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You mean Donald Trump, who once said on tape that he was famous enough to get away with grabbing women by their genitalia? Seems like a pretty bad guy to trust, unless the thing you’re trusting him to do is sexual assault

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You think JD Vance is the kind of guy who would do something that brings pleasure to neither him, nor the couch?

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I doubt it’s a moral line. Seems like a pragmatic stance that standing behind him isn’t worth the bad PR they’d get for doing it. It’s certainly something, at least.

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Trump bucks are so 2023, they should start accepting Trump Steaks futures contracts and other derivatives

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Yeah don’t listen to Dave Ramsey. I remember hearing him speak on TV as a kid and something just felt off about him, but not quite as bad as Suze Orman.

I don’t think he’s a scammer, and some of the stuff he says is perfectly sensible and useful, but he (a boomer) also gives advice that isn’t how he got rich, to millennials and co, who will never ever get rich following it. Structurally that makes him pretty out of touch, and suggests anyone who listens to him should do so critically.

That’s putting aside that he’s also kind of just telling people to do capitalism harder, and everything that comes with that.

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I don’t think it changes anyone’s mind, but it could affect who shows up to vote.

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I say the death penalty is itself inhumane, focusing on the technical problem misses the point. Killing people you have a high degree of confidence committed murder means on a long enough time span, you’re virtually guaranteed to kill innocents. The process required to minimize these false positive killings makes the death penalty more expensive than life in prison, on average. As far as I can tell, there’s no upside to the death penalty, unless you’re firmly convinced that the criminal justice system needs to focus on retribution.

The only humane option I see is to let them live out their lives in a context where they won’t reoffend.

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Despite him having been the star of a different 2000s reality show, Trump truly is The Biggest Loser.

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Well an Olympic athlete is probably a public figure in this context, so she’d need to show that Boebert defamed her “with knowledge that it was false or with reckless disregard of whether it was false or not.”

Pretty good, I’d wager.

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