DomeGuy

Why should abelsim be given latitude that we wouldn't extend to racism, sexism, or anti-Semitism?

My opinion is that embarrassed bigotry in private is still bigotry. It's good that those with such feelings recognize the harm that they bring (or at least the public shaming that they can suffer), but it makes for a simpler life to just excise such hatreds whenever you can.

It was a meat-packing plant that handles a significant portion of the beef processed in the whole country. Beef that we can't really export anymore because Trump thinks trade deficit is the same thing as a credit card and RFK is trying to kill us all.

Climate change may have had a hand in the drought, but the proximate cause for this is much more likely Trump's incompetent trade policy. If Tyson didn't see a recession coming, they'd likely retooled the plant to something else rather than scuttle the whole thing.

The same folks sending "the left are subhuman!" to the right aren't also sending "the right are Nazis!" to the left. That would be a duplicate signal and inefficient.

Instead, they're sending "both sides suck" to the middle.

Because right-wing propaganda is "become Nazis, the left are all sub-humans" and the left wing propaganda is "what the fuck, the right are all Nazis!?"

It's hard to spot propaganda when it's just the truth spoken loudly.

Go read the actual text of the US Constitution . The answer is a quirky technical "well, theoretically yes but practically no."

https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/article-2/section-2/clause-1/

The President ... shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.

That last emphasized line means that if the US Congress were to impeach and remove a president for bribery or a criminal conspiracy, they could also negate any pardons given to POTUS's collaborators.

Of course, since no US President has ever been removed from office by congress's impeachment power, and it's uncertain if a post-term impeachment and conviction would itself pass the inevitable SCOTUS appeal, this is even less likely than the US Congress awarding a no-majoroty electoral collage vote to the other major party.

I'm glad you took it in the spirit it was intended. (Slightly chiding, but well-meaning.)

I think it can be really hard to not pass on our bad habits to our kids. Mine have a room just as messy as mine ever was, and they're at least as bad at doing their homework as I ever was.

Good job so far!

But neither wants to eat them.

Respectfully, if neither of your children have a vegetable* dish they will eat as a snack you haven't exposed them to a wide enough array of vegetables and vegetables preparation methods.

Don't be afraid to add salt, roast instead of boil, or just experiment with things you haven't tried.

(*: And "vegetable" here is strictly in a culinary context, excluding grains and near-grains like potatoes and including savory sead-bearing plant-parts like cucumbers. But if they don't even like a form of potato or a grain, you may have a eating disorder on your hand...)

No, because that's already the constitutional quorum. You could alter or abandon the cloture rule, however.

Changing Senate rules can be done as a simple act of the Senate, with a simple majority of the senators who show up voting in the affirmative (and VPOTUS casting a tiebreaker.)

Don't hold your breath, however. Unless the 2026 blue wave results in 70 democratic senators who can remove trump after impeachment, the incentive to radically change anything is dramatically reduced.

If we're talking re-enacting the way the folks who wear historish costumes and blank-fire muskets at each other mean it, then the cutoff is "whatever the last war was fought locally and then ended."

If you mean it the way the folks who wear even sillier costumes, drink, and walk around with swords mean it, then the cutoff is "whenever the clothes we want to wear were last plausibly worn."

If you mean it the way a TV reporter, producer, or academic might mean it, however, there's no cutoff beyond "isn't happening now.". (There's a famous story about someone who won the lottery after playing on a whim, was egged on by a reporter to re-enact buying the ticket, and won again.)

No. I'm a happily married alcohol-and-caffine-only boring dad-guy.

Definitely a computer nerd, though.

Excluding clone-troopers and only in live acted Star Wars, Stormtroopers (sometime from off screen) have hit:

1. All kinds of rebels on various planets in "Andor"
2. A whole bunch of rebels in "rogue one"
3. A bunch of rebels on the Tantive IV
4. Leia (with a stunner) on the Tantive IV
5. All those poor Jaws, plus Luke's family.
6. The hull of the millennium falcon (to no effect)
7. A bunch of rebels on Hoth
8. C-3P0 in cloud city
9. Luke's lightsaber blade in cloud city
10. Leia on endor's forest moon
11. R2D2 on endor's forest moon
12. At least a few ewoks on endor's forest moon.
13. Din Djarin's beskar armor
14. A bunch of other mandaloroans and extras
15. Some of those turtle-riding aliens in a distant galaxy in "Asoka"
16. A bunch of innocent villagers on Jaku
17. Poe's parked X-wing (to great effect!)
18. Poe in the arm
19. Rei's lightsaber blade a bunch of times
20. The hull of the millennium falcon (again, to no effect)

I think stormtroopers are more effective than Klingons, federation red-shirts, or the borg.

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/execute

"Execute" primarily means "carry out", not "kill". The latter definition is an adaption from the person designated to carry out the act of killing people for violating the law, which presumably at one point was done directly by the hereditary executive.