- POTUS : The NYT poll over the weekend showing President Biden trailing Donald Trump in key battleground stories has unleashed a fresh round of “Democrats worry” stories.
Relax, everybody. I mean, y’all can hyperventilate if you want, but recent history suggests you’re wasting your breath if you do.
I was sweating bullets and shaking uncontrollably toward the end, like one of those “strongest man alive” contests in which the dude balances two VW buses on his shoulders for as long as he can take it.
‘E’s a very congealeal sort of bloke.
Well, Minnesota does kind of sit right on top there…
Play stupid games,
Win stupid prizes.
I think it’s true. When we married long, long ago we decided to live on only one salary. There were some pretty lean years, but that allowed us to accumulate substantial savings for a downpayment for our first house plus no car payments ever. Depending on two salaries allows people to consume a lot more and is risky if one person needs to quit work (child issues, health etc.) or loses his/her job.
@zenicetus: Hope this helps
How many of these projects do conservatives need? Do they need another funding mechanism to keep their judges bribed or what? There are probably more right wing “think tanks” than there are lobbyists in Washington right now.
Putting on my pedant hat, it all happened 13.2 billion years ago. That’s how long it took the light from the region to reach us out here in the Universal Sticks.
As far as what’s happening there now, you’ll have to hang around for another 13.2 billion years or so. There are some tricks you could use to make that survivable, or even accelerate things. One thing would be to go visit our Local supermassive black hole (Sagittarius A*) and orbit it pretty closely to take advantage of the time dilation. The other thing you could do is to develop a near-light speed ark and launch it in the direction of this feature.
Of course, there are problem with both of these strategies. One common to both is that (as the saying goes), “You can’t go home,” because time will keep marching here at its natural (i.e., unaccelerated) rate. The Sag A* strategy has to deal with the impending (circa 4 B years) collision between the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies.
IANAL, but it seems that closing down a business and liquidating its assets to satisfy a large fine/penalty is a very consequential step. I suppose the law Trump is being subjected to allows it, but with so much at stake the appeal phase will be interesting and maybe very protracted. For the lawyers here, what courts above Engoron are empowered to scuttle all this on appeal, or substantially modify whatever Engoron mandates in the settlement? How many levels of appeal are there? Just what avenues and possibilities exist for Trump to skate on all this, as he seemingly does on a lot of his shenanigans? Whatever happens I’ll bet it might be years before the scythe finally falls on Trump’s NY operations as a result of this trial.
For some of Trump’s supporters he’s their drug, if/when he goes away they’ll have to look for a new drug. But the new drug will never ever replace the high that they got from Trump.
I think these right wing billionaires may be spending more money on think tanks (Cogitation Cisterns?) than they’re saving on taxes.
Oh, I disagree; he could bring many of us great joy if he:
For careful people, having two incomes means each partner has a backstop in case of job loss or illness, or just needing a break. Also, presumably, two workers ought to be able to stash a nest egg for future house purchases, cars, or whatever. Spending every penny that comes in if that is not necessary for basic survival is craziness IMO. But I’m one of those old people, so who listens to them, anyway?
Jeez, you had me worried there for a second. I thought it was 186,000 miles/sec.
ETA: My apologies to @zenicetus Just looked it up, and 186 miles/sec is the closing speed. I assumed you had dropped the 10exp3 from the speed of light. 
And that is completely true. Blame is a stupid word, but one effect of additional household income has been been a bubble in real estate prices. What is more, a two paycheck household has become a necessity. The house I have been living for 12 years, there is simply no way I could afford it now, the neighborhood was full of stay-at-home moms when we moved in, empty nesters have been moving out and replaced by richer empty nesters, hardly any children left.
Wrong Speedtest.
In the “ether” vs in the Ethernet.
I actually listened to the whole thing (something very rare for me, but I was doing something else and just let it play because I didn’t want to stop and turn it off).
The delusion is big with that one. Not sure if he’s in FatAss’s alternative universe or his own. But he’s not living in any kind of actual reality.
Insane. On multiple levels and with multiple meanings.
Genius, and I don’t much care for Styx…
And he traveled a Rocky Road to get there.
