Serving Ohio’s 9th since 1983

That’s 43 years and 22 elections.

This should have been the year we dusted off the shelves and sent these relics to the pasture.

I keep seeing these headlines about how badly the Republicans are going to lose, and I’m not so sure. It seems like the progressive voter base is growing and it’s getting a lot harder to vote blue no matter who. Seems like this dinosaur would probably even support some of Trump’s policies.

I don’t like my representative choice in November, she’s definitely not going to cosponsor anything further than left of center. But I’ll probably still hold my nose and vote for her and double down next cycle to get a progressive on the ballot.

There was no both sides there. Only a well thought out condemnation of establishment Democrats who are too weak and way too enriched.

And test they do good things occasionally. They act as a barrier to some of the worst things the others try to do. But they don’t break shit.

You said it, it’s a lot easier to break than to fix. And if we get over trying to fix everything and start building in the ruins instead of trying to put Humpty back together, we just might achieve modern progress. Stop thinking that everything must be a certain way, start asking what it could be.

And I don’t think they would have the votes with 53 seats in the Senate with the current class of boot lickers who are more afraid to lose 5 votes than to rock the boat a bit and gain 15

You aren’t wrong, but not putting something on the table because it won’t pass is weak IMO. It’s saying that it’s not worth mentioning because it can’t pass on this moment, which is essentially saying we didn’t want to rock the boat.

Dems have become the party of compliance. They are too afraid of losing votes they don’t even have.

This is my district (well it is now) and I voted to Elijah and got as many people as I could to do the same.

If she manages to pull this off, I will not vote for her in November.

If we do not shake the establishment to its core, nothing will actually change. How many times have Democrats held power and refused to act boldly?

I’m done. I will continue to vote for fresh ideas and people who act with integrity and transparency.

Hopefully I stay on the unblocked side of old. Though I keep adding things like ?utm=fuckspez to the urls

That sounds like a shake down for a bribe perfectly legal solicitation for a campaign contribution.

This is my district and I definitely will not be voting for her.

Less than what taxpayers have paid directly to Trump organizations I’d imagine

Grifter of the fucking world.

Trump’s ugly mug is going to start showing up on bags of grain being dropped on poor people around the world. I wouldn’t be surprised if they dropped a load of rice on a rice farmers field in China.

Or maybe the simplest reason, don’t expose the mad king to too much public scrutiny. Having trump speak at an event like this is a benefit to Trump, not the NRA. Just as it is a benefit, it is a detriment if his health and mental ability are in question.

How dare you be present! That’s just going to result in emotionally grounded adults with a sense of belonging.

How exactly is this unconstitutional? Where in the Constitution do we have a right to privacy? SCOTUS has ruled in past cases that some portions of the Constitution create zones of privacy or protect against government intrusion, BUT they most recently ruled in Dobbs that a woman’s medical decisions should not be private.

This might be the most anemic open ended bill I have ever read. On its face, it has no teeth. The most well defined portions of the bill are to make sure that applications have access to age data. Making this look more like a way for corporations to gather data and verify real people as opposed to online personas.

There is zero regulation actually defined and instead they have a 180 day period to define the regulation and a year for it to be contacted and implemented. The bill could pass tomorrow and we still wouldn’t know what age verification looks like.

As scary as these efforts are, they are also a bit humorous to me. By and large software exists independently of its creator, especially in the FOSS space. There would be no way to require an individual to install an OS that supported this or even use an updated browser that supported it.

Ultimately, the only way to really enforce any sort of age verification system is to force all content providers to have an age verification step. This presents as OS level, but you have to give people a reason to upgrade in order to implement. If Wikipedia suddenly required some sort of OS based age verification protocol to access its content, it would become a lot harder to avoid.

They are putting this at the OS level, but I think this is a way to back into removing anonymous access to the Internet.

I wonder how much of the down voting stems from people seeing “let me parent my own kids” as being tied to conservative propaganda used to support anti-woke bills in places like Florida.

I think they’ve been puppeteering him since he first took the oath in 2017. They just guide him to the decisions that they want. There may be a few original ideas, but I doubt many of them are.

Remember his father was made to think he was working https://people.com/fred-trump-family-history-dementia-donald-behavior-exclusive-8738427

Even if impeachment made it through the House, I doubt the Senate would hold him accountable.

I’d also argue that most establishment Dems don’t actually support impeachment. They view it as divisive.

I think you greatly overestimate what that power actually is. Most Americans know Sanders and AOC better than Schumer. Even if he has the name recognition and respect that some of the other party celebrities have, it would still be shouting into a void.

Being vocal isn’t going to cause Mike Johnson to suddenly put articles of impeachment up for a vote and there are not enough Republicans in the house that would force the issue.

I used to do a 12 minute egg with an immediate ice bath. Works well. Egg peels easily. Yolk isn’t overcooked.

Recently switched to the 10-5-5 method. 10 minutes of cook, 5 minutes in the pan but removed from heat, 5 minutes in an ice bath. I’d argue the results are slightly better.

Always soak your eggs before boiling. This forces any air to escape which reduces the likelihood of your eggs cracking once in the hot water.