It could drop to 0 and he’d still be POTUS

They are held to higher standards, he failed to successfully incite violence. For a cop, that’s unacceptable.

If they enact it early it would be effectively dead in the water because it would still leave the decision up to swing states, and people would lose confidence in the movement. Holding off until it’s a sure thing gives it a whole lot more power.

Either way, it’s still a couple more years until the next general election cycle spins up, they may have it locked in by then.

it’s in the last sentence of the summary. 270 essentially guarantees that the winner of the popular vote becomes POTUS, as long as all states in the compact abide by the agreement. Once that happens, the EC is basically defunct.

Churches are often made of brick or stone, hitting one bare-knuckle may cause injuries; I suggest you wear boxing gloves.

Compromised, and sitting on a significant stockpile of nuclear weapons. He’s also highly suggestible, inconsistent and easily provoked.

Combined with the amount of power ceded to the US executive branch since Reagan means that dumpy diaper’s whims can cause significant harm before either of the other two branches can even be bothered to start thinking about stopping it.

In the end, missiles travel faster than judges, let alone congress.

Wouldn’t African Swallows be more efficient from a load carrying capacity perspective?

The difference between a bunker and an oubliette is what the people on the outside decide to do with the entrance/exit.

Just make sure there’s some amontillado inside.

His dad was a carpenter after all

The US “won” in WW2 because they managed to pick the winning team. There was a significant pro-nazi faction in the country at the time and it wasn’t really until Japan attacked Pear Harbour that they really picked a side and went all-in on it. Before that, they were fine with selling stuff to Nazi Germany, and Japan for that matter.

Must be related to “Democracy Manifest” guy… in both cases, the officers were not prepared to receive a limp penis.

it’s a little worrisome that it appears that dumbass may have caused the country to “show it’s hand” in regards to it’s ability to project power, defend itself, and wage an offensive war. 20-something years ago when they pulled the same shit on Iraq they were effectively in Baghdad by dinnertime because they still had so much stuff still working from previous wars like F-14s and Iowa class battleships, not to mention lots of very current ordnance and the help of lots of other countries.

On their own (Israel doesn’t count, it’s basically a US military outpost), against a much more technologically capable and well-armed adversary, there’s lots of cracks that are starting to show some daylight through them.

Doesn’t mean that they’re not a formidable force, but definitely not what they were in the gulf war/desert storm era.

Despite spending an absolutely gobsmacking amount of money every year.

I am not against having somewhat complicated skill/research trees, but I think the early stages should be simple, then becomes more complex as the player has had more time in-game to learn and make informed choices on the higher tiers.

Which gives me an idea… why not include the skill tree in the difficulty setting? Easier modes would simplify the tree, and kind of “package” skills together.

I’ve always preferred KDE, I tried mint and pop at one point, but wasn’t a fan of either cinnamon or cosmic. After that I ran through a bunch of KDE based distros and landed on Fedora as the one that had plasma 6, wayland, and worked well with my hardware. It’s been about 6 months now and aside from small hiccups it has worked well for me.

Kubuntu was an absolute disappointment, I agree that Canonical has lost the plot.

It’s very “hands off”, much like soviet investment in the country. Like, you see tons of Chinese-made cars and buses, their internet and telephony infra is Chinese and farming equipment is often from them as well. However, all of that is implemented and maintained by the Cuban people, where China has sent personnel to other countries to build out that infrastructure.

I think most of their energy and food imports are still Russian though, which of course means the country grinds to a halt pretty quick if that supply is cut. Cuba has basically no petroleum resources and is also heavily dependent on trucks to move good around (as in basically no functioning rail infrastructure and what’s there is soviet-era and thus not compatible with more modern railcars). Add to that what amounts effectively to a blockade both physically and diplomatically from the US, it’s difficult for them to do any meaningful amount of trade.

I have been wondering lately though with the US alienating all of their allies, if Canada and other countries might just start to ignore the US sanctions, but I have a fair amount of doubt still considering that Cuba is still maintaining it’s alliance with Russia.

ETA: Apparently Cuba has been getting most of it’s petroleum from Venezuela lately, and well, that’s not happening anymore.

If you’ve been to Cuba, you would see Chinese investment everywhere.

Not sure how you got that from my comment, or why you decided to be snarky in your reply, but whatever. My statement is that even in their dogma, they’re doing it wrong and if any of it were true, they’d be going to hell regardless.

Raised Catholic, currently atheist:

That’s not really what is said in the bible about forgiveness - it’s very clearly stated that god knows your heart and there is no forgiveness without true penance. That’s not “say 5 hail mary’s and 3 lord’s prayer and you’re all good”, that’s a run-off effect of the middle-ages “indulgences”, where someone could be “forgiven” their sins for a payment to the church.

Actual forgiveness as described several times in the bible explicitly requires the confessor to be truly sorry for their sin (contrition), and a real commitment to do better in the future. This is a fairly concise summary of what the bible says about contrition, confession and forgiveness: https://biblehub.com/topical/c/contrition.htm

TL;DR - There is no forgiveness if you are not truly sorry and if you don’t do your best to be better.