This can also work against him and Democrats though. NYT had an article about it recently. They interviewed a Trump supporter in AZ who believed abortion was a right, but wanted to vote for Trump. She hoped this abortion measure would get on the ballot so she could vote for abortion, while voting for Trump. Despite the obvious and very public campaign pomise to severely limit abortion and Project 2024's goal to ban it federally.

An abortion ballot initiative will drive voters to the polls, but if they feel they are safe from losing abortion access, they may not feel like they need to support Dem candidates.

I too was OotL. From the channel sidebar:

The woman we're discussing is a body positive influencer and media personality who has gained fame and wealth by lying, manipulating, exploiting her children for content, plagiarizing BIPOC creators and blaming her BIPOC content editor for it (thereby ruining her career), among other things. Her fraudulent behavior is no different argue worse) from the likes of Jay Shetty (google him if you don't know who he is or what he did). She's the latest in a long line of grifting influencers who are abusing their power, taking advantage of their position and exploiting their followers. The difference is that she's Canadian. Our laws around social media and advertising aren't as clear (and where they are she's disobeyed them), add to that, our mainstream media has protected her from those who've tried to expose her grift and silenced/intimidated anyone who's tried to speak out.

His team claims that the evidence used was gathered during the presidency, when he was immune. It sounds absurd, since concealing private business records is clearly not an official function of the presidency, but its was apparently enough to sway the prosecution who admittedly may know more about the legal system than I do.

He seems to have at least partially succeeded: Manhattan Prosecutors Agree to Delay Trump’s Sentencing

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/02/nyregion/trump-sentencing-hush-money-trial.html?unlocked_article_code=1.4E0.EFjk.3LrZf6VhwwFF

SCOTUS can't do shit for state charges. Doesn't mean they won't try.

However, His legal team will argue literally any punishment is too harsh and appeal the NY state charges, which will be granted because he was a president and has money. Then it will be delayed past the election and not matter anyway because this system is not made to resist willful destruction by those entrusted to protect it.

Edit: Turns out they can. The NY prosecution has agreed to postpone charges less than a day after the ruling. Trump's team asserts that the criminal activities occurred before he was president, but since the evidence was gathered during, he can not be prosecuted. Apparently concealing evidence unrelated to the presidency is an official act...

I love to seeing nuclear power plants planned to replace a coal plant. The Gates one is planning to do the same thing. I imagine they will have to do some remediation to get the background radiation of a coal plant down so it doesn't interfere with future nuclear monitoring, but replacing it with a nuclear plant is a great idea.The high power infrastructure is already in place and its not like anything else will be jumping at the opportunity to build on top of a retired coal plant.

I agree with you. My thinking is, as a politically active person who is around politically active people from all over the spectrum, that no one has really heard from Trump in the past 3 years, besides the ones that wanted too. I've heard his voice maybe 10 times? Heard about him, of course, but not from him.

While the debate was an absolute shitshow, Trump was Trump. He reminded everyone for 90 minutes what it was like to have him in every room, on every channel, at every dinner table, and in every conversation. Undecideds are who they are, but they didn't like that in 2020 when they voted for Biden. People's memories are short and I think they forgot how terrible he was.

Cabinet and federal appointments are the big thing. That's why I'll take Biden over Trump. I'm not just voting for him, I'm voting for the 4000 jobs in energy, health, labor, transportation, etc. to be run by Democrats, liberals, and qualified people.

Trump, and project 2025 plan to fill all those roles with right wing nutjobs who will do anything to please the right. On top of those 4000, they'd expand the presidential appointment power to fire up to 45% of the federal workforce. Meteorologist who said the hurricane won't hit Alabama? GONE! Doctor who said injecting bleach was a bad idea? FIRED!

I'll take anyone who won't put Project 2025 in motion.

Borderlands 3, NHL 24, and Among Us.

Freeze your credit on all three bureaus. IIRC it is free for all of them, just don't get tricked into enrolling in their credit monitoring service. You're there to freeze and unfreeze your credit, nothing more. From then on, any time you apply for something that requires a credit check, you need to go thaw each credit bureau temporarily. They all let you schedule thaws, so just open it for a day, apply. And close it back up. Or however long your credit check takes.

The premium service offered by these data breaches is pretty terrible. In some cases, they'll have a clause that says if you accept, you can't sue or be part of a class action suit. If you have a credit card with monitoring included, they will notify you way faster if your credit is run. My credit card companies email me within minutes of an application being submitted. The paid service I got from a breach years ago doesn't let me know till about a week later.

And he wants to end support for Ukraine... Hard no from me.

Edit: he wants the defense industry to be able to sell weapons to anyone they want as long as they are "friends"? Lol, yea, that's totally going to end wars and make the US a beacon of peace... Did you even read the link before sharing?

Facebook would be worth what disguy_ovahea says below, I'm bad at math

“the unavoidable fact that it’s going to break our core systems” means that fixing everything “will take some time”. As such, no replacement launch date was given - “We might get lucky with a day-one fix, it’s unlikely, but it might be a month,” the developer said. “Soon as those fixes are done, we can put it back up again.”

Since 'indefinitely' tends to mean forever in gaming news, it's worth clarifying that the creators just can't give a date right now. They need to wait and see what needs to be updated, which makes sense.

Here you go!

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/10/climate/coal-plants-china.html?unlocked_article_code=1.jk0.-G27.tF7fPJuXT7om&ugrp=m

Some polls back up this analysis. A Quinnipiac survey shows Kennedy getting 13 percent of the vote; he has support from 9 percent of Democrats, 8 percent of Republicans and 20 percent of independents. The poll shows Biden leading Trump by three points in a head-to-head matchup but Trump ahead by one point when third-party candidates are included. Though both numbers are within the poll’s margin of error, they suggest that Trump could benefit if the election isn’t seen as a binary choice.

However, other polls show Kennedy pulling more voters from Trump, and the truth is no one knows how the election will ultimately shake out. “The public polling, if you dig into it, can be really head-swiveling,” said Smith. “It’s very hard to gauge the impact, but it does seem like he pulls from both, and right now — emphasis on ‘right now’ — slightly more from Biden.”

Kennedy certainly has no qualms about spoiling the election for Trump. On CNN on Monday, he argued that Biden poses a “much worse” threat to democracy than Trump because of the Biden administration’s attempts to get social media companies to remove vaccine misinformation, much of it spread by Kennedy

I really don't see how a pro-Israel, against any ceasefire agreement, candidate that also believes the free market will fix climate change stands to gain more support from former Biden voters than former Trump voters.

Damned if they do and damned if they don't. They either get condemned for helping keep a GOP speaker in place or they get criticized for not helping and getting stuck another freedom caucus pick speaker, after they bicker for a month.

It looks like slab on grade construction, there's no moving those. The houses that can be moved are up on posts or over a basement.

This is part of his Infrastructure Bill, requiring battery materials to be extracted or processed in the United States or a U.S. free-trade agreement partner or recycled in North America on an increasing scale. China is way ahead, no question there. It takes time to build that infrastructure and by locking tax credits behind American investment we add pressure to build them on the US.

Maybe they should move the case to DC then so there are enough active Top Secret clearances to create a healthy jury pool.

I bet we are in for 30 years of "the spirit of Donald Trump said to me in prayer...." From politicians and just straight up denial of his death from his followers.