it more inflammatory. Voters, in the overwhelmingly red state, STILL voted the abortion rights measure into the State Constitution.
• The GOP Governor came out claiming that the citizen lead ballot language was too permissive, and that citizens should have been willing to negotiate with the GOP government even though voters were voicing their desire for legal abortion from the start and being ignored by state legislature and the Governor.

…so you’re wrong, Scott. The GOP just plays dirty tricks at every level ignoring the will of the people, even its own voters on this issue.

There were multiple weddings that day. That was from a prior ceremony for bit players that weren’t important to the story.

Alternate headline: “‘Stagflation’ hits russian economy”

Putin is having some money troubles of his own right now. Banks in China are refusing to complete bank transactions with russia.

“Hmm the recipe says to make ‘Cashier soup’ we need to add vegetable stock after we’ve put the cashier in the pot”