To be fair, that was there the first time around too. People are just done pretending otherwise now, even the “we have to pretend it’s close because that’s what’s best for engagement and thus our profits” MSM and social media.

Even Hillary Clinton, the worst Dem nominee in my lifetime (I was born on the penultimate day of 82*) would have beaten him in a landslide if not for the media wagging the dog in his favor.

Granted, that they did so was partly BECAUSE of her deliberate Pied Piper strategy to make sure he was the GOP nominee, which is a stellar example of the “it’ll always be 1992” Dem leadership mentality that made her such an awful candidate.

*my exact date of birth is irrelevant, I know, but I wanted to use one of my favorite words, penultimate 😁

It doesn’t.

It’s moronic, at any rate…

I know that part of growing up Catholic is excessive guilt, but being LGBTQ+ without realizing that the whole religion is toxic and specifically harmful to people like you is some Log Cabin Republican level of denial!

should be grateful" that it provides a “complex, three-dimensional take” on his life.

He must be trolling lol. The more anyone learns about Trump, the higher chance they have of absolutely loathing him.

Superficial information and lies are the only things that have ever made anyone like him or agree with him.

As an aside, “THAAD battery” sounds like someone harnessed exasperation towards a rich kid and converted it into electricity 😁

Those type of podcasts seem pretty easy to produce a lot of though

There’s tons of material to choose from, sure. The challenging part is listening to hours and hours and hours of Jones’ mad and frequently tedious rantings and then cut out the boring parts to make an entertaining show.

I wonder if he has a plan for when Jones suffers a massive heart attack though

Dan and Jordan have often said that they would love for the podcast to become obsolete by Jones never broadcasting anything again.

Whether they have any plans for what to do after that is less clear. Might move on to another propagandist, might make a podcast about something else entirely, might call it quits 🤷

I hope j Jed’s saved for some kind of retirement

I have no idea who that is, but sure 🤷

The one with the alpine elephants?

One of the very few Venn diagrams where Trump and Deadpool intersect.

Joke’s on you! I’m gonna live to 102 and THEN die, like the city of Detroit

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Or a typo of “you’re gonna be the one that saves me”

Though that’s admittedly somewhat less likely.

If you think THAT’S bad, please spare some sympathy for Dan of the excellent Knowledge Fight podcast

At the time the electoral college was instituted, only white land owning men could vote, the majority of the population was illiterate, and only the very rich could afford to be well-versed in the affairs of state.

To compare that horse and buggy time with today’s world with near-complete literacy, mass media and widespread internet access is even more moronic than you are pretending that the electorate is.

The problem isn’t that Americans are significantly dumber than the people of other nations.

It’s that the US is one of the most propagandized nations in the world due to billionaires, hectomillionaires, their corporations, and their industry associations owning the mainstream media and the vast majority of the politicians as well as the political machines pulling the strings behind the scenes.

Revered as minor deities as they are, the Founding Fathers couldn’t have predicted the conditions 250 years into the future. Including the fact that the very mechanism they included to make sure that the constitution would be updated to fit the times, the amendment process, would become functionally impossible.

Tl;Dr: the problem isn’t people being too stupid, the problem is that the will of the people has been overruled by organized corruption and propaganda.

are they saying that the ECOA gives the FTC the power to challenge companies that discriminate by not giving credit to minorities, but not the power to challenge companies that discriminate by giving bad credit terms to minorities?

Probably, yeah. It’s clear that they rely on their voters not paying attention to what they say and do.

The corporations and industries they ACTUALLY work for don’t care as long as they avoid or at least delay accountability for them, after all, so they have no incentive to even TRY to make sense.

The lawmakers added that while the FTC is in charge of enforcing the 1974 Equal Credit Opportunity Act, “that authority to challenge conduct under the ECOA does not accordingly permit the FTC to separately challenge conduct as ‘unfair discrimination’ pursuant to the FTC Act.”

As the late Antonin Scalia (may he roast in piss) would have said: pure applesauce.

Nike’s first draft slogan.

you! Forget about me! Don’t don’t don’t don’t!

what do you think publicly repudiating Israel would do for the democrats’ chances of winning the presidential election?

Would probably improve them. Dramatically so if backed by actions such as stopping all weapons shipments

It makes sense for them to say nothing publicly while privately trying to tie down those loose cannons.

First of all, no. It doesn’t make sense to publicly do the opposite of what a majority of the population, including an overwhelming majority of your own base, wants.

Also, “loose cannons” must be a new fucking record for downplaying 75 years of apartheid rule and an ongoing genocide!