BillyClark

Women members of Congress are more likely to have a high-earning spouse. As the authors put it, they’re part of a “power couple.”

I don’t think you can find the statistical answer you’re asking about because it is hard to find data for events where people don’t call the police.

Like, police may keep records of how many street fights they break up, but if police are not called, then there is no organization to make the record of the street fight.

I believe there is a limited supply of practicing lawyers who will ruin their own lives and careers to support Trump, a man who will not ever return the favor.

To make a Pam Bondi, you need to find someone who is a completely incompetent moron who can also pass a bar exam.

I think another Bill Barr is more likely. A person who initially thinks it’s a good idea to support Trump, but later defies him.

Jamie Raskin berated Bondi’s earlier Senate performance before the questioning began, saying that she brought… What did he call it? A “burn book” or something?

Basically, instead of preparing for the actual questions she’d be asked, she prepared a book of insults and ad hominem for the people asking the questions.

And I couldn’t help but notice that in her testimony yesterday, every time she flipped through the huge binder next to her, rather than answering the question, she’d just start attacking the person who asked the question.

So, she did the same thing again. A one trick pony who couldn’t imagine that they’d prepare countermeasures for her embarrassing previous performance.

And she was caught lying under oath immediately after she did so.

Only a complete idiot would allow themselves to be put in such a situation.

She should have resigned long ago. She should have done a lot of things, but what can you expect of a complete idiot? If she’s remembered at all in the future, it will be for her unparalleled stupidity.

Like I said, ICE has many fundamental problems.

I don’t disagree with your assessment, but experience is not the same as training, and there is also a continuing need for training, even for experienced people.

One of the many fundamental problems with ICE is that they seem to have little to no training.

Police with no training should not be allowed to perform traffic stops or to arrest people. Or really to interact with the public at all.

One of the ICE failings we’ve seen over and over is how they needlessly escalate situations. If you pull someone over and they flee, if you pursue them, you have to consider the danger to others. Sometimes you just have to let them go and figure out how to pick them up at a later time when it is less dangerous.

Yes, it makes policing more complicated, but if police are escalating situations and making things more dangerous, that’s an even larger problem.

ICE has such a bad reputation now that I think people will flee at a much higher rate. Their lack of training is part of the reason they’re causing this mess, and if they want to keep pulling people over, they’re going to need massive amounts of training to learn to do it correctly. Even more than normal police because the situation today is what it is.

I’ve done a little bit of language studying and one thing I heard about repeatedly is that people tend to mistakenly believe in their own exceptionalism.

Like, their own native language has idioms, and they just assumed that other languages didn’t have idioms.

But we are all humans and languages are all going to exist in support of human communication. Therefore, you should assume that all languages have all major features of expression, including idioms and sarcasm.

Similarly, cultures are made from humans and to facilitate human interaction, so you should expect that things like sarcasm will exist in every culture.

I have wondered the same about scammers. Like, if their mother knew they were going to do that with their life, she’d probably regret all of that wasted effort raising them.

Every time I get fast food, I have to spend time convincing myself that it’s normal to do this occasionally and there’s no need for self loathing or obsessing over my faults.

So, I don’t really want discounts on fast food.

Similarly, if you’re accused of a crime and you’re poor, you might not be able to afford bail money, so you’ll be stuck in jail and you’ll inevitably lose your job, ruining your life, regardless of whether you’re guilty or innocent.

Meanwhile if you’re rich and an Epstein co-conspirator pedophile who raped and sex trafficked children, the government won’t even arrest you.

Note that grand juries typically only hear the prosecution’s arguments. The prosecution has immense power in grand juries as a result. That’s why there’s a famous saying that a grand jury would indict a ham sandwich.

The fact that so many grand juries have declined to indict major cases brought by the DOJ is a major embarrassment. It means that even an average person off the street can immediately see through their bullshit.

Probably the pages where his name was mentioned tended to have more than one mention.

And then there’s that one page they found in Donald Trump’s handwriting where the same phrase is repeated over and over hundreds of times, “All work and no play makes Donald Trump rape little children.” That’s a joke. You know it’s a joke because Donald Trump has never actually worked in his life.

The politicians I mentioned stood out because they didn’t always toe the party line. They actually represented their constituents, and that’s the bare minimum I think you need to be an elected representative. Whatever else they’ve done, the fact that they actually served as representatives makes them stand head and shoulders above the usual throngs of spineless losers who serve as our congresspersons.

When you give the party as much power as our politicians do, it violates the most basic principles that this country was founded upon.

The problem with infinite monkeys, even in the best case, is that you have to search through all of the bad manuscripts to find any good ones. It’s way more effort than just writing what you want yourself.

There was a Mythbusters episode where they tested how music affects plant growth, and IIRC, their tests indicated that plants preferred loud music with bass over normal classical music.

There used to be some Republicans that I respected to some degree, even if I disagreed with their policies. John McCain, Ron Paul, and Mitt Romney are examples.

Now the only hope I have for current Republican politicians is that some of them are secretly opposing Trump because of their own ambitions. I don’t think a good person could have kept quiet about Trump.

When I lived in Japan about 20 years ago, I remember being surprised that the only widely accepted credit card was American Express.

The Republican is Thomas Massie, as expected. It seems that he is one of a few Republicans who will act ethically as long as the topic is Epstein.

The style of interface invented at Xerox PARC in 1973 (and almost certainly used by you if you’re viewing this on a Linux computer) is called WIMP, for “Windows, Icons, Menus, Pointer.” Microsoft just stole the name.

I don’t know about Islamic texts, but the Bible doesn’t really say much about hell. If you want to learn about hell, you have to go to preachers. Fire and brimstone is their bread and butter. The more they talk about hell, the more money they make.