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  1. Here is the existential problem, my dudes.... The endangerment finding isn't just a technical legal document; it's the foundation for federal climate action in the United States. Without it, you don't have the ability for the EPA to regulate and there is effectively no Clean Air Act. The good news? 1000% there will be legal challenges from states, multiple states, a coalition of states, environmental agencies, etc. that will tie this thing in legal morass for many, many years. Hopefully we can run out the clock in courts until 2028, seems to be the best case.
  2. FYI for those with kids and grandkids who really appreciate the family programming of PBS Kids: PBS Kids will not shut down, but some shows will be cancelled, and the surviving shows will make fewer new episodes, at least for the next couple of years. If you want to see PBS Kids survive, the best thing you can do is become a member of your local PBS station. If you're already a member, raise your donation level if you can.
  3. I love this, it's actually quite brilliant.
  4. The position is that for a representative democracy and federal system to work as a federation of (United) States, then it makes sense to have the system we have. If you want to re-architect the system (burn down and build from the ground up, as you or someone else suggested was the way to break free from the chokehold of a two-party system) then I can see doing away with the EC for something else that might a) be deemed more appropriate for 2025 and b) something that would need buy-in or ratification. Maybe just the former small-state resident in me (Live Free or Die!), but I find it personally distasteful to have agreed and entered into a political system and construct with an architecture undergirding the federal system of states that was agreed to and then completely changing the system to a population system where 3 or 4 states effectively run the rest of the 46-47. I won't use "pull the rug" or "bait and switch" as granted it's been 250 years, but it's definitely not something to be undertaken lightly.
  5. I deeply disagree. Unless you are talking about blowing everything up and starting from scratch, this time without an EC, then I could see it depending on the re-archituring of the nation.
  6. Which goes back to, if you supported the formation of a third party those 19 "democrats" who voted against bernie's bill, you'd have room for more democrats that would have voted for that bill.
  7. Thanks for the response and it really is helpful after you spelled out the comparison for me to understand what you were saying. I don’t disagree really at all with you when you’ve put it that way. Sorry to make you have to work a bit this late in the afternoon.
  8. Maybe unpopular opinion, but in a pinch and for convenience (and bang for your buck) HEB's BBQ offerings are pretty dang good. Better than Rudy's.
  9. have you ever heard the cognitive psychology behind the word "but"? If not formerly, I think you might have internalized it somewhere along the way in life because when you re-quoted yourself you conveniently left it out, as it was used after the word "deplorable". when you say "yes the actions were deplorable, but..." it's inviting defense. Just like in therapy you are taught that a real apology is not a "I'm sorry, but" (that's actually known as a non-apology apology), your sentence here you are citing actually does make it seem defensive. Ultimately, and I'll quote here "reserach shows that people itnerpret what comes AFTER the word but as the real message, and what comes before as less sincere or even irrelevant in arguments" https://ala-apa.org/newsletter/2010/11/01/the-dreadful-but/
  10. Then why, my dear David, do you two hours ago say "Our country needs more than 2 parties". What's a solution to get to 3 (or more!) parties?
  11. I need to re-read this two or three more times because I've tried to get through it at least twice now and what I keep hearing is a pretty overt apologia for 10/7 on behalf of Hamas and Palestine. edit: maybe I'll just ask directly, is that intentional? are you intending to defend 10/7 (to any degree)?
  12. I think it's more the "What in the world is wrong with you Austin" thread.
  13. Firstly, I'm not so sure you can even get further right than modern day Republicans. A third party would either be a Republican Lite (hence I used the word centrist) or even more conservative Democrats (hence I used the word centrist). Literally I'm asking, especially you who deign to skewer me for using the word centrist and suggesting a third party in the middle of the two we have existing, what other conceivable option(s) are there for party expansions? If you expand to the left of the legacy D's, you have made the legacy D's defacto Centrists. If you expand to the left of the legacy GQP's, you have made the new party defacto Centrists. (I'm assuming it's an impossibility to have a viable party be further right than modern day GQP fascists).
  14. I'm sure I don't know what you mean, as I'm obviously agreeing with what at least 7 other people have posted or cosigned, which is having more than 2 parties is good for voters and in the long run good for representative democracy. You seem to disagree? You think a two party system is optimal or what?
  15. I'm actually responding to YOUR post, which you said, and I'll quote: So what do you mean, if not have 3 parties-- left, central, right. Call it what you want, how do you envision it since you said it? Heck, have the progressives be the New Democrats, call the old Democrats the Central Blue Dogs (bonus points because they don't want to legalize cannibus but will CBD) and the GQP stays the right wing lunacy party.
  16. This is exactly what I don’t get. We lambast the two party system we’ve self imposed via a 200 year coalescence, but then in the next breath say “only left or right is real, a third option isn’t real”. ideas that aren’t evil and racist, but are different and you disagree with them, doesn’t mean they are inherently stupid or wrong necessarily.
  17. At my age, donuts (or any pure sugar) inflames me like no other. Surly olds talk not going away…
  18. Agree. But we eat our own. We need to instead support (former) Democrats who for one reason or another disband. And when I say support I don’t mean vote or fund, but acknowledge a shift change and ideology difference and recognize that a defection from the big tent is actually a good thing. It’s good for Democrats who don’t need distraction and internal strife, it’s good for voters to have more options, and it’s good for democracy. When Andrew Yang tried to spin off one, it gets met with the worst kind of derision and mockery and personal attacks to the man. The same man whom many were at least somewhat agreeable to when he was on the (D) team. When Musk talks about creating a third party…. Okay, I’ll concede that point. You can’t decouple the disaster that is Elon Musk from his advocacy of a 3rd party and his scorn for pushing for a 3rd party was mostly warranted.
  19. Shipley’s is okay from what I remember, the one thing it had going for it over the Cambodia shops was consistency. You knew what you were getting. That said, I can’t understand being an adult over the age of 40 and eating donuts, even semi-regularly. I feel actual pangs of shame and regret feeding the sugar to tots and grandkids, knowing it’s pure junk and unhealthy. I know I know, I’m no fun at parties….
  20. @Captainant Cross posting here as I think it could spawn better discussion: WASHINGTON, July 29 (Reuters) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will rescind the long-standing finding that greenhouse gas emissions endanger human health, as well as tailpipe emission standards for vehicles, removing the legal foundation of greenhouse gas regulations across industries, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced on Tuesday. Republican President Donald Trump's pick Zeldin announced the agency's plan to rescind the "endangerment finding" at an event at a truck factory in Indiana, alongside Energy Secretary Chris Wright, and called it the largest deregulatory action in U.S. history.
  21. It's the covid stimulus free money all over again, except without the student loan deferment (unfortunately).
  22. Thanks for the link. Just read this one now from BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c14g8gk8vdlo I think it supports a lot of the politico article, but maybe leans in a little more to the point of this being a political L for EU and a political win for Trump (at the moment):
  23. Deion has had to deal with more than his share of medical issues for a man of his age and fitness. And yes he's brash, but he also seems like a genuinely good guy and I'm rooting for his full recovery and whatever success he can have on the field that doesn't impact the Longhorns negatively.
  24. Oh wow. That is gross and egregious behavior.
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