Make it a small council, 3 to 5 people chosen at random from a pool limited to those with some list of qualifications. Make it a point system based on academic, civic, and business success. Those that have enough points are automatically in the pool.

Depends on the actual spot, there a holes in the bottom of some of those canals, there could have been a head injury when she fell. Until someone is actually standing where she fell in, you don’t actually know the depth.

She’d be great as Senate Majority leader. Especially if AOC were to take Schumers seat.

Would that include Stargate SG-1? It was all filmed in Canada.

The same methods used to protect lynch mobs.

NYT is getting jealous?

Bunkers only protect against foreign bombs. Local residents have construction equipment and concrete saws.

We occasionally get lucid leadership. As a whole group though, our leadership class has always had some glaring idiocy going on.

Was there a time when they weren’t?

It was anonymous members of his campaign. They never said it on camera because he never wanted to take a position on it, and no one really pressed it enough.

He said he was only going to do one term really early on. Then once in office, that pipe dream evaporated. It was pretty much just some remarks during the campaign against Trump.

As for pulling it off, he probably could have, just barely. Not that he had any more enthusiasm from anyone, but he would have kept a bigger part of the elderly vote who knew him well. At least if were able to stand up on stage with Trump and be lucid. My bet is that could only happen with a fairly heavy drug cocktail, that would lead to serious health problems fairly quickly. He fell apart right after the election anyway, so it very well might have killed him on the spot.

Only if they tricked Trump into another debate while Joe was on a lot of coke. At which point he would have had to step down right after the election anyway, due to his heart giving out.

Joe never should have ran for a second term, and he should have known better than to try it.

Same as any other office holder. Impeach in the house, convict in the Senate.

That’s the neat part, it’s not a settlement according to the judge. They’re just stealing it from the DoJ settlement fund.

Where does a president get the authority to create a fund?

The US is fucked on AI leadership, because we’re fucked on manufacturing leadership. It’s a fluke of geology we have control of pure enough silicon right now, and that’s not likely to be a barrier for long. China is about to eat our lunch in every area of research now that the US has killed funding and chased away the best students. What happened with manufacturing, is about to happen with tech and academia. Europe, India, Japan and Australia will siphon off a little bit, but China is going to be dominant for the next 20 to 50 years most likely. And probably won’t be overtaken by the US again.

It won’t be next week, but over the next decade China is very much going to be taking the global stage. The US has handed them economic dominance on a silver platter.

I thought of him after I wrote that. Does anyone know if Fetterman has a trawler he can yell at reporters from the back of?

Lieberman retired so we had to have someone to take his place.

It’s an authoritarian machine. And brutally efficient at this point. It’s what Trump dreams he can do better with his face on it, and underage hookers.

Gotten summons by mail twice. Both times I was way out of town, so no chance of attending, they let me off.