The job of President throughout the 20th century has involved committing crimes. If they gave that away, then all of these ghouls could potentially be prosecuted.
In the future, the former President could go to jail for the next version of Iran-Contra… and we couldn’t possibly allow that to happen.
Presidential debates are just TV for people to get mad at, especially with this election. We all already know how we’re going to vote.
Also, the incumbent President always does terribly in the first debate. This has been true in 2004, 2012, and 2020 (2020 for other reasons, though), because they haven’t debated anyone in years.
I’m expecting Biden to shit the bed.
Why are we featuring an op-ed by Erik Prince?
As a reminder, it only requires four justices to vote to hear a case.
Well if the Heritage Foundation says so then it must be true. /s
Really hope they’ve done some careful math on this
With regard to a financial bailout, there are really only three options in the end here:
Bail them out, let them off the hook, everything goes on as normal.
Don’t bail them out, they take the costs out of the utility customers.
Don’t bail them out, they do a performative bankruptcy, then are sold and reincorporated in a new name by basically the same people who ran it before.
None of the options end up changing anything.
Instead, the people in charge need to be incarcerated.
It would also be nice if there were some metric for CapEx reinvestment that we could federally mandate for electric utility companies.
We should also mandate that all last-mile lines are covered, to mitigate fire risk. I live in a small SoCal city of 140k people with our own water and electric utility, and we’ve been using covered lines for 30 years. We haven’t had fires caused by our in-town utility in the time that I’ve lived here, which is a lot more than I can say for SoCal Edison. Our power also doesn’t ever go out (again, unlike Edison).
So when do we get to eat him?
Frequently, parking lots here in Southern California are covered by solar panels now. Generates electricity, and provides shade. Several high schools in my area have done this in their parking lots.
I received these about once a week when I was a Spectrum customer. Since I dumped them when ATT fiber became available, I now receive them three times a week.
Speaking as USian, this sounds amazing.
When AIPAC stops buying the US government.
You’re just pandering to the lowest common denominator
SoCal resident here. Cost of living is much, much higher than many less-desirable places, so as others have said, it’s absolutely necessary to have a job to move to before moving here.
Also, the WC states are not homogenous. “Red state California/Oregon/Washington” are as red as Tennessee. There’s a big chunk of extreme northern CA that wants to secede. Same with eastern WA/OR.
Coastal communities are, on the whole, not occupied by narrow-minded DeSantis fans, but that’s not an absolute. The more rural a place, the redder it is.
Sites like Coos Bay are fairly cheap by coastal standards, but there aren’t really any jobs around there, and it isn’t exactly West Hollywood for community life and things to do.
First we ban DDT, then Pizza Hut releases Stuffed Crust, then bed bugs make a resurgence. It all fits.
If you’re a fellow American, please stop weighing in on this whole thing. We shouldn’t be propping up Israel to begin with. We shouldn’t be involved in this at all.
Our support of Israel was certainly factored into Hamas’s decision to escalate things. And the blowback we’ll get from unconditionally supporting Israel is completely, COMPLETELY predictable.
Covid gave us an opportunity to turn the page on the war on terror, and now our unwavering support for one side of this conflict is going to prompt some yahoo to commit something stupid, and start the war on terror up all over again.
There is no upside in supporting one side over the other in this one - we need to sit it out. Stop sending billions to Israel every year and providing a pretext for some sort of revenge attack on us. Saudi doesn’t care what we think anymore, OPEC is going to do whatever it wants.
The US foreign affairs community seems to be of the opinion that our involvement in Israel and its recognition by KSA or any other big player in the region is going to secure the status of the petrodollar. But de-dollarization is going to happen anyway, thanks to BRICS.
So we’ll continue to sell arms to Saudi Arabia while they continue to not supply us with enough oil to keep prices low, and we’ll continue to prop up Israel while they continue to piss off the entire region.
And everyone is just… okay with this?
Shithole states. Keep NOLA and the Mississippi River, and go General Sherman on the rest. They cost more than they bring in anyway.
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We wouldn’t exist as the US.